More broken voting machines Posted on October 5, 2006 by Robin Reply Not only Diebold has a monopoly on hackeable voting machines – the ones the Dutch government uses are hackeable to the point of being able to reflash them to play chess!
Folding T-Shirts Posted on October 5, 2006 by Robin Reply Sounds boring? Nope – a great way to save time.
Biological memory Posted on October 5, 2006 by Robin Reply Using tobacco virusses, you can apparently create very fast switching transistors. These guys have done it, and now need to find a way to link up all the virusses. This means your RAM may soon (the researchers think in around 4 years) be alive.
USB to SATA Posted on October 5, 2006 by Robin Reply For $34,- you can travel using your non-enclosed SATA HD and plug it into just about anything. This tiny gadget sits in between the cable and the USB port.
Google Code Search Posted on October 5, 2006 by Robin Reply With the EU software patents going to vote on Oct 12th, this could be controversial, especially if it indexes code left and right wildly. Slashdot also has links to a few other code searching sites.
European Software Patents Up For Bat Again Posted on October 5, 2006 by Robin Reply Yet again there will be a bill in the EU parliament for software patents, but there has been some sort of compromise which means it’s likely to be ratified this time. Just what the compromise is, I can’t really find out, except that it seems to make lawsuits on patent infringements more expensive, meaning IMHO that small companies have even less of a chance to fight the behemoths.
The Taliban Returns Posted on October 5, 2006 by Robin Reply Frontline aired a programme about the Taliban, which is fully viewable online, about the return of the Taliban.
Teleportation II Posted on October 5, 2006 by Robin Reply Whilst we have been able to teleport single atoms and light for a few years now, finally another breakthrough has been made in Denmark, where they have managed to teleport a macroscopic atomic object containing thousands of billions of atoms half a metre. The scientists use light as a carrier of information using entanglement and matter as the storage medium. Allthough we won’t be teleporting large objects let alone living ones any time soon, this is a pretty huge improvement.
Ig Nobel Prizes Tonight Posted on October 5, 2006 by Robin Reply The Ig Nobel Prizes are given by Harvard to scientists that is improbable yet thought provoking. Some of the winners might seem absurd, but past Ig laureates have made massive commercial successes out of their research or inventions. At 7.15 PM Boston time the event will begin, also viewable on a live webcast.
