Tipping, Not Just For Cows and Waitresses (3)
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Posted by Jeff Fisher, Google Data APIs TeamWe field all kinds of questions in the discussion groups, usually resulting in small snippets of code that aren't easy for other people to find. So we decided to start up a Tips Blog for all the Google Data APIs.For example, do you know how to perform a GET with a POST? Since Flash doesn't allow a custom Authorization header on a GET, sometimes you need to do ...
Zeep Mobile: Free SMS Gateway For Developers (30)
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While SMS has already become one of the most important forms of communication in many parts of the world, the U.S. is only catching up to this trend slowly. Part of the reason for this is the high cost of using SMS, not just for users, but also for developers who want to use SMS for their applications. In contrast to other SMS service providers, Zeep Mobile offers developers a free SMS API without volume ...
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KevM said:
This might be a good way to develop an SMS app.
Aerogel: Homemade Experiments with Aerogel, the World's Lightest Solid (11)
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Jason Wells got to toy around with a few blocks of Aerogel, the fantastically light (and fantastically expensive) material made famous by its use as insulation in NASA spacecraft like the Mars Rover. Using just everyday materials from his house, he managed to test the futuristic product's strength, optical properties, reaction to different liquids and temperatures, and electrical conductivity. He concludes from the experiments that it should work really well as a fire retardant or ...
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Tom said:
I read somewhere that if a house was insulated with aerogel it would eventually cook its inhabitants using nothing but their body heat. Would be a neat addition to a convection oven.
Glow And Throw UFO Flying Disc (1)
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By Andrew Liszewski As ThinkGeek points out, you technically can’t refer to these flying discs as ‘UFOs’ because they’re not ‘unidentified.’ But since IFOs doesn’t have the same ring to it, I’m going to cut them some slack, particularly since the Summer is soon drawing to a close, and these look like an entertaining way to spend an evening while the weather’s still nice. The Glow And Throw kit comes with a 9.25 inch flying ...
The Ultimate Speed Bump: There is no Escape [Made In China] (19)
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While the city of Philadelphia is content with using 3D images to deter speeders, the authorities in ShanXi province, China are taking a far more drastic approach. They built a 100 foot long, 2 foot high, winding speed block smack dab in the middle of the Jing Zhuang highway. Sure, it scratches up cars, looks hideous and causes massive traffic jams, but hey—by screwing everyone it manages to screw the speeders. Suck on that leadfoot! ...
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jon|k said:
*sigh*
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Saket said:
for donny
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Hermes Freitas said:
+1 para isso ao inves de quebra mola.
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Paul Winch said:
This is a great idea! I always see people swerving every which way trying to avoid speed bumps so they can get to where they want to go a few seconds faster.
Aexea KeyXpress Data Key Flashdrive Could Hide on Your Key Ring [Storage] (10)
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Brando's Aexea KeyXpress flash drives are designed to really make key-ring data portability true: they're shaped like keys, and are about as thin as your average door or car key (about 0.12-inches thin.) They're in three colors, have 4GB of flash storage aboard, come with a similarly tiny lanyard and that's about all you need to know. Oh: they cost $27. [Brando]
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Nathan Chase said:
eventually this will be all we'll need - walk up to any dumb terminal with your 10TB flash key, and poof - the computer is yours, anywhere you go
Ajaxian » ImageInfo: reading image metadata (EXIF) with JavaScript (14)
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Jacob Seidelin finishes up his binary meme with a post on reading image metadata with JavaScript via a library that groks EXIF data. It tries to detect the format of the image file and then reads the header and pulls out information about dimensions and color depth among other things. If the EXIF data library is included, it will also gather any EXIF tags from JPEG files. PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: // URL of the image ...
High-Flying Solar Power Zephyr Glider Breaks Own World Record With 3.5 Day Flight [Gliders] (3)
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Last we heard from the U.K.'s high altitude Zephyr glider, it was unofficially breaking the record for longest unmanned flight. That was back in 2007, when the record was a paltry 30 hours, and the Zephyr was able to manage a 54 hour flight, thanks to its solar powered batteries. On Friday, the Zephyr flew that and them some when it completed an 84-hour flight without issue. Military types are no doubt licking their lips ...
