Panasonic – Fukitorimushi
This is a Roomba alternative – it wipes the floor for you.
Bendable Concrete Heals Itself — Just Add Water
Based on the stuff sea shells are made of, this stuff is allready in production.
Drugs in Portugal: decriminalisation works!
That and offering free health care support to get off the drugs has lowered the useage of drugs dramatically as well as turned Portugal into a much safer place.
Navy Robots
The Moray Eel Hunter is a drone that seeks out single swimmers closing in stealthily on your coast at 8 kts. Once it finds you it lights up, makes noise, sends signals and swims around you. So how long before it gets armed?
how eBay stops Graverobbers
Oddly enough, it turns out that eBay has helped reduce the amount of tomb raiding. This is because there has apparently never been that much money in it for the actual tomb raiders looking for artifacts: the high cost of artifacts has to do with middlemen: fences, transport, bribes, authenticators, etc. So it’s cheaper (and Read more about how eBay stops Graverobbers[…]
Germany again: You may have an opinion…
… but only if it is the same as ours! Germany’s largest social networking site has allowed all political parties a special page indicating it’s an organisation, but the Pirate Party wasn’t allowed one. So they set up a personal page, which got deleted summarily, because it was an organisation and not person. Seig Heil Read more about Germany again: You may have an opinion…[…]
A Silver Ooze instead of wires
Apparently this magical silver goo conducts as well as gold and is way way thinner than wiring in circuits, so it has the potential to make much smaller gadgets.
Blue Screen of Death Survival Guide: Every Error Explained
How to find out what’s really wrong with your PC when it blinks blue.
Donkey basketball
What a fantastic concept: basketball on donkeyback – 4 vs 4. Of course PETA has a problem, but then again, what do they know about animals?
GPS for Nano
This guy has gone all out and has built a hardware GPS reciever which you can plug into your Ipod Nano. He’s then built the software for it to display coordinates and signal strength etc on the screen.
Scientists Say Their Mirror-Based Invisibility Cloaks Actually Work
I’ve handled this several times before, but here we have some more on those almost mythical Invisibility cloaks
Florida Officers Battle Drivers in Legal Street Races
An example of how to do it right! In order to get street racers off the streets, Florida’s cops will race you at $25,- a pop on a track where it’s safe and legal. Unsurprisingly, this is turning out to be very popular: not just with the racers, but with a whole crowd of other Read more about Florida Officers Battle Drivers in Legal Street Races[…]
Sharks in your nightclub
Of course, the ignoramusses at PETA – who kill animals to make you pay them – are against this (and very special care indeed is being taken with the sharks) but I think it’s a totally awesome idea: Sharks under you as you dance.
Fly the Concorde
The Brooklands museum in Surrey has a full sized Concorde flight simulator, which you can fly for free during your visit to the museum!
MI6 gets into the secret losing business
True to the Labour Governments’ form, yet ANOTHER serious data breach has been executed by government agencies. What’s surprising this time, is that it was done by a trained MI6 operative, who lost all the details about covert anti-drug operations in Columbia! Yes, that would be contact names, agent names and adresses and other details, Read more about MI6 gets into the secret losing business[…]
Inventors develop transistor to change color of any surface
This means that with some refinement, they can turn anything into a screen.
Multilingual lip reading computers
Now the guys at the superbowl will have another problem when hiding their mouths: even if they change the language they’re speaking in, the computer will be able to tell you which language it is!
World Digital Library Home
The UN has opened a library of texts they’ve scanned in, containing some very very old texts from all over the world. The first texts in there are from 8000 BC.
U.S. Satellites hacked by Brazillians
Apparently this is such a common phenomenon in Brazil that even truckers are hacking US spy sats to further their communications.
F-35 Lightning II hacked
They’re not sure what the attackers took, because the information was encrypted directly as it was taken and sent. The scream is “China Did It”, but the US military seems to be blaming all cyber attacks on China nowadays.
3d connexion Space Pilot Pro
It’s a 3D mouse. With an LCD screen and loads of buttons. For around $500,-.
DealExtreme: Cool Gadgets at the Right Price
This gadget site is chock full of iphone / ipod gadgets, watches, USB stuff, car electronics, lasers, flashlights, spy pens, nature digital sound recorders, toys, crossbows, gunsights, GSM bugs and signal blockers, PSP Pandora batteries, and god knows what else, and for insanely low prices – with free shipping! Have fun overspending here 🙂
Ze Nazi’s closing down more free speech
After Merkel’s reich has allready raided wikileaks headquarters, they have now managed to get DENIC (the German registrar) to take down the wikileaks.de domain citing vague nonsense. What is it with Germany and it’s antipathy to free speech?
Beatscanner
Point this free app at your music library, tell it how many bpm you want it to look for and it will come up with a list of music. If you set the bpm between 120 – 140 you should get the perfect workout music playlist.
Amazon hates gays
Coincidentally, I was listening to Lilly Allen’s Fuck You very much when I read this: Amazon has taken down all references to gay, lesbian and transgender literature from their search engines with some “it’s bad for children” bullshit excuse. What are they going to take off their searches next? Anything written by black people? Fuck Read more about Amazon hates gays[…]