iPhone document scanner (8)
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Here's a clever cardboard iPhone rig by Cincinnati design student Kyle A Koch which keeps it at the right distance to photograph sheets of printer paper. Apparently Kyle and I share a propensity for losing hard copies of things. Via Core77. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Photography | Digg this!
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marcell said:
"Here's a clever cardboard iPhone rig by Cincinnati design student Kyle A Koch which keeps it at the right distance to photograph sheets of printer paper."
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Jeremy Allen said:
hahahah.... this is amazing!!! I want one!!!
Introducing Picasa 3.0 (and big changes for Picasa Web Albums) (130)
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A little over two years ago, we launched Picasa Web Albums to make publishing photos online easy. Now Picasa Web Albums hosts billions of online photos from around the globe, with users adding millions of new snapshots every day. Each of these photos records a different moment, or a different perspective, but one thing they all have in common is that in each case, the person behind the camera wanted to share their experience with ...
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Praneet said:
So finally google entering into 'image recognition' space :) with 'grouping similar faces together'. 'Riya' will have some competition now !
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JayCrossler said:
Shiney! Will play with this. Funny - I just purchased another year of Flickr membership yesterday.
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Ramon Silva said:
Google is going to rule the world!
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Bryan said:
And you thought Chrome was the only thing new. This is another big Google release this week. I'll try and post something about it (as well as do my own explorations) soon.
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chrishathaway said:
Google's on a roll today... the new picasa has some great new features.
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AdamB said:
this is awesome!
Basement Apollo Guidance Computer (4)
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In November of 2000, John Pultorak got to thinking about building a replica of a 60's or 70's era digital computer from scratch. By 2001, he started placing orders for technical documentation and had chosen his target machine, a Block I Apollo Guidance Computer. Four years later, in September 2004, he had completed a fully functioning replica of the worlds first integrated circuit computer. In the 1960's, each Apollo moon mission had one AGC in ...
Pringles can macro photography (2)
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With an empty Pringles can and some lens and body covers, Photocritic devised a way to make a reliable extension tube for taking macro photos. You can make the tube for a few bucks worth of materials - unless you have spares, in which case it's free. Once it's made, you just wrap a standard lens in fabric, shove it backwards in the tube, and slide it in and out of the tube to adjust ...
CC Companies Scotch Mythbusters Show On RFID Security (27)
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mathfeel passes along a video in which Mythbusters co-host Adam Savage recounts how credit card companies lawyered up to make sure the Discovery channel never, ever airs a segment on the flaws in RFID security. "Texas Instruments comes on [a scheduled conference call] along with chief legal counsel for American Express, Visa, Discover, and everybody else... They [Mythbusters producers] were way, way outgunned and they [lawyers] absolutely made it really clear to Discovery that they ...
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Sean Blakey said:
If your credit card has a chip, keep it in a faraday cage.
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Wolfger said:
gotta love capitalism, legal bullying, and "security through obscurity"...
Maria, scripting language resources (1)
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a scripting language for sex androids
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While searching for "android scripting language" in hopes of finding a way to get Python on Android, I found Maria. Check out the example script...# all mechanical queues are loaded, add some audiosense.say(finish); # empty the queuesense.volume(25); # set volume to 25% of maximum volumesense.say("ooooohhhhh"); # say somethingsense.sayDelay(wave); # delay the next speech segment by one wave periodsense.volume(50); # volume to 50%sense.say(username);sense.volume(100); # volume to 100%sense.say(username); # scream out namesense.sayDelay(wave); # delay the next speech segment by one wave periodsense.say(username); # scream out name againsense.sayDelay(wave); # delay the next speech segment by one wave periodsense.say(username + " yes yes"); # scream out name again with yes yes
A Rapid AVR Prototype Programmer (2)
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If you’ve ever bent the pin on a microcontroller while trying to insert it into a DIP programming socket, you’re not alone. Aligning those crazy pins again and again, while intermittently prying them out of the programming socket and then inserting your freshly burned chip into a target circuit, can lead to a long and sleepless night. Luckily, there is a cure for the bent pin nightmare. And this prescription costs less than $35. A ...
Labs Remove Genetic Data from Public Databases After Forensic Breakthrough (5)
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Yesterday we reported on a new statistical method that can establish the presence of a single individual’s genetic signature in a sample containing DNA from hundreds of different people. The method has enormous potential in forensics, because DNA samples from crime scenes and mass disasters often contain genetic material from more than one person. But what’s promising in one context turns out to be troublesome in another. As we mentioned in yesterday’s post, the new ...
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Still trying to grok the implications
Employers Finally Giving Bike Commuters Some Love (10)
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McCain VP Pick: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (3)
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44-year-old former beauty queen and current Alaska Governor Sarah Palin wins the honor of being Republican Sen. John McCain's running mate. (It will not be, as was guessed yesterday, Tim Pawlenty.) A bit of background: Palin is the youngest and first female governor of Alaska -- a state that has a rape rate that is double the national average. Palin is also under investigation for allegedly firing Alaska’s Public Safety Commissioner because he refused to ...
A simple Marx Generator (5)
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You may think a Marx Generator is a device for spitting out strident communist rhetoