It's official folks: Diablo 3 was announced at Blizzard's Worldwide Invitational in Paris. The splash page has been updated with the graphic below. The teaser trailer and gameplay highlights that were shown to attendees and via the live stream are available at the official site.
In just 3 seconds, this palm-sized scanner converts a business card into a digital file that resides on a computer, eliminating cumbersome rotary card files and time-consuming typing. Simply insert a standard business card into the slot and the scanner automatically captures it in 600 dpi resolution.
The included software then converts the scanned image into text for easy searching, editing, and retrieval, or exports it to your preferred contact management application, including Outlook, ACT!, and Lotus Notes. The scanner reads single- or double-sided cards, and a batch option allows you to quickly input multiple cards.
This is the microscope that uses an LCD instead of a standard eyepiece to display objects as small as a protozoan's flagella, a strand of hair, or plant tissue and the fine details of larger items such as coins, stamps, or insects. The compound microscope uses a built-in 2 MP digital camera to capture still images or videos and displays objects on its 3 1/2" thin-film transistor LCD at 320 x 240 resolution.
The three objective lenses (4X, 10X, or 40X) provide magnification from 40X-400X (up to 1600X when used with its 4X digital zoom feature); objects can either be illuminated from the top (for solid objects) or from the bottom (for prepared slides) using two separate 6-watt LED light sources that can each be controlled by turning an exposu re value knob. A filter wheel provides six different colors to help block out wavelengths to make objects clearer.
This is the hot and cold water dispenser that holds a bottle upright in the bottom of its cabinet, helping you avoid the back strain and spills that can result from inverting an unwieldy 5-gallon jug onto a traditional water dispenser. Simply slide an opened water bottle onto the dispensers retractable platform and connect the patented pumping system.
The Energy Star certified dispenser consumes 15% less electricity than standard models; its 450-watt element heats two liters of water to 197.6° Fan ideal temperature for hot breakfast cereals and teaand its 90-watt compressor chills 3.2 liters of water to a refreshing 39.2° F. A safety lock on the hot water faucet prevents inadvertent dispensing and LED and audible alarms alert y ou when the water bottle is empty.
Handcrafted entirely of slip-cast ceramic to replicate the curvature and passive amplification of a French horn, this is the iPod® gramophone that augments sound from an iPod® without requiring auxiliary power or speaker components.
The gramophone projects music using authentic horn acoustics; simply place Apple earbuds on the gramophones integrated cradles and music channels through the coiled tube and resonates out of the flared bell, resulting in warm, amplified sound up to 55 decibels (near the sound level of laptop computer speakers).
The gramophone is compatible with all iPod® models and similar in size to a desk lamp, allowing for use on a nightstand, credenza, or desktop.
In this test, the M3 matched the speed of the Prius as the hybrid ran flat-out over ten laps of the 1.8 mile Top Gear Test Track in Surrey, England. Measurements taken after the run show that the Prius returned just 14.3 miles to the US gallon, while the BMW had 12 percent better fuel economy at 16.1 miles per gallon.
"It was one of the dullest drives of my life, but in the interest of science I stuck with it," Clarkson said. "Seriously, what I'm saying is, it isn't what you drive that matters, it's how you drive it. That is everything."
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In 1978, when Microsoft was three years old and based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, there were only a dozen people working for the company - compared with the current number of almost 90 000 employees worldwide.
Here we have 11 of the early pioneers, in a photograph that has evolved from a snapshot to become a historic document. Thirty years on from the taking of the original photograph, the Microsoft staff who worked at Albuquerque were reunited to recreate the photograph.
The New Fahrenheit roller coaster at Hershey Park in Pennsylvania features a 97 degree drop at the beginning. That's 7 degrees past vertical (see picture: right side, where the track curves back in).
At the bottom of the drop riders experience 4 G's and then puke and/or passout. The two minute ride is being billed as the steepest and most severe in the United States and the coaster just opened on May 24th.
Once again GTA is being blamed for real world violence. A handful of kids are actually trying to blame their actions on video games.
"It was determined that they were emulating the character in that Grand Theft Auto game, going on a crime spree" using weapons and tactics inspired by the controversial video game, said Det. Sgt. Anthony Repalone, a Nassau police spokesman.
Crap like this makes you wish video game developers would sue the criminals for poorly impersonating their games. Obviously they suck at crime, life and in this case, haircuts (see photo of suspect)…surely society should be able to preemptively file a lawsuit against them barring these idiots from ever playing video games.
The airport in Kelowna, B.C., will be the first in Canada to test a new type of passenger scanner that creates a three-dimensional image of people's bodies.
The new body imager unveiled on Thursday uses high frequency electromagnetic waves known as millimetre waves to create a detailed 3-D image of what a person looks like underneath their clothes.
The Ballard woman who captured hearts and admirers around the world when she stubbornly turned down $1 million to sell her home to make way for a commercial development died Sunday of pancreatic cancer. She was 86.
“I don’t want to move. I don’t need the money. Money doesn’t mean anything,” she told the Seattle P-I in October.
She continued living in the little old house in the 1400 block of Northwest 46th Street even after concrete walls rose around her, coming within a few feet of her kitchen window. Cranes towered over her roof. Macefield turned up the television or her favorite opera music a little louder and stayed put.
“I went through World War II, the noise doesn’t bother me,” she said in October. “They’ll get it done someday.”
Microsoft’s first customer was located in Albuquerque NM, so they moved the company there. Fortune Magazine’s website has a slideshow narrated by Bill Gates about the company.
