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Two scientists have developed a chemical coating for fabric that causes it to clean and deodorize itself when exposed to sunlight. This means that unless the world is too polluted to occupy in the future, we'll never have to do laundry again. Now, let's all twirl around in our dream kitchens! More »
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Finally, scientists have created something useful instead of just studying how sitting is going to kill us all. Behold "BakeBot," the cookie-baking robot. It doesn't mix the ingredients well and can only make one giant, 12-inch cookie pie, but we're now one step closer to having clumsy, $400,000 robot maids. And cookie pies on demand. More »
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You may be aware that Conde Nast is the big publishing company responsible for most of our very most treasured women's magazines - - Vogue, Teen Vogue, Glamour, Allure, Self, W, etc. etc. — and that those very women's magazines, thanks to their huge circulations and all the companies with revolutionary new anti-aging serums and logo-purses they want to tell women about, are the proverbial "cash cows" of the magazine business. But a story in the Wall Street Journal reveals those same magazines are not the cash cows of Conde Nast's internet business — farrr from it! The company's top two magazine websites are Wired and Portfolio — and Portfolio just launched! — with Brides, Self and Vogue "online home" Style.com trailing in the distance with well under a million monthly unique visitors apiece. So what's the problem? Why can't they get a small fraction of their alleged readers to visit their websites once a month? Don't women read the internet? And even if they don't, isn't the internet the future? By which I mean, isn't the internet the present? Actually not! Says CondeNet CEO Sarah Chubb to the Wall Street Journal of all those magazine websites: More »
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