February 2008
Google Sites the Next Sharepoint? Maybe Not....Why... →
Lately, we’ve been discussing the concept of tech populism and the how enterprises are moving towards a more people-centric focus when it comes to their IT infrastructure. Although we support…
First Look at Using Expression Blend with... →
Tags: .net ms-expression silverlight
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DORmino Mouse Feeds on Laptop Heat for Power... →
Designers really are exploring every corner of the laws of physics to bring you eco-friendly products nowadays— this latest design even makes use of the waste heat kicked out by a…
Vista Capable Laptops Sucked So Intel Could Dump... →
The judge on the class action lawsuit against Microsoft for those Vista handi-capable stickers unsealed a bunch of super-juicy internal emails exchanged between Microsoft higher-ups…
Put on Your 3D Glasses for Samsung's 3D-Ready... →
Korea is first port of call (well, it would be, wouldn’t it?) for these 3D-ready plasmas from Samsung. Available in two sizes: 42; and 50 inches, the PAVV Cannes 450 has a 30,000:1 ratio and…
WatchMac vs. PC vs. Linux — South Park Style | Compiler from Wired.com
Tandem Z1 Chinook Minicopter Flying (and Crashing)... →
My new Tandem Z1 Chinook finally arrived. And guess what? Two rotors and proper six-way control actually does equal twice the crashes. At least while starting out, anyway— just like a real helicopter these things are a bugger to learn to control. Balancing throttle, forward, backwards, turning and the trimming controls felt like it needed about 3 extra hands. So, I had crashes. A lot. But,...
AIR Goes Live: The Best Things About Adobe's AIR... →
Adobe is launching out of Labs today the Adobe Integrated Runtime, or AIR. AIR is a really exciting platform that combines qualities of the web with a presence on the desktop by making it easy to build attractive Internet connected applications that live outside the browser. As part of today’s launch, new AIR apps from Salesforce, FedEx, eBay, Nickelodeon, Nasdaq, AOL and The New York Times...
Advanced CSS Navigation Menu Trick →
We are now coming to a point where the browsers are supporting a lot of new features, giving us more opportunities to take advantage of previously unused pseudo elements. Advanced Css Menu Tricks is instead of simply altering the state of the navigation item the user is currently rolling over, we want to alter the non navigation items as well. This will help focus the users attention on the item...
Ever wanted to see LINQ in action, visually? →
It’s not always easy to grasp and follow what’s happening when a LINQ query is executed. Well, thanks to clever code by Jon Skeet, it’s now possible to see LINQ queries execute in front of your eyes! At least LINQ to Objects queries that is.
See this post about Visual LINQ in which Jon introduces the concept and the prototype implementation. You may want to watch the video or...
Wired Feature on Deep Sea Cowboys Saving Giant... →
The cargo ship Cougar Ace was entering Alaskan waters when its ballast tanks malfunctioned and a wave turned it on its side. Millions of dollars in shiny new Mazdas were dangling feet from the cold water. Then the A-Team of sea salvage (including a geek) flipped it right side up without the help of cranes or tugs. My good friend Josh Davis wrote this breathtaking feature on the small group of...
LEGO Universe: 'LEGO Star Wars Multiplied By A... →
Tentatively set for release in 2009, LEGO Universe seeks to provide gamers with “a virtual extension of the real-world LEGO” gameplay, by allowing MMO fans a chance to virtually live among each of the thousands of LEGO sets that have been created over the years.
3-Year-Old Summarizes Star Wars [Clips] →
We’ve written our share of words on Star Wars, Star Wars LEGO, Star Wars lightsabers, Star Wars lightsaber clubs, and Star Wars iPhones…but even still, we’re not as prolifically spoken as this 3-year-old girl who recounts the Star Wars to her father. Later, it’s he who tells the story behind her filming:
She explained the whole movie to me in much greater detail but...
Sungjut TangoX Nano UMPC Comes With Integrated,... →
Checkout the new Sungjut TangoX Nano UMPC, which will have a VIA CPU C7-M ULV at 1.2GHz, 1GB of DDR2 RAM, 40 or 80GB HDD, HD Audio, 7” WVGA (800x480) touch screen, 4 in 1 Card reader, Ethernet Port , WiFi a/b/g, USB 2.0 (2 ports), DVI output and a detachable, integrated Skye handset. Do you hear the Eee PC running a little scared? Jump to the gallery for some more tasty images.
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IBM Kittyhawk to Host the Entire Internet, Eat the... →
In what is a sure sign of recklessness and suicidal tendencies, IBM has decided to take us closer to Skynet with Kittyhawk, a global-scale shared supercomputer so enormously big, so gigantastically powerful that it will be able to run the entire internet as one application. Because that’s exactly what the planet needs, a Skynet-like supercomputer with 67.1 million cores and 32 petabytes that...
USB Missile Launcher Comes With Webcam For Optimal... →
USB Missile Launchers have been around for years and years and years, but why did it take this long for someone to stick a webcam on it? Seriously, what could be better for aiming a foam dart at that punk Bob from accounting than being able to see where you’re aiming in first person view? If I had one of these instead of a standard Missile Launcher, I could have nailed Dvorak through the...
