Steve

Remember Solaren, the company that's trying to launch those space-based solar panels, the one that signed a deal with California's biggest power utility company? The whole plan got even closer to reality today, after getting approval from California legislators. - Steve from Bookmarklet

The idea that great cities, rich in forgotten knowledge and treasure, lie hidden beneath the sea holds immense appeal. Scarcely a year goes by without someone claiming to have found Atlantis. But what's really out there under the waves? - Steve from Bookmarklet

This door, created by Matharoo Associates for a diamond merchant in India, is flat-out crazy. It's 17 feet tall, five and a half feet wide, and is made up of 40 sections of Burmese teak. The door uses a counterweight, 80 ball bearings and 160 pulleys to create the incredible effect of reconfiguring into a sinusoidal curve when you push on any one section. Amazing. - Steve from Bookmarklet

This video shows Earth's weather from August 17 to August 26, 2009. It also shows how beautiful this planet is, and how insignificant we are. It was created at a 7-kilometer resolution with NASA's GEOS-5 atmospheric general circulation model. - Steve from Bookmarklet

Ray Mears has inspired millions around the world with his television programmes about bushcraft. The self-taught, self-deprecating Mears is an optimist who would like people to feel confident that they could survive in the wild. Even so, he doesn't think most people would make it through a global climate crisis, as he tells Sanjida O'Connell. - Steve from Bookmarklet

This time there's competition. A three-way race is developing, with two other teams, one from North America and the other from Australia, vying to wrest the record from the Brits. The first step will be to break the existing record and get past 800 mph. If that succeeds, the next stage is to attempt 1000 mph (1609 kilometres per hour). "That's what we're designing the car for," says Ron Ayers, chief aeronautic engineer on the Bloodhound project. - Steve from Bookmarklet

Now a small group of fearless - some would say foolhardy - wingsuit enthusiasts is reviving the dream of the very first birdmen. Their ambition is to jump out of a plane, glide thousands of metres and land in one piece - without a parachute. - Steve from Bookmarklet

sounds fucking silly cool - Toby Graham from email

About a year from now, if all goes well, a box about the size of a loaf of bread will pop out of a rocket some 500 miles above the Earth. There in the vacuum it will unfurl four triangular sails as shiny as moonlight and only barely more substantial. Then it will slowly rise on a sunbeam and move across the stars. - Steve from Bookmarklet

My childhood self just passed out from excitement. This thing is 11 stories and 90 feet tall, and it's growing ever-larger. Seriously, I want to live here so badly. - Steve from Bookmarklet

Love it. But it is a bit ruined by having chapel, and a constructor who said he did it "for god". Wanker. Cool treehouse though. - willdarling

I was waiting for the guy to do the line "We're marooned on a small island, In an endless sea...." -sounded just like that guy from Pendulum. - willdarling

"The mantis shrimps in the study are found on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and have the most complex vision systems known to science. They can see in twelve colours (humans see in only three) and can distinguish between different forms of polarized light." - Steve from Bookmarklet

"I have seen some pretty cool electronic graffiti techniques in the past, but multimedia performers Sweatshoppe's method—which uses a paint roller to draw video straight on walls—beats them all. The paint roller doesn't paint anything on the wall. It's made with green LEDs. A camera next to the projector tracks the position of the paint roller, unmasking the video projection in real time, as the artists draws on the wall. Pretty clever." - Steve from Bookmarklet

Passengers bound for Newcastle Airport were delayed in Spain while their plane was partially dismantled when a mobile phone fell into an air vent. - Steve from Bookmarklet

The bottlenose dolphins were spotted tossing the jellyfish off Tremadog Bay. Jonathan Easter, one of the team said the "incredible images...present more questions than answers!" - Steve from Bookmarklet

Video after link - Steve

What is this I hear about this one having online stuff? - willdarling

umm sure it didn't do this before - Toby Graham

Life' will chronicle the extraordinary patterns of animal behaviour and the ends to which animals and plants go in order to survive. - Steve from Bookmarklet

Tonight @ 9.00 BBC HD - Steve

Would be great if all ads were this good. - Steve from Bookmarklet

Stop motion animation using glowsticks - Steve

Crossing a microscope with a camera gives you a micrograph, a tiny photograph that allows artists and scientists to show the beauty inaccessible to the naked eye. Every year the Small World competition run by optics giant Nikon celebrates this hidden world. - Steve from Bookmarklet

A USC graduate thesis shot for under $100K on a Red One camera that used some well-designed effects to capture one potential future of gaming. - Steve from Bookmarklet

The above illusion, called the same color illusion, illustrates that purely human observations in science may be ambiguous or inaccurate. Even such a seemingly direct perception as relative color. - Steve from Bookmarklet

They are the same colour, I checked with Photoshop, I know, I haven't had too much on today. - Leighton Gough

Madam Salina Mohamed So'ot received a total artificial heart to replace her own ailing organ which was undergoing end-stage failure. Which is bad. The interesting aspect is that her new heart doesn't mimic the mammalian model but instead uses centrifugal forces to continually pump blood around her body, meaning she doesn't have a pulse (and might want to get a medalert bracelet which just says "Check for breathing, doctor! Don't give up!") - Steve from Bookmarklet