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Car Race Pimping
G-tech/Pro is famous for its accelerometers or g-meters. They measure how fast you accellerate, how many G’s you’re pulling, how fast you brake and how that compares to your turns. Their SS ($199) / RR ($299) series are the top of the line, but it’s a bit unfortunate that you need to spend an extra $100,- to be able to export to your PC.
Of course, you could hook up your wii-mote to a laptop and let Excel do the number crunching 🙂
The Expandable Gauge System (EGS) is a real piece of engineering with shift lights, a rev meter, a digital display with loads of measurements all easily plugged in through your cigarette lighter and a controller. You can buy extra modules for it and expand it as much as you like. Starts at around $279
But pricing at $695 is a bit steeper
Many more gadgets of to be found on Racergadget.com
So – you want to be a superhero
Design your own suit using the handy templates
It’s crime fighting time!
Downsize DC: refuse to be afraid
I am not afraid of terrorism, and I want you to stop being afraid on my behalf. Please start scaling back the official government war on terror. Please replace it with a smaller, more focused anti-terrorist police effort in keeping with the rule of law. Please stop overreacting. I understand that it will not be possible to stop all terrorist acts. I am not afraid.
Sounds like a good plan to me!
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World Lecture Hall
Polish teen derails tram after hacking train network
Food art
Visualizing: tracing an aesthetics of data
Many more images and explanations of what they mean in the link!
Techdirt: ICANN Finally Realizes Domain Tasting Is A Problem, Might Fix It Sometime This Decade
The second issue is that so called reputable companies (such as Network Solutions) are posting your searches for domain names, so that above unscrupulous companies can register them before you can.
Stereo surfaces
“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 — conducted sound,” James Bullen of NXT told AFP.
Mitsubishi Laser TV’s
Shimmer
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 secret shared between the client and server can determine the real port, avoid blacklisting, and get a connection.
Wolfking announces MVP series gamepad and mouse for gamers – Engadget
Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote
Goodbye, cruel Word
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. Old School, blank screen with text. Oh, you can configure the colour of the text. And the background. Anyway, it keeps you focussed on the actual writing part of it.
The other option is Scrivener. Not only does it allow you to word process, but it manages your writing as a project.
Both save their documents as .rtf / .txt / .xml which means they’re open formats you will be able to use forever. Unfortunately, Scrivener is only available for the Mac…
Happy alternate writing!
Vista4Experts
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). People who want MSDN (or google) set as default search engine in the Internet Explorer search bar, who want the start menu power button to shut down the system instead of hibernating it, etc.
IMO Meteor Shower Calendar 2008
Cost of coitus: Male monkeys pay for sex
For Neo Wannabes: How To Do Matrix-Like Bullet Time Video at Home
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…
Opening TomTom
Gold Pill makes your poop glitter for $425
If you’ve got so much money that you’re just looking for new ways to waste it, Tobias Wong and Ju$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 it didn’t cost $425 for the joke. Supposedly an added benefit is that it will make your poop sparkle, but no one seems to have proven that part yet (and if you do, please don’t send us the pictures). This is either genius social commentary or a brilliant way to bilk rich people out of their money. If Wong’s name sounds familiar, it’s probably because he also created the $2,000 ccPhone.
Skull helmet makes you look badass on your Segway
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 out of any onlookers while you’re enjoying your mid day [sic] cruise.” Also recommended for spastic World of Warcrafters who frequently “biff” or “auger” during extended gameplay sessions as this will prevent the ensuing “cranial disharmony.” And since this “lid” is only $149, you can afford to get one for your “betty” too.
Underwater hotel opens
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 underwater, and has a roof that can open for special events. Obviously the roof is located above water, or that would a real problem for those inside.
Trains connect guests from dry land to the hotel, and while staying at the luxurious Hydropolis Undersea Resorts guests can shop in the mall, dine at island restaurants, or watch a movie in the state of the art theater. Best of all you can sleep sound knowing you are protected by the hotel’s very own missile defense system.
USB Missile Launches gets wireless, camera upgrades
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 predecessor, the cord. The wireless USB missile launcher still work the same way via your PC, but this time there is a little more flexibility where it can be set up. The second launcher is where Microsoft got its hands dirty and addressed another concern with the original: covertness. Previously, it was tough to setup and aim the USB missile launcher without being discovered, but the included top-mounted webcam makes it all the easier. Both launchers should be making its official debut at CES in less than a month, much to the disappointment to the local dweeb in the cubicle farm.