Toaster Phone Doesn't Run on Butter [Concept] →
This Toaster Phone concept by Brazilian designer Renata Quintela is simple, cute, and it will probably make you look like a surrealist moron while using it, which is always a plus. We like the toaster charger and the fact that it comes with two sets, which we want to believe will communicate with each other, allowing Jason and Benny to play Loafman and his sidekick Buttermelter. [Coroflot via...
Interview With Mike Rea Featuring Wooden Mechs,... →
If you have ever had the privilege of viewing a work by artist Mike Rea, chances are you were instantly captivated by his amazing geek-inspired wood sculptures. The folks at Fecal Face managed to catch up with him and ask a few questions—and the brief peek inside his mind that resulted is interesting to say the least. For those who want to check out his stuff in person, Rea has a solo exhibition...
Nokia Morph Cellphone Rolls Up, Stretches, Cleans... →
Nokia’s new Morph concept phone would use nanotechnology to give it a flexible body with a transparent display that could be re-shaped depending on the user’s needs, a far cry from today’s solid and chunky devices. Even the electronics inside it would be transparent and flexible, so the whole phone may be twisted and stretched into bracelet shapes or tablet form, and nanotech...
Monofactor Released a Set of 25 Vector Icons for... →
WebAppers has released a set of Web Application Icons a week ago. And now, Monofactor has released a set of 25 Vector Icons for Free as well. They look really stunning. And the loveliest part is, they are in scalable vector format. You can open the .ai file with any version of Illustrator above 8.0. With earlier versions, you might loose some of the effects on the icons.
Redistribution, Release...
Monofactor.com - Design Graphics Blog - Onur... →
Tags: icons resources
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B-2 Stealth Bomber Crashes, 1.2 Billion Dollars... →
The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.A B-2 Bomber, probably the coolest aircraft ever created after the Lockheed A-12, has crashed for the first time ever. Its name was the Spirit of Kansas and it was one of the 21 $1.2 billion Northrop Grumman stealth plane ever manufactured. It fell to the ground right after take-off for “unknown reasons” at the Andersen...
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Tags: graphic-design photoshop
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Scientist Looking for the Force Finally Put CERN's... →
Scientist at CERNs, the fine people who brought us the W and Z bosons, anti-hydrogen atoms and hyperlinked porn sites web pages, are now hard at work building the Large Hadron Collider to discover something even cooler: the Force. Yes, that Force. Or like physicists call it, the Higgs boson, a particle that carries a field which interacts with every living or inert matter, which could bring us...
Home-Made Alarm Clock Beeps Until You Solve a... →
I tend to have a cup of tea and some cereal before I do anything in the morning, but Nicholas Paul Johnson swears by his Turing alarm clock. Powered by an PIC16 microcontroller, Johnson used a four-buck LCD display and has, very sweetly, made the whole thing free and open-source. [cheaphack via MAKE]
SpaceStation Organizer Looks Futuristically... →
We’ve seen our fair share of organizers over the years—especially since we live next door to those good-naturedly anal folks at Lifehacker—but this SpaceStation seems like it’s the most minimal that we’ve seen yet. The system consists of a long, rubberized pad to lay your electronics on top of and a hollow bottom with USB Hub for you to coil all your USB cables around. The end...
Microsoft Goes Open, Won't Sue Open Source... →
Reading the writing that’s on the wall, Microsoft is going to play nice with open source. They’ve laid out for new interoperability principles for their biggest products: Vista, Office 2007, Server 2008 (plus some more bizzy wares) and “all future versions of these products.” Their new get-along principles are “ensuring open connections; promoting data portability;...
DARPA Robot Crusher Truck Earns Its Name [Crusher] →
There isn’t anyone inside this six-and-half-ton beast, getting off on smashing through crappy 80s cars. No, the Army’s latest baby, built by Mellon University’s Robotics Engineering Center, is a robot. The Crusher navigates (and destroys) autonomously and will climb four-foot “steps” as easy as it tears up a hill. Apparently other vehicles in their Future Combat...
Gasoline-Powered 25-inch Desk Cannon Shows Your... →
USB Missiles are fun (I shot Dvorak in the chest with one once, it did not induce a heart attack as I had hoped), but actual cannons are even more fun. This 25-inch field cannon is the closest you’ll get to having a Civil War cannon in your office—unless you’re the undersecretary of Civil War reenactments for the State of Virginia. It’s powered by gasoline and flint, which means...
UK Forces to Get New Thermal Imaging System With... →
From next year UK armed forces will be using a new “Surveillance System and Range Finder” which will allow soldiers to quickly spot and locate enemy positions up to 3 miles away, and call in the artillery using precisely-derived GPS coordinates. The new all-weather, day-and-night hand-held J-Tas devices are an improvement on older in-service versions which need a tripod and lack...
Kojinsha's New E8 Is Tablet Competitor for EEE PC... →
Clearly aiming for the same market as the EEE PC, Kojinsha’s new E8 UMPC has the added bonus of being a touchscreen tablet. It does, however, beat me how the Korean-made E8 is being labelled by some as a UMPC—it looks more like a sub-notebook to me.