Man Controls Roomba With Wii Balance Board, Atari-Era Surfin' USA Soundtrack [Wii Roomba] (4)
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Ron Tajima has some time on his hands. And a Roomba. And a Wii Balance Board. See where we're going with this? Anyway, he put them all together, combined it with a Surfin' USA track that sounds like it was ripped from the 1980's, and now he can control the previously autonomous Roomba with his feet. "This is my third Roomba hacking," Tajima says. "This surfin is safe, useful (it's cleaning), and easy for nerds. ...
iHologram Demo for iPhone (Video) (3)
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UPDATE: iHologram Not Real The “developer” of iHologram, David OReilly, has updated his blog earlier today to let everyone know that iHologram was indeed, not real, and just a prototype: The iHologram app was not real. It was an illustration of an idea I had which I believe could work with the technology (combining anamorphosis and motion sensing). Unfortunately I’m just an ideas person, I can show how things should look, but I’m no hardcore ...
The Contest (30)
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What is <hr />? Basically, it is an old HTML-tag which has been since the very beginning of the Web. hr stands for the horizontal rule and represents exactly what you would expect — a horizontal line or a horizontal divider. By default, web browsers render hr as a simple horizontal line. In terms of semantics the tag is supposed to clearly separate content blocks. This is often used in design of footers, but also ...
Speed Vest Shows Biker’s Current MPH (8)
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By Andrew Liszewski From the DIY department comes this novel safety vest designed by Brady Clark and engineered by Mykle Hansen which shows the rider’s current speed in MPH on the back using electroluminescent wiring. The system consists of a wheel speed sensor, a wearable numeric display and a small computer that does the thinking. The computer is an Arduino: an open-source embedded computing platform powered by an Amtel microcontroller. It runs for 6 hours ...
Text-to-speech in PHP (3)
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It's been a while since I've played with the open source Festival TTS software, and I'm pretty impressed with the quality of the speech output. Some of the voices that are available sound so much better than the old diphone-based voices that evoke WOPR from War Games. This got me thinking it'd be fun to integrate some of this functionality into a web application. A quick search and I discovered Tony Bhimani's Linux Text-To-Speech Tutorial ...
Factory Worker Pics Found on New iPhone (2)
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Just a few weeks ago, a brand new iPhone user got a surprise when they loaded up their 3G and found three pictures already loaded in the camera roll. The blurriness and randomness of the photos made the snappings seem accidental, a one-time mistake that wouldn’t be happening again. Well now a a few new pictures have surfaced, and while not so much a mistake as pre-meditated picture-taking, the MacRumors Forums shows pictures of a ...
Muwi Concept Lawnmower Turns Waste Grass into Playthings [Mower] (17)
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The electric-sheep lawnmower may have tickled your fancy, but this Muwi concept mower from designer Yuli Sung will have you scratching your head. The concept's roughly the same as the sheep: It automatically assesses the grassy areas, and then cuts the lawn without supervision required. Cunningly, it grabs the grass cuttings inside where they won't lie around setting off people's hay-fever. But then it does something strange... it compacts the cuttings into toys. Scratching yet? ...
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Tom said:
Awesome. The roomba should poop hair balls.
Windows: Its a Windows Window! Get It?? (37)
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The ultimate Microsoft fanboy concept, Fenêtres 3.1 (or the Windows Window as we're insisting on calling it) is a normal house window decorated with all of the accouterments of the classic Windows 3.1 OS (along with the placeholder background from Windows XP). And yes, pulling down the blinds even brings up the dreaded BSoD. The designer truly thought of everything, except it's missing the boot disk you'll need to actually open the window or anything ...
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James Fridley said:
While I think it would be a hard sell to the wife, it is pretty sweet...
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Patrick said:
Me wants one! No, I meant the guy's shirt. :p
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Jeremiah said:
hahaha
Brando's Mini Universal Battery Charger is Jawsome, USB-Powe (5)
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Brando has a new universal battery charger available, working on the same jaw-grip/adjustable electric contacts principle as Thanko's version before. This time though, the gizmo is designed to be portable and draw its power from a USB source and it's got "high capability switch power supply with efficient transforming." It's even keyring mountable. So if you're constantly charging up a variety of batteries for all your gear, and don't fancy hauling all the power bricks ...
