Jott is a mind boggling cool technology. I’m currently posting to my blog by calling a phone number and having it transcribe everything and stick it into a blog post. The future is here and man it’s really damn cool. listen
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It’s always nice to see that insanity among the geek set isn’t a purely American phenomenon. Case in point: one Briton’s construction of a PVC flamethrower from bits available at any hardware store. This isn’t perhaps as crazy as Interpretive Arson’s Dance Dance Immolation, but probably equally likely to instantly remove your eyebrows should a [...]
Need to make readable signage, but your handwriting with a Sharpie is wanting for legibility? Enter Instant Labeling Tape, which allows anyone with a black marker to crank out labels that are at least as readable as a typical cash register display.
Scientists have been touting the health benefits of green tea for a number of years. Now someone has figured out how to use the tannin in green tea to polish hard drive heads. Not only are the researchers getting better results than the traditional diamond-and-harsh-chemical process, the solution is biodegradable.
via Boing Boing
The Amida Simputer is a brand new handheld computer from India. It runs on a Linux and X Windows base, with a 206MHz processor, 64MB of RAM, 32MB of “permanent storage” (flash memory, I’d assume), and a pair of USB ports.
Among the more innovative features is a built-in accelerometer, which allows the user to control [...]
In one of the cleverest moves I’ve seen in the war on spam, Habeas is using haiku in email headers to mark mail as legitimate in the eyes of spam filters. Because the header lines contain a recognized and ancient form of artistic expression, they’re covered under well-tested copyright law. Any spammer copying one of [...]
I’d heard about the efforts of experts to develop markings that would keep people out of radioactive waste disposal sites for the 10,000 years that they will remain dangerous, but until now, I hadn’t read any of the experts’ findings. Excerpts from ‘Expert Judgement on Markers to Deter Inadvertent Human Intrusion into the Waste Isolation [...]
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