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Posted in Technology on Jun 29th, 2004
(Gizmodo) It’s sad that these days, almost anything that refers to itself as a ’spy something’ is probably pretty pedestrian when it’s all said and done. So while this “SPY DISK with card reader” isn’t amazing, it is surprisingly enough that it actually does something cool at all. Available with internal memory sizes of 128MB [...]
Posted in Technology on Jun 25th, 2004
(New Scientist) Just clicking on web sites hosted by a hacked server was enough to infect computers with a mysterious new virus that was first detected on Thursday. The virus exploits two unpatched vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser and was not detected by anti-virus software.
Posted in Technology on Jun 21st, 2004
(Kevin Kelly) Fresh2 makes fluorescent compact light bulbs coated with a titanium dioxide film. The fluorescent UV light causes a chemical reaction with the film, and the resulting oxidation eliminates odors. I know it sounds far fetched, but the things really work. I ordered a pair for my laundry room where I keep 3 cat [...]
Posted in Technology on Jun 21st, 2004
(The Register) The mini hard drive is already challenging Flash in the MP3 player market, and it now looks like pursuing solid-state storage into the USB drive market too. Sony today launched a new member of its Pocket Bit USB storage product line that incorporates a 2GB micro hard drive.
Posted in Site Information on Jun 17th, 2004
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Posted in Science on Jun 17th, 2004
(Idris Hsi) We’ve all seen movie characters escape from a lot of stuff: some of it almost believable, some of it downright silly. Other times, we see characters unable to run away from things like the walking dead or a giant snake. Hollywood used to be a little better about realism because there were real [...]
Posted in Technology on Jun 17th, 2004
(Cnet) Digital radio, which transforms traditional over-the-air broadcasts into the same kind of bits and bytes used in Internet transmissions, promises to boost the audio quality of FM signals to that of a CD. But it also holds out the promise of transforming radio listening in the same way that TiVo hard drive-based recorders have [...]
Posted in Technology on Jun 16th, 2004
(New Scientist) Life-saving medical implants like pacemakers and defibrillators face a big drawback: their batteries eventually run out. So every few years, patients need surgery to have the batteries replaced. Now a company in New York state is planning to tackle the problem by providing patients with an implantable power source that recharges their implant’s [...]
Posted in Technology on Jun 16th, 2004
(Mobilemag) Linksys today announced the Linksys Network Storage Link, which enables users to affordably add gigabytes of storage space to wireless or fixed networks. The Linksys Network Storage Link (NSLU2) is a fast, simple, flexible and economical way to add storage to your network. The Storage Link has two USB ports for connecting USB 1.1 [...]
Posted in News on Jun 10th, 2004
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