MetroNaps started business in 2004 with a boutique in NYC’s Empire State Building, selling 20 minute naps for $14 bucks. The company has slowly been opening franchises around the world, but MetroNaps co-founder Arshad Chowdhury says overwhelming interest from office folks who wanted to install the pods on-site as an employee perk. So the company [...]
Posted March 29, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Style, Fashion and Food. Tags: libraries, library, metronaps, metronaps pod, nap, pod, pods, public services, rest, sleep. One Comment.
CubeSat is Cal Poly’s plan to make space accessible to the rest of us. That is, they want to make it easy and cheap enough to launch satellites that even high schools can get a chance at it. Engadget says they call it “the Apple II of space exploration” (link added). Here, read this:
The CubeSat [...]
Posted October 17, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Planes, Trains, & Automobiles, Technology. Tags: calpoly, cubesat, cubesat project, diy, diy satellite, launch vehicle, microsatellite, pod, pods, satellite, space, space exploration, space race. Be the first one.