December 2007
CodeProject: Some easy ways to send emails (via... →
Tags: communication mobile sms
Posted by: sameera
LG.Philips Multi-Touch, Multi-Image Displays for... →
LG.Philips has announced a
barrage of new large-format displays for shopping malls, airports,
public areas and mad evil scientists’ underwater lairs in the South
Pacific. The displays, which will be presented at CES2008, range
from 32 to 52 inches and offer different cool technologies, like
multitouch, handwriting recognition, transflective backlighting for
outdoor use, double-sided panels...
My Wife's Take After a Week With an eReader... →
I gave my wife a Sony Reader for Christmas after she’d talked about them for some time (she deemed the Kindle “ugly” btw, which is important as anything else for a gadget that’s designed to be looked at for hours on end, I guess). Her verdict on the experience? Good, but there’s one thing she’s surprised to miss most from real books: It’s not just the...
Microsoft Leaves Comments Open on YouTube (oops)... →
Microsoft’s PR department are attempting new and innovative ways to get Windows products to the masses. Their latest effort involves the launch of a YouTube channel with various promotional content. Unfortunately for Microsoft, their PR team decided to leave the comments open. Bad move.
The videos are sure to get your pulse slowing down in no time, but the comments the Microsoft haters have...
Sunday, December 30, 2007 →
CodeProject: Burning CD/DVD Media with the Image... →
Tags: cd_dvd devices hardware system
Posted by: sameera
Hello Kitty Expands Upon Arsenal With AR-15 Rifle... →
With previous releases, such as an AK-47 under it’s belt, Hello Kitty looks poised to roll out a full army. This time around, some gun-loving nut put together a Hello Kitty-themed AR-15 assault rifle for his wife (how romantic) and posted the finished result on the interwebs for the world to see. It’s so cute, it makes me want to shoot something. [Rifle Gear via Mobilewhack]
Penryn Laptops This Way Cometh [Roundup] →
We’ve been harping on about Penryn processors for a while, and with the end of 2007 imminent, mobile Penryn processors are heading for laptops near your lap’s top sometime soon. Which ones are to be getting the spanking new Intel treatment? We are glad you asked. Jump for a roundup of mobile Penryn based devices that will be hitting in early 2008.
Acer will be adding to their Aspire...
USB Credit Card Brings Korea to the 22nd Century... →
While we’re just now struggling to get credit cards that pay wirelessly, Korea’s already moved on to the next stage and made their credit card USB-compatible. Not only can you wave this thing in front of a register like Harry Potter trying to Wingardium Leviosa Hermione’s dress, you can plug this into your computer to make online purchases as well. It saves you the trouble of...
Optimus Tactus Touch Keyboard Should Be Called... →
While we love touch surfaces, as people who type hundreds of thousands a word each week we know that there is a limit to them: keyboards. Like this Optimus Tactus, an extruded shape/touch surface/keyboard concept by Art.Lebedev. We really like the soon-to-be-released Optimus keyboard Art but, seriously, how often do you type on your computer?
I can imagine that artists, musicians and video...
DARPA Developing Sleep-Replacing Nasal Spray,... →
Those geniuses at DARPA, the Pentagon’s research arm, are hard at work on a new nasal spray that could make sleep obsolete. It’s called Orexin A, and just a couple snorts of it could allow you to be awake and alert for tens and tens of hours straight with no negative side effects. Of course, there are sure to be some pretty serious consequences to your body if you go without sleep for...
Wacom Cintiq 12WX Video Review (Verdict: Simply... →
Here’s the video review for the new Wacom Cintiq 12WX, a tablet that allows you to draw directly on the screen with extreme precision, great feel and amazing results (even with butter fingers like mine). The Cintiq 12WX is probably the best peripheral I have ever tried. If you are not a professional illustrator or photographer, you may want to get one. If you are pro, however, you will be...
128GB Sony Micro Vault Selling in China? [Rumor] →
A tipster just sent us compelling evidence of giant 64GB and ridiculously huge 128GB Sony-branded USB drives circulating in China. When he first spotted them at a market in Zu Hai, near Macau, he thought it was a misprint, but then he discovered that his own father had a 64GB card. Lest you think he was still foolin’ himself, you can see that when he stuck the drive into a PC and checked,...
