“Cycling manufacturer giant Specialized has announced that it is working on prototypes for revolutionary new bikes, set to be released in 2006. The new line of bikes is being dubbed the Venom Line. The bikes feature aerodynamic design and revolutionary technology that was pioneered by a special research team in Japan.”
They’re from the future all right – April 1st of 2006, to be exact ;)
“Ever wanted to control your TV with an old school Nintendo controller? No? Well, I have and now I do. A few weeks ago I picked up an old school Nintendo controller from eBay and began thinking of a project for it – then it hit me! Controlling the basic functions of my TV through a NES pad would not only be awesome, but it would make me one step closer to that darned Captain-N.”
I think that’s a way better use for it than as an optical mouse (via /.).
“Products: Adobe Reader 5.1, 6.0-6.0.3, 7.0-7.0.2, Adobe Acrobat 5.0-5.0.5, 6.0-6.0.3, 7.0-7.0.2
Platform : Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Solaris
Vulnerability Identifier: CVE-2005-2470
Overview: Adobe has discovered a buffer overflow in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader. This issue has been addressed and a product update is available to proactively mitigate potential malicious activity. Adobe always recommends that users keep their systems up to date, and install the latest update of these applications. “
“Anyone interested in offering paid-for downloads currently has to deal with 16 different licensing bodies in the EU. […] Proposals for an EU-wide licensing system for online music were first put forward by the European Commission, the EU’s executive body. The Commission has threatened to sue the music industry on competition grounds if national bodies did not change the way they enforced online copyright restrictions. […] Now the Dutch music copyright agency BUMA, and the Belgian agency SABAM, have said that they will not enforce the so-called “economic residency” clause in the case of online music.”
“Network worms are shutting down computers running Microsoft’s Windows 2000 operating system, security experts warned Tuesday. Computers across the United States are being hit, including those at cable news station CNN, television network ABC and The New York Times. Tokyo-based antivirus company Trend Micro blames the havoc on various worms, including the Zotob worm that hit the Internet over the weekend and new variants of the Rbot worm.”
“The SS-KB-NT stainless-steel keyboard has been specifically designed for harsh kiosk environments where a compact width is needed to suit applications where space is limited. […] The construction is virtually vandal proof and weather proof, with wipe-clean fascias and key tops.”
The linking page provides better pictures of it. Also showed me they have a store called Akiba in Japan, like we have.
…among other mechatronics videos at David Alciatore’s high speed videos site (via Baby Grandpa).
“Patricia Santangelo is […] the mother of five children, ranging in age from 6 to 19. […] Santangelo was sued by several record companies in U.S. District Court in White Plains in February. The record companies said Santangelo’s home computer and Internet account were used to illegally trade copyrighted song files. […]
She never used the Kazaa program — one of the networks that facilitates file sharing — that was downloaded onto her computer, she said. She didn’t even know what it was before she was sued, she said. The Kazaa account name in the lawsuit belongs to a friend of her children’s, not to her or anyone in her house, she said.”
“IBM is donating DHTML […] accessibility technology currently wending its way through the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) standards process [to the Mozilla Foundation]. Big Blue is also contributing code that makes it possible for Web pages to be automatically narrated or magnified as well as navigated by keystrokes rather than mouse clicks. The DHTML code […] will find its way into the next major update to the Firefox browser, version 1.5, slated for release in late September.”
“MTV3:n, MTV3+:n, Subtv:n, Nelosen ja Nelonen Plussan digitaalisten lähetysten aloitus aikaistuu koko Pohjois-Suomessa. Lähetykset alkavat 1.9. Pohjois-Suomen pääasemilta ja tämän syksyn kuluessa myös täytelähetinasemilta. […]
Ensimmäisessä vaiheessa 1.9. aloittavat Inarin, Posion, Pyhätunturin, Pellon, Rovaniemen, Rukan, Taivalkosken, Tervolan, Vuotson ja Ylläksen tv-asemat. Kaikkiaan toistakymmentä täytelähetinasemaa aloittaa digi-tv-lähetykset tämän syksyn aikana.”