New Scientist is reporting that the LiftPort Group, a private US company, has launched a Balloon suspended ribbon one mile long to test it’s latest in both ribbon and robotic technology.
LiftPort is trying to reach the goal of having a fully operational Space elevator in 2018. With this first iteration of the technology [...]

Plastic gets scratched. This is the fact scenario that California lawyers are going to use to sue Apple Computers over a “product defect” in the iPod Nano.
Apple insists that the Nano is made out of the same plastic that full size iPods are manufactured from, so the device should be just as [...]