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Space hotel taking bookings for 2012 opening

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first orbiting space hotel is on track to open for its first customers in 2012, but hurry, as bookings are filling fast.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (23) | comments 11 weblog

Video game sales rise in April on stronger lineup

(AP) -- Sales of console and portable video games grew 26 percent in April versus last year, a rise that a market research group that tracks the figures attributes to a stronger lineup of games such as "Mortal Kombat 2011" ...

Technology / Business

created May 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tour de France Stresses Riders' Bodies to the Limit

Glancing at the elevation profiles of the stages of the 2010 Tour de France is enough to tire a couch potato. The mountainous race is legendarily strenuous, but beyond short-term discomforts such as road rash ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 19, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Virtual White House tours go online

The Oval Office, the "situation room" and the first family's organic garden are among the highlights of a new virtual tour of the White House put online Tuesday.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 10, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Nations set new tourism limits for Antarctica

(AP) -- Countries with interests in Antarctica have endorsed U.S.-proposed mandatory limits on Antarctic tourism that aim to protect the continent's fragile environment, officials said Friday.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 19, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Tiger Woods pro golf tour videogame tees off big

Electronic Arts on Tuesday announced that a freshly-released "Tiger Woods PGA TOUR" videogame teed-off with the strongest opening sales in the franchise's 14-year history.

Technology / Software

created Apr 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers develop fast methods for making 3D city models

There is a growing demand for three-dimensional city models, but creating these models is expensive and labour-intensive. Shi Pu and Sander Oude Elberink of the University of Twente, The Netherlands, have ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 29, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Virtual museum guide

(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeological treasures are brought to life by Fraunhofer software. Real images are enriched with digital information on a virtual tour through ancient buildings, creating a more vivid experience ...

Technology / Software

created Feb 02, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Half of Euro online travel purchases legally unsafe: EU

More than half of all people who buy flights, hotel rooms and hire cars online risk being left without compensation if companies fail under outdated law, the EU said Thursday.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Armstrong announces birth of son on Twitter

This was one special tweet for Lance Armstrong.

Technology / Internet

created Jun 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Taciturn Armstrong sparks Twitter media boycott

Lance Armstrong's refusal to speak directly to the press at the Tour of Italy has sparked a boycott by some sections of the Italian and anglophone media of the American's online messages.

Technology / Internet

created May 22, 2009 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Fishing the online stream

On West Lancaster Avenue in Wayne, Pa., local businessman Robert Lail runs what he calls "YouTube for business."

Technology / Internet

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Company offers college campus tour videos on the Web

Want to take a cross country trip to visit colleges all over the United States, but don't want to shell out thousands for gas, food and lodging?

Technology / Internet

created May 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Grand prizes might help induce sports 'hot streaks'

Dangling a lucrative financial carrot at the end of a professional sport season can cause certain players to exert the effort necessary to put together a string of successful performances, sometimes known in sporting circles ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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