The E8 runs Windows XP, has an AMD Geode LX800 CPU under the hood along with a 40GB hard drive, and its seven inch screen has 1024 x 600-pixel...
AI Tech Racers: Danger Dodging Slot Cars... →
These AI Tech Racers from Tomy are some of the more interesting slot-style racecars we’ve seen. The cars have built-in sensors to detect and avoid obstacles in their path—provided they have room to maneuver—and as a result, they can fly around a track without being locked into slots. Once started, the cars ride on their own, but you can give them a speed burst or hit the brakes if needed....
Next-Gen Microsoft PC Concept Attaches to Your... →
The Momenta PC is a finalist in Microsoft’s Next-Gen PC Design Competition that you strap to your neck. It records your whole life in an active buffer until it detects your heart rate going up. Then it really turns on, and records whatever’s making you excited until you tell it to stop, so you can check it out later, Cloverfield-style. Or green, poorly lit raccoon-eye-style of a night...
Home Theater Designed to Look Like Radio City, But... →
A house in Montauk has had a home theater installed by architect James Biber. With leather floors and co-ordinating beanbags, Biber took his inspiration from New York’s Radio City, with a little bit of 2001: A Space Odyssey thrown in for good measure.
Every surface in the room, which seats up to 10 people, has been insulated with orange felt to help with the acoustics. There are 600...
Bedu Emergency Rapid Response Kit Puts Everything... →
Tucked inside these 50-gallon drums is a life-saving package of stuff to help people in crisis zones. Designed by Toby McInnes, the container has a tent, storage annex, photovoltaic strip tarpaulin/blanket, multifuel stove, lighting rig, tool kid, medical kit, water filtration system, generator and battery pack and emergency radio inside to sustain people in an emergency. See just what it looks...
Watch Blist Brings Bling to Databases and Spreadsheets - ReadWriteWeb
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Aquadom Is Largest Cylindrical Aquarium on the... →
What do you do with a 25-meter-high acrylic glass
cylinder, 238,000 gallons of sea water, 2,600 fish from 56
different species, and two divers? The Aquadom, the largest
cylindrical aquarium in the world, that’s what. In its core there’s
an elevator that travels through a cylinder of glass. As you will
see in the videos after the jump, it’s simply stunning.
Located in the...
Game Developers Conference →
This week, Miguel de Icaza, Geoff Norton, Michael Hutchinson, and I are headed out to San Francisco to man the Mono booth at the Game Developers Conference. What’s this? “Mono-game-what”, you say? If you’ve been following the unfolding story on Miguel’s blog then you may be aware that Mono provides some pretty interesting advantages over traditional embedded scripting engines....
Eight-Core Intel Skulltrail Motherboard Gets... →
Speaking of crazy motherboards, Intel’s absolutely insane Skulltrail motherboard officially launched at the Game Developers Conference today, renamed the Intel Dual Socket Extreme Desktop Platform (blah). The Dual Extreme supports dual quad-core processors, and both ATI (Crossfire) and NVIDIA (SLI) graphics cards. In addition, the motherboard has a 400 MHz front-side bus and a hefty...
Will Mozilla Messaging Breathe New Life Into... →
In an attempt to revitalize Thunderbird in version 3.0, Mozilla has announced “Mozilla Messaging” which promises significant improvements to the email client—like calendar integration, better search, and a chat app. While the core focus will still be on email, Mozilla seems committed to developing a product that will offer a broader range of communications tools. Whether or not it will...
Apple Patents Show the Advanced Future of... →
These Apple patents show standard trackpad, basic multitouch and gonzo “Advanced Multitouch” never seen before on shipping products. The advanced UI includes thumb/forefinger/middlefinger combos for saving, closing and opening files, as well as cut, copy and paste. (The patents assume the system can detect the differences between different fingers. [Macrumors]
Nerf Vulcan EBF-25: Fully Automatic Toy Dart Gun... →
The best new Nerf toy out of the entire Toy Fair 2008 lineup is this fully automatic dart gun. The toy is $40, and comes with 25 belt-fed darts, powered by six D-cell batteries (!). Paired with the Mission Kit Tactical Light, this is the kind of base unit a Nerf gun modder could really learn to love.
N-STRIKE VULCAN EBF-25 (Ages 6 years & up/Approximate Retail Price: $39.99/Available:...
The Street Says Mac Users are Pretentious... →
The Street is running a new video that cites research from Mindset Media, which pretty much says Mac users are assholes. Okay, they used the term “snobs,” but that was far too offensive to use in the title for this article. Mindset Media surveyed 7500 Mac and PC owners, and what they found seems believable, (we would have worded it differently.) Apparently, Mac boys ‘n’...
HERCULES Laser is Most Intense Laser in the... →
“If you could hold a giant magnifying glass in space and focus all the sunlight shining toward Earth onto one grain of sand, that concentrated ray would approach the intensity of a new laser beam made in a University of Michigan laboratory.” - PhysorgIf that doesn’t amaze you, you need a slap. The HERCULES laser can produce that intensity instantaneously, and it is said to be...
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Tags: circuits gadgets hardware
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