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Here’s how you wash a computer keyboard:
I don’t want to know how your keyboard got that sticky, but… Pop out the keys and put them in the utensil container. Lay the keyboard face down on the top rack and wrap the USB connection jack tightly. Run the wash on the normal cycle. Let it all dry completely before you put the keys back on, and your keyboard will be squeaky clean and germ free.
That’s easy. Appliance Golf. You know, it’s a lot like regular golf, but players use sledgehammers instead of golf clubs, and they use washers, refrigerators and televisions instead of balls.
The game takes up much less space than normal golf, because of course you’re not going to move an 800-pound refrigerator very far, even with the biggest sledgehammer you can lift.
This place in Uzbekistan is called by locals “The Door to Hell”. It is situated near the small town of Darvaz. The story of this place lasts already for 35 years. Once the geologists were drilling for gas. Then suddenly during the drilling they have found an underground cavern, it was so big that all the drilling site with all the equipment and camps got deep deep under the ground.
None dared to go down there because the cavern was filled with gas. So they ignited it so that no poisonous gas could come out of the hole, and since then, it’s burning, already for 35 years without any pause. Nobody knows how many tons of excellent gas has been burned for all those years but it just seems to be infinite there.
It's the throbbing excitement of a hospital! It’s torn from real life! It’s all the drama of a burst appendix with the sickening wet spash of spilled intestines! All the heartache of a denied insurance claim! It’s Linda Carter, Night Nurse - who’s apparently pulling an overtime shift, since she’s standing outside in broad daylight.
Just in case you wonder how dramatic this will be, note that this nurse comes with her eyes pre-moistened with tears of sympathy already in place. If you study her closely, she's mostly neck and legs. She's about 70 percent legs, in fact. Also, her arms go down to her knees.
I tied a disposable camera to a bench with a sign that read:
Good afternoon, I attached this camera to the bench so you could take pictures. Seriously. So have fun. I'll be back later this evening to pick it up. Love, Jay / The Plug
When I retrieved the camera that night, I was happy to find that the entire roll of film had been shot. Below are the photos that were taken.
To be honest, I never liked the one red paperclip guy. The idea was cool but it was all about “him.” He didn’t do it for charity or the benefit of others, he traded with people so that he could get himself a house…a house that he is now getting rid of. Someone take the guy ONE RED PAPERCLIP and ask for the house.
That's right, Dom and I are trading the red paperclip house. With who? For what? Well that's where things get interesting: We have no idea yet. I'll be accepting trade offers from now up until 5pm on Friday July 11th and will be in Kipling the week of July 14 to make the trade....maybe with you!
There are times when funny news items literally write themselves. This happens to be one of those times. How about a bra that generates power thanks to the motion breasts make when women move / exercise. If that isn’t a mental picture enough for you, the man behind the research is named…wait for it….Dr. Wang.
Lawson explained that breasts move on three different axes: from side to side, front to back, and up and down. The most motion is generated on the vertical axis. Naturally, the bigger the breast, the more momentum it generates. "Let's face it—if you're a double-A marathoner, you're probably not going to get that iPod up and running."
The US Government recently approved the sale of absinthe within certain guidelines, namely that there is less than 10ppm of thujone. Absinthe Lollipops contain an amount of thujone that is within the legal limits set by the US regulatory authorities and of the European Union.
Our Absinthe Lollipops are really freaking awesome. And we say that without even an ounce of hubris. People go crazy (not like, cut-your-ear-off crazy, tho) for them. We're pretty sure they're the ultimate party favor. The combination of absinthe's mystique and the inherent sexiness of lollipops is a pretty explosive one.
This isn’t really tech related (unless you count that it’s in San Francisco) but it’s pretty cool nonetheless. An artist team created a 140-ft mural on the walls of the Broadway tunnel in SF, using nothing but cleaning products to cut through the grime. The results are below. Wow!
Did you meet your significant other on the Internet? This couple decided to take the advent of their Internet-meeting and eventual wedding to the ultimate level by baking two laptop-shaped wedding cakes, attaching their profiles to the screens, and even connecting them together with a candy ethernet cable with hearts on the plugs. Pretty "sweet" way to proclaim your digital love.
Sony, in a statement to investors, revealed that the company has lost a mind blowing $3.31 billion on the PS3 by selling them below cost. That puts them in the same league as the original Xbox. It will help when Sony eventually starts making money on the consoles but the billions already lost is hitting the company pretty hard right now.
Are you one of the thousands of Yahoo employees ready to jump ship the minute the opportunity arises? Do you need help with your resignation letter? If you said yes, the Yahoorezinr is here to help! The website has a form letter with several drop down menus that allow you to customize your resignation letter in a number of ways. Be forewarned, some of the “options” contain colorful language.
Alrighty then. Perth resident Ian Usher has decided to auction off his life after a 12-year relationship with his wife ended. The lucky winner will get his house, car, motorbike, clothes, a chance at his job, and even his friends. Good luck, mate!
The auction closes at noon on June 29, with Usher hoping it will meet the reserve price, which he says is reasonable. "As long as the auction is a success I will leave Perth with my passport and wallet and I'm off," said Usher, who didn't want to give away his plans before he's sure he can fund them.
Curiosity is at an all-time high about the Cheeseburger in a Can. Does it taste good? Will I die if I eat it? Thanks to one brave soul who put his life on the line for canned cuisine, we now know the answers to these questions and more. First off, it is fairly expensive at 3.95 EUR (around $6) and it takes about 10 minutes to cook in a "bain-marie" (double boiler). It can also be cooked out of the can or eaten cold (ewww).
