Mexico's Rich Embedding GPS-Assisted RFID Tags Under Their Skin In Case of Kidnapping [Security] (15)
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Mexico has a pretty serious kidnapping problem—so serious that there is now a market for a $4,000 RFID implant procedure (plus a $2,200 annual fee) that promises to help track victims down. The system uses an implanted capsule under the skin that talks to an external GPS transmitter that you'll need to be kidnapped with in order to beam your location to the folks at Xega, who are selling the service. Anyone else see a ...
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James Wang said:
uhh, interesting . . .
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Jeff said:
Why have an RFID implant at all? Why not just always carry the gps transmitter with you? What am I missing here?
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Richard said:
That's why you hide it in the brain
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Kevin said:
@jerry flores
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Gmadz said:
Awesome! Can I put this into my cats?
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iomegadrive said:
Uh, holy shit?
TIGGR shared as favorite Solar Cells - Made In a Pizza Oven (17)
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stylemessiah writes "The winner of several Eureka Science Awards in Australia is a crafty chick who devised a way to create solar cells cheaply using a pizza oven, nail polish and an inkjet printer. This was developed to address the high cost of cells and in particular for the world's poorest regions. She wanted to give the ~2 billion people around the world who don't have electricity the gift of light and cheap energy. This ...
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James Wang said:
Hmm, well, I guess Bertucci's now has an alternate business plan if their pizza shops start going under.
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Tometheus said:
NOTE: Before going on, I'd like to just say it's a good idea and I'm not denigrating the inventor. However, this raises an interesting question. They've patented this technology intended to help the "world's poorest regions". Aren't those two aims working at opposite ends? Usually patents are intended to keep people from 'illegally' copying a design / process, but if you truly want it to help the poorest people, the only way to really do that is allow others to copy / improve / make cheaper. I understand she's probably not the person who insisted on the patent, and I also realize that licenses can be given away for free, but I think it raises an interesting philosophical question. If you're trying to be altruistic and help the poor, then BE altruistic and do it without patents. Of course there are those who would argue that altruism doesn't /truly/ exist......
T-Mobile Android HTC Dream Launch Details: Oct. 13, $199 W/ 2-Year Contract Only [Rumor] (8)
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Following up on rumorage that pre-sales for the HTC Dream/G1 would start Sept. 17, TmoWorld says they've got the full skinny on T-Mobile's Android debut party: Supposedly, pre-orders will be online only for eligible post-paid customers—lasting through Oct. 3—who will get the phone on Oct. 13, the public launch day. TmoWorld says the subsidized price will be $199 w/ a two-year contract (no one-year option). Price seems to be the blurriest bit of info, possibly ...
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Chris Schrier said:
If these prices are anywhere near correct I may just get a second account with tmobile.
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James Wang said:
hmmm . . . tempting.
How I Deal With My Financial Fears (3)
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Even though I write a lot about personal finance on here and elsewhere, I still have a lot of my own hang-ups about personal finance. One of the big reasons I started The Simple Dollar was to learn how to deal with those fears, and once I dealt with that new batch, a fresh batch came along. Right now, my biggest fears revolve around taxes, the possibility of a third child, identity theft, and future ...
How I Deal With My Financial Fears (2)
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Even though I write a lot about personal finance on here and elsewhere, I still have a lot of my own hang-ups about personal finance. One of the big reasons I started The Simple Dollar was to learn how to deal with those fears, and once I dealt with that new batch, a fresh batch came along. Right now, my biggest fears revolve around taxes, the possibility of a third child, identity theft, and future ...
Music video embroidery (1)
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Architecture in Helsinki's fully embroidered video for their song Like It Or Not as stitched by Mathematics. (somewhat reminiscent of Megan Whitmarsh's work) Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Crafts | Digg this!
A More Productive Vista Desktop [Featured Desktop] (13)
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Reader toxicrevival's Windows Vista desktop is tricked out for max productivity with a few add-on apps, including RocketDock and Doomi. Visit the image on Flickr to get details on what's what and see it up close and personal. Show off your fab desktop by adding it to the Lifehacker Desktop Show and Tell Flickr group. IamProductive [Flickr]
NY Times Profiles Power Saw Drag Racing; Look Out, Baseball! [Sports] (5)
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Today, the New York Times took a close look at the fast-paced world of power tool drag racing. The inherent fun of placing lightly modified power tools on the ground and watching them tear off down the street was not lost on them, apparently. Will attention from such a big publication make power tool drag racing a more mainstream sport? One can only hope. The Times even links to all sorts of how-to's from sites ...
