Pieces of wire stimulating different areas of the brain silmutaneously controlled through a circuitboard shows that the brain associates the two areas and can allow you to bypass damaged areas, which is especially hopeful for stroke or spinal-cord injury victims.
The entire inventory of the US nuclear arsenal is spreat over 18 military facilities in the states and Europe and available for download into Google Earth.
Defensetech is running an article about a lt. colonel in Iraq running around his province using lightly armoured small patrols, refusing to use much in the way of technology and booking remarkable success doing the job much more cheaply and effectively than other units in Iraq.
These brakes stop your car in half the distance and will last longer. Be careful of the car behind you!
This site has 20 extremely attractive pictures on it.
For all the haters – Flash is the new internet video medium! Here is a nice guide with information on compressing to FLV and serving it.
VideoLAN VLC media player is a streaming media server and client solution that runs on loads of platforms and goes for free.
The US Army has a cool new simulation system, which I guess will be integrated with RL maneuver, showing units up to squad level on a map, updated continuously and allowing commanders control of the units. There’s a link in here to the maneuver control system which is well worth following.
This is a nice piece of software that starts up with the insertion of your USB drive giving your home address and a little message.
Ceelite creates flat lightbulbs on sheets of bendable plastic. Want it in my house, but no pricing on the site.
This site has a whole load of strange and unusual maps – from fantasy lands to Europe in the 15th century as well as how the states formed in the Australia.
This huge scanner has a monitor built in to it, and scans the tabletop in less than a second. It also has animation and image editing functions in the software.
Several virusses such as HIV and herpes are known to be able to cross over to the brain and then start eating it up. There are several more of these types of virusses, which when taken over the lifetime of the individual, will eat up enough brain matter to impair cognition. This takes on forms Read more about Brain eating virusses[…]
For some reason Internet Explorer has a problem opening websites containing the Google Maps API with a totally non-saying why error leading to a generic page. The linkielist contained this API, and it has now been removed, so IE users can get back to reading this.
Do something they should have done – and then for a supplier that will win! StyleTap has created a Palm OS emulator for Pocket PCs running windows Mobile. They will be releasing for Symbian soon. The emulator runs everything ever written for any Palm OS, regardless of version or chip architecture (something Palm can’t seem Read more about If your supplier can’t win[…]
The US was looking into it, but Australia has decided – tax stuff done on-line. If there is a monetary benefit. I guess a whole load of tax boards are going to be looking at Australia to see if it can actually be done.
Researchers are allready looking into the security of quantum computers. Basically they throw up a castle of fake data and take the computer off the network for a loooooong time compared to normal computers. This is necessary due to the inherent fragility of the states of the qubits, but surprisingly doesn’t really contribute to slower Read more about Secure your Quantum Computer[…]
This ramp is 360 ft long and 75 ft high, has some huge jumps on it and gets you up to speeds of around 85 kph. Only around two dozen people are good enough to ride it, apparently.
If you’ve seen the future of UIs with Vista, Mac and Linux (search this site for ‘cube’) you know that Compiz with the flying cubes wins hands down – looks very very cool. There is, however some confusion as to how to get it to run – it’s not trivial, but not so hard either. Read more about XGL Compiz Window manager for Linux[…]
Scottish scientists have developed a sticker / plaster which activates the anti-skin cancer cream using light allowing patients to have the treatment on the go instead of having to lie motionless for hours under cumbersome hospital equipment. Initial studies are very promising.
I’ve seen these on motorcycles, but not yet on cars – looks cool, but what about overheating problems?
Christopher Soghoian set up a site that allowed you to print your own boarding passes, exploiting a big hole in US domestic flight security, which allows anyone to board domestic flights without showing IDs if they allready have a boarding pass.
This guy has made a study of how to decrease web page load time using server settings, caching, code and browser settings.
The proof of concept code opening up that RFID passport you always wanted to have has been made public and posted on Bugtraq.
Yes, soon you too will be able to scale Mt. Everest with someone on your back thanks to your augmented powersuit exoskeleton. If you have the +- $60,000 to buy one with. Production for 2007 is expected to be around 20 units, with around 400 + rolling off the lines in 2008.