Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
Porn, the destroyer of Communism. 🙂
“However the Chinese government has some pretty strong controls over internet so the recent turmoil is quite understandable. Due to the excellent growth of high end cell phones in China, a lot of subscribers have signed in for getting internet access on their phones. They are now however being bombarded by sex sites which send them teasers in the form of Multimedia messages. These include some kind of sexy chat message along with a vulgar picture”.
I saw this tacked on the end of a Rocketboom episode a while back and thought it was a clever project. Students at MIT have built a paint brush that uses sampled video as its paint bucket.
I/O Brush is a new drawing tool to explore colors, textures, and movements found in everyday materials by “picking up” and drawing with them. I/O Brush looks like a regular physical paintbrush but has a small video camera with lights and touch sensors embedded inside. Outside of the drawing canvas, the brush can pick up color, texture, and movement of a brushed surface. On the canvas, artists can draw with the special “ink” they just picked up from their immediate environment.
Dow does it work?
In our current prototype, the brush houses a small CCD video camera in its tip with a ring of white LEDs around it. Force sensors are also embedded inside of the brush, measuring the pressure that is getting applied to the bristles. When the brush touches a surface, the lights around the camera briefly turn on to provide supplemental light for the camera. During that time, the system grabs the frames from the camera and stores them in the program.
I like it and so did the judges at the competition. It won a gold award.
Oh look! I’m the last tech blog to mention this. Yeah, the Pex MP3 player is out and you can have one for only $99US.
Check out the specs:
Pretty cool for a guy working out of his garage huh?
[via Real Tech News]
Pez MP3 Player
Japan tested an 11.5 m long supersonic jet model in the Outback of Australia a few days ago. The tests went well and maybe Japan will be the next country to boast a Mach 2 commercial passenger jet.
The Pope-mobile has nothing on these guys! On one had its cool that these have been invented but on the other hand its sad that they are needed. Due to the increased violence in southern Thailand by the Muslim minority, some motorcycles have been outfitted with sidecars made of protective plastic.
At one time I had a nice collection of old compact Macs. Seven was about as many as I ever had and I thought that was a lot. This is scary, there must be hundreds of them in the place! I wonder if they all work…