Incredibly, they’ve gone and made a high budget version of… DONKEY PUNCH!!!! 
My favorite review of all time is on that movie, I’m sure you ALL remember it (Here it is again, should you wish to reperuse it at your leisure: http://www.somethingawful.com/d/horrors-of-porn/donkey-punch.php) YES! And the point of this message? THEY’VE REMADE AND RE-RELEASED Read more about Donkey Punch I and II[…]
Julius Popp of Spherical Robots has created a display / monitor by using falling water. The density of the water creates the pixels. The results are fairly amazing:
Awesome!
Professors in the US are using TV voting machines (called ‘clickers’) to test students’ knowledge of the subject being taught during lectures. As they vote, bar graphs go up in real time allowing people to see how the voting is going. Students using the clicker system score 10% higher than without and it seems to Read more about Using TV style voting in physics class[…]
Now the EU is in the mix Phorm is a company that has been eavesdropping on the 3 largest UK ISPs (BT Internet, Virgin Media and Carphone Warehouse) without a legal reason to do so or anybody’s consent. I first got wind of it in April but the Register has been covering it very comprehensively.
Bell is launching it’s civilian version of the V-22 Osprey, the 609. It has a 700 mile range and more speed than a helicopter, but can land on the top of buildings.
Kris Kaspersky claims to have found an exploit which he plans to release into the wild with working proof of concept code at the upcoming Hack In The Box in Malaysia. He claims that every intel box ever made is vulnerable, OS independent, as long as it’s running TCP/IP or javascript.
Because the record companies insist on following a dramatically failing business model, the EU now wants to encourage their incompetence. They want to raise the period that a rightsholder has rights to their performance (of any song, not necessarily one their own) from 50 years to 95 years, like in the US. One of the Read more about EU to protect singers for 95 years[…]
OK, so you want to personalise a bit of metal, glass, wood, whatever by laser cutting it? Here you go! Windows sees it as a printer and lets you personalise to your hearts’ content. Not cheap though: around $8000,-
The energy is stored at the edges of the windows themselves. The big difficulty in doing this has been getting the energy away from the centre of the window. Not only does this work on windows, but it’ll increase the efficiency of existing solar panels by 40 times.
Where cocaine smugglers used to use cigarette boats, very fast boats and small aircraft to move drugs into the US, now they’re using partial submersibles, which travel just below the surface of the water and are easily scuttled. If the crew is caught by the navy, they sink the ship and the navy is left Read more about Cocaine technology[…]
Open a smoking club. The down sides: everybody must be a member of the Germany Smokers Club and only members can be allowed in during club meeting times.
Now THIS is what a good gadget should look like – knobs, dials and different coloured lights. With the ipod IN the dock, it even has a digital screen. Awesome! I don’t care what it does, I need it!
Google has open sourced its internal replacement for XML: protocolbuffers. They claim XML is inefficient, large and expensive and that protocolbuffers are 10x smaller and 100x faster. That’s quite a claim!
The guys from the Pirate Bay have an ambitious plan to encrypt everything stored on your computer and everything transmitted to and from your PC using IPETEE or Transparent end-to-end encryption for the Internets With Europe implementing a 3 strikes – out and turning into the same spying-on-your-citizens-in-the-name-of-freedom/security/whatever type of place as the commie US Read more about Encrypt all your traffic![…]
This has now gone into a total and utter farce. First there’s a competition, from which there’s a clear winner. This is what the USAF wants to have. The winner isn’t an American company, but will create and sustain more American jobs than choosing the American country. So Boeing sues on spurious grounds. Then the Read more about USAF Tanker acquisition[…]
Then they’re going to smoke outdoors. So as this looks like loitering, what do you do? Make the smokers walk up and down the streets, catching colds and littering their cigarette butts all over the place. Seriously though, what did these anti-smoking idiots really think was going to happen?
It’s been fixed though and everyone SERIOUSLY needs to patch this.
Pictomio is a lovely 3d accellerated picture viewer. Free and for windows.
It’s called Lively and it’s a cross between the Sims, Barbie and Roger Rabbit as far as I can see. No quests, just chatting, setting up your own space and you can implement views into your space through a browser. It’s much more based on social networking than gaming.
It’s a mouse. Which is wireless. For on your finger.
The original car was a pile of shit in terms of weight, speed, reliability, etc. but was fantastic in one respect: Looks! Anyway, they’re now in production again in the USA, so for around $60K you can have a new one!
Well, it took a little while to find, but Barnabu has a live cloud layer, offered as a KML, which they then half the resolution from, and put into a time lapse system which shows the last 10 days, which you can then play through. Very nice implementation of something I’ve so far only managed Read more about Google Earth Weather – Global Clouds Animation[…]
James Hall, head of the British Identity and Passport Service has come out and condemned centralised databases and expressed doubt at the ability of the government to adequately secure your personal data. The conservatives are allready suggesting keeping the data in seperate databases. This is a much, much better solution, as each acces to each Read more about Is the UK coming to its senses?[…]
Fied Emission Display is the new OLED killing tech Sony is running with. It’s apparently easier to produce and has CRT like qualities (pure blacks and colours, no motion blur) but is as thin as OLED.