Atari has filed suit against German gaming website 4Players for publishing a negative pre-release review of Alone in the Dark, alleging that it was written based on an illegally obtained copy of the game.
Behold the biggest Lego airplane in the world, made after the largest passenger airplane in the world, the Airbus A380. Made at a 1:25 scale-9.5-foot long, 10.5-foot wingspan, 3.2-foot tall—the Lego A380 uses 220 pounds (100kg) of bricks.
That's a mindblowing 75,000 pieces in eight colours—15 Lego Millennium Falcons. With that amount of bricks, and knowing how long my Falcon is taking, I'm not surprised that it took 600 hours for the entire team of professional Legoland model builders to assemble this beast.
She walks like a lady, swings her hips to music and is always affectionate. Meet Emma, a 38cm-tall "lovable" humanoid. Her creators at Sega promise that her infared sensors and battery power allow her to act like a "real girlfriend.
All you Mac users out there should be extra cautious as you surf the web. There are several new variants of a Trojan horse out there targeting Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 users. Make sure your anti-virus software is up to date.
Distributed as a compiled AppleScript called ASthtv05 or as an application, the Trojan allows remote access to the system and can transmit system and user passwords. SecureMac also said the Trojan is also capable of logging keystrokes and turning on file sharing.
It's known as the home of 'The Whopper' and Burger King is hoping its latest product really lives up to its reputation. The fast-food giant launched a $200 burger Wednesday — all in the name of charity.
The fine ingredients of what is called simply 'The Burger' include Wagyu beef, white truffles, Pata Negra ham slices, Cristal onion straws, Modena balsamic vinegar, lambs lettuce, pink Himalayan rock salt, organic white wine and shallot infused mayonnaise in an Iranian saffron and white truffle dusted bun.
Whether or not you like Kid Rock or his music, what he had to say about the recording industry will likely make you an instant fan:
According to a BBC report, his response to the label was: “Wait a second, you’ve been stealing from the artists for years. Now you want me to stand up for you?’ In true rock and roll style, this performer wasn’t going to do as he was told. “I was telling kids - download it illegally, I don’t care.”
The area is called San Zhi. There are no named architects since the whole site was commissioned by the government and several local firms. They were trying to create a posh luxurious vacation spot for the affluent and rich streaming out of Taipei.
Now this is where things get weird. The local papers say there were numerous accidents during its construction, and as news spread to the urbanites of the island state, nobody wanted to vacation there, much less visit.
Locals say the area is now haunted by those who died in vain and because they are not remembered, they linger there unable to pass on.
This explains why the area was abandoned. If the site is haunted, no amount of redevelopment is going to bring the masses to that spot. Even demolishing it is out of the question because destroying the homes of spirits and lost souls is a HUGE no-no in Asian culture.
CAR makers are facing a growing problem – growing car buyers. Customers who are older, taller and with expanding waistlines are demanding roomier and easier-to-use cars. Engineers also are under pressure to keep vehicle weights down to boost fuel economy.
The bigger-is-better trend is evident in almost every new-model changeover, as car interiors are made roomier. Weighing about 160kg and standing 190cm, Michael Turner knows first-hand the dramas of squeezing into small car seats.
In 1965 executives at Shell wanted to know what the world would look like in the year 2000. They consulted a range of experts, who speculated about fusion-powered hovercrafts and "all sorts of fanciful technological stuff".
When the oil company asked the scientist James Lovelock, he predicted that the main problem in 2000 would be the environment. "It will be worsening then to such an extent that it will seriously affect their business," he said.
What would Lovelock do now, I ask, if he were me? He smiles and says: "Enjoy life while you can. Because if you're lucky it's going to be 20 years before it hits the fan."
10.1 megapixel digital camera that is waterproof down to 33', withstands falls from 6 1/2', and is impervious to temperatures as low as 14° F, allowing you to capture high quality shots in extreme outdoor conditions with impunity.
The camera resists up to 220 lbs. of pressure, thanks to its rugged metal body encased in a frame pressure-sealed with rubber gaskets to prevent penetration from water, sand, dirt, and dust.
A built-in manometer measures air and water pressure, displaying the readings on the LCD so you can quickly determine depth and altitude of your photographs.
This floating speaker communicates wirelessly with a transmitter connected to any audio source, allowing you to listen to music in your pool.
The transmitter works with any audio source with a 3.5 mm headphone jack, including iPod®s, radios, and most MP3 players, and uses the 900Mhz bandyou can select from three channelsto provide an interference-free signal for the speaker up to 150' away.
The 3" 5-watt speaker is housed in a floating, fully submersible (up to 3'), weatherproof ABS and rubber case with controls for power and volume.
This unique alarm clock uses advanced speech recognition technology that lets you easily set the time and alarm via voice commands and responds to queries such as What time is it with vocalized answers.
The unit recognizes 10 spoken commands, including Set alarm, Set time, Check alarm, What is the date, Alarm sound (buzzer, chime, or bell), Stop (snooze for 5 minutes), and Temperature (current room temperature).
All functions are controlled either by your voice or with a touch of the activation panel, allowing you to quickly set up and operate the clock without tedious and confusing button pressing.
