Mike Sheldrake This is what happens when you get a nerd to design a surf board – a cardboard hollow, light structure which can be built on the cheap. He’s using easy tools to keep production costs down, and even though he’s not finished on his design, he’s got a pro to surf it and Read more about Shredder Surfboard[…]
Instead of it taking 1000 years to degrade a plastic bag, he can do it in around 3 months with his microbes and their helper microbes.
This book details the way the CIA built and used technologies to spy on other people and countries. a former head of the CIA’s Office of Technical Service (OTS) and an internationally acclaimed espionage historian join forces to tell the story of the covert devices critical to America’s intelligence operations for more than half a Read more about Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA’s Spytechs, from Communism to al-Qaeda[…]
This is a totally unofficial look at the Star Wars universe, how it was created and what motivated Lucas and the film companies as they built the franchise. The Secret History of Star Wars traces all the way back to 1973 to examine how the first 14-page treatment that began the series came to be Read more about The Secret History of Star Wars[…]
This basically takes a picture, cuts it up and then resizes it over as many pieces of paper as you like, so you can just stick them together and make a poster.
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Especially for fighter pilots, taking a piss hasn’t always been easy – it’s been about wearing condoms or wearing Pampers. Now there’s a pump driven, clean option – for males and females, costing in the region of $2000,- from Omni Medical Systems
reflective interferometric modulation Qualcomm announces working displays which are an OLED / LCD / Plasma competitor: reflective interferometric modulation (IMOD). They offer: low power consumption, visibility in outdoor lighting, and no backlighting requirement
Have you ever wanted to own a Palm unit – or all of them? To develop on, maybe to just play with? Device Anywhere has a lab where you can play with them virtually – software emulations of the devices so that you can try out whatever you want on all the Palm devices without Read more about Palm Virtual Developer Lab[…]
Yup, by forcing people to not smoke where people who don’t smoke don’t generally go anyway, the incidence of drunk driving fatalities has increased. Another new way to kill more people invented!
Unbound is supposed to be lighter, faster, better and supports DNSSEC
Apparently, if you want to communicate over the galaxy, you need to use neutrinos instead of photons as neutrinos are much more noise free. We will hopefully have detectors for neutrino traffic next year some time.
Slashdot | Hubble Survey Finds Half of the Missing Matter
In the first time since 1992, ESA is looking for future astronauts. The requirements are stringent, but this is the job of a lifetime!
And then puts them into an ordered text file for import
Today @ PC World Adobe Flash 10 Adds 3D Support: Public Beta Available for Download
This will send provider information by email to you periodically. Nice to have if your laptop gets stolen…
This does what it should do: Yawcam features: .: Video streaming .: Image snapshots .: Built-in webserver .: Motion detection .: Ftp-upload .: Text and image overlays .: Password protection .: Online announcements for communities .: Scheduler for online time .: Multi languages
The Matrox Extio™ F1240 multi-display Remote Graphics Unit enables the extension of two dual-link video displays, audio and six USB devices, such as keyboard and mouse, by up to 820 feet (250 meters) via a single fiber-optic cable. Designed with passive (fanless) cooling, the Extio 1240 provides a quiet, secure and high reliability environment that Read more about Matrox Extio F1240 remote graphics unit[…]
This game – quite possibly one of the best sci-fi games of all time: with an awesome 2 player mode behind one computer and storyline is NOT DEAD! The Sourcecode was released some time ago and The Ur-Quan Masters have gotten to a re-released version 0.6.2 which has been ported to all OSses out there Read more about Star Control II[…]
A German inventor has developed a paint called AR 1 that can hide a vehicle from radar, and most importantly, “all militarily relevant frequencies.” How it works is unclear, though one test researcher proposes it’s either by reflecting radar waves in a pattern so they cancel one another out, or by utilizing microscopic magnets to Read more about Camouflage Paint Hides Vehicles From Radar, Subsequent Missiles[…]
After having read ‘the Game’ by Neal Strauss, I decided to look if the internet communities he describes on the pickup game really exists and back up his claims. These guys have taken a good look at what works when picking up women and tried to apply rules to their behaviors, drastically improving their chances Read more about The art of seduction[…]
So if you want to sleep comfortably, one of the ways to get a better sleep is by looking at your sheets. The factor we all know about is thread count – how many threads per square inch of fabric. Nowadays manufacturers are coming out with 1000 / 1600 thread count materials. This is not Read more about Bedding quality[…]
Not only can they search them, they can copy whatever they like – your phone record, your email, whatever! And they can keep them for as long as they feel like. Not mentioned in this article is that if it was encrypted, they can force you to give up the encryption password too. And we Read more about US Customs Searching Laptops and Mobile phones[…]
There are several ways to measure a megabyte – If you calculate it properly, you have to know there are 1024 bytes in a kb and 1024 kb’s in a mb. Of course this means that you can cheat by saying it contains 1 million bytes, and thus sell poor mans’ megabytes. You can even Read more about Creative Sued for Base-10 Capacities On HDD MP3 Players[…]