Open Flash Chart - Flash Charting Component for... →
Open Flash Chart is a charting component made by Flash. Open Flash Chart, is open source. It is free to use and you get the source code to fiddle with. You can create some really nice looking Bar Charts, Pie Charts, Area Charts and etc… easily. To use it, you simply need to include the Open Flash Chart in your HTML, and provide the data file on the server. The data file is either a text file, or a...
How To: Sort a LINQ to SQL Entity at the Parent... →
I’ve been really diving head first into the CTP of the ASP.NET MVC Framework as well as getting my hands dirty with LINQ to SQL, as I’m sure many of you have been. During this time, I hit a road bump and was banging my head against the wall trying to figure this one out with my LINQ to SQL knowledge. In a previous post, I wrote about using a Repeater control to display a LINQ to SQL...
World's Biggest Building Coming To Moscow: Looks... →
Christmas may be over, but if designer Sir Norman Foster has his way, everyone in Moscow will be staring at a 1500ft tall, 27 million square foot, $4 billion dollar Christmas tree every day of the year. The structure, dubbed “Crystal Island” is being described as a “city within a building” and will feature 900 apartments, 3000 hotel rooms, an international school for 500...
Fring: Cross Platform Mobile IM →
Israeli mobile startup Fring is a great way to use Skype, Google Talk and MSN Messenger IM on your phone. This weekend the company added AIM and Yahoo messenger to its offerings for Symbian and UIQ handsets. Fring is a finalist in the Crunchies awards and has raised more than $12 million in VC funding. Its primary competitor is generally said to be Nimbuzz. I like Fring a lot, but I hope that the...
Asus M930W Smartphone Flips Out, Kills People, Has... →
Asus already has a full stable of Windows Mobile phones, but this flip-open QWERTY-enabled candybar seems like one we can get behind. Not only does it have a screen underneath for typing (in addition to the outside screen), it’s powered by a 520MHz CPU, has Tri-band GSM, 3G, 256MB ROM and 128MB RAM, not to mention Wi-fi and Bluetooth. As long as that keyboard underneath feels as good as it...
Maxtor 300GB Hard Drive for $44 [Dealzmodo] →
It’s time for those after-Christmas sales, and here’s a great deal on a Maxtor L01Y300 300GB hard drive from Fry’s for $44, which we couldn’t find anywhere else for less than $75. The description for the today-only deal says it’s a 7200rpm retail hard drive kit with a 16MB buffer and an Ultra ATA 100 interface. What has us perplexed is the breathless promise of a...
Porkins' B3-3R Astrokeg LEGO Droid Mixes Our Three... →
Forget about the LEGO Millennium Falcon. Here’s the definitive LEGO model that mixes three of our favorite themes: LEGO, Star Wars and beer. This LEGO B3-3R is Porkins astromech droid and beer keg. And probably his best friend too. Porkins and B3-3R are just the last of the dozens of LEGO models that Mike Crowley—aka Count Blockula—has been creating for years. Interview and the rest of the...
Holy Shit: 150-Inch Panasonic Plasma HDTV at CES... →
Japanese paper Yomiuri is reporting that Panasonic will unveil a 150-inch plasma to show the world who has the biggest flatscreen manufacturing capability. That above is the photo of the now second-place 103-inch plasma as big as a queen sized bed. (Sharp has the current title of biggest at 108-inches). f your mcmansion isn’t big enough to fit it, don’t even bother inquiring about the...
BlackBerry Patent Goes Angular With Its Keys... →
Just when businessmen and women were getting used to BlackBerry’s SureType split-key keyboards, RIM has to go and patent yet another method of inputting text. As you can see in the drawing, this guy’s horribly misshapen thumbs are hammering away on angular keys, which actually seems pretty brilliant to us. Remember Microsoft and their ergonomic split-key angular keyboards? This is...