This action consisted of three different child faces of ethnic backgrounds: Asian, Black and Indian. The mouth had an opening just where the coin to release the supermarket cart is inserted. Each coin would symbolically feed a child. Under the image, it says ” You can feed a child for two days with what you spend renting this cart. HELP
Unlike typical radar guns intended for either automobile or sports applications, this comprehensive radar gun switches modes at the touch of a button, allowing you to determine a professional race cars pace, a baseball pitchers velocity, and tennis serve speed with one convenient unit.
The radar gun is as accurate as those used by police and professional baseball scouts; it is precise to within 1/10th of 1 MPH, while lesser radar guns have a margin of error from 1 to 3 MPH, and it provides a reading on the LCD 10 milliseconds after the trigger is pressed.
About the size of a hair dryer, the device allows ease of transport to professional racing events (where permitted) or amateur baseball games and tennis matches. Capable of measuring spe eds up to 600 MPH and automobiles from 3/4 mile away, the radar gun can determine current speed and peak speed simultaneously, and it holds up to five readings in its integrated memory.
This is the compact recorder that effortlessly copies photographs from your digital cameras memory card directly onto a CD for playback on a DVD player without using a dedicated computer.
Photographs are converted into MPEG format and immediately burned onto a CD (CD-RW or CD-R required) which can be placed in a DVD player for slide show viewing using your DVD players remote control. An album index enables easy photograph selection prior to full-screen viewing.
The recorder can also burn photographs onto a CD in JPEG format, allowing you to view the CDs photographs on your computer. The recorder has both RCA and S-video inputs that allow you to connect it directly to your TV and view photographs either from a burnt CD or from an inserted memory card.
Imperial - the name alone sounds as if the car was designed to overtake all weaker forms of automotive life. Truth be told, the Imperial never sold as well as its rivals from Cadillac and Lincoln, but it did have a loyal following. The full-sized Imperial puffed its last greenhouse gas in 1975, surrendering commercial use of the name to a prize-winning rose and a tasty butter substitute.
Paris Hilton has nothing on her '70s counterparts, because while she can only wear designer fashion, they could drive it! Personal editions from Cartier, Gucci, Bill Blass and Emilio Pucci helped make Lincoln's Mark V one of America's favorite luxury coupes.
Collectors have caught onto this car, pushing prices past $20,000 for a mint-condition Diamond Jubilee or Collector's Series. The 1979 brochure features another '70s icon, Tom Selleck, modeling alongside the Mark V.
The design consists of a welded steel cabin, using steel cables on the roof or on the facade of the existing house is attached. The sculpture consists of a cube-made element with the dimensions width 2.50 m, 2.50 m in height and 3.60 m deep.
The height of the top floor of the cube element is approximately 10.50 m, and the total weight of the sculpture is approximately 2.0 t. In conclusion if you want an extra room for your apartment this might be a great idea to take in consideration.
This FDA certified device provides relief for motion sickness without the use of medication by stimulating the median nerves located at the inner wrists, reducing nausea associated with boat, air, and automobile travel.
Similar to acupuncture but without needles, the patented device transmits gentle electrostatic pulses to the P6 meridian accustimulation point in the wrist, harmlessly interfering with the nerve stimulation between the brain and stomach that causes nausea.
Most effective when used 30 minutes prior to travel, it does not require abstaining from food or drink and does not interfere with medications.
More gentle than the jarring noise of traditional alarms, this clock uses a gradual increase in ambient light, stimulating aromas, and peaceful sounds from nature to awaken sleepers. Easy to use, simply set the desired wake up time, place some aromatherapy beads (included) into the aroma bowl, and choose a natural sound setting.
Thirty minutes before wake-up, the clocks light begins to glow softly, subtly brightening over the next half hour. As the light increases, the warmth from the lamp releases faint aromatherapy scents into the air to stimulate the olfactory senses, speeding the waking process.
Fifteen minutes before wake up time, the clocks speaker generates the sleepers choice of soft, yet lively nature sounds, and at the set wake up time a buzzer sounds to finish the cycle. The alarm can also be used to awaken using only sound, or just the buzzer. Sound selection includes Nightfall, Thunder Storm, Zen Melody, Mountain Stream, Songbirds, and Ocean Surf.
Four packets of aroma beads (Energy, Morning Caf, Stress Relief, Lavender) are provided, as are 10 removable felt disks that can be placed in the aroma bowl which allow you to use your own aromatherapy oils. The clock can also be set to operate in reverse, gradually diminishing light, scent, and sound at night to usher sleepers into a relaxed slumber.
This remote controlled blimps inflatable mylar balloon can be inscribed with personal messages using seven included colored markers and 12 stencils, making it ideal for celebrations. It plays eight different songs from its built-in speaker in its gondola, accompanied by eight strobing light patterns that flash from 14 LEDs on the gondolas undercarriage.
The blimps balloon fills with helium (available at party stores or florists) and its gondola attaches to the bottom of the crafts hull using double-sided tape (minimizing weight). The gondola is equipped with three propellers that allow it to move in three dimensions.
A four channel controller can operate the blimp up to 100'; the blimp operates for up to two hours on a 3-volt CR123 batt ery. The balloons self-sealing air valve can be inflated and deflated an indefinite number of times.
Fans of the Age of Conan role-player game besieged internet forums with complaints after noticing that their custom-built characters had dropped several bra sizes.
Many were angry that their previously pert avatars - which they had spent hours creating into icons of exaggerated femininity - now appeared to have "saggy" breasts.
Kyle Cassidy traveled 15,000 miles over two years photographing Americans in their homes and asking one question: “Why do you own a gun?” A good question, particularly since most of these guns are not easily reconcilable with the notion of self-defence and their true place should be somewhere in the Armed Forces. All the photo were later compiled in the book with its German edition being published this year. The pics below are taken from the latter.
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When people pull into the Town Center Grocery to fill up, $3.67 a gallon looks very appealing. But that price is for E85 gas, and many people don't have a car built to handle the alternative fuel.
A growing number of people are trying the fuel anyway. Scott Ramer from Findley Honda says it's a bad move, "We are seeing two to three a week. People come in with the check engine light on. We have a test we run. Lo and behold, they have E85 in their tanks."
The startling reaction between Diet Coke and Mentos sweets, made famous in thousands of YouTube videos, finally has a scientific explanation. A study in the US has identified the prime factors that drive the fizzy plumes from Coke bottles: the roughness of the sweet and how fast it plummets to the bottle's base.
A kid was crossing a road one day when a frog called out to him and said, "If you kiss me, I`ll turn into a beautiful princess". He bent over, picked up the frog and put it in his pocket. The frog spoke up again and said, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a beautiful princess, I will stay with you for one week."
The kid took the frog out of his pocket, smiled at it and returned it to the pocket.The frog then cried out, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a princess, I`ll stay with you and do ANYTHING you want."
Again the kid took the frog out, smiled at it and put it back into his pocket. Finally, the frog asked, "What is the matter? I`ve told you I`m a beautiful princess, that I`ll stay with you for a week and do anything you want. Why won`t you kiss me?"
The kid said, "Look, I`m a nerd. I don`t have time for a girlfriend ...but a talking frog, now that`s cool!"
Straight off the wrist of a Moon Base Commander from a 1960's Sci-Fi classic, this watch features all the things that you'd expect. Flat metal panel, cryptic flashing lights, carbon fibre style strap and display that looks like it's gauging your oxygen level.
It took 30 minutes to unload all the balls from 190 giant bags into the 10-acre, 58-million gallon water reservoir that serves 600,000 people in downtown and South L.A.
The move to deploy the balls—3,000,000 will follow soon—comes after Los Angeles Department of Water and Power officials registered high levels of bromate between June and October 2007. Although these weren't dangerous enough to put the population in risk or call Jack Bauer, the department thought that it would better to be safe than sorry.
The premise is simple: take one NES cart, one NES, empty the working-bits from the NES, empty the NES cart, put the working-bits from the NES and squeeze them into the NES cart. Insert actual NES cart into NES cart NES, plug into TV, play Mario.
Easy. It's the slimline NES we would have had if old Nintendo ever pulled a new Nintendo and released a slimmer, smaller NES, then released it in limited-edition, themed variants.
In 2003, Robert Downey Jr. was driving down PCH in California with a ton of “fucking dope” in the car when he suddenly decided to stop at Burger King for a meal. He said eating one of their burgers made him turn his life around.
He said, “I have to thank Burger King. It was such a disgusting burger I ordered. I had that, and this big soda, and I thought something really bad was going to happen.”
THE lives of hundreds of pedestrians are set to be saved each year in the UK after a major car firm revealed it is close to perfecting exterior airbags.
A Toyota subsidiary is fine-tuning a system which, in the event of a collision with a pedestrian, deploys airbags at the front of the bonnet and just below the windscreen.
The system uses sensors linked to a computer system which constantly scans ADVERTISEMENTthe road ahead and calculates if and when the car is about to hit a pedestrian. In the split seconds before an accident, the airbags burst open to cushion the impact.
Since 1984, 2600 Magazine has been publishing all sorts of information and controversial material involving hackers and their perception in mainstream culture. We've seen our own culture grow and flourish and we've witnessed the dramatic change in technology that has occurred in the last quarter century.
Everything from the breaking up of the Bell System to the very first days of the Internet is included in this book, all told from the hacker perspective. The stories of Kevin Mitnick, Bernie S., and Phiber Optik are each related in ways the mainstream media could never accomplish. In addition, the writings of these three (along with so many others) are included here.
An environmental group claims in a new study of vinyl shower curtains that some of them may release into the air toxic chemicals which could cause asthma, eye irritation or even cancer.
"We have a clear-cut case that these products release elevated levels of harmful chemicals," said report co-author Mike Schade, PVC campaign coordinator for the Center for Health, Environment and Justice. "Our research builds on a growing body of evidence that shows that the government fails to protect us from the growing number of toxic chemicals in products."
When I first saw this $500 five foot Ethernet cable I instantly thought “it must be a Monster cable but I was wrong. It would seem Denon is the manufacturer of the $100 a foot monstrosity.
Laptop Magazine got a first-look at Toshiba’s Qosmio G55. What makes this laptop special is that it has a dedicated “Quad Core HD” cell processor that enables gesture control via the webcam.
Check out the video in the link above for a demo of the gesture control feature, which is still in pre-production. Let’s hope they fix the responsiveness as I don’t see users wanting to spend 30 seconds trying to get that launch menu to open like this guy did.
The webcam senses your movement from 3 to 10 feet away and the Quad Core HD processor interprets your hand motions in real time. This was, obviously, the most talked about feature when the Qosmio G55 arrived in the office. After getting some significant time with the control scheme, we can say that we’re quite impressed.
Deputies with the Clark County Sheriff’s office were called to Callahan’s Mobile Home Park on Friday night after callers reported that a large group of people were fighting.
