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This 14 year old kid walks around tram depots, figures out what signal is needed to make track points switch, builds his own TV Remote control and goes and derails 4 trams. That’s young talent for you.
Using the contents of a refrigerator you can make some damn pretty landscapes!
What does data look like? There are plenty of ideas that have come out of Madrid at Medialab Prado’s Visualizer workshops. Many more images and explanations of what they mean in the link!
Two issues in this story: Because registrars allow you to return a domain without costs within 5 days, domain kiting or tasting allows unscrupulous companies to register a domain, see how much traffic it generates and throw it back for free or re-register it every 5 days, allowing them to get free domains. Apparently the Read more about Techdirt: ICANN Finally Realizes Domain Tasting Is A Problem, Might Fix It Sometime This Decade[…]
This is a lovely story for a great development: a honeycomb structure that seems to be transparent and conducts sound, allowing you to transmit audio over just about any surface. “The UK ministry of defense was experimenting with a way to dampen the sound in helicopters and developed a honeycombed material that did the opposite Read more about Stereo surfaces[…]
These things are based on DLP technology – ie. there’s a little mirror on each chip reflecting the RGB lasers to the required pixel. The mirror tilts and turns at insane speed in order to get the exact right colour mix to the place the light is projected to. Apparently the colours on this thing Read more about Mitsubishi Laser TV’s[…]
This is a method to hide your application ports shimmer works by cryptographically changing a set of 16 ports (one of which forwards to the real service, and 15 others that lead to a trap to blacklist attackers). The 16 ports change every minute frustrating an attacker, but a legimitate user with access to a Read more about Shimmer[…]
Looks like a good gaming keypad to me…
This guy has an amazing Wii mod which puts the sensor bar on your head and has a WiiRemote track the location of your head. Because it knows this, software can change the image on the screen relative to the position of your head, creating a very effective 3D space. The whole thing is explained Read more about Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote[…]
Both Steven Poole and Virginia Heffernan in the NY Times have written great pieces about how they are pissed off with the huge bloat that is MS Word and how they have gotten around it. One option is to use WriteRoom which presents you with a blank screen with text. Which is kind of… it. Read more about Goodbye, cruel Word[…]
This freeware disables all the little things you hate about Vista, making it slightly less crap: Vista4Experts is kind of a treat for computer experts who don’t want security center notifications, User Account Control dialogs, automatic Windows Defender scannings, automatic update installations (which cause you to reboot your system if you don’t react quickly enough). Read more about Vista4Experts[…]
The International Meteor Organization has a calendar with the meteor showers we can expect this year. It has pictures of where to look as well as data on how many to expect and on what they base these predictions.
And if there are more female monkeys around, you pay less. Yup, money makes the world go round…
For Neo Wannabes: How To Do Matrix-Like Bullet Time Video at Home. Basically it involves attaching a whole load of digital camera’s to a u-shaped board, then rigging the shutters so that they all go off at the same time…
TomTom Systems are basically linux machines running on ARM CPUs. This means – we can hack them! And because they’re running Linux and a whole load of Linux apps, TomTom provides this page with the OS source codes and the tools they use. Of course since then it has been hacked like crazy. Here’s the Read more about Opening TomTom[…]
If you’ve got so much money that you’re just looking for new ways to waste it, Tobias Wong and Ju$t Another Rich Kid created the Gold Pill for you. It’s a pill dipped in gold and filled with 24-karat gold leaf. You’re supposed to eat it “to increase your self-worth.” That would be funny if Read more about Gold Pill makes your poop glitter for $425[…]
Tired of looking like a wuss on your Segway? Then put down your bike helmet and put on the Skull Helmet from Santiago Chopper. Owning anything from a place called Santiago Chopper is guaranteed to add +1 to your self esteem, but this brain bucket (that’s cool biker slang for “helmet”) will “scare the crap Read more about Skull helmet makes you look badass on your Segway[…]
Dubai gets all the cool stuff. If it isn’t the world’s tallest hotel, or a building inspired by an iPod, it’s a hotel that is underwater. The Hydropolis Undersea Resort will open its doors this month, offering guests 220 rooms of scenic underwater views. Located in the Arabian Gulf, the hotel sits approximately 60 feet Read more about Underwater hotel opens[…]
Technology has come quite a long way since the original USB Missile Launcher was unveiled a year ago. It was so popular that biggie Microsoft wanted some USB desktop weapon action and has teamed up with Dream Cheeky for vastly improved missile launchers. The first launcher is attacking the biggest flaw of the missile launching Read more about USB Missile Launches gets wireless, camera upgrades[…]
t’s easy to track the tidal movements of the ocean by looking at waves, but all of that energy is moved around under the surface of the water as well. Florida Atlantic University’s Center of Excellence in Ocean Energy Technology hopes to harness these underwater currents by placing 100-foot-in-diameter 20 kilowatt turbines that are anchored Read more about Underwater turbines could power the state of Florida[…]
So there you are, walking down the street, when you hear a voice in your head. And instead of the regular voice, the one that tells you that you want a cheeseburger or that you should buy more video games, this one is an unfamiliar one telling you to watch a new TV show. Are Read more about New billboard puts voices in your head[…]
The Portable PC Theater probably won’t replace your PC, even if you do use it as a media center. It will come in handy, though, if you want a computer that you can tote around and take to show friends whatever hot video is going around the web. Instead of a monitor, it has a Read more about Portable PC Theater: where’s the PC?[…]
Outdoor types who are into extreme sports: listen up. You don’t have to rely on some wired-up coat that controls your MP3 player when there’s a helmet that can do it for you. Hammacher Schlemmer has a winter sports helmet with Bluetooth headphones built in. The transmitter wirelessly connects to an iPod sitting safely and Read more about Bluetooth helmet makes voices in your head a good thing[…]
The race to build a working and dependable scramjet is happening all the world over — the United States, China, Australia and who knows who else all want one. DARPA’s HTV-3X, also known as Blackswift, is an unmanned scramjet-powered plane that may take to the skies as soon as 2012, hitting speeds of up to Read more about Scramjet-powered planes (and missiles) may be closer than you think[…]
The Kanguru USB Duplicator allows you to plug in up to 24 thumb drives at once and dictate what information goes onto all of them. An LCD on the unit helps you to know what you’re doing, and you can map hotkeys so that you can copy and format drives with the touch of a Read more about Kanguru USB Duplicator handles 24 drives at once[…]