Boldly going where no dog has gone before
Ladies and gentlemen, geeks and geekettes, let me present you… the The USS Enterprise, Mach II! Who knew that geek and redneck culture could attain such a state of perfect symbiosis? [Via Digg]
Category Archives: General
Technology Motivator: One Gigabyte
On the left, a one gigabyte IBM hard drive dating back from 1987. On the right, a one gigabyte SD card from the current era. Storage devices have certainly shrunk in size in the last 20 years haven’t they?
Wireless Electricity Demo
Eric Giler, CEO of MIT-inspired WiTricity, wants to untangle our wired lives with cable-free electric power. In the following video, he covers what this sci-fi tech offers, and demos MIT’s breakthrough version, WiTricity — a near-to-market invention that may soon recharge your cell phone, car, pacemaker. With this promising new technology, you may soon never […]
Suicidal planet defies the astronomy rulebook
Astronomers are hoping a recently discovered planet is on a rare suicidal orbit around its parent star. If it isn’t, the entire basis on which they make calculations about orbits may have to be rewritten. WASP-18b is around 325 light years away from Earth: though that’s 1,885 trillion miles, it effectively makes it a close […]
Easily Retrieve your License Keys With LicenseCrawler
LicenseCrawler is a free, portable tool to retrieve license keys and serial numbers from the depths of your hard drive. And while most of us keep our precious offline installation documentation in a “safe place,” so that we can “always find it,” having all these CD-keys available in a file is very convenient. Oh sure, […]
Google uses map app customers as traffic reporters
No longer is Google Maps merely a tool for your cellphone. Now your cellphone is a tool for Google Maps. The firm says it now has enough users that it can give a good picture of traffic conditions by tracking the movements of their cellphones. If a large number of cellphones are in the same […]
Rethinking How People Run Businesses
In the following video, career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don’t: Traditional rewards aren’t always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories — and maybe, a way forward.
The Lazy Geek Way of Rocking your Baby to Sleep
Using Ubuntu Linux and Open Source DVR MythTV, YouTube user macjonesnz scripted his CD-ROM tray to open and close at regular intervals. He then tied a string from the tray to his baby’s car seat, making it the perfect lazy geek way of putting a newborn to sleep. Brilliant or pathetic? I’ll let you guys […]
Visual Effects: 100 Years of Inspiration
This 5-minute clip, (made as an educational video for use as an introduction to classroom lecture), shows the history 100 years of visual effects as seen in some of the most notable movies of the past century. Can you identify them all?
DJing 2.0 With Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc.
Yesterday’s DJs used scratch tables to perform. Today’s are using digital media consoles. Here’s a brief view into what DJing may soon become. I only have one thing to say after watching this: “Holy crap, this this awesome!”