For the first time, engineers at Oregon State University (OSU) have now developed a process to create “CIGS” solar cells with inkjet printing technology that allows for precise patterning to reduce raw material waste by 90 percent and significantly lower the cost of producing solar cells with promising, yet expensive compounds. The researchers focused on Read more about Inkjet print solar cells[…]
Oops. It just gets worse and worse. Cancer Cluster Possibly Found Among TSA Workers – Slashdot.
Pretty cool – the world is your PCB board! Silver pen allows electrical circuits to be handwritten on paper and other surfaces.
Swiffy converts Flash SWF files to HTML5, allowing you to reuse Flash content on devices without a Flash player (such as iPhones and iPads). Swiffy currently supports a subset of SWF 8 and ActionScript 2.0, and the output works in all Webkit browsers such as Chrome and Mobile Safari. If possible, exporting your Flash animation Read more about Google Swiffy – convert flash to HTML5[…]
Boffins triple battery life with metal foam • The Register.
Groovedown – Grooveshark.com Downloader.
There’s quite a few ways to turn your pc into a motion detector, the most common seems to be using a webcam and flash. This works well, but here are a few ways to do it differently: This is the DIY way Turn Your PC Into a Motion Sensing Security Device with .NET. NB the Read more about Turn Your PC Into a Motion Sensing Security Device[…]
This article includes pictures of what the traffic managers see on their screens and how the information gets there. Unfortunately, ghost jams are generally caused by human idiot drivers: But often we have only ourselves to blame: staying in the middle lane rather than keeping to the left whenever possible, getting too close to the Read more about The dark science of the traffic jam: UK traffic explored in detail[…]
This is done with an R4 chip: buy one: http://www.ts-shops.eu/nintendo-dsi-xl/flash-cards There’s a difference between the r4 and r4i You then put a kernel on the chip: http://www.r4i-sdhc.com/downloade.asp Instructions for formatting your r4 card http://www.r4dscards.com/R4i-DS-Card/ Download games to put on: http://www.dgemu.com/
Here we aimed to demonstrate that swinging can modulate physiological parameters of human sleep. To this end, we chose to study sleep during an afternoon nap using polysomnography and EEG spectral analyses. We show that lying on a slowly rocking bed 0.25 Hz facilitates the transition from waking to sleep, and increases the duration of Read more about Napping in a hammock – faster and better[…]
Which is a shitload cheaper than the JVC KD-AVx77 (EUR. 600,-) or KW-AVX840 (EUR 500,-). It’s a two DIN unit and there’s not so much functionality as the JVC’s have – it only has 4 apps which are limited but Pioneer say they will be adding more. Pioneer’s AppRadio delivers iPhone integration, automotive and audio Read more about Pioneer’s AppRadio delivers iPhone integration, automotive and audio bliss for $400[…]
This is totally stupid, ridiculous and unecessary! US plan to hold EU passenger data for 15 yrs ‘unlawful’ • The Register.
Features: Built-in Media keyboard Built-in Laser Pointer 65 keys Design Wireless 2.4GHz connection, smart & portable size Advance power saving technology Keyboard Backlight function FN lock change function Power by 3 x AAA batteries (included) Operation Range: Up to 15 meters Support Window 7 / Vista / XP, Linux, Mac 10.x or above Dimension: 150 Read more about Brando Flying Keymouse[…]
Levitation Photography: 65 Stunning Examples & Tutorials.
PvdA zweert reparatie van netneutraliteit | Webwereld.
Well… 70% of his upper thigh. Still impressive though. US soldier Isaias Hernandez ‘re-grows leg’ after pig bladder hormone injection | Mail Online.
It has decided to roll back a days’ trading as a result of the stolen bitcoins, which were dumped on the market, crashing the value of a single bitcoin. Apparently there wasn’t that much cash involved (only $1000,-) which means that the bitcoin currency isn’t very strong at all. Concurrently, a trojan has been found Read more about Bitcoin crashes slowly and interestingly[…]
This tries to repair exchange databases instead of restoring from backups. Help! My Exchange server just rebooted • The Register.
ICANN Approves Historic Change to Internet’s Domain Name System Board Votes to Launch New Generic Top-Level Domains Singapore | ICANN’s Board of Directors has approved a plan to usher in one of the biggest changes ever to the Internet’s Domain Name System. The Board vote was 13 approving, 1 opposed, and 2 abstaining. During a Read more about ICANN approves gTLDs for everyone – with money[…]
Wear a wingsuit and jump off cliffs. Awesome! Skydive: Proximity Flight — official website.
On June 16, 2011, LulzSec released over 62,000 accounts containing emails and passwords in cleartext obtained from random sources. LulzSec announced the release in a Twitter post at https://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec/status/81327464156119040. The table below is the list of these accounts. Passwords have been partially masked to protect the users from further attacks. LulzSec cleartext passwords.
The Kinect for Windows SDK beta is a starter kit for applications developers that includes APIs, sample code, and drivers. This SDK enables the academic research and enthusiast communities to create rich experiences by using Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect sensor technology on computers running Windows 7. via Kinect for Windows SDK Download – Microsoft Research.
Which goes to show why the current patent system is stupid. The Japanese have had this system in gadgets for years now – you fill in your interestes in the gadget and when you come close to someone with similar interests, the thing rings. You look around and – hey, there’s someone else ringing! Unbelievably Read more about Apple patents an old Japanese location interest dating app[…]
“The following new elements [should include] penalisation of the production and making available of tools eg, malicious software designed to create ‘botnets’ or unrightfully obtained computer passwords for committing the offences [of attacks against computer systems],” the Council of Ministers said in a statement pages 18-19 of 38-page/176KB PDF. The real problem with this, is Read more about European Council: Creating hacking tools should be criminal across EU. Idiots.[…]
GE has announced the first power plant to integrate wind and solar power with natural gas—a 530-megawatt plant that will start operating in Turkey in 2015. The power plant is made practical by a flexible, high-efficiency natural-gas system the company announced two weeks ago and a solar thermal power system created by eSolar, a Burbank, Read more about GE Combines Natural Gas, Wind, and Solar in hybrid powerplant[…]