Video Demonstration: Repurpose Your Empty CD Spindle (18)
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The video above from DIY web site Instructables demonstrates four different CD spindle-repurposing projects from start-to-finish. We've seen variations on most of these projects before, like the toilet paper dispenser, bagel holder, and cable organizer, but the video provides step-by-step instructions and a few clever tweaks for alternate uses. The bagel holder, for example, becomes a sandwich caddy with an extra cut, and the cable organizer becomes a rope and cable dispenser with a couple ...
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Laura said:
BRILLIANT!
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Jesse Seymour said:
This is just too awesome - a must see
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Josh Chandler said:
now all I need to do is go through 50 cds before I can have some fun :)
If Personal Finance is Easy, Why Isn’t Everybody Rich? (5)
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Yesterday, MSN’s Smart Spending blog posted a version of my recent article about the dirty secrets of debt reduction (and what to do about them). “You make it sound so easy,” one commenter wrote. But it’s not, and I know that. Here is a reprint of a post from June 2007 that acknowledges this fact. Last fall I wrote an article describing how to get out of debt. Debt elimination involves three steps, I said: ...
If Personal Finance is Easy, Why Isn’t Everybody Rich? ∞ Get Rich Slowly (4)
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Yesterday, MSN’s Smart Spending blog posted a version of my recent article about the dirty secrets of debt reduction (and what to do about them). “You make it sound so easy,” one commenter wrote. But it’s not, and I know that. Here is a reprint of a post from June 2007 that acknowledges this fact. Last fall I wrote an article describing how to get out of debt. Debt elimination involves three steps, I said: ...
USB: Lisco USB Snake Combines Jewelry, USB Cable in One Wearable Device (3)
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Designer Laurent Hongisto has crafted the Lisco USB Snake as an attempt to solve that age-old (ok... decade-old) dilemma of never having a USB cable handy when you need one to charge/connect-up your device. So the design combines elements of those '90s "slap bracelets" with a USB A to mini-USB cable, wrapped up in colorful polyurethane and designed to be carried around on your wrist. Hmmm. Ok... so it looks kinda odd, and do you ...
Hands On: Jetpack! [Jetpack Video] (4)
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“Don’t cover your ears, this is what you paid to see!” Glenn Martin shouts to me over the apocalyptic roar of an F22 fighter jet performing a leisurely flyby. He’d abruptly broken off a conversation with someone else just to make this point—before we’d even been introduced and hours before I flew his pack. “That’s 3.15 billion of your tax dollars at work!” Well here's the video of my flight with Glenn Martin's jetpack ($100,000 ...
Daily Links: First Book Edition (1)
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I am an avid reader. I love books. I believe that literacy is one of the most important gifts we can give our youth. First Book is a charity that provides children from low-income families the opportunity to read and own their first new books. First Book is now inviting readers from around the world to share the name of the first book from their childhood that made reading fun. What book got you hooked? ...
Daily Links: First Book Edition (1)
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I am an avid reader. I love books. I believe that literacy is one of the most important gifts we can give our youth. First Book is a charity that provides children from low-income families the opportunity to read and own their first new books. First Book is now inviting readers from around the world to share the name of the first book from their childhood that made reading fun. What book got you hooked? ...
Ask the Readers: Should I Chase Higher Interest Rates? (3)
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Almost eighteen months ago, I wrote a post listing the best on-line high-yield savings accounts. Over 750 comments later, the discussion is still going strong. Kyle recently chimed in with a question many people have: In January, before I started reading Get Rich Slowly, I opened a high-yield investor checking account with Charles Schwab. The interest rate was around 3.75%, but it’s fallen to 2% now. After starting to read your site, I decided to ...
Ask the Readers: Should I Chase Higher Interest Rates? (1)
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Almost eighteen months ago, I wrote a post listing the best on-line high-yield savings accounts. Over 750 comments later, the discussion is still going strong. Kyle recently chimed in with a question many people have: In January, before I started reading Get Rich Slowly, I opened a high-yield investor checking account with Charles Schwab. The interest rate was around 3.75%, but it’s fallen to 2% now. After starting to read your site, I decided to ...
