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This is just the kind of thing a geeky guy like me would want to put in the shower. I doubt the wife will go for it, though, no matter how cool our children and I may think the technology.
[tags]Color changing tiles, Heat reactive shower tiles[/tags]
If you work on anything where you really need to protect what is displayed from inadvertant viewing, perhaps you need one of Mitsubishi’s new privacy enhanced computer displays. The short explanation of how the display works is that it rapidly draws the intended image along with the inverse of that image. You wear special glasses to screen out the inverse image, but anyone without the glasses synced to your display only sees grey static due to the blending of the two images.
I just spent a little bit of time catching up on Worth1000 contests. I didn’t like many of the recent ones, honestly, but going back about a week came on a winning contest with scads of entries – Star Wars scenes with other celebrities in them. There are 10 pages of entrants, and the first has a good handful of really cool pictures. Here’s a new Yoda that just twists the character a touch. Continue reading “Worth1000 Star Wars celebrities contest”
How can you even think of letting this deal get away?
[tags]Nano deal, But it was on SALE!![/tags]
The folks at TechEBlog have put up a few images showing the Zune and the iPod side by side so you can get a better look at the devices. While the Zune is larger in all respects, it sounds like it is lighter than the iPod. And that makes me wonder how durable the device is. I must say, however – that Zune screen looks pretty sexy.
[tags]Zune vs. iPod images, Media player side-by-side[/tags]
If you are a City of Heroes player, you really need to check out this great YouTube video of one hero’s surrealistic experience with the afterlife and crossing over. It’s nearly 7 minutes of well done machinima. I really need to learn how to do these kinds of movies.
[tags]City of Heroes machinima, A hero crosses over[/tags]
(via Engadget)
I love watching Mythbusters. My favorite myth to date is probably the chicken gun myth (which they confirmed to be true), although there are so many other good ones that are close. This video of a recent Mythbusters shows the guys defeating a digital fingerprint lock with a latex copy of a fingerprint, a ballistics gel copy, and finally a photocopy with a little water on it. This doesn’t mean defeating this types of locks is trivial, but it does show that these types of locks aren’t as foolproof safe as many people believe them to be.
Of course, this type of testing has been done before. It’s just more fun watching the Mythbusters do it.
[tags]Mythbusters defeat undefeatable lock, Mythbusters break biometric lock[/tags]
I wouldn’t normally believe a story like this, but I’ve found Snopes to be reliable enough to trust something is real when confirmed on Snopes.
If you run into trouble with your neighbors, perhaps building vent covers on the side of your house that look like this isn’t the best thing you can do. On the other hand, I’m sure it feels good for a little while to let everyone know how you feel.
[tags]House vent cover art, Don’t like how I build – enjoy my vent covers[/tags]
I like this T-Shirt design:
[tags]T-Shirt design, Religious differences, Like steak for a vegetarian[/tags]
A revealing look at photos that lie over at C|Net’s News.com. With the article is a collection of 24 altered pictures, some shown with the original un-doctored image, and an explanation of what and why alterations were made. Some of the changes are minor, while others are fairly substantial modifications of photos.
The article starts with this original and modified photo of Katie Couric, and shows other photos sometimes changed for intentional dramatic effect, sometimes for humorous story-telling, and sometimes just to allow more image to be viewed in a limited sized picture.
[tags]Pictures that lie, Modifying the photos we see[/tags]
This is a fun little video to watch.
[tags]Dominoes on a pool table[/tags]
This is the kind of device you build when you have a job with not enough work to do.
[tags]Goldberg-style office device[/tags]