Steorn forum reopens

The public forum on Steorn’s site has been closed to new members for the past few months, but the gates were reopened this week. If you’d like to join in the discussions there, click here to fill out an application. Also, you can use the forum’s search function to find every entry written by a […]

Steorn’s Sean McCarthy answers some questions

Steorn’s long promised first quarter update, released April 13th, consisted of a five minute video revealing a few new bits of information, but mostly just recapping what we’d already been told. In addition, what had at first been previewed as “detailed technical specifications” turned into two paragraphs of vague jargon – apparently Orbo is based […]

Tour the Steorn offices

Sean posted this video today. It’s “Hats by Hobbit” day at Steorn – Hobbit being the pseudonym of one of their employees, apparently a prolific knitter. (Update: according to Sean the video was made as a thank-you to “Hobbit’s” wife, who knitted all the hats.) Of course this could be just part of an elaborate […]

Good fortune on Friday the 13th?

Sean made a rare (these days) appearance on the Steorn forum to announce that their upcoming release of information, including the status of the jury and some of Orbo’s technical specs, is now set for Friday, April 13th. Though 2007 was one-quarter behind us by the end of March, Sean’s post indicates that he considers […]