揭短是什么意思:popsci一周科技图片集

章鱼肖像

Underwater portraiture is a tricky endeavor. Animals often end up looking greenish or blueish, thanks to the tint of the water--but some of these animals are emphatically not greenish/blueish. Pictured above is the North Pacific giant octopus, arguably the largest octopus in the world, photographed by Mark Laita using studio strobe lighting. 

Cosmic Gas Bubble

宇宙气泡

This picture, imaged by Californian skywatcher Larry Van Vleet, captures a giant bubble of glowing gas being blown by the nebula NGC 7635, also known as the Bubble Nebula. 

Don't Google It, Hammer It

不要用Google了，换Hammer吧

MC Hammer, best known as okay you guys all know who MC Hammer is, announced his own search engine, to be called WIREDoo, at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. The new search engine is supposed to focus on "relationships" rather than results, so a search for a car will give all sorts of other related information, like mileage, cost, insurance options, specifications, and more. We are reserving judgment. Also we are reserving our MC Hammer puns, just in case we have to use them later.

汉默先生在旧金山召开的web2.0峰会上发布了他自己的搜索引擎——WIREDoo，这款搜索引擎的特点是着重于“关系”而非搜索结果，所以当你搜索“汽车”时，WIREDoo会反馈给你所有与汽车有关的信息，诸如公里数、花费、车险或者汽车参数等。我们对这款引擎持保留意见，不过我们同样也对汉默抱有希望，以防我们以后不得不使用它们。

Google Rail View

谷歌铁路取景

We love Google Street View, and all the places it takes us--remote Amazon villages, famous art museums, and even our own backyard. Now we get to see how Google gets their coverage of world heritage sites. Here's a Google camera on rails, heading down the Rhaetian Railway through Switzerland and Italy. 

Crystal Ball

水晶球

This here is Barco's R-360 flight simulation dome, though it's awfully close to being a sphere. It offers state-of-the-art visuals and full 360-degree views--much better than a lousy screen. Ha! Rectangles. 

Ping-Pong Robots

会打乒乓球的机器人

Two five-foot, three-inch robots, created by engineers at China's Zhejiang University, are just about the most fluid robotic ping-pong players we've ever seen. They can play with each other or with a human opponent--though they're not adept enough to put spin on the ball (which means we would crush them). Still, damned impressive

POOPer Scooper

拾粪机器

Well hello again to our favorite dexterous robot, the Willow Garage PR2. This time, he's picking up POOP--don't get grossed out, sort of, since it stands for Potentially Offensive Objects for Pickup. See? Potentially. Not "DOOP" (Definitely Offensive Etc Etc Etc). 

88 MPH--Silently

88英里每小时——很安静

The DeLorean Motor Company, which still exists, showed off an all-electric version of the famous DeLorean, as seen in Back to the Future and every one of your dreams. It's had its engine replaced with a 26 HP equivalent electric engine and gets up to 100 miles per charge "when driven efficiently," which is not far off from electric cars like the Nissan Leaf. 

The New RAZR

新一代 RAZR

Motorola got their thunder stolen, quite a bit really, when Google announced the next Nexus phone, with the all-new Ice Cream Sandwich version of Android (and, um, a barometer), the same week as Motorola's new flagship phone. Still, that's not to take anything away from the newest phone to carry on the sorta-proud, sorta-tainted RAZR name: the Droid RAZR. It'll be the thinnest phone in the world when it's released, a solid two millimeters thinner than the iPhone 4S, and with strong components like a Gorilla Glass screen, Kevlar back, and splashproof casing so while it'll be thin, it won't feel delicate　.

Balloon Spider

气球蜘蛛

Balloon artist Adam Lee was awarded the Guinness World Record for biggest balloon sculpture by an individual, for this monstrous balloon spider. At 45 feet wide and 22 feet long, the spider required nearly 3,000 balloons, and was created for (what else) a Halloween event. 

气球艺术家亚当李凭借他的作品——巨大的气球蜘蛛，获得“最大气球雕塑”的吉尼斯世界纪录。制作这个45英尺宽，22英尺长的“蜘蛛”用了接近3000个气球，它也作为万圣节活动的一部分。