Topic: Quick Links - on March 26, 2005 at 6:24:00 PM CET
Quick Links
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GB-PVR is a fully featured Personal Video Recorder (PVR), allowing you to schedule TV recordings and view and pause live TV.
Resurrect Your Old PC for Music— with Linux
Veejay is a live performance tool featuring simple non-linear editing and mixing from multiple sources.
USB adaptors & DIY antenna = "Poor Man's WiFi" ?
LiteStep Installer v3.0.2
Virtualbrowser is a web proxy-like script programmed in PHP
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Topic: STRANGE - on March 26, 2005 at 6:04:00 PM CET
RFID Implant
Well, the RFID chip is finally in. Now it's time to get on with buying a house that I can deck out with RFID sensors. But, probably before I get a chance to do that, I'm going to put a sensor in my car door. One small step for hand, one giant leap for keyless entry. Another thing I'm going to work on is figuring out how to write a custom GINA for Windows and putting a sensor into my keyboard so when I place my hands on it, the system will automatically log me in.
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Topic: SECURITY - on March 26, 2005 at 5:19:00 PM CET
Hacker arrested for manipulating 100,000 computers
A man who hacked into 100,000 computers to launch group attacks has been arrested in Tangshan, north China's Hebei Province, according to the Ministry of Public Security Friday.
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Topic: NASA - on March 26, 2005 at 5:14:00 PM CET
NASA to broadcast live TV coverage of spacewalk
If you're bored with TV, try watching something "way cool". NASA TV will broadcast live a spacewalk beginning at midnight EST March 27 of the Expedition 10 crew which is expected to last six hours.
They will prepare for the arrival of Europe's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) resupply ship. They will install three communications antennas for the ATV and a GPS antenna. Sharipov will manually deploy a Russian experiment, tossing a small science satellite called "Nanosatellite" into orbit.
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Topic: ART - on March 26, 2005 at 5:05:00 PM CET
Man smuggles own art into MoMA
Many a visitor to New York's Museum of Modern Art has probably thought, "I could do that." A British graffiti artist who goes by the name "Banksy" went one step further, by smuggling in his own picture of a soup can and hanging it on a wall, where it stayed for more than three days earlier this month before anybody noticed.
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Topic: DRUGS - on March 26, 2005 at 3:27:00 PM CET
Drogen-U-Boot in Kolumbien entdeckt
Ein für den Transport von Drogen konstruiertes U-Boot haben kolumbianische Ermittler nahe der Hafenstadt Tumaco an der Pazifikküste entdeckt. Das Unterseeboot sei bei einem Einsatz von Geheimdienst und Marine in der südwestlichen Provinz Narino gefunden worden, teilte die Polizei heute mit.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 26, 2005 at 3:24:00 PM CET
DVForge Virus Prize 2005
A $25,000 Prize For The First 'In The Wild' OS X Virus
Contest goal: To lay to rest, once and for all, the myths surrounding the lack of spreading computer virii on the Macintosh OS X operating system.
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Topic: NEWS english - on March 26, 2005 at 3:09:00 PM CET
What is EXPO 2005?
Visitors look at the Earth Vision, the world's first 360-degree all-sky image system, during a media preview at the Japan pavilion Nagakuke of the 2005 World Exposition in Nagoya, central Japan March 18, 2005. The 185-day Expo opens on March 25.
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Topic: NEWS english - on March 26, 2005 at 3:06:00 PM CET
Mitsui-Toshiba Pavilion
During the Expo 2005, spectator queueing to see a movie at Toshiba’s digital cinema are submitted to a futurecast, they place their faces into a hole in the wall for a few seconds. High-resolution digital cameras perform a quick scan from several angles, and everyone takes their seats.
The animated film, Grand Odyssey, begins as normal but the entire cast is made up of walking, talking digital replicas of people in the audience.
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Topic: BILDER - on March 26, 2005 at 2:58:00 PM CET
Transparent Screens
A lot of people have been taking photos of their laptops and/or computers with the background "showing" through. This collection of transparent screens now have a home on Flickr.
flickr 1 flickr 2 My first 5 minute attempt at a transparent screen
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Topic: NEWS english - on March 26, 2005 at 2:19:00 PM CET
PEZMP3 player is a go!
Wow, this is exciting news for any Maker out there with an a great idea and some persistence. Pat from Pez MP3 just posted up that he's inked a deal with PEZ to make actual PEZ MP3 players. The player will be built in the USA (yay!), 512mb, LCD screen, six button interface, uses existing PEZ heads and best of all- supports MP3, WMA, OGG, USB 2.0, mounts as flash drive!
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