Folks may be tightening their wallets under gray economical times, but the need to keep close tabs on our fellow man is in as great of demand as ever. That’s why EMC rolling out a handful of new services to assist customers in linking storage systems to the video surveillance units, card readers, alarms, intrusion Read more about EMC eyes video snooping biz[…]
There’s nothing wrong in theory with a vendor that caters to large corporations having a crack at the consumer market. Yet perhaps in being so dependent on the colossal proportions of Brobdingnag, one loses a true sense of scale for the outside world. Ditching metaphors: data centers are willing to spend a lot on hardware. Read more about EMC makes consumer storage box for China[…]
A £1,000 reward has been posted for the fingerprints of Prime Minster Gordon Brown and Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, both of whom, claim perpetrators No2ID and Privacy International, are “wanted identity felons”. In a campaign Wanted Poster the campaign groups claim that their plan to “steal the fingerprints of the entire British population… will be Read more about Wanted: Gordon Brown’s fingerprints, £1,000 reward[…]
Having more than one monitor is undoubtedly cool, but, if you play video games or watch movies, then you know that the gap between displays — formed by the casing that borders each monitor — can really take you out of what you’re watching, as there’s an inch or two of nothing between the pictures. Read more about Witid concept monitor rethinks the dual screen[…]
For those of us propelling ourselves courtesy of our two feet, the Rhodes Car is the fancy way to get around. This four-wheeled human powered-vehicle is about as luxurious as it gets. You can make it even more versatile with a surry-like roof attachment. It’s built like a bicycle, but since it has four wheels, Read more about Rhodes Car merges Fred Flintstone with Thurston Howell III[…]
You may recall Surface, the interactive-table thingie that Microsoft showed off last year. Surface is basically a table-size computer with a 30-inch touchscreen as a tabletop. The screen actually does some cool stuff when you put certain things on it, like wirelessly downloading pictures from phones put on top of it or creating virtual coasters Read more about Microsoft Surface coming to AT&T stores this month[…]
This XO Movie scooter looks like an extra from the Transformers movie, able to fold down and lock itself up when not in use and featuring all of the curves and angles of our favorite robots in disguise. It can carry one or two people and has a variable wheel base to make it more Read more about XO Move scooter looks inspired by the Transformers[…]
How tall is too tall? I guess we’ll know once one of these crazy building concepts ends up getting built — if it subsequently falls down, that is. The Ultima Tower is a conceptualization by designer Eugene Tsui and it’s built around alleviating city congestion in this increasingly congested world. It’s debatably attractive shape is Read more about Ultima Tower is two crazy miles high, wants to be green[…]
Samsung has decided to boldly go where no other touch-sensitive phone manufacturer has dared to go: doors. During the ISC West show in Las Vegas, Samsung unveiled Luce, a touch-sensitive door security system. The big seller here is that the Luce has replaced the traditional security keypad with a touch-sensitive display. The touch-sensitive nature of Read more about Samsung Luce is a touch sensitive … door handle?[…]
We’ve seen some pretty wierd places to print things before, but this one is new to me. A team headed by Dr Ray LaPierre at McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario, used a focus ion beam microscope to etch the school’s crest into a human hair. Apart from the little matter of needing your own Gallium Read more about Show your school pride with ion etched hair[…]
Spinal injuries that leave people paralyzed are currently incurable, one of the most feared and rehabilitating things that can happen to you. But researchers at Northwestern University are looking to change that for good, as they’re hard at work on a new nanotechnology that could enable us to completely heal cut and severed spinal cords, Read more about A nanotech gel to heal spinal injuries under development[…]
Ladies and babies alike should be able to appreciate a fine set of wheels with strollers like these. Each Roddler is styled with old-school lead-sled flourish, with sleek over-the-wheel fenders and customization options including various shapes, colors, classic trims, decals and paint jobs (including flames, of course). Really, it’s probably a lot more than any Read more about Kid Kustoms Roddlers: a hit with the babes[…]
The former SAS officer accused of plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea says Sir Mark Thatcher was involved in the plan. Simon Mann was arrested along with 67 others in Harare, Zimbabwe, in March 2004, charged with conspiring to depose the government of president Teodoro Obiang Nguema. Official URL
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is to pay up to £100,000 for tip-offs leading to action against price fixing and other anti-competitive behaviour. The new policy of financial incentives for information will initially run for 18 months and is similar to a scheme in South Korea. A business found to be part of a Read more about Cash reward for cartel tip-offs[…]
You need green power offcourse to power your prison…. add extra wind power for torture center. Official Google Map Site
Basically it’s having a look at which areas of the brain activate when you make a purchase. Once you know that, you can rig people up to brain scanners, show them different ads and see if the areas light up. If they light up – hey presto: good ad! And then fine tune it. Is Read more about Neuromarketing[…]
Around the size of a shoebox, it uses 2 lensens to create a 3D image quickly of just about anything. It then uploads the image to a PC using wifi.
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Although NetApp fired the first volley in its ZFS lawsuit against Sun Microsystems, Sun has been the aggressor since NetApp’s initial strike. Following NetApp’s lawsuit last September charging that Sun violated several of its patents regarding ZFS, Sun countersued and accused NetApp of violating Sun’s patents. Sun has also asked the U.S. Patents Office to Read more about Sun fires another shot at NetApp[…]
US aerospace colossus Boeing has revealed plans for its unmanned whisper-mode stealth helicopter, the A160T, to return to flight following a recent crash. The revolutionary, groundbreaking aircraft (cough) pranged itself during test flights last year, but Boeing believes that the software problems leading to the crash have been rectified. The A160T robot whisper-copter The secret, Read more about Boeing: Black’s the new black for black-helicopter projects[…]