“Kolvailu- ja koodausaikaa tuohon menisi hetkeneverran ja mittakorttiin joutuisi ehkä sijoittamaan tonninverran rahaa mutta tuon työn jälkeen kopiolaitteisto olisikin täysin automatisoitavissa ja käytettävissä pelkällä napinpainalluksella.”
New tech knocks out digital cameras
“Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have come up with an inexpensive way to prevent digital cameras and digital video cameras from capturing that secret shot.”
Enthusiast uses Google to reveal Roman ruins
“Using satellite images from Google Maps and Google Earth, an Italian computer programmer has stumbled upon the remains of an ancient villa.”
news@nature.com via Waxy.org
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Count to 31 on One Hand
“Forget your abacus? Lose your calculator? Every geek should know how to use binary to count to 31 on one hand. It won’t replace your slide rule, but it’s an attention-getter. If you’re familiar with binary you’ll pick it up quickly.”
I categorized this as being a ‘hack’, considering this is an innovative application of using fingers as an aid to counting.
meebo.com: all of your IMing in one place
“We’re three folks working to bring IM to Web 2.0. Hopefully this lets you get all of your IMing done in one place and makes it easier too.”
Hacking's a snap in Legoland
“When Lego executives recently discovered that adult fans of the iconic plastic bricks had hacked one of the company’s new development tools for digital designers, they did a surprising thing: They cheered. […]
All it took was being open-minded enough to see that their biggest fans weren’t trying to rip them off; they were trying to improve Lego’s products in a way that, just maybe, the company’s own designers hadn’t thought of.”
Privacy Enhanced Computer Display
“The privacy-enhanced computer display uses a ferroelectric shutter glasses and a special device driver to produce a computer display which can be read only by the desired recipient, and not by an onlooker. […] The ferroelectric shutter glasses allow only the desired information to be viewed, while the inverse image causes unauthorized viewers to perceive only a flickering gray image […]. It is also possible to use the system to “underlay” a private message on a public display system.”
AT&T Labs' Text To Speech Interactive Demo
Just had to make it read Depeche Mode lyrics…
Computer alert for drowning girl
“A 10-year-old girl has been saved from drowning by a computer system designed to raise the alarm when swimmers get into difficulties. The girl […] was at the deep end of the pool in Bangor, north Wales, when she sank to the bottom. The £65,000 system, called Poseidon, detected her on the pool floor and sounded the alarm. A lifeguard pulled her out and she recovered in hospital.”
The video of the incident, produced by the system is very impressive.
Kaistaa kuluttajille maksukyvyn mukaan
“Kun tähän asti kuluttajille on myyty “omaa kaistaa”, voitaisiin asiakkaiden maksuhalukkuuden mukaan priorisoitavalla verkonjaon tekniikalla jopa satakertaistaa liittymien nimellisnopeudet ja pudottaa silti hintoja, [Tampereella toimivalla] Staselogilla uskotaan. [… Esimerkiksi] p2p- ja voip-liikenne voidaan sallia, kunhan asiakas maksaa käyttämästään nopeammasta kaistasta.”