Thursday, January 29, 2009

29-Jan-2009 AM clippings

Enjoy:

The RepRap Project releases software allowing overhanging objects to be printed on existing RepRap 3D printers without modification:
http://blog.reprap.org/2009/01/support-for-overhangs.html

Google release offline readers for GMail. Isn't that what most mail clients are supposed to do? :
http://www.dailytech.com/Google+Announces+Offline+Gmail+Access/article14079.htm

The KDE 4.2.0 desktop is released, to a collective sigh of relief from those KDEites lumbered with 4.1 in Kubuntu:
http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.2/index.php

The collapsing world economy is encouraging manufacturers to use technology to make cheaper PCs, not ones with more features:
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12932356

And finally. The one-man, human-powered submarine. Ted Ciamillo wants to cross the Atlantic Ocean in it:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126936.900-across-the-ocean-in-a-pedalpowered-submarine.html

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