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For the lady wishing to know more about this club host – expect to QR barcodes to be supplanted by facial recognition – still through the mobile phone of course. (via Future Perfect » Shortening the Path)

“This was probably the world’s first portable compact-disk player. Introduced in 1967 by Philco-Ford, “Hip-Pocket” records were less than 4 inches in diameter and flexible enough to carry in your pocket without damage. Despite available titles from a number of major artists including the Beatles, the idea was an instant flop.”

– Professor Oleson’s Museum of Obsolete Technology

(via “The world’s first portable compact-disk player” « How to be a Retronaut)

Achewood § November 18, 2010

APOD: 2010 November 15 – Home from Above

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Officials at NIF estimate that a prototype power station version of the fusion reactor could be operational by 2020 and that by 2050, almost a quarter of the United States energy could be supplied by fusion power. (via The £2.2billion superlab where scientists are creating a star on Earth | Mail Online)

Although a spacetime cloaking device may still be far in the future, the scientists have already come up with a proof-in-principle design based on customised fibreoptics that lends itself to computing applications. (via ‘Space-time’ cloak would allow history to be ‘edited’ and people to ‘reappear’ | Mail Online)