MIT Sketching
Wish this was available in school during physics classes. Simply amazing!
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Archive for Technology
Students send Camera to the Edge of Space for less than $2000 via Balloon
Carl Morland, Henry Hallam and Robert Fryers attached the tiny camera to a helium balloon, which flew to nearly four times the height of Everest. Throughout the flight it took images which show the curvature of the earth. The flight lasted about three hours, producing more than 800 images.
Click here for some selected images, and click the “read more” link below for the full article!
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AG Gonzales Wants ISPs to Save User Data
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday that Congress should require Internet service providers to preserve customer records. Gonzales acknowledged the concerns of some who say legislation might be overly intrusive and encroach on privacy rights, but argued that prosecutors need them to fight child pornography.
What a load of horse shit. Gonzales is just the latest in a long line of republican puppets, who now seem to be full steam ahead in the race to destroy the little civil liberty and privacy the American people have left. Click the “read more” link.
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Big Brother is Shouting at You
Seen V for Vendetta? Notice anything similar? Someone needs to start up a team of midnight vandals, outfitted with ski masks and baseball bats, and take action. This is insane.
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World’s First Bionic Woman - move over Lindsay Wagner
From Engadget: 26-year old Claudia Mitchell has become the fourth person and first woman to get outfitted with a bionic arm (well, besides Lindsay Wagner), with which she’s able to perform functions simply by thinking about them. The arm was designed by researchers at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago — who are part of a larger project funded by DARPA — and works by detecting the movement’s of Mitchell’s chest muscle, which has been rewired to the nerves that once served her left arm.
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An Atari 2600 Plug and Play Keychain!!!
What looks like a novelty keychain, is actually embedded with 2 or 3 classic games for easy plug and play. Games include Pong, Breakout, Asteriod, Millipede, Centipede etc
At such a small price, a must for the retro gamer.
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Apocalypse 2.0
Ryan Stewart over at ZD Net chimes in on the tidal wave of “Web 2.0″ tech based sites, and the problems with compatibility that come with them. I love all these new applications, but the fact is that I am a tech-head, with all of the latest browsers, plugins, and technologies enabled… there are a number of popular sites out there (in Web 2.0 BETA! of course) that don’t like Grandma and Grandpa’s 10 year old Dell.
Flickr’s Geotagging Reviewed by Thomas Hawk
“Ok, so Michael Arrington leaked it a few weeks back and now it’s official. Today Flickr launched geotagging. My first impression? It’s pretty damn impressive.”
This is REALLY cool, anyone with a Flickr account has got to try it out. Too bad Yahoo!’s satellite imagery sucks so bad… They need to buy some Google photography.
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NSA Wiretapping Whistleblowers Found Dead in Italy and Greece
“Two whistleblowers, one in Italy, one in Greece, uncovered a secret bugging system installed in cell phones around the world. Both met with untimely ends. The resultant scandals have received little press in the United States, despite the profound implications for American critics of the Bush administration.”
A rare glimpse into the real world of international espionage and manipulation…
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