When officers arrived at the park on NE Hwy 99 they found two men suffering from stab wounds. Witnesses told police that the group of 40 or more were physically fighting with each other and one man had been armed with a sword.
Police found a large Samurai sword and another small homemade knife at the scene.
This bad-ass looking “innovative workstation” looks like something straight out of a movie. Thanks to Ian for the linkage and Gizmodo for the larger image.
"Of all the goodies up our sleeves lately, this is one of the most dramatic," Tim Stanley, chief information officer of Harrah's, told The Associated Press. "The range of opportunities are fairly limitless.
"The six rectangular tables with built-in 30-inch flat screens using Microsoft Surface technology were installed in a lounge at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, with custom applications built for Harrah's.
Glass surface inputting is the new hotness for almost every gadget maker today. From from the iPhone to Microsoft’s Surface technology, flat is where it’s at. Introducing the flattest full size QWERTY keyboard to date, “No-key Keyboard” by Kong Fanwen.
Consisting of just a glass surface, camera and lighting, this alternative keyboard concept will use the latest motion capture technology to watch your fingers nervously select just the perfect smiley for your online bantering.
New York officials are biting into a trademarked Apple with their logo for the GreeNYC campaign - or so claims the technology giant run by billionaire Steve Jobs.
California-based Apple Inc. is taking on the Big Apple over a federal application by NYC & Company for its own apple logo. But city officials say the design resemblance is only skin deep.
Growing plants would be a lot easier if plants could express what it is they need from you. Fret not because that’s what the Pet Plant by Junyi Heo does. The very sleek looking pot measures soil conditions, temperature, humidity, and water - calculates those variables based on the need of said plant, and expresses its condition via a series of pictograms on an LCD display.
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Nowadays we are used to having hundreds of gigabytes of storage capacity in our computers. Even tiny MP3 players and other handheld devices usually have several gigabytes of storage.
This was pure science fiction only a few decades ago. For example, the first hard disk drive to have gigabyte capacity was as big as a refrigerator, and that was in 1980. Not so long ago!
The Selectron tube had a capacity of 256 to 4096 bits (32 to 512 bytes). The 4096-bit Selectron was 10 inches long and 3 inches wide. Originally developed in 1946, the memory storage device proved expensive and suffered from production problems, so it never became a success.
We are in a state of perpetual war – with ourselves and with the eco-system that sustains us. Perpetual war breeds perpetual fear. In the present context, this fear stems from our extreme desire for authenticity and manifests itself in our collectively insatiable culture of consumption.
The next time your children get cavities, they might get tooth regeneration instead of fillings.
That's because materials scientists are beginning to find just the right solutions of chemicals to rebuild decayed teeth, rather than merely patching their holes. Enamel and dentin, the materials that make teeth the strongest pieces of the body, would replace the gold or ceramic fillings that currently return teeth to working order.
"What we're hoping to have happen is to catch [decaying teeth] early and remineralize them," said Sally Marshall, a professor at the University of California at San Francisco. Marshall gave a talk last week at the spring meeting of the Materials Research Society on rebuilding the inner portions of teeth.
The placenta... it nourishes and protects the mammalian fetus until after the birth, when it's commonly known as the "afterbirth". That makes perfect sense.
What does not make sense, at least to this casual observer, is why women would want to eat, drink and rub into their faces products made from placenta. Then it came to me - youth and beauty. Gals (and guys, truth be told) will do anything to retain those critical commodities. Anything...
When Charles Babbage invented a massive calculating machine in 1849, he probably didn't count on the 150 years it would take to actually get the thing built.
Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2 was a precursor of modern computers, capable of performing complex mathematical calculations with 31 digits of precision, all using Victorian-era rods, gears, levers and linkages.
It looks as though Apple’s Snow Leopard will finally dump PowerPC support. While this has been rumored for awhile, confirmation came by the way of a screenshot of the system requirements from a developer copy of OS X Snow Leopard handed out at WWDC this week.
Developers received an early copy of Snow Leopard at WWDC this week. As this is an early developer version, requirements could change in the future, but the dropping of PowerPC support has been long rumored.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has plopped down the five million dollars to book a space flight. Wow. I guess if I had the money, I would too. Wouldn’t you?
The company announced Wednesday that Brin will be the founding member of its Orbital Mission Explorers Circle, a group of six individuals who will each make a $5 million down payment to book a seat on a future orbital space flight.
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An elusive group just outside of Abilene, Texas is claiming the end of the world is coming in less than a week.
The House of Yahweh recently gave ABC reporter Brian Ross access to their west Texas compound. Yahweh leader Yisrayl Hawkins says a nuclear holocaust will come June 12th and only members of his group will be saved.
Two kids that posted a video of a prank have been ordered by the court to post an apology on YouTube as part of their sentence. The idiots in question were tracked down after they threw a drink at a girl working the drive-thru window. Each kid received 100 hour community service and had to post an apology on YouTube.
From the YouTube video, she found the boys' MySpace pages, where they had bragged about the incident. While keeping her identity secret, she befriended the boys and confirmed that they were involved in the attack, according to the Florida Today report. Using a phone book, she located the mother of one of the teens, who identified the others involved in the prank.
The girl shouldn’t be working for Taco Bell, after all the detective work she did, she should be hired by the police department.
AN ESTIMATED 875m small arms are in circulation worldwide: one for every seven people on the planet. Nearly three-quarters of these are owned by civilians. And about 80% of those guns in civilian hands are found in just 30 countries, according to the Small Arms Survey, a research group.
