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Amazon Kindle Fire: Why You Need One

Movies, apps, games, music, reading and more, plus Amazon’s revolutionary, cloud-accelerated web browser. Continued…

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Book Review : BOOK REVIEW: How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog by Chad Orzel

My dog has never shown any particular interest in relativity. Orzel, an atomic physicist, apparently has a more high-minded canine companion. The book is a clever introduction to the often intimidating concepts of special and general relativity, couched as a series of conversations between the author and his dog, Emmy.

It may sound like a strange setup, but the somewhat kooky concept works well for explaining a field of physics that can sound, well, kooky to the uninitiated. Emmy is the stand-in for the everyman (or everydog) who has never quite managed to grasp the idea of spacetime, or why moving clocks tick slower than stationary ones. The imagined back-and-forth banter between author and dog keeps the book engaging while Orzel lays out the theoretical framework of particle physics, explains why neither dogs nor neutrinos can move faster than light and describes what happens to cats that get sucked into black holes.

Relativity has a rich history, and while Einstein (rightly) gets the credit, it took the work of many mathematicians and physicists to make the theory possible. Orzel gives a number of them their due, especially Albert Michelson and Edward Morley, whose experiments starting in the 1880s gave credence to the idea that light moves at a constant velocity, no matter how fast an observer is moving.

While keeping the math to a minimum, Orzel provides a clear and thorough primer. It might take some practice to start equating subatomic particles to running bunnies, but the reader will find that puzzling through the details is worth the effort. 

Basic Books, 2012, 316 p., $ 16.99


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It wasn’t that Jimmie Johnson and the No. 48 team are “pissed off” over not winning a sixth straight Sprint Cup championship or that team owner Rick Hendrick will be disappointed if he doesn’t…
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The Tall Toll of High Heels

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A new study offers a scientific explanation for why walking in high heels can be so painful: It changes the basic mechanics of how women walk.

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Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice

Completely updated, the most widely used and critically acclaimed text on multicultural counseling, Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice, Fifth Edition offers students and professionals essential and thought-provoking material on th

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Snap your iPhone into the Dash

The Dash audio head unit by Devium.

The Dash audio head unit by Devium.

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Car manufacturers are racing to integrate smartphones with infotainment systems, but one start-up wants to cut to the chase and build a head unit around the iPhone.

Dash is a sleek, double-din automotive head unit concept that uses interchangable faceplates in which the driver snaps in his or her smartphone to use as the stereo’s interface. Colorado-based Devium designed the product and has turned to Kickstarter.com to raise the money it needs to manufacture and sell it.

Smartphones attach to the faceplate and are held in place by a removable rubber lining in the cavity that snugly fits devices with or without protective covers or cases. When connected to the head unit, a customizable dashboard will display the user’s car-centric applications in one place. Devium says that it’s developing an app that will let you dial while the phone is in landscape position, but that has to first be approved by Apple.

The proposed initial faceplate works with the iPhone 4/4S and iPod Touch, and Devium plans to design and release new faceplates other devices, such as Android phones or future Apple product versions if their dimensions change significantly.

They’re not the first company trying to build and market an iPhone-based head unit. French audio manufacturer Oxygen Audio introduced last year the O’Car audio system, which integrates the iPhone into the head unit as well. Jackson Electronics also sells an iPhone-based aftermarket car stereo and is working on an accessory to mount an iPad to the head unit.

But Devium’s product offers a cleaner design, which may appeal more to Apple fan boys. The company is trying to raise $ 45,000 in the next 54 days, and backers who pledge $ 250 will essentially be pre-ordering the equipment, which will retail for $ 300. For $ 50 more you’ll get a Dash with the iPhone 4/4S faceplate anodized in either Black, Red, Blue, or White. It’s not clear what the standard color is. If Devium is able to reach their funding goal, the start-up will begin shipping Dash in July 2012.

Source: CE Outlook

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