UPC bottlenecks your downloads
Between 12:00 and 24:00 customers of UPC internet will only be able to download at 1/3rd of the possible speed as UPC will be QOSsing them. UPC voert toch afknijpbeleid in | Webwereld.
Apple makes big fight with everyone!
Hot on the now allready very old news about the Apple vs Microsoft TV ads (where Apple has just released it’s answer to Laptop Hunters) and the Apple vs Palm Pre Itunes Sync and the Apple vs Palm “let’s make an illegal agreement not to poach each others’ employees any more” comes the latest installment: Read more about Apple makes big fight with everyone![…]
Hack Your Wii for Homebrew without Twilight Princess
Hack Your Wii for Homebrew without Twilight Princess – Wii – Lifehacker.
Finally UK CCTV figures
It turns out that CCTV cameras all over the place don’t really help much at all: for every 1000 camera’s, one crime is solved. That’s a very very expensive way to go about invading people’s privacy. Instead of getting rid of the camera’s, the Metropolitan police is saying they need to figure out how to Read more about Finally UK CCTV figures[…]
Ice Tube VFD Clock kit
This clock is an open source project: make it yourself from free downloadable plans, or buy a kit from them and then assemble Ice Tube VFD Clock kit – Glowy retro tube clock.
Stellarium
Stellarium is a hugely featured program to look at the night sky with. It’s written for Mac, Windows and Linux. Stellarium.
Movement
This program allows you to change the order of your icons on the computer instead of by dragging them laboriously across the screen. Only for jailbroken ipods and only for Mac 🙁 Movement – Organise your iPhone apps with ease! – iPod touch Fans.
Concert Hands
The way this system works, is wrist straps on a rail guide your hands to the right place and then zap the finger with electricity to indicate that you should press it. You load up the software with midi files and it’ll make you play it. I guess the idea is that if you build Read more about Concert Hands[…]
iPhone 3GS Jailbreak, ECID Grabber & iBEC and iBSS Grabber
In order to futureproof your iPhone upgrade, you need to get and save your ECID, iBEC and IBSS. In order to do this you need the following program: difrnt » Blog Archive » ECID Grabber & iBEC and iBSS Grabber. You can then follow these instructions from step 6 on – the grabber will do Read more about iPhone 3GS Jailbreak, ECID Grabber & iBEC and iBSS Grabber[…]
Nykov Charge Base Ic
This Wii charger uses magnetism to stick the controllers to the base and then induction to charge the controllers through the jacket Nyko – Products – Charge Base Ic.
The iPhone sonic ruler
OK so maybe it’s not quite as accurate as a proper sonic ruler, but being able to use sonar on your iphone is a pretty neat trick! Found Footage: The iPhone sonic ruler.
US 24th Air Force stood up
This is the cyber air force, responsible for defensive as well as offensive use of cyberspace – ie. hacking, sniffing and cracking other nation’s networks, as well as defending US networking. US military cyber force activated • The Register.
Clark Little Photography
Clark Little makes some awesome pictures of waves crarshing on the beach
Denim Gadget Case
Well, this ipod case is the best looking one I’ve seen – and it’s really easy to make! This site gives the instructions. Denim Gadget Case.
Sickipedia
This is the most awesome collection of paedophile, racist, anti-semitic, mysogenistic jokes ever. Basically, if you’re PC, don’t go. It’s fucking funny though. Sick Joke Wiki – Sickipedia.
2 Ways To Fabricate DNA Evidence
It turns out that you can easily pland DNA at a crime scene – any biology undergraduate could do this: it’s easier than planting a fingerprint. One method requires you to have a sample of the actual DNA, the other requires you have access to the DNA information in a police database. Centralised DNA databases Read more about 2 Ways To Fabricate DNA Evidence[…]
IBM scientists build computer chips from DNA
So, together with the nano lasers, we now have two new technologies for future growth in computer chip capacity. IBM’s technology makes strands of DNA self-assemble into shapes such as triangles or squares on top of silicon. This assembly acts as scaffolding for semi conducting nanotubes which become a nano circuit board. IBM scientists build Read more about IBM scientists build computer chips from DNA[…]
44 nm Nanolaser
This is very very tiny – it’s by far the smallest information carrying line we can create now. Computer chipmakers are running into walls trying to cram more information lines (wires) into a chip, but they can’t make them small enough to fit. This could change all that, if they can build lenses with switching Read more about 44 nm Nanolaser[…]
New battery could change world, one house at a time
The battery breakthrough comes from a Salt Lake company called Ceramatec, the R&D arm of CoorsTek, a world leader in advanced materials and electrochemical devices. It promises to reduce dependence on the dinosaur by hooking up with the latest generation of personalized power plants that draw from the sun. … Inside Ceramatec’s wonder battery is Read more about New battery could change world, one house at a time[…]
Lockerbie bomber ‘to be released’
Unbelievably, the man convicted of being responsible for the greatest disaster in Scotland, is possibly being released on ‘compassionate grounds’ of all things! BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Lockerbie bomber ‘to be released’.
We lie a lot.
This comes back a lot – we know people are basically not honest, that lying is taught to us by our parents from an early age. Robert Feldman’s latest study shows that even when we don’t have an agenda, we lie around 12 times per 10 minutes – and these are just the lies we Read more about We lie a lot.[…]
The Pre Reports Your Location to Palm
It turns out that Palm wants your data – as much as possible! The Pre sends the following information home daily: Location Which apps you’ve used and for how long App crash logs Installed apps Apparently Palm says you can turn it off, but they don’t tell you how. You OK it by agreeing to Read more about The Pre Reports Your Location to Palm[…]
It’s hidden
It’s Hidden is a Dutch VPN service that allows you to surf the web and bittorrent anonymously. They say they don’t store any data and they encrypt it for you. The results I’ve seen so far show that they’re a fast service. Home.
Bone-anchored hearing aids
Finally! They’ve passed testing and can be implemented! You can plug an mp3 player into them, they’re not as huge and unsightly as the current hearing aids and they are much much more effective than the old school ones. Bone-anchored hearing aids filter out noise, finally ready for human implantation.
Molecular condom vs AIDS
Utah scientists have developed a liquid that turns semi solid in the presence of semen, trapping the AIDS virus. If a woman uses the liquid before sex, sperm gets trapped in a gel like structure. By the time the gel melts into liquid, the AIDS virus has died. So it’s not a sure fire contraceptive, Read more about Molecular condom vs AIDS[…]