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Posted on 04.01.08 by John @ 7:37 pm
This incident is quite possibly the first computer attack to inflict physical harm on the victims: hackers uploaded a flashing computer animation to an epilepsy support forum to trigger epileptic attacks! Neatorama » Blog Archive » Hackers “Seize-rolled” Epilepsy Sufferers in a Support Forum Filed under: Computers and To be used for Evil and Cool and Hacked Comments: Comments Off |
Not that I think that doing this with the intent to harm people is very nice at all, I have to admit that figuring out what in essence causes a ‘|
Posted on 04.01.08 by John @ 4:26 pm
(from the PR page) "Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Virgin Group today announced the launch of Virgle Inc., a jointly owned and operated venture dedicated to the establishment of a human settlement on Mars. This is trurlly a banner day for the human race! Virgle: The Adventure of Many Lifetimes (I love days like these) Filed under: General and Mad Science and Space and Hacked and Historic Comments: Comments Off |
Looks like the mega corps of Virgin and Google have decided to reach higher than anyone has ever thought possible. They have she their goal on a journey to the red planet Mars 
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Posted on 03.31.08 by John @ 11:45 pm
Ever wish you could go back in time and send that crucial email that could have changed everything — if only it hadn’t slipped your mind? Gmail can now help you with those missed deadlines, missed birthdays and missed opportunities. Filed under: Dumb and Historic Comments: Comments Off |
Ah yes, it must be that time again…|
Posted on 03.11.08 by John @ 9:05 pm
Filed under: Photography and Mad Science and To be used for Evil and Cool and DIY and Historic Comments: None |
This is a bit old news but if you act soon you can snatch one of these up before they are gone. This is a cool little hack to repurpose the head mounted display from a remote controlled car for better purposes. The procedure is simple, get a power supply (some batteries) pop the back off the display and move a shunt from one pad to another (switch form PAL to NTSC video standards) and you are set.|
Posted on 03.11.08 by John @ 8:29 pm
Filed under: Robots and Cool Comments: Comments Off |
More robots on the moon. Well, only if they get funding and the thing works. Lets hope it does.|
Posted on 03.11.08 by John @ 7:57 pm
(page might be down, last I looked the server’s log files are filling up its hard drive!) Filed under: Robots and Technology and Cool Comments: Comments Off |
Looks like the sound of gnashing gears and grinding steel may once again grace the television sets of America. Noted sports cable network |
Posted on 03.02.08 by John @ 7:53 pm
Abengoa Solar Inc., a Spanish technology company that has several smaller solar-thermal projects in Spain, North Africa and the United States, will build and run the Solana Generating Station. Solana will use 2,700 "troughs" of mirrors lined up across former alfalfa farmland, focusing sunlight on tubes in the middle of the troughs. The tubes will be filled with a petroleum-based chemical that will heat up to 735 degrees, and transfer their heat to water, making steam and spinning turbines in two 140-megawatt generators. The petroleum liquid is reused in the tubes, not burned. The plant also will use molten salt to store heat and continue generating electricity for as long as six hours after the sun sets. That’s key in Arizona, where residents use the most electricity between 5 and 6 p.m., when the sun is low in the sky and common solar panels struggle to generate electricity. [via lonelocust] Filed under: Science and Technology Comments: Comments Off |
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Posted on 02.07.08 by John @ 7:48 pm
The new material is comprised of photorefractive polymers. These chemicals have photoelectric properties that make them well-suited to storing the optical interference patterns used to produce holograms. When a photorefractive polymer is exposed to a pattern of bright and dark areas, electrons are released from the areas exposed to high-intensity light and migrate to areas that are darker. Once in place, the electron-rich areas diffract light differently from the electron-poor ones, allowing the original interference pattern to be reproduced when the material is exposed to light Filed under: Science and Technology and Cool and Design Comments: None |
Advances in display technology are simply amazing. I hope to see holographic display units so common place that they are used in cheap kids toys like and LCD would be used today.|
Posted on 01.29.08 by John @ 8:45 pm
" This camera is a serious camera for the police, and not a toy. It is a pistol camera DORYU 2-16 famous as rare and valuable camera. The DORYU 2-16 has the same C mount as the 16mm movie camera. A Cine-Nikkor 25mm F1.4 lens was able to be mounted in the DORYU 2-16 pistol camera. You can find the small lens for GOLDECK 16 on the table." This is something I’d buy if I had that chance. Filed under: Photography and Japan and To be used for Evil and Cool and Historic Comments: None |
Oh yeah baby, you can be |
Posted on 01.17.08 by John @ 9:16 pm
Building the lenses was a challenge because materials that are safe for use in the body, such as the flexible organic materials used in contact lenses, are delicate. Manufacturing electrical circuits, however, involves inorganic materials, scorching temperatures and toxic chemicals. Researchers built the circuits from layers of metal only a few nanometers thick, about one thousandth the width of a human hair, and constructed light-emitting diodes one third of a millimeter across. They then sprinkled the grayish powder of electrical components onto a sheet of flexible plastic. The shape of each tiny component dictates which piece it can attach to, a microfabrication technique known as self-assembly. Capillary forces – the same type of forces that make water move up a plant’s roots, and that cause the edge of a glass of water to curve upward – pull the pieces into position. Contact lenses with circuits, lights a possible platform for superhuman vision Filed under: Science and Technology and Mad Science and Cool Comments: 1 Comment |
My friend Greg sent this to me today. I’ll be first in line when these come out!|
Posted on 12.04.07 by John @ 6:59 pm
Filed under: General Comments: None |
Soon you may be seeing squads of power suited troops on your evening news reports from international hot spots. Or at least that is what the Utah based start up company SARCOS wants. The |
Posted on 11.23.07 by John @ 6:35 pm
This website is here to help others who are interested video piloting in the newly growing and exciting Hobby of First Person View (FPV or RPV) that has become popular with Radio Controlled airplanes, R/C helicopters, cars and boats. [via MAKE] Filed under: General Comments: None |
Just over a year ago I noted a page where a guy had rigged up a |
Posted on 11.07.07 by John @ 9:09 pm
Starting this month Nippon Airship Corporation will begin offering airship cruises over Tokyo, at roughly US $1,100 to $1,500 a pop, no pun intended. Rides will be aboard a Zeppelin NT and will last 90 minutes Too cool. You can read more about NT Zeppelin here. Filed under: Japan and Technology and Cool Comments: None |
I can only hope that someone decides that this sort of service is needed at the Grand Canyon. Makes more sense than a |
Posted on 10.17.07 by John @ 6:02 am
Filed under: DIY and Paper Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.11.07 by John @ 4:55 pm
A new composite plastic built layer by layer has been created by engineers at the University of Michigan. This plastic is as strong as steel. It has been built the same way as mother-of-pearl, and shows similar strength. Interestingly, this 300-layer plastic has been built with ’strong’ nanosheets of clay and a ‘fragile’ polymer called polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), commonly used in paints and glue, which acts as ‘Velcro’ to envelop the nanoparticles. This new plastic could soon be used to design light but strong armors for soldiers or police officers. The researchers also think this material could be used in biomedical sensors and unmanned aircraft. Filed under: Science and Technology Comments: 1 Comment |
Now if this material can be made clear… Oh wait, it is. If it can be made crystal clear and has good refractive qualities it would make for some dandy scratch proof glasses.| previous posts » |
