How to revive Nicad batteries
Nickel Cadmium batteries lose their maximum charge after a while due to dendrite growth in them. Using an external power source, you can zap the battery and clear the dendrites, giving you a revived battery.
Day: December 18, 2006
That’s sooooo GAY!!!
Jeremy Clarkson called a car ‘a bit gay’ and due to four complaints by a couple of poofters (four of them, no less), the Top Gear team has been told off by the BBC. Besides that calling things gay doesn’t automatically mean they are Derogatory references to homosexuality or even sexually oriented at all, even Read more about That’s sooooo GAY!!![…]
Tin Foil Hats enhance death rays!
Four intrepid MIT scientists have taken an empirical look at the effectiveness of tin foil hats at stopping dangerous radio signals from penentrating the brain. Using three different models of tin foil hats, they used a network analyser to determine that these hats in fact greatly amplify certain frequencies into your brain. Coincidentally the frequencies Read more about Tin Foil Hats enhance death rays![…]
IRIS sees many colours
The Image Replication Imaging Spectrometer is a gadget that sees coloured light views 32 bands in the light spectrum and composits them into the 3 that humans can see, allowing the camera to show low observable (to humans) objects. These images can help not only in spotting IEDs and land mines, but also have medicinal Read more about IRIS sees many colours[…]
RFID Guardian
The RFID Gaurdian project is to build a hand held RFID blocking field which will offer bodywide protection from scans on your RFID tags (which you can disable on command) allowing people to reap the benefits of RFID whilst being able to maintain personal privacy. They’ve managed to build a prototype, with video demonstrations.