Although America accounts for 40% of firearms in civilian ownership, people put them to more deadly use elsewhere. The gun murder rate in Colombia and South Africa, for example, is much higher than in America.
LifeLock CEO Todd Davis is the genius who drove around major cities with his social security number plastered from a truck and blaring from a megaphone. He was evidently so sure his company’s identity protection worked, he didn’t mind readily giving out his personal info as a challenge.
Davis himself admits he didn’t learn about the breach until the company called him to collect the loan back. He also admitted to the Associated Press that it’s entirely possible other people have driver’s licenses issued in his name. Davis told the AP that’s only because of the “flimsy mechanisms” used for reporting that kind of fraud — the same kind of “flimsy mechanisms” his company supposedly uses to protect your personal information.
Researchers in Utah have created a device called a “Superlens” that, in overly simple terms, causes light to reverse and travel backwards. When an object is placed next to the superlens, the light bouncing off the object is canceled out, rendering the object invisible. It’s still in a very early test stage but this is still pretty wicked cool. The article also has links to demonstrative videos so check it out.
"The findings will lead to a better understanding of partial differential equations, which will lead to a better understanding the propagation of sound, light, fluid and turbulence," Milton said. The new math will also help scientists better understand the new field of metamaterials - a family of new materials with properties not seen in naturally occurring materials. "Existing laws don't adequately describe materials with exotic microstructures that are associated with some metamaterials."
Researchers tracked 100K people via their cell phone signals and were able to determine very predictable patterns. This research is useful for city planners and emergency response preparation. Those observed were kept anonymous, according to the article.
"This inherent similarity in travel patterns could impact all phenomena driven by human mobility, from epidemic prevention to emergency response, urban planning and agent-based modeling," they added.
The magic comes from our one of a kind "Sliding Scale"—the more you weigh, the more you'll pay. After all, it takes more fuel—more energy—to get more weight from point A to point B. So we will charge passengers based on how much mass they add to the plane. The heavier you and your luggage are, the more trees we'll plant to make up for the trouble of flying you from place to place.
To celebrate the fact that there will be two Guitar Hero performances on the main stage at this year’s Isle of Wight Festival, Activision has re-branded the bronze statue of Hendrix that sits in the grounds of the island’s Dimbola Lodge, turning Jimi’s guitar into the aforementioned video game peripheral.
Hendrix played the festival in 1970. His performance was plagued by technical problems – at one point, he told the crowd to go and buy hot dogs rather than listen to him – but has become legendary because it turned out to be one of his last.
Of course, Hendrix purists might argue that associating him with the Guitar Hero franchise borders on the sacrilegious, but given how popular the game has become, they’d possibly be in the minority.
Ending a month of speculation, Steve Jobs announced that the next version of OS X will be called Snow Leopard.
You heard right -- the next iteration of Apple's OS X operating system will indeed be dubbed Snow Leopard. As we'd heard just days ago, the next major installment of OS X will be getting all dressed in powder, and we'll be seeing a sneak peek of what's to come right here at WWDC.
I asked dave to choose what the cake was gonna be, and he wanted a 2girls1cup cake for his bday. so we told the cake place i usually use to make one (www.cakeandart.com), thinking they wouldn't know what it was. turned out one of the dudes there did and had to show the video to everyone at the bakery. the cake was chocolate, with a nutty PB center, and a cup of chocolate.
AMD, VIA and NVIDIA are arguing with Intel over the upcoming USB 3.0 standard because, according to this article, Intel isn’t sharing and these companies want to avoid having to make their own USB 3.0 standard.
"The challenge is that Intel is not...giving the specification to anybody that competes with CPUs and chipsets," said a source close to AMD who is familiar with the dispute. "Even though (Intel) didn't do the work, the PCI SIG did the work." The PCI SIG (Special Interest Group) promotes the Peripheral Component Interconnect specification, a standard used in all PCs today.
NBC11.com has posted a slideshow of forty of the Doodle 4 Google finalist. The competition was for school children, grades K through 12, with 40 of the best being put on display. Some of these are better than any of the professionally designed Google logos.
You arrive at the golf course, and soon you’re on to 18 holes with your best buddies. After drinking sport ades, water, beer, and whatever, you’re on the 3rd hole with no rest room in sight. There are no trees or bushes around and you just gotta go, what are you going to do?
The UroClub is intended to eliminate anxiety and any feeling of uneasiness on the course. It can be emptied at the nearest restroom or later on, when the golfer returns home.
The toilet problem had fast become the most pressing issue of the mission, so much so that a spare pump was rushed from Moscow, Russia, to Cape Canaveral last week for a last-minute ride aboard space shuttle Discovery.
Cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko put in the new pump, and the toilet started working normally again.
The Porcelain Pistols are replicas of James Bond’s Walther PPK and its contemporary sister, the P99,with friendly permission of Carl Walther Inc.The fragile weapon, hand-painted in the style of classic tableware motifs, liesnext to your coffee and cake, asking to be picked up. Its coolness andcomfortable grip increase the qualms of the user, leaving him in a quandary between the pleasure of luxury and violence.
Ladies, take your battle for the environment a little closer to your heart with a solar-powered bra that can generate enough electric energy to charge a mobile phone or an iPod.
If you were thinking that this is photoshop and that it’s not real then you were so wrong. Below are shown pictures of the Firefox crop circle creation, team of experts have worked on this project. After a hard job they finally succeed in this phenomenal project, the creation of the Firefox logo was finally cropped in field.
