Weekend Fun: Are You Tone Deaf?

Jake Mandell, an aspiring electronic music producer and medical student at the University of Massachusetts, put together a Flash-based website for visitors to test tonedeafness. While working at the music and neuroimaging lab at Beth Israel/Harvard Medical School in Boston, Mandell developed a quick online way to screen for the tonedeafness. In his research, Jake and his associates were looking for neuro-anatomical correlates of...

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Weekend Fun: The Personal Blimp

From the How To Kill Yourself In Three Easy Steps File, comes the Personal Blimp from the good folks at Skyacht Aircraft Inc. This handmade contraption is set to usher back the good old days of leisurely flight with its sophisticated patented frame that keeps the blimp’s structure rigid, but also collapses for easy transport and storage. The Personal Blimp uses hot air, rather than Helium, for lift and virtually silent electric...

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