CardStar Creates Scanner-Friendly Bonus Cards
A pretty neat idea – you put the logo of the store in there and generate a barcode to go with it. You can then empty your wallet of clutter!
Author: Robin
MouseZoom
It’s a colour picker with a zoom function
Healthy Food Combinations
It turns out that eating certain foods combined is much better than eating them seperately. * Tomatoes & Avocadoes * Oatmeal & Orange Juice * Broccoli & Tomatoes * Blueberries & Grapes * Apples & Chocolate * Lemon & Kale * Soy & Salmon * Peanuts & Whole Wheat * Red Meat & Rosemary * Read more about Healthy Food Combinations[…]
Sony MotionPortrait animates 2D pics to 3D CGI
The example is a bit freaky, but it looks like promising technology.
Atom Pinhole Camera Acts as a Shrinking Copy Machine
Basically by shooting atoms through a nanoscale pinhole on a mask at a substrate on the other side, researchers have found that they will create a smaller version of the reflected structure – a cheap and easy way to make a nanostructure. What’s more, it’s scaleable: they can make loads of pinholes and shoot atoms Read more about Atom Pinhole Camera Acts as a Shrinking Copy Machine[…]
Stem cells for your eyesight
Are Stem cells the new snake oil? The University of New South Wales in Sydney claims they have used contact lensens made from the stem cells of the working eye to cure corneal blindness in 3 people.
Samson Motorworks Switchblade
Here’s a great new design for a flying tricycle. The wings switch out from underneath it, and aside from being feature laden, it’s also supposed to be ‘green’. They’re expecting it to go in 2010. Let’s hope this becomes a reality!
Logitech’s Force Feedback Flight System
It’s been a long long while since anything new has come out for military flight sim enthusiasts, and this looks like it is just what the doctor ordered. Since Vista dropped support for the gameport – and thus for my F-15 inspired Suncom set up (no longer for sale, but definitely the best stick / Read more about Logitech’s Force Feedback Flight System[…]
Fingerprint them all says the US!
The US DHS, not happy with branding incoming people criminals and fingerprinting them at entry points, now also wants to fingerprint you as you leave.
Google Web Elements
Google wants you to put their tools into your website. So they’ve made it easy. Using elements, such as you probably have seen from Youtube embedded objects, they’ve gone and put maps, calendar, search, spreadsheets and a whole load more into this. Googlify your site!
Using Pulsars for Galactic GPS
A Parisian scientist at the observatory has figured out a way to fix your position in time and galactic space by measuring the radio signals sent out by four pulsars.
10 Tips Good Girls Can Learn from Porn Stars
Or how to have a happy sex life – for both the girl and the guy!
All-Glass Firefox v2
All-Glass Firefox is a stylesheet for firefox that allows it to use the Windows Aero Glass effects, basically making your entire firefox transparent in Vista. For full useage they reccomend using the latest Firefox beta, but it works fine if you’re running stable as well.
Android apps on Ubuntu
This is very useful – running an Android app natively in its own window under Ubuntu. Why hasn’t Palm or Apple done this?
Lifehacker – Hive Five Winner for Best MP3 Tagging Tool
This was voted the best tool to keep the tags of your mp3 collection in order.
Stolen RAF files are blackmailer’s dream
It turns out that the UK government is absolutely fantastic at keeping your data secure! Not only were the 2 harddrives that went missing last year September with all the RAF’s personell information on it unencrypted; it turns out they contained details of extramarital affairs, drug problems, financial problems all with names and details. The Read more about Stolen RAF files are blackmailer’s dream[…]
Plastic and fuel that grows on trees
Chemists have found a way to convert things that grow (glucose and fructose) into HMF, which in turn can be easily turned into biofuels and plastics.
MPs’ expenses: it’s getting ridiculous now
So this guy gets a house from parliament: yes, UK MP’s are allowed to live in a tax payer paid house. NL MP’s are too. He likes his garden, so he does it up – on tax payer’s expenses. Because he gets them as per the law. He owns ducks, so he makes an island Read more about MPs’ expenses: it’s getting ridiculous now[…]
UK Gov wants big brother, Lords doesn’t
Quite surprisingly, the heriditiary rules of the UK, the House of Lords, is fighting vigorously for the UK populace’s right to privacy. Probaby because they know the first people the government will go after is them. The Government isn’t having any of it. They say that we can trust them to treat the data securely Read more about UK Gov wants big brother, Lords doesn’t[…]
An Honest Crook Politician!
Croats are supporting a man running for town mayor under slogans such as “all for me, nothing for you”. They find his honesty refreshing.
Tether your camera via WiFi for $50
Because the ‘official’ solution costs $700,- this guy set out and succeeded in finding a way to use cots pieces to transfer pictures from his Nikon D300 camera to his laptop for a fraction of the price. The only problem currently is that it has a high power requirement, but that’s being worked on.
Hitler Jugend makes it to the UK
Children as young as seven are being recruited to tattle on their neighbours. They are being taught how to collect evidence unseen as well as being given a special action pack complete with all the information and items you need to spy on your community in order to prosecute legally. They are calling themseslves ‘Street Read more about Hitler Jugend makes it to the UK[…]
UK Launches db of EVERY CHILD in the UK
Well there it is: every baby will be stamped with a digital prison tatoo at birth. Only *cough* 300.000 childcare professionals – who are especially trustworthy technically adept people who will NEVER compromise the integrity of the database and leak data to anyone else, just like the UK government never does – will have full, Read more about UK Launches db of EVERY CHILD in the UK[…]
AVSim destroyed
In an example of pointless, malicious hacking, the flight sim site Avsim.com has been hacked and destroyed. 13 years of user mods and reviews have been wiped. They won’t be back, because they used two servers which backed each other up. Both were wiped. I can’t even grace this with the words hacked or cracked Read more about AVSim destroyed[…]
Illusion Cloak
Yes! Invisibility cloaks (you can find loads about that kind of tech on this blog) are now old hat. The new cloak is the illusion cloak: it makes an object look like another object! This works with metamaterials.