Technology, Science, and other ridiculousness
With everyone being a member of some kind of social network, you really almost need to know where your friends are causing trouble online. I’m a member of a number of social and technology networks like Twitter. We most likely all use some kind of tool for messaging with our friends, if it’s our instant […]
If you’re not amused enough with your Wiimote while playing with your Wii, then maybe you too can hack something with it. In fact, there’s a guy out there, Chris Hughes, who decided to do something fun with his Wiimote and his Roomba.
Chris decided to hack the Roomba so that it would respond to motion […]
It’s been years of work, and apparently it’s ready to pay off for Google. The Google book scanning and indexing program is about to roll out it’s “a la carte” sales model of book buying. What does this really mean? Well, it means that people will be able to search book information and purchase “pieces” […]
A product produced by the folks at Avvenu allows you to listen to your iTunes music connection from any web browser on a Windows PC, Mac, or Windows Mobile 5 smartphone. Your home-base PC is, of course, needed to store the originating iTunes library, and has to be a Windows PC (We’ll assume at least XP). With […]
Just a quick little bit of news relating to game play…
If you’re a fan of The Lord Of The Rings, you might be excited to know that there has been some covert confirmation that “Lord of The Rings: Shadows of Angmar” (the video game), will be pre-orderable today (1/25/2007). You’ll see that puppy hitting the […]
The US Military recently gave it’s first public display of it’s new “heat ray.” Such the stuff of once science fiction is now a reality in the US military’s bag-o-tricks.
Dubbed the “Active Denial System,” it projects an invisible high energy beam that produces a sudden burning feeling, and is said to be harmless to those […]
Some of the folks over at Technology Evangelist had posed the question: “Will MySpace Kill Classmates.com” based on some interesting, and fast growing ideas at MySpace.com. Their comment was this:
“While Classmates has filled an interesting niche for years, it looks like MySpace’s fast growing - and potentially larger already - network of users connected through […]
Pictures are worth a thousand words. I’ve written thousands of words, and I have to admit, sometimes a picture sure would have made that easier. Especially a picture with some color harmony to it. We all know when we see a great picture and one that just has the right content, color, and contrast.
Andy King […]
I always feel good hearing about kids getting a good education. Education is an absolute key to a person’s future, and each opportunity should be taken to ensure our future is bright.
So, the folks at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) have joined forces to do just that. […]
EvilRSS is a cool site where you can enter a search term, and get back Google results in RSS form so you can add and monitor them in your RSS reader. Pretty clever! I had done a bit on the MSN version of this awhile ago, as well. I think this is kind of interesting, but I think I’d […]
In the great Sci-Fi movie Minority Report, our hero John Anderton (Tom Cruise) uses a visual object floating UI which can be manipulated by touch with a special set of gloves.
Well, far from Hollywood, a research scientist at NYU’s Courant Institute, Jeff Han, has developed a similar interface that works well with touch and gestures, […]
While reading through one of my favorite blogs (GottaBeMobile), I found this pointer to an awesome article on tabletizing your non-tablet PCs. Personally, I think it’s awesome that I can make that happen with Vista (except Home Basic and Starter edition). I love using my tablet PC and being able to transfer that writing/drawing functionality […]
The founders of the highly popular internet telephone service Skype, announced that they were working on an internet-based broadband television service; they then called it “The Venvice Project.”
The idea is to provide high-quality television programming via the Internet, and have the whole thing be supported by advertising—and this be free to users. The platform is […]
Here’s something slick, with no pun intended… It’s a sealant that waterproofs leather products. Yeah, I know, there are lots of these out there. But this one’s pretty neat.
The beeswax formula doesn’t weaken leather like animal fat waterproofing does, and this stuff is long lasting. The product is also designed to continue to allow leather to breath. All […]
Here’s something interesting out of the Linux side of things, the distribution platform formerly known as Mandrake gets a get release. In gets some new features on the table, including a 3D desktop, 32- and 64-bit versions, the inclusion of Transgaming’s Cedega (to play Windows games on your Linux computer), and LinDVD (a program that […]
You know you you are. Well, credit card junkies of the world, unite! It’s time to get a device to track all of your credit cards and do it with the beautiful use of biometrics.
There’s a company out there, iCache, that sells an interesting device. According to iCache, this device “will bring more relief to owners […]
This great project has been based on the idea of offering students, in developing countries, an opportunity to work with a computer so they can do more with their classroom learning. The One Laptop Per Child program (OLPC), which is Also known as the “$100 laptop project”, or the “XO Computer”, has been an effort that started in the MIT […]
I’m with the folks at Gizmodo on this one. Since there are so many people talking about this wonderful iPhone, from Apple - not Cisco, I thought I would wind my own list down to some simple stuff. I find it to be pretty cool too, but not cool enough to have spent all of […]
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Jabra’s got another Bluetooth headset which you don’t have to be insane to wear. The BT8010 functions as a lightweight, single-unit mono earpiece with up to 10 hours of talk or 300 hours of standby. Or connect the tethered stereo unit for full A2DP and AVRCP control of your music for up to 6 hours […]
Azureus is a BitTorrent protocol implementation that offers multiple torrent downloads, queuing/priority systems (on torrents and files), start/stop seeding options, and instant access to numerous pieces of information about your torrents. It includes an embedded tracker that is easily set up and ready to use.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The user interface was improved. Plugin […]
This site is dedicated to the delivery of technology, science, and nonsense. The nonsense isn’t so nonsensical, it’s just a little bit different. I love technology, so I like to tell all kinds of people about how cool all of this stuff really is.
The entries you see in this site aren’t always what’s “popular” today. […]
So a good PR friend of mine pointed out something amazing to me; Macrovision acquired Mediabolic! I was in total shock. Now, I usually get the skinny on Mediabolic with Press Releases delivered to my “door” by their wonderful PR/marketing guy, but I got left off of the list, and maybe others did too. Which, […]
Today, Waterfall Mobile, is debuting its MSGME mobile marketing service. It is a mobile messaging platform that gives content owners the ability to add mobile interactivity to their current marketing - online, print, broadcast, or in-venue. It utilizes an easy-to-use web interface to help make publishing effortless, and gives content owners the power to create […]
The smart guys (and gals, of course) over in South Korean’s Samsung Electronics, in 2008 or 2009, plan to launch a new generation refrigerator, equipped with RFID, which detects when its contents are running low or approaching expiration dates.
The new ‘fridge will sense when its inventory needs replenishment: such as when the milk is running […]
It’s already January of 2007, and I have yet to see someone who has created a “Chapter Tool” for Podcasts (basically, for iTunes/iPod users) that runs on Windows. I’m truly confused by this. I mean, a company comes up with a thread of some thought of an idea, and in three days some code-junkie has […]
Maybe you love dogs, maybe you don’t. Maybe you love poodles or labs, and maybe you’re more just into fish or, a lawn, peace and quiet. Personally, I love dogs. … and maybe this is one of those “nonsense” posts, but admittedly, it’s also a fun technology post, too. You’ll see…
We have two dogs. One […]
I am a huge fan of helping people out. In fact, I love to donate time and resources to as many organizations as I can; especially those in need of health or food.
Child’s Play is a charity based in Seattle that donates toys, games, books, and even cash to sick kids in children’s hospitals around […]
