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26th September 2007

New Instrument Takes into Account the Wii Technology of Motion in X,Y, and Z Directions (video)

This video shows how this new instrument which resembles some sort of accordion 2.0 can be played with the chords on the left, melody on right and motion up and down to transform the note being played up or down. Very cool stuff and I can’t wait to see this widespread in the consumer sector.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWK1d9fzlVQ

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17th September 2007

Quote of the Day - The Future of Eye Tracking

“At Imperial College in London and elsewhere, scientists have built computer systems roughly controlled by the user’s eyes. An infra-red eye-tracking headset tells the computer where on the monitor the user is looking, allowing the user to perform tasks by sight alone, such as moving a cursor or clicking on a function.” - courtesy of web analytics book

In the future what I look at will be monitored and reviewed to better sell me products. This will make us better consumers. Hooray consumerist world! I will keep an EYE on you!

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16th September 2007

Anti-Gravity is Almost Here - Really it is!

Every UFO buff knows that those little green men are driving around in spaceships equipped with anti-gravity devices…

but to the skeptics and lay person on the street, is this stuff viable outside the pages of sci-fi novels?

according to a lot of scientists, it is - in the form of a hyperdrive that would power future space vehicles….

The basic concept is this: according to the paper’s authors - Jochem Häuser, a physicist and professor of computer science at the University of Applied Sciences in Salzgitter and Walter Dröscher, a retired Austrian patent officer -

If you put a huge rotating ring above a superconducting coil and pump enough current through the coil, the resulting large magnetic field will "reduce the gravitational pull on the ring to the point where it floats free".

Let me repeat that - reduce the gravitational pull on the ring to the point where it floats free….

Meaning gravity can be bested through the use of superconducting magnets and a large amount of electricity….

Good news for a Sunday stuck on the ground in gritty sunny baltimore.

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9th July 2007

Mining the Metasphere - A New Word to Describe What We Do When We Surf the Info-environment

Information is coming at us so quickly that there needs to be a new moniker out there to describe the total info environment that permeates our everyday lives.

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Enjoy and use the word whenever you can to replace the old sounding ‘internet’, or worse, ‘web’. Metasphere is definitely the hot tamale right now.

enjoy it and be fruitful with it and multiply it.

example1: When searching the metasphere, I always use google.com.

example2: I had trouble searching the metasphere until google helped me out.

check it out:
The word metasphere has been submitted to the dictionary.

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22nd June 2007

New Light Bulb will Outlast You - Look for GE to Squash This

Wow, Ceravision has developed a light bulb that is 50% efficient, which means it will last decades longer than the best light bulbs today. How about a big FU to Edison for developing and marketing such a crappy wasteful bulb in the first place; and for stealing Tesla’s ideas on electricity and exploiting his talent.

clipped from www.ceravision.com

“The biggest revolution to the lighting industry since the invention of the filament lamp, and even the high power LED”.

Ceravision Limited is an independent, privately owned high-tech company based in the Bletchley Park Science and Innovation Centre that itself forms the hub of a refurbished and revitalised historic Bletchley Park.

Ceravision was founded in 1997 to utilise its collective expertise in the field of ceramics and has established a reputation for delivering high-class technology on-time, to budget, and with innovation at its core.

Ceravision has now developed the Continuum™2.4 lamp system, a microwave driven, electrodeless, high intensity discharge lamp, powered by our proprietary R-EFF™ power system, with unique engineering, environmental and societal benefits. The system is now available for release to customers for evaluation.

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15th February 2007

Another Reason to Love the Prospect of Mass Death… Freedom of Information powerpoint on early Iraqi war plans

MORE VALENTINE WISHES FOR MASS DEATH! BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!

with global warming now supposedly confirmed by the colder temperatures (climate destabilization? what?)

snippet from here: Early Iraq war plan: only 5,000 troops to remain there by Dec. ‘06

Snip from an announcement published at George Washington University’s National Security Archive website:

The U.S. Central Command’s war plan for invading Iraq postulated in August 2002 that the U.S. would have only 5,000 troops left in Iraq as of December 2006, according to the Command’s PowerPoint briefing slides, which were obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and are posted on the Web today by the National Security Archive.

Boing Boing

jeez lets just get it over with and initiate Armageddon already… its what the Iranian spiritual supreme wants anyway….. lets give them what they want already……

BIG BOOMS

the largest nuclear explosion ever achieved was a test….

http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Russia/TsarBomba.html

ITS OK THOUGH, RFIDS TURN TO POWDER? NEW SMALL AS A PINHEAD RFID TRACKER:

courtesy of pink tentacle:

LITTLE BOOMS

http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/02/hitachi-develops-rfid-powder/

(edited on Feb. 19th 2007 -I removed a picture from pinktentacle.com and added the following picture from wiki commons)

rfid enlarged

~~yes that is a little dot on a finger.~~ That little guy can track your information with 128 bit ROM. Great… I give up now, go ahead and track me, you will see that I am a good consumer, I promise….

hope you earthlings enjoyed….stay tuned for more.

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14th February 2007

New Invention Makes You Batman! And a New Worst Band Ever!

Freezing Rainstorm Snippets:

- BE A HERO - SCALE WALLS LIKE BATMAN:

BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) — A 23-year-old inventor has come up with a tool to give mere mortals the powers of a superhero: the ability to zoom up a rope as fast as 10 feet per second and scale the side of a building.

Invention will let you scale walls like a superhero - CNN.com

- HURTING YOUR EARS? NEW TERRIBLE MUSIC COURTESY OF WIFESWAP:

Sorry 3 Kisses, but you suck. You stated on wifeswap that you cashed in your pension for the sake of the band, but your music is horrible…. I know what you are going to say… “hey man, we don’t let people judge us…” hmmm… maybe you should write better lyrics than a reprise of ‘I want to get laid…’

3 Kisses MySpace page

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and in site news, I added a weather bar finally to sidebar 1…. i actually had some requests to add it so I did, but is it really that hard to find out the weather these days? I could use a healthy dose of some global warming, can’t you?

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