Four Door Media introduces Road Mice

" Four Door Media introduces its innovative wireless optical car shaped computer mouse called Road Mice which is officially licensed by renowned auto manufacturers. You can now park a Dodge Charger,...

RIAA Suggestions for content of ACTA

the internet police are coming to your ip soon..."RIAA Suggestions for content of ACTA Enforcement - ACTA Thursday, 26 June 2008  These are the...

New fingerprint method can spot drugs or explosives

This sounds like an interesting breakthrough. The marijuana and cocaine detection is important, but the usefulness in my opinion is lesser than the possibility of detecting explosives. Maybe employers or boarder...

Man with a horrific hole in his head becomes web celebrity

"A man with a hole in his head has become an internet phenomenon after a video of him being interviewed was circulated on the web.The man, who appears to be in his 70s, is being interviewed, apparently by friends...

Key to all optical illusions discovered

" Humans can see into the future, says a cognitive scientist. It's nothing like the alleged predictive powers of Nostradamus, but we do get a glimpse of events one-tenth of a second before they occur.And the...

How I use ISO images

"What is ISO?An ISO image is an archive file of an optical disc using a conventional ISO format that is supported by many software vendors. ISO image files typically have a file extension of .ISO but Mac OS X ISO images often have the extension .CDR. The name ISO is taken...

Agreement between Ericsson and Grameen to provide advanced broadband services

"The EDA 1500 is an access solution, a part of Ericsson's Full Service Broadband offering and is based on the GPON standard that has emerged as the key enabling technology to achieve an all-IP network. GPON is fiber-based, provides high bandwidth and accelerates optical and...

Transparent Concrete: Now you can see through walls!

"Remember the dear little ghost, Casper, who could walk through walls? Now you can too have close to similar powers! Yes, although you will have to wait a while before you can walk through walls, for the time...

Believing is Seeing: Optical Illusions and Social Stereotypes

Interesting research shows just how our news is tainted by the biases of the journalist reporting it. Funny, how many times we see the same information used to prove or disprove the same arguments. It's not always the proof, but who's presenting it,  that tells the truth...

Lighting 102: Unit 1.1 - Position (Angle)

"Summary: Lighting angle reveals form in a three-dimensional object. To see how light from a particular angle will affect your subject, view the subject from the position of the light. _______________________ We live in a world of off-axis light. The sun does not stay right...

Mitsubishi Firecomms to showcase optical fiber network

Denver (ANTARA News/PRNewswire-AsiaNet) - CEDIA EXPO 2007 -- Mitsubishi International Corporation and Firecomms today announce that the companies are collaborating to provide a live demonstration of a home network using Polymer Optical Fiber (POF) at CEDIA Expo. Shown in...

Happy birthday to compact disc

"Exactly 25 years ago the word's first compact disc was produced at a Philips factory in Germany, sparking a global music revolution. More than 200 billion CDs have been sold worldwide since then and it remains the dominant format despite the growth in digital downloads. The...

DHS Building a Vomit-Wand

I first saw this concept in Minority Report. I wonder, though, what would happen if the intended victim were wearing, say, polarized sunglasses..." The US Department of Homeland Security is working on a torch-like "light-sabre" weapon, designed to leave aliens (illegal...

Intel Unveils 40 Gb/s Chip

"A laser modulator that encodes optical data at 40 Gb/s -- a significant increase in speed -- was unveiled Tuesday by Intel researchers. A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) could provide a cost-effective solution...

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