Digital Veil obscures beauties and beasts behind a wall of light
The Digital Veil is an art piece by Soomi Park that combines black and white flash animations with a wearable LCD screen. The wearer’s face is visible through the white parts of the animations and obscured by the black areas, so onlookers are presented with a distorted face that’s always shifting. The wearer can randomly Read more about Digital Veil obscures beauties and beasts behind a wall of light[…]
Google as a password cracker
An interesting paper detailing quickly how to crack MD5sums using Google 🙂
Dutch health care database stores data on all Dutch people
Without the people really knowing or approving of their data in the system, a health care database has been set up with some very personal details in it of all people in Holland. The Vecozo database is searchable by 80,000 people. Not too surprisingly, people aren’t too happy about this.
Scientists trap light in nano-soup
Indian scientists have quite accidentally stumbled upon a way to store light for longer periods of time. So far this could only be done for a few nano-seconds. This potentially allows us to create light based switching systems.
New Rotary Drop Car Door design
The car door dissappears by rotating underneath the car. A totally different way of getting out of the car. The youtube film is nice.
Studies show we evolve more quickly than we think
And not only are humans evolving quickly, we’re also evolving differently on different continents.
Tablet PCs
Tablet PC’s come in all shapes and sizes. This is a quick look at tablet PCs on the market without keyboards and without potentially breakable hinges. Electrovaya Inc. has the Scribbler SC-3100 Ace Asia Co., Ltd. has the T201 Fujitsu has the Stylistic ST5100 Itronix offerts the rugged Gobook Series Motion Computing offers 3 different Read more about Tablet PCs[…]
Ergodex DX1 Input System
A great concept – put your keys anywhere on the board you want them, then program them with single keys or multi key macros. The board (tray) is clear, so you can print out templates if you like.
LapBuddy
Sometimes a product comes along that’s so simple you wonder why you’ve never spotted it before. This is one of them. Wide enough for a keyboard and a mouse or a laptop and a mouse: Made of lightweight material, the Lap Buddy’s design dissipates heat from a laptop computer, conforms to anyone’s lap, and our Read more about LapBuddy[…]
Kinesis Advantage Contoured Keyboard
This seems to be the ulimate in erognomic keyboards for heavy use.
Shocking Tanks
Shocking Tanks is a game where you remote control a tank and try to shoot the other tank(s) using a lasergun mounted on your tank. If you get shot, the controller electric shocks you.
Jumping the Shark
If a TV shows ratings are faltering, they will try to do something spectacular on it in order to push up ratings again. This can be things like replacing characters, killing characters off, moving locations, special guest stars, or whatever. This site discusses shows and allows visitors to vote on whether they think a show Read more about Jumping the Shark[…]
Philips 3D CT Scanner
This scanner takes a whole load of x-ray images of the whole body in a very small time using a rotating ring. This makes the images 3D so they can be rotated and viewed on computers. It can capture bone structures as well as organs.
Aerion Supersonic Business Jet
This very cool looking BJ will hit speeds of mach 1.6. It can fly without a sonic boom over populated areas at mach 1.1. This will be the world’s first supersonic BJ. Due to it’s handling charecteristics and size, it will also be able to land on just about any concrete airfield.
Olympus creates 360-degree HD camera and projector – Engadget
Olympus creates 360-degree HD camera and projector – Engadget
Stem cell breakthrough
Scientists have managed to create stem cells without extracting them from embryos using a simple lab technique.
When you lose a database
The UK has managed to lose two CDs with lots of very private information on around 15 million of its subjects. These CDs contained the personal information of all people collecting child benefits and were lost as a result of them being sent untracked by courier. They never arrived at their destination and were sent Read more about When you lose a database[…]
YouPorn
In a reversal of the usual order of things, the porn industry is learning from corporate america with youporn.com.
How to Turn Your Browser Into a Weapon – Desktop Security Blog – Dark Reading
Some lovely Firefox extensions, including cookie interceptors, site spidering, user agent switching and more
European Battle Groups Evaluated
The EU has had it’s own battlegroups since 2003. These are battalion sized (500/600 people) ground forces allowing the EU to project it’s power without outside help and reinforce its position as an international actor. Allthough this is a great step forward for EU independent operations, the battlegroups are far from perfect. This report was Read more about European Battle Groups Evaluated[…]
NOTCOT.ORG
A very visual blog that allows you to put up an image in a polariod frame and comment the image. More interesting than it sounds.
who killed bambi?
who killed bambi? is a weblog of art images (so clothing, photography etc, all of a disturbing nature. Very disturbing. # The mission A dangerous criminal gang is riding the net. They act in the dark, exploring the most sinister places, in search for the bloody heart of talent and creativity. Their favourite victims are Read more about who killed bambi?[…]
A yacht powered by a gigantic kite
Powering your boat via an engine is so last year. The new cool way to propel your new luxury yacht? A big kite, of course. What, you don’t think it’d be enough? You obviously don’t know much about kites, my friend. This Kite Sailing Yacht uses a giant parachute-sized kite on a long tether. By Read more about A yacht powered by a gigantic kite[…]
The Junk on New Build PCs
If you buy a PC nowadays, it’ll come loaded with loads of crap you may or may not want: trial versions of software with nag screens after a period of time, the system builder’s own software, stuff that shows you ads, google desktop and toolbar etc etc etc. PC World has a good article on Read more about The Junk on New Build PCs[…]