There are places on our planet, which literally resemble hell on earth... a place that you’d think was conceived by minds of apocalyptic science fiction writers… but is however quite real…
A place, closed off to the tourists, a place where no photographers are allowed to go… and those that do, get their cameras taken away and arrested by the police…..
From "sky girls" to "stews" to "flight attendants," the story of the airline stewardess is an evolutionary tale. Originally established as an in-flight nursing corps, the earliest stewardesses also served as waitresses, baggage handlers and auxiliary ground crew.
As commercial flying grew up, the role of the stewardess changed. Along the way, she reflected her time, evolving from novelty to workhorse to sex symbol, yet always serving with professional competence.
These pics look like they’re from the 30’s and 40’s and the portable and built in ashtrays seem out of place. In old film noir movies they always light a cig and throw their matches and flick the ashes right on the floor.
The main thought about the jDome is that it should be designed for the regular gamer. This means low cost product, ability to use off the shelf hardware and the possiblity to easily put the jDome away when you are finished gaming and want to watch a movie or because your mom is tired of having an OmnImax-Theater in the living room!
Right or more often the case wrong, athletes have been taking anabolic steroids since the early 1960’s. Many competitive bodybuilders go to excess in taking steroids in order to compete citing that ‘extreme sports require extreme measures,’ using a plethora of various forms for different effects — one might increase muscle hardness while another will improve mass, strength or endurance — thus becoming human walking chemistry sets.
Antec gave us a sneak peek at an early prototype most controversial case design yet: the Skeleton. It's a totally open air case design, your motherboard is mostly exposed and sits on the upper level of the "case" while below it you have room for a power supply, optical drive and hard drive.
Bruce Willis is in negotiations to play a death row inmate in "Kane & Lynch," a thriller based on a video game.
Willis' character, Kane, and a schizophrenic killer named Lynch, are sprung by Kane's former team so that he can retrieve a stolen fortune. Kane travels to Los Angeles, Japan and Cuba, with Lynch acting as the team's watchdog in order to save his wife and daughter.
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All of a sudden, dentures aren’t just for Grandpa anymore! Freeze up a batch of Frozen Smiles and drop them into any glass - they’re the ice cubes that grin right back at you (and your esteemed party guests). Don’t you think they’ll add a little bite to whatever you’re drinking?
The banana we eat today is not the one your grandparents ate. That one - known as the Gros Michel - was, by all accounts, bigger, tastier, and hardier than the variety we know and love, which is called the Cavendish. The unavailability of the Gros Michel is easily explained: it is virtually extinct.
Introduced to our hemisphere in the late 19th century, the Gros Michel was almost immediately hit by a blight that wiped it out by 1960. The Cavendish was adopted at the last minute by the big banana companies - Chiquita and Dole - because it was resistant to that blight, a fungus known as Panama disease. For the past fifty years, all has been quiet in the banana world. Until now.
Macheads and Windows fanboys can now proclaim their love for their respective platforms through sign language...and oh damn! Is that a Linux Lover encroaching on your turf? Turn that mother out! All you nerds should be careful using these on the street though, since you could come across someone who might mistake them for their real-life gangsta counterparts.
Staples, in its first foray into selling DVD movies, has decided that Flexplay disposable DVDs is the way to go. Disposable DVDs? Didn’t this idea die off years ago? Were “single use” discs ever a good idea?
Staples will begin selling disposable discs from Atlanta-based Flexplay Technologies in its 2,000 stores across the country beginning in mid-June. Flexplay has deals with Warner Home Video, New Line Home Entertainment, Paramount Home Entertainment and DreamWorks to sell new release movies on its disposable discs, according to its Web site.
That Safari flaw, originally discovered two weeks ago, is apparently worse than originally thought. The bug allows attackers to carpet bomb your desktop with executable files when the flaw is exploited in combination with another unpatched bug in IE. Separately they are only moderate vulnerabilities. Combined they produce a critical flaw that allows remote code execution.
It turns out that if this flaw is exploited in combination with a second unpatched bug in Internet Explorer, attackers can run unauthorized software on a victim's computer, according to Aviv Raff, a security researcher. Raff says he originally reported the IE flaw to Microsoft more than a year ago, and then told them about how it could be combined with the carpet bombing bug just over a week ago.
It may not have been the most dignified way of meeting new people, but it was certainly intimate - and it looked like fun.
Hundreds of singletons converged on London's Bloomsbury Ballroom last night for an Eighties party - and to try and break the record for the UK's largest game of Twister.
After much stretching and awkward positioning, and fuelled by bags of retro-style sweets, the record was eventually set with 652 people.
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Here are some pictures of a body mod my friend did to her ears. Elf Ears. Looks pretty sweet, i just dont know if I would do something like this, and no, you really shouldn't do this yourself in any way, shape, or form.
Are you getting hosed by your internet service provider? A quick look at this list will let you know where you stand and give you a great list of prices, speed and availability of many major ISPs across the country.
The World Wide Web is the place to be, and the options for getting there have never been greater. We’ve investigated the deals, the speeds, and the availability to help consumers choose a high-speed bandwagon to jump on.
A homeless woman who sneaked into a man’s house and lived undetected in his closet for a year was arrested in Japan after he became suspicious when food mysteriously began disappearing.
Police found the 58-year-old woman Thursday hiding in the top compartment of the man’s closet and arrested her for trespassing, police spokesman Hiroki Itakura from southern Kasuya town said Friday.
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