Iron Man Action Figure Would Look Great On Our... →
Either this Shiny red and yellow 12-inch Iron Man action figure looks so much like a big nicely wrapped man-shaped chocolate, or we’re just very very hungry. Nevertheless, He looks just as faithful to the movie version (left) as we could hope, and will drive Jesus wild when he unwraps him under his tree next Xmas. However, we do have a bit of a problem with his facial expression and the way...
Navy Developing All-Electric Warship [Floating... →
The U.S. Navy is in the process of developing a next-generation all-electric warship that could potentially “revolutionize the Navy’s use of weaponry and manpower.” The system architecture, designed by Cemal Basaran, director of the Electronic Packaging Laboratory at the University at Buffalo, will distribute electrical power generated by power plants and the mechanical...
Helicopter for One Can Be Folded Up, Carried By... →
This wee helicopter is the Ka-56 “Wasp,” a flying vehicle for one that can be folded down and carried by just one person. Designed and created in Soviet Russia in 1971, it doesn’t seem to have really gotten beyond the prototype stage. I’m assuming that’s because it’s horribly dangerous, but it could be for any number of reasons. Guesses, dear commenters? Oh, and...
The Associated Press: 'Drilling Up' Into Space for... →
BALI, Indonesia (AP) — While great nations fretted over coal, oil and global warming, one of the smallest at the U.N. climate conference was looking toward the heavens for its energy.The annual meeting’s corridors can be a sounding board for unlikely “solutions” to climate change — from filling the skies with soot to block the sun, to cultivating oceans of seaweed to absorb the...
Knitted 1:1 Scale Ferrari Makes Perfect Xmas... →
It’s Xmas time, which means love, family, friendship, hope and, the really important part: Xmas stocking booty! And megalomaniac 22-year old Lauren Porter, a student at Bath Spa University, is going for a huge lot with her knitted scale 1:1 Ferrari. Seeing her posing next to it gives you the idea of how huge this thing is:
The knitted Ferrari, which looks like a Testarossa, has a total of...
School Zone Crosswalk Illuminates With LEDs... →
The School Zone is one of those concepts that should become a reality pronto, if only to give you the illusion you are Pac-Man while crossing the street: loaded with LEDs (our favorite light sources,) School Zone can indicate how much time you have left to cross because they are networked with the traffic lights. The raised slabs, which act as speed bumps, are completely modular:
[Yanko Design]
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CodeProject: Silverlight Controls - The Path to... →
Tags: silverlight xaml
Posted by: sameera
Classic games made with Lego →
CodeProject: Creating a Database-Driven Google... →
Tags: gadgets google
Posted by: sameera
Linux.com :: Software patent abolition campaign... →
What could make the Free Software Foundation (FSF), proprietary software companies, and at least one venture capitalist into allies? The End Software Patents (ESP) coalition, a new organization poised to swing into action next month under the leadership of Ben Klemens.
CodeProject: Asynchronous Code Blocks. Free source... →
Tags: async threading
Posted by: sameera
CodeProject: NParallel, A Small Parallel Execution... →
Tags: async threading
Posted by: sameera
New Gadgets for KITT 2.0 Revealed, Flame Thrower... →
The new gadgets for KITT version 2.0 have been revealed, including every single technology a man who does not exist would ever need: laser weapons system, nanotech cloaking, laser-guided missile defense, 3D heads-up display, military-grade GPS, holographic projection and even a Mini-KITT reconnaissance drone (!?!) among 21 new gizmos. Surprisingly, all this technological terror leaves out three...
Paint Mono Update - Miguel de Icaza →
paint-mono is a port of Paint.NET. The only way it could be built in the past was using a development version of MonoDevelop and there was no way of generating packages for it.
Papercraft Halo Dropship Makes For a Cheap-Ass... →
If you enjoyed creating the Master Chief papercraft figure, you can now spend your holiday downtime tackling another Halo related project —the D77 Pelican Dropship. Plus, if you are poor or stingy, you could always pass the finished project off to one of your gamer friends as a gift. After all, the gifts you make with your own two hands are the best right? Just don’t let anyone know it was...
Microsoft Year-End Report Card: B- [Microsoft... →
Well, Redmond, it’s been a funny year, hasn’t it? Even if you ignore those Apple commercials, it’s hard to ignore the fact that Vista was probably one of the main reasons people switched to the Mac OS, or to third-party Linux-based systems. We’ll get to the big V—and that other mighty stain Windows Mobile—in a bit, but first you deserve much credit for some impressive feats...
