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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 Cool and Hacked and To be used for Evil 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 ‘
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Posted on 03.11.08 by John @ 9:05 pm
Filed under: Cool and DIY and Historic and Mad Science and Photography and To be used for Evil 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
The Tartan Online : ‘Scarab’ the robot Filed under: Cool and Robots 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: Cool and Robots and Technology 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 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 Holodeck 0.1: the durable, rewritable holographic display Filed under: Blogroll and Cool and Design and Technology 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. [via Ektopia] Filed under: Cool and Historic and Japan and Photography and To be used for Evil Comments: None |
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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: Blogroll and Cool and Mad Science and Technology Comments: 1 Comment |
My friend Greg sent this to me today. I’ll be first in line when these come out!|
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: Cool and Japan and Technology 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 10.02.07 by Alexandria @ 7:43 pm
 Alexandria writes: Fan site: Umbrella Chronicles- Myspace.com Buy (OK, pre-order) your own copy from Amazon: Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles Filed under: Cool Comments: 1 Comment |
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Posted on 09.28.07 by John @ 8:24 pm
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Posted on 09.23.07 by John @ 5:56 pm
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Posted on 09.20.07 by John @ 8:17 pm
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Well, its not quite the super sensory perception you see in comic books, a group of researchers utilizing |
Posted on 09.19.07 by John @ 8:27 pm
is a resource for all things about amateur Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): How-to’s, links, videos, images and a discussion group. Among other things, this is where we’ll be listing all the parts, software and instructions to build each of our UAVs. I know that I’d like to have a plane with a camera built into it. An autopilot would make lining up a good photo a lot easier. How cool would that be? It’s simply amazing what you can do with off the shelf stuff and some brains. Oh yeah, and LEGOS. Yes, one of these planes has a servo actuated camera mount that is built from LEGO parts. That in mind your not going to be loitering over your target all day looking for the guy that has been stealing your newspaper every morning. These UAVs get about 20 minuets in the air and can only go about five miles. Still, it is very cool. Filed under: Cool and DIY and Mad Science and Robots and To be used for Evil Comments: None |
I’m sure this is going to end up like the guy that |
Posted on 09.18.07 by John @ 7:10 pm
The Sultan’s Elephant is a giant marionette show put on by the French street theater company Royal de Luxe. It has been performed in several European cities. I find it simply amazing that a gargantuon marionette can be manipulated in such subtle ways. If it weren’t for the block and tackle surrounding her you might almost forget that it’s 30 feet tall.
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Posted on 09.12.07 by John @ 10:44 pm
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