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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 
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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 03.11.08 by John @ 9:05 pm
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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 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]
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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.
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I’m sure this is going to end up like the guy that |
Posted on 09.07.07 by John @ 6:45 pm
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Hackers listen up. Everyone understands and enjoys the utilitarian benefits that |
Posted on 08.03.07 by John @ 4:27 pm
A man in a Revolutionary War-era submarine was cited by the U.S. Coast Guard for drifting into a security zone, and for unsafe sailing in New York’s East River near the Queen Mary 2 luxury liner, the Coast Guard and New York City Police Department said Friday. I remember when I first saw a drawing of the famous ‘Turtle‘ I was fascinated by the entire concept. It’s a good thing that I didn’t live around any lakes or I might not have survived my childhood.
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You just have to love New York…|
Posted on 07.04.07 by John @ 5:50 pm
Hybrid animal-human embryos created for medical research should be viewed as human and permitted to develop into children, Roman Catholic bishops have urged the British parliament. Arrgh… My inner scientists cringes at this. Sure, we could use a race of lion men to defend our borders and what better to attend to the sick than bunny girls but I know that the Bishop has no concept of this utilitarian purpose and that any decent scientists with any sense of morals or ethics would never bring one of these monstrosities to term. Who is the mad man here, the man of faith or the man of science? Animal-human embryos need human rights, bishops say | Reuters
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As my good friend Greg (who told me of this story) pointed out "Have these people not read The Island of Dr. Moreau?" Well said Greg!|
Posted on 06.29.07 by John @ 8:35 pm
[via MAKE] If your all keen on getting one of these marvels on modern telephony technology you may want to get the perfect book for any iPhone owner:
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Well the elusive iPhone has been captured, dissected and photographed and is now ready to be stuffed and mounted. Somewhere in the night time sky a star has gone out.
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Posted on 06.27.07 by John @ 6:28 am
Chumby launch plans and product features What Wikipedia has to say about the Chumby.
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Posted on 06.22.07 by John @ 6:10 am
Astounding! This is a solid-state Tesla coil. The primary runs at its resonant frequency in the 41 KHz range, and is modulated from the control unit in order to generate the tones you hear.
So just to explain a little further, yes, it is the actual high voltage sparks that are making the noise. Every cycle of the music is a burst of sparks at 41 KHz, triggered by digital circuitry at the end of a "long" piece of fiber optics. I personally think that this should be standard fare in a marching band. Just think of it for a second, it’s perfect. Loud enough to be heard over the roar of the crowd, easy to play (keyboard interface?), and it includes it’s own light show! Sure, it might take twenty people to haul the batteries around behind it but that is a small price to pay for something as spectacular as this. [via boingboing] Duckon 2007-Steve Ward’s Singing Tesla Coil video
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Posted on 06.15.07 by John @ 4:24 pm
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Posted on 06.08.07 by John @ 4:58 pm
65. What affects skin color? Is one color better than another? What was God’s purpose in this? Wow.
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Posted on 06.05.07 by John @ 9:20 pm
Electronista | SanDisk intros 64GB flash drive for notebooks
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It looks as if the dream of a solid state laptop is almost here. SanDisk, makers of mighty fine memory products (I use them in my digital camera) have introduced a 64GB solid state flash drive in a 2.5 inch SATA version for portable computers and knowing that the public’s hunger for music players will never be slaked, a 1.8 PATA version for things like, gee, I don’t know, iPods? It’s a short leap to the iPhone from here. 64GB of storage would be just fine for most people on a laptop. Even if it wasn’t the .11 millisecond reaction time and less than a watt power dissipation will make using these an easy move.|
Posted on 05.05.07 by John @ 9:55 pm
The 22-hour series, a contemporary take on the popular comic strip franchise, is slated for an August premiere. It will feature Johnson (Smallvill) as space traveler Flash Gordon embarking on all-new adventures. Info about the series has been a bit thin. I found a press release about the production and a tiny remark that the sets for the planet Mongo are going to be redressed sets from the upcoming TV series ‘Tin Man’. ‘Tin Man‘ is a re-imagining of the ‘Wizard of Oz’. I’m not even going to go there, I never fully recovered from a bout of ‘The Wiz‘. Johnson rockets with Sci Fi ‘Flash’
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All I can say is that it has got to be better than ‘Buck Rogers’ was in the ’70s. I remember my father showing my copies of the comic strip from the 1930’s and was quite looking forward to the TV series. What showed up on the family TV was not what I had expected. Ok, I liked it but I was only seven. What did I know back then.|
Posted on 05.01.07 by John @ 4:35 pm
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This won’t settle any arguments but it’s sure to start some. Enjoy but use in moderation.| previous posts » |
