Articles tagged "germany"

In the Future Your House Will be a Solar Panel

The house of the future should be covered in thin filmy solar power, and it might not even have to look like a giant silicon circuit board. Instead, it may resemble the house you live in now, but with a solar photovoltaic thermal energy system on the…

How to Defuse a WWII Bomb

The video above documents a process that's become common in Germany: getting rid of the thousands of unexploded munitions left over from World War II bombing raids by Allied forces. Once discovered - as one was this past week in the German city of Ko…

A Cold War Listening Station Is Now a USB Drive

Agents of the Dead Drop network recently installed the latest node of their offline peer to peer file-sharing network at the highest point of the Teufelsberg in Berlin, a former U.S. NSA “listening” station that was featured in this documentary. Writ…

I Was the World's First D.J.

Klaus Quirini is the first DJ in the world. Obviously this is an extremely dubious claim that nobody could ever prove beyond a reasonable doubt. But so far no one’s objected to him, so we’re just going to buy it. Why not? Klaus he stumbled across…