Fully charged it provides 4 hours of light. You hang it in the sun by day and use it (duh) at night. Cost? $15,- per piece and it will last between 5 – 10 years.
Solar light bulb to shine on developing world | Crave – CNET.
In order to reduce costs on the allready expensive F-35, they’ve decided to remove the shutoff valves for engine coolant and hydraulic lines and five of six dry bay fire-suppression systems. This means if they get hit by 30mm incendiary AAA rounds (very common), it’ll blow up instead of venting the extra pressure in these liquids.
Also it turns out that the stealth – well, it isn’t so very stealthy after all. Only from 35o from the front quarter, only to certain types of radar (commonly used by ground systems, not by aerial platforms) and don’t make a turn or you’ll get caught.
Gajillion-Dollar Stealth Fighter, Now Easier to Shoot Down.
Every new Apple mobile device and every new Mac — along with the latest version of Apple’s Safari web browser — supports web standards including HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. These web standards are open, reliable, highly secure, and efficient. They allow web designers and developers to create advanced graphics, typography, animations, and transitions. Standards aren’t add-ons to the web. They are the web. And you can start using them today.
via Apple – HTML5.
The site also has examples showing you the difference between HTML 5 and Flash
Yup, that’s what the new iphone and ipad are going to be running on!
Thanks for that, we get control back over the machine!
iOS 4 Jailbroken Within a Day of First Release.
And using Crossfire, you can make that 24. It has 4GB onboard RAM and can handle full 3D over all the slots at once – make your own cave!
Powercolor hd5970 with 12 display outputs – The Inquirer.
Very good ideas, as well as links to noise cancelling headphones, earplugs and a site that has seat maps of all airlines so you can choose the right seat during online checkin
John Graham-Cumming: How to sleep on a long haul flight.
You ll need to install the gnome task scheduler but all this requires is entering sudo apt-get install gnome-schedule in a Terminal window. When it s finished installing you ll be able to access the scheduler in Applications System Tools Schedule Tasks. Hit the “new” button and make the description whatever you want like “Moving Wallpaper”. Set a Rotating Picture of the Earth as Your Ubuntu WallpaperThis trick is fueled by the ever-useful wget command which will download a photo of the earth from die.net at a specified time interval. In the command box type in wget -r -N http static.die.net earth mercator 1600.jpg and set the default behavior to suppress output. Die.net uploads a new photo every 3 hours so I picked an interval of 6 hours to compromise my desire to have a semi-accurate view of the Earth at that time and my desire to not overflow Die.net s servers. You can specify a custom time period by clicking the edit button next to a time interval in the Advanced section. After you ve set it up hit the run button the one with the gears icon so it will download the first photo. Then right click on your desktop and hit Change Desktop Background. The photo will be stored in ~ static.die.net earth mercator on your hard drive so navigate there and choose 1600.jpg as your wallpaper. Now it should automatically update at the time interval you specified in the last step giving you a cool picture of the world s sunlight at that time of day.
via Set a Rotating Picture of the Earth as Your Ubuntu Wallpaper.
You run the downloaded program and it follows your mouse path around making quite impressive pictures of your mousing habits.
IOGraphica — MousePath’s new home.
Measuring the role of online in the consumer journey from research to purchase
The CCB is a free online research tool providing consumer insights across 27 countries and 36 product categories.
Using the tool, you can understand and interrogate how consumers across markets use the internet to buy and research different products
The Combined Online Information System COINS is a database of UK Government expenditure provided by government departments. The data is used to produce reports for Parliament and the public including: expenditure data in the Budget and Pre-Budget reports; Supply Estimates; Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses PESA; the monthly Public Sector Finance Releases. It is also used by the ONS for statistical purposes.
This is the raw data, so you can do with it what you like.
via Combined Online Information System | data.gov.uk.
Stem cells can be made to grow around a three dimensional scaffold in your mouth in as quick as around nine weeks. Much better than dental implants!
Columbia University Medical Center Press Release.
Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), the service’s technology development arm, announced today that LaWS (Laser Weapons System) had “successfully tracked, engaged, and destroyed” a drone in flight, during an over-the-water engagement at San Nicholas Island, Calif.
via Navy’s Drone Death Ray Takes Out Targets at Sea | Danger Room | Wired.com.
The Apple / Adobe Flash spat has reached a new level, with Adobe having a good laugh: The best selling iPad App, Wired’s June Edition, it turns out, was built using Adobe’s new Adobe Digital Publishing Technologies.
“Bwahaha!” says Adobe. “We Were Behind Wired’s iPad Magazine All Along!”.
The Digital Publishing Platform being developed by Adobe allows publishers and advertisers to create immersive onscreen experiences that combine the visual impact of print design, the immediacy of touch interaction, and the engagement of interactive elements such as video, audio, animated infographics, 360° views, and more. Because this platform builds on the foundation of Creative Suite 5, it lets magazine design, editorial, and production teams use familiar tools and skills to efficiently create versions for print and a wide range of screens. Integrated analytics will enable publishers to plan editorial content and provide advertisers with accurate, detailed insight into how readers are interacting with stories and ads.
Digital Publishing Platform for magazines, books, newspapers and retail catalogs
Of course, the platform Adobe used, incorporates Flash.
Mainly they used InDesign CS5 and will be releasing the technology later.
The UK Metropolitan Police has been recording the frequency variations on the National Grid every second and a half for the past five years. When examining recordings, scientists are able to match the variations in the recordings with the database and establish exactly when the recording was made. If there are multiple matches, the recording was edited, and scientists can find out when. The process takes about 10 minutes.
via Met lab claims ‘biggest breakthrough since Watergate’ • The Register.
This site has quite a few examples of social engineering as well as links to a toolkit that allows you to easily clone sites for use as harvesting mechanisms of information.
Prevention of Influence, Deception, Identity Theft and Phishing Through Education.
This distro is being distributed together with a thumbdrive / wifi USB card in China in order to easily hack into WEP / WPA protected WiFi networks.
At 80 microns thin, it’s flexible and can be wrapped around a pencil. It’s 432 X 240 resolution and 4.1″ display looks crisp!
Sony’s Flexible OLED is Thinner Than a Strand of Hair.
# Call any telephone number from any application or web browser…
# Send complicated url with Map’s location or route to your iPad or iPhone in seconds…
# Simplify sending a long SMS to your friend, colleague or a client…
# Bring your notes or large amount of text with you in seconds…
# Send Images or Photos to your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch from any application or web browser…
Best of all: desktop clients for Mac OSX, Windows and Linux
via iPhone on your Desktop | myPhoneDesktop.
Showing you how much governments care about free speech, Julian Assange, who moves around every few weeks, has had his passport confiscated for looking worn. They’re not giving him a new one, it seems, which means it’ll be easy to keep close tabs on him. This makes it very difficult for people to give him documentation exposing governments the world over anonymously.
WikiLeaks founder has his passport confiscated – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com.
It’s a good document, showing that NATO is definitely heading in the right direction. However, you can tell that much of the experts are stuck in the mud a bit and that the US is using this document to flex its muscles in Iran’s direction.
NATO needs to form a new and clear strategic vision, one that not only updates it’s doctrine and relevance, but also shows this to the rest of the world.
They now know where it is and where it’s going. Einstein said it couldn’t be done.
Children who returned hostility with hostility appeared to be the most mature, the researchers found.
Boys who stood up to bullies and schoolyard enemies were judged more socially competent by their teachers.
Girls who did the same were more popular and more admired by teachers and peers, the researchers found.
via Bullying ‘can be good for children’: Study finds those who fight back are more popular | Mail Online.
Entangled photons have been able to instantaneously transmit their states over 500 m before, but the Chinese have managed to increase this range massively, allowing them to be used for communicative purposes.
Quantum teleportation achieved over 16 km.
If there is a happiness gap between you and your wife / partner, chances are she’ll break up with you… unless you’re the one more miserable.
Want to keep the wife happy? Be miserable | Mail Online.