In a growning and disconcerting trend among hardware manufacturers, TI has released a new version of it’s OS for the TI-Nspire series, that blocks off a whole load of its’ user base from using the machine the way they want to.
I guess Apple, Android, TI, et al are afraid that the community will program something so awesome for their hardware that they’ll never upgrade again?
Nspire 2.1 out, don’t install it!.
Android users all seem to throw about that it’s an open architecture, but it quite simply isn’t. In order to do everything on an Android phone you have to root it, which is the same as jailbreaking it.
Motorola has taken the extreme measure of making sure that if it gets rooted, it’ll completely fuck up the startup stack, thereby permanently bricking it. A kill-switch for tampering.
Unexpected deviations in gravity are indicative of differences in density. If you point your detector (a gravity gradiometer) in that direction, you can tell what kind of structure is underground. Lockheed Martin is calling this the GATE (Gravity Anomaly for Tunnel Exposure) programme.
Using Gravity to Detect Underground Threats | Lockheed Martin.
It turns out that the metal band around the casing of the iphone 4 is part of the antenna. If you hold it like you would hold a phone, you hamper reception.
Steve Jobs doesn’t think it’s a problem though: his response?
Steve Jobs on iPhone 4 “Just don t hold it that way”.
This is a $60,- addition you can put onto a table saw. It detects electrical conductivity and stops the saw as soon as it gets into range – from 5000 RPM to 0 in a millisecond. This means you can shove your finger into the spinning saw without it being harmed at all. Of course, you destroy the device and the saw, but especially at that price it’s going to save a lot of fingers.
The Tinbasher Sheet Metal Blog.
Fully charged it provides 4 hours of light. You hang it in the sun by day and use it (duh) at night. Cost? $15,- per piece and it will last between 5 – 10 years.
Solar light bulb to shine on developing world | Crave – CNET.
At 80 microns thin, it’s flexible and can be wrapped around a pencil. It’s 432 X 240 resolution and 4.1″ display looks crisp!
Sony’s Flexible OLED is Thinner Than a Strand of Hair.
This guy has gone all out – he’s mapped his Emotiv headset commands to Rovio commands, which are sent out via skype to the robot.
Emotiv Headset Controls Rovio Robot Via Brainwaves – Rovio emotiv hack – Gizmodo.
This shows pretty conclusively that the iphone has the best touchscreen followed by the Palm Pre. The Androids don’t do too well at all.
labs.moto.com » Blog Archive » Robot Touchscreen Analysis.
The system beams a keyboard or menu onto the user's forearm and hand from a projector housed in an armband. An acoustic detector, also in the armband, then calculates which part of the display you want to activate.
via Body acoustics can turn your arm into a touchscreen – tech – 01 March 2010 – New Scientist.
The Zeal Optics Transcend googles feature a head mounted display with GPS, speed, altitude, vertical odometer, stopwatch / countdown timer, temp, time, anti fog and a whole lot more and have 3 buttons on the side to switch between the modes and functions in a coverflow type of fashion. Unfortunately either $350,- or $450,-.
This thing splits apart and allows you to use your RC aircraft as a bomber for only $16.95
HobbyKing Online R/C Hobby Store : Quanum RTR Bomb System 1/6 scale Plug-n-Drop $16.95.
This foot switch can be programmed for a unique key or multiple key combination.
These speakers screw into light bulb sockets, make light and use wireless connections to play music. No more hassly speaker wiring over the house.
This mouse has gold plating, swarovski crystals, leather covering, hand stitching and works over wifi – for only $60,-!
GIGABYTE – Product – PC Peripherals – Mouse – Products – GM-M7800S.
These goggles will have a heads up display in them where you can see call info, speed, hight, timing information, rate of descent, a moving map and be able to find friends. Hopefully out in 2010 and they’re going for reasonable prices too!
Should be awesome for the gadget conscious snowboarder or skier!
This connects a number of USB drives to your network, basically turning them into a NAS.
This is like the FUFME but really works: a haptic personal pussy which is linked to porn films. The makers of the device have programmed it to respond by tightening and heating and rubbing and lubing just like the pornstar you’re watching is doing in the scene on your computer.
According to Fleshbot it works very well. But it’s a bit pricey. For your richer type masterbator then…
Looking through this thing allows you to find camera lenses pointed at you. It detects signals in the 1 – 6500MHz band which means you can detect the wireless signals the camera is sending.
For this big brother age, nice to see who’s spying on you.
Spy Wi-Fi Signal and Camera Lens Detector.
Looks like Jobs will do anything to avoid repairing that overpriced piece of equipment you bought from him: not only are the repair times shocking, but the lame excuse that tar clogs up your computer, creating a biohazard – whilst not mentioned anywhere in the AppleCare contract – voids your warranty is a bit ridiculous, no?
Smoke Gets In Your Imac: Smoking Near Apple Computers Creates Biohazard, Voids Warranty.
A single sheet of this applied as sticky wallpaper is enough to stop a wrecking ball. Two sheets stop small projectiles. It stretches and catches the blast debris and then elastically returns the wall to its’ former state.
Xflex Blast Protection Systems.
