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We were surprised at Hitachi’s 32-inch HDTV whose thickness was just 0.74 inches. Now it looks like Samsung has topped that, creating a flat-panel HDTV that’s half that thick. Imagine a TV that’s just 10mm thin — just over a third of an inch. That’s the depth of this 40-inch 1080p LCD TV (pictured at Read more about Samsung to show 10mm-thick HDTVs, thin LCD race intensifies[…]
Let’s hope the Biplane didn’t get its name from something that happened during test runs — motorcycles tend to be at their best with at least one wheel on the ground. The Biplane is a concept motorcycle design that Suzuki is showing off at the 2007 Tokyo Motor Show. Details are scarce, but it looks Read more about Suzuki Biplane is a motorcycle, but looks like it could fly[…]
ey, kids! Have you ever wanted to listen in on the conversations of other people without them knowing it? Create codes that allow spies in the field to get information about enhanced interrogation techniques without those killjoys at Amnesty International finding out? Dress up as a totally extreme rapping turtle and get a blow job Read more about NSA To Recruit Children, Furries[…]
Why not? A huge repository and community just like youtube but for word, excel. powerpoint, pdf, etc etc etc documents. You can then embed your document on the web, just like you do for youtube content.
So… then what are they for?
The Economist has a good article on all the ways that society is watching and following you around nowadays. An interesting point they make is that privacy has only been considered important since WW II. They fail to mention 2 reasons that this might be so: 1) The size of databases was only then becoming Read more about What society is watching[…]
The Eclipse framework is an open source development platform used mainly by Java and C developers. They do have a PHP Development Tools framework, which allows Eclipse to be used to develop PHP with. Version 1 was released 18/9/7 and there have been regular releases since 8/3/6. Phalanger is a PHP compiler for the dot Read more about PHP development odds and ends[…]
NIPPON STYLE:: PREMIUM UNIT SERIES is actually a full bathroom: shower, bath, washbasins and taps
Dear Friends Thought this might strike a chord or two!! CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE:- 1940’s, 50’s,60’s and 70’s !! First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a tin, and didn’t get tested Read more about Yup, we should be dead[…]
Not only that, they should mark each others’ tests as well. No, seriously. This is what the UK National Curriculum advice is for this year. First the UK has managed to scare the people into doing whatever it wants in the name of security, then it created a nanny state, and now it’s dumbing the Read more about Kids ‘should set tests’ – Education – News – Manchester Evening News[…]
This looks simply awesome
APEC security is lousy and people are stupid peons who will do anything if you give them a reason. We have been indoctrinated by fear. The Chasers prove it on Youtube
Really quick and easy video tutorial
It works by chemically filtering anything larger than 15 nanometers, thus cleansing it. Very usefull for the military or, well, anyone!
So now the bastards have made sure that you’re actually outside killing yourself in the rain, wind, sleet, cold, whatever with your cigarette, they’ve decided that the litter you create when you throw away your cigarette butt is aweful enough that they’re going to automatically ticket you for littering after they’ve automatically identified you with Read more about CCTV spying on smokers[…]
The little hypnotic dancing robot comes from here.
First you confuse people about what you’re talking about and then you re-explain it in simple language. This used in sales leads to increased sales, as people are looking to understand what the hell it was you just told them.
Google has teamed up with the X-Prize foundation to offer incentives to get onto the moon: • GRAND PRIZE: A $20 million Grand Prize will be awarded to the team that can soft land a craft on the Moon that roams for at least 500 meters and transmits a Mooncast back to Earth. The Grand Read more about Google Lunar X-Prize[…]
Google Earth 4.2 now incorporates space with the Sky option, allowing you to explore the heavens with images from various sources overlaid. Still have to compare it to Celestia though.
The UK MOD has an interesting page with publications about what it’s doing, how it wants to do things and how it sees the world. A very interesting read is the DCDC Global Strategic Trends Programme, which has the UK’s best ideas on what will happen globally between 2007-2036
Ways to inventively use light as paintbrushes on photographs you make. Painting With Light | DIYPhotography.net
This keyboard costs more than the Optimus keyboard, also has OLED programmable buttons and even has a screen on it and easy mode changing stuff, but still manages to look like a throwback from the 60s. There’s a video after the jump.
That’s nanoscale – offset printers go to around 1,500 dpi. Free licence to start printing bank bills?
Encourage the peons to enter a competition where they get half a day off work for sex and win prizes for making a baby. This reality at the Day of Conception in Ulyanovsk, Russia.
In an interesting art project, where the director wanted to make a movie out of only CCTV footage (which the UK, under the DPA has to provide quickly and for a fixed fee if you want to see your own face with other faces blacked out) about a woman living in a land of faceless Read more about UK Data Protection Act Flaunted[…]