CodeProject: Compact LINQ. Free source code and... →
Tags: .net3.5 linq
Posted by: sameera
Art.Lebedev Camouflage Christmas Ornaments May... →
Leave it to the Art.Lebedev Studio, maker of expensive keyboard prototypes and whimsical objets d’art, to give you a skewed take on an everyday item, and these camouflage Christmas tree ornaments are no exception. Art calls them the “SHAR-404 portable set for improvement of forest units in the face of the new approaching year.”
Each one is hand painted, and we’re thinking...
Object Oriented JavaScript - Should You use It? -... →
Tags: javascript web
Posted by: sameera
Clark School Researchers Develop Two-Dimensional... →
COLLEGE PARK, Md.—Harry Potter may not have talked much about plasmonics in J. K. Rowling’s fantasy series, but University of Maryland researchers are using this emerging technology to develop an invisibility cloak that exists beyond the world of bespectacled teenage wizards.
PDF Editing & Creation: 50+ open source/free... →
Adobe Acrobat is expensive, but that doesn’t mean you have to live a life without portable documents. What many people don’t realize is that PDF is a Federal Information Processing Standard, which means the specifications behind the format are widely published. Numerous developers take advantage of this fact and create programs that offer effective alternatives to Acrobat. Check out our list of...
Object Oriented JavaScript - Should You use It? -... →
IIf you have programmed any in JavaScript you are definitely familiar with the procedural method of coding, but you may not have seen many examples of object oriented JavaScript code. Since many JavaScript coders come from a scripting background, most practice a procedural programming style. However, if you have a C++, Java, C#, or any other object oriented programming language (you can program in...
Speedy Power Boat Powered by Human Flab to... →
This is one radical looking trimaran, but we’re still scratching our heads trying to figure out why its owner lipo-sucked his own fat to make biofuel for the 78-foot craft on his way to attempting to break a world speed record for circumnavigating the globe. Oh, now we get it. It’s a publicity stunt to popularize biofuels, and now it’s gone beyond the prototype stage and...
DIY Bristlebot: You Might as Well Use That... →
As long as your toothbrush is sitting around unused and unloved, you might as well put it to good use with this DIY Bristlebot courtesy of the folks at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories. All you need is a brush with angled bristles, a pager motor and a watch battery. Minutes of fun and tooth decay will be your reward. To see the Bristelbot in action, and learn how to build one yourself, hit the...
Forget the $2500 Latitude XT, Get a Touchscreen... →
Half the reason we like the Eee PC is that mods to it just keep getting further out there. The latest, and greatest, is a touchscreen. Jkkmobile’s 4G is loaded up with Windows XP, but not the tablet version, so it’s admittedly more of an interesting way to browse the web and play around with your fingers than a certifiable productivity booster, but we think it’s pretty cool...
Internet Explorer 8 passes the Acid2 mark →
From silence to the grand opera, finally Internet Explorer will join the league of a handful of next-generation web browsers that passes the Acid2 test.
Whilst remembering Acid2 is not a standards test - in fact it breaks a few standards to test how browsers handles malformed code, passing the test represents the browser will properly support a range of next-generation CSS 2.1 features that...
Crazy Person to Attempt a Backflip in a Truck... →
Doing backflips is a mainstay of the extreme sports scene, with people who ride skis, snowboards, dirt bikes and snowmobiles all able to pull off a flip with a big enough jump. But what about a truck? Sounds insane, doesn’t it? That’s because it is, it’s completely insane. That’s not gonna stop Rhys Millen from giving it a shot on New Year’s Eve, however. Yes, during...
Kill Shot Pillow From Keetra Looks Bloody... →
It’s called The Great Slumber, or just Bloody Puddle, a pillow that looks like you took one too many bullets to the head. The site says it will be for sale soon, though something tells us it won’t be ready in time for Christmas. Which is all for the best: God knows what would happen if your grandma walks into the spare bedroom and sees you sleeping on it. [FromKeetra via...