The Retail DNA Test

You spit in a tube, post it to 23andMe and get a result on your predisposition for more than 90 traits and conditions ranging from baldness to blindness. So you can select your next partner with even more care than ever before and be scared shitless of having a child for ever more.

12 million UK Tax logins found in car park

Basically anyone who’d ever used the Government Gateway for payment or any of the myriad other systems had their logins on this memory stick, as well as the source code to the system itself. This shows what a fantastic idea centralised databases are, especially single sign on systems, when held in the capable hands of Read more about 12 million UK Tax logins found in car park[…]

BSODomizer

BSODomizer is a small, battery-powered, mischievous electronic gadget that interfaces between a laptop or desktop and VGA monitor and flashes images onto the monitor at random time intervals or when triggered by an infrared remote control Childish and random? Hell yeah! Cool as fuck and I want one!

Attractive people and their children

An earlier study in 2006 showed that attractive parents are 36% more likely to have daughters, and that the daughters become more attractive That study has been validated again recently, but now with the added caveat that whilst it seems that the attractiveness is hereditiary for women and not for men: ie. attractive couples have Read more about Attractive people and their children[…]

mir:ror

mir:ror is a system that reads RFID labels and then performs actions on your PC depending on the type of tag: eg, show your umbrella and it will give you a weather report. Only $69,99