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Lisa Katayama, Gizmodo-sweetheart and sometimes guest blogger, has explored the Tokyo Science Museum’s newest 3D planetarium theater, the Synra Dome, and reported back with all the tech specs we’ve been dying to know. Synra uses twelve projectors to throw images onto a 33-foot, 3000×3000 pixel single-paneled screen. A pair of $200 3D glasses then allows you to experience the birth of the universe or the journeys of ribosomes pop to life all around you. Curious about what moons look like on the other side of the galaxy, but can’t make it to Japan? Check her piece out on io9. [io9]

io9’s Lisa Katayama has explored the Tokyo Science Museum’s newest 3D planetarium theater, the Synra Dome, and reported back with all the tech specs we’ve been dying to know. Synra uses twelve projectors to throw images onto a 33-foot, 3000×3000 pixel single-paneled screen. A pair of $200 3D glasses then allows you to experience the birth of the universe or the journeys of ribosomes pop to life all around you. Curious about what moons look like on the other side of the galaxy, but can’t make it to Japan? Check her piece out on io9. [io9]

It’s official: Now that Packard Bell has unveiled the Dot, every computer manufacturer in the known Universe has produced the same 8.9″, 1.6GHz Atom, 1GB RAM, XP-running system. So what’s next for technology? Similar to how mothers clubs have sponsored bake sales and knitting circles for decades, look for netbooks to be fashioned from straw, beads, puff paints and other craft materials as they are hand-manufactured to raise money for local soccer teams. Netbooks are going mainstream. Really, really mainstream. [EeePC]

In case you were still worried about the LHC bringing on the biblical apocalypse, you can calm down, because it turns out the Collider is going to be out of commission for a lot longer than previously thought. The “electrical transformer” problem wasn’t the cause of the shutdown at all, and the real problem means the LHC won’t be back up and running for at least two months.

CERN spokesman James Gillies explained, “”It’s too early to say precisely what happened, but it seems to be a faulty electrical connection between two magnets that stopped superconducting, melted and led to a mechanical failure and let the helium out.” The specific section will have to have its temperature raised significantly above its usual absolute zero so engineers can go in and repair it without dying, which is apparently a very time-consuming process. This kind of failure isn’t unusual for particle accelerators, but the LHC’s internal temperature makes the whole ordeal much more difficult. Each warm-up or cool-down takes a minimum of several weeks, so the total repair will last more than two months. I suppose we’ve waited a long time already to unlock the secrets of the universe, so a couple more months can’t hurt, right? [CNN]