Archive for September, 2004

A lamp that’s happy to see you

The Gravity is a lamp that stands upright when you’re in the room, but slumps down to the ground when you leave. Now, of course, like any geek, I’m all in favor of mucking with technology to foreground its latent animism and reify the psychologically daemonic subtext of modern digital life … but still, [...]

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Monster Collision of Galaxies

This item was filled under [ Science and Technology, Space ]

ESA (European Space Agency) reports: An international team of scientists has observed a nearby head-on collision of two galaxy clusters that has smashed together thousands of galaxies and millions upon millions of stars. It is one of the most powerful events ever witnessed. Such collisions are second only to the Big Bang in [...]

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Most Lucrative College Degrees

This item was filled under [ General ]

Around August/September every year, the arguments of what should our sons study start. With majority of high school graduate wants to join medical or engineering school.
Well, if you plan to migrate to US, don’t even bother about medical, but engineering, yes. According to this report by CNN, Engineering majors are seeing the most cash, [...]

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Vehicles of Tomorrow

This item was filled under [ (Mis) Use of Technology, Prediction ]

Driver monitoring through head and eye tracking (which Volvo is already implementing), Adaptive Cruise Control systems, maybe even pedestrian recognition systems. With cars becoming more like semi-intelligent robots every year.

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Mobile Phone to Detect Bad Breath

This item was filled under [ Say That Again, Wireless ]

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German telecommunications company said on Tuesday it is developing the first mobile phone that will alert users when their breath is bad or if they are giving off offensive smells.
The phone will use a tiny chip measuring less than one millimeter to detect unpleasant odors, a spokeswoman for Siemens Mobile said. [...]

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Water Out of Thin Air

This item was filled under [ (Mis) Use of Technology ]

An army needs water to operate, but it’s a pain to tote the stuff around. So Darpa is looking at ways to pull it out of thin air.
The goal of the Water Harvesting Program is to develop and demonstrate technologies to potentially eliminate at least 50 percent of the minimum daily water supply requirement (7qts/day) [...]

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ISRAEL’S GIANT STINK BOMB

I swear Arab could beat Israel in this field, specially that we have millions of stink(ing) living bomb!
“Israel’s weapons research and development directorate have created a schoolboy’s dream,” the Independent delcares, “the ultimate stink bomb, with a disgusting smell that lingers in its victim’s clothing for up to five years.”
The foul-smelling liquid squirted by angry [...]

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Robots Searching the Skies for Earth-Like Planet

This item was filled under [ (Mis) Use of Technology, Robot, Science and Technology, Space ]

Wired News reports that a British astronomers have just begun to operate RoboNet-1.0, a global network of the world’s biggest robotic telescopes, controlled by intelligent software to effectively act as one giant eye that can be focused anywhere in the sky within a minute.
They developed the network to allow astronomers to follow up unpredictable events [...]

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Will Google Launch A Browser?

This item was filled under [ Internet 'n Computers, Knowledge Management ]

The New York Post is reporting that ‘Based on the half-dozen hires in recent weeks, Google appears to be planning to launch its own Web browser and other software products to challenge Microsoft.’ I took a guess and did a whois search for Gbrowser.com and indeed Google Inc. is listed as the registrar.

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Home Computer Illustrated 50 Years Ago

This item was filled under [ Failures, Internet 'n Computers, Knowledge Management ]

Scientists from RAND Corp. have created this model to illustrate how a “home computer” could look like in the year 2004!

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Microwave gun to be used by US troops on Iraq rioters

This item was filled under [ Bleeding Edge, Iraq, Regional ]

Few weeks ago we talked about Electromagnetic and Informational Weapons: The Remote Manipulation of the Human Brain.
Today The Telegraph reports that Non-lethal microwave weapons, also called Active Denial System , are to be issued to American troops in Iraq as concern mounts over the growing number of civilians killed in fighting.
The non-lethal weapons, which use [...]

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Bones Talk

This item was filled under [ (Mis) Use of Technology, Bleeding Edge, Wireless ]

I don’t know how many of you remember the joke about the Japanese, American and Baladiat all setting in the same room. The Japanese receives a call and what he does is actually putting his finger in his ear coz he had the phone installed in his finger, the story goes on…. Our Baladiat “Shacks” [...]

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Typo Generator

This item was filled under [ General ]

Amazing tool. Get yours here!

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Longest Email

This item was filled under [ Too Much Free Time ]

Subscribed for the longest email addy, just for fun! Here it is:
haitham@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com
Get yours here!

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USA User Manual

This item was filled under [ News You Can Do Without ]

I didn’t know it, but the United States of America has a User’s Manual!

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Israel & Ariel Sharon Crimes

This item was filled under [ Too Much Free Time ]

Free time interesting search results from google.com.
Israel’s Crimes: result 1550
Ariel Sharon Crimes: result 476
Bin Laden Crimes: result 105
Adolf Hitler Crimes: result 14
Yasser Arafat Crimes: result 10

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To Kill The Child & Leaving Beirut

This item was filled under [ Bleeding Edge, Iraq, Palestine, Regional ]

I’ve always been a big fan of Pink Floyd & Roger Waters. Few days ago, Roger Waters released two new tracks penned “In Response to the Invasion of Iraq”, as the press release says. However if you look at the cover photo of the tracks, you can see clearly that he chosen a [...]

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Sabra and Shatila MASSACRE (16-17 September 1982)

This item was filled under [ Bleeding Edge, Failures, Politics ]

Today in history…

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The Top 25 Censored Media Stories of 2003-2004

This item was filled under [ Failures, Media, Politics ]

#1: Wealth Inequality in 21st Century Threatens Economy and Democracy
#2: Ashcroft vs. the Human Rights Law that Hold Corporations Accountable
#3: Bush Administration Censors Science
#4: High Levels of Uranium Found in Troops and Civilians
#5: The Wholesale Giveaway of Our Natural Resources
#6: The Sale of Electoral Politics
#7: Conservative Organization Drives Judicial Appointments
#8: Cheney’s Energy Task Force and [...]

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Like HTML drawing?

This item was filled under [ Internet 'n Computers ]

This weblog is very cool.

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Untitled, 2004, HTML, 320 x 240 pixels

Posted by chrisashley.

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