Microsoft Surface This device is a pretty cool deal, especially the software demos they have for it. When I first saw it this morning, I thought whoa… whats all the hype. This isn’t rocket science. The hardware to do this has been around for years, although perhaps not so much in real time on a [...]

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Google Co-op – Electronics Design and Development Search I’ve been spitting and fussing about the practices of so called engineering portals for a long time. It seems they are getting to be higher and higher in search engine ranks, and as such displacing useful sites, sometimes even to the point where one has to go [...]

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“Also, human diets are more varied than dog and cat diets. Because pets tend to eat the same products every day, while humans consumedifferent foods, only a small portion of a human diet might contain the contaminated products.” Health: FAQs About Melamine Contamination – US News and World Report Hmmm, for adults and children the [...]

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News | Telegraph An interesting concept for sure, but I think they might well be missing a key issue of human body thermoregulation. Ie, when skin is in contact with a cold surface, vasoconstriction occurs, and as such, heat transfer is reduced. Thus, while the cooled handle bars might serve on the surface as a [...]

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Nuke detectors could eventually reside in your cellphone – Engadget Well, we lost another one here, but then who knew. Back in 2000, I remember proposing a cell phone sensor interface. In the claims section, I not only noted confined space applications, but having just taken a course on biowarfare, I also included bio detectors. [...]

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Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This should be interesting, talk about a technical challenge, and one filled with unintended consequences. When it comes to VOIP to landline connections, wiretapping is a no brainer on the land line side, but anything but simple on the VOIP side, especially in the [...]

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Inside AdSense: Don’t run the risk of click and miss Interesting…. I actually can see their point, and it makes sense. I have seen pretty deceptive approaches used by webmasters to get folks to click and miss, so I think this is a good idea. Yet, beyond click and miss, sometimes webmasters just plan miss, [...]

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Free IQ – The Marketplace for Ideas Free streaming for audio, video, ebooks, articles etc. A way to present your ideas to the world. This looks to be pretty cool, and hopefully once the snake oil goes away, incredibly useful for sharing knowledge, and even making some money. Of course, the problem right now, is [...]

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chumby corporate blog I can think of a wealth of applicants for one of these, especially in the domain of custom widjets. As these guys get closer to production, I’m going to keep an eye on it. Whats cool, is they provide a set of documentation thus making it relatively easy to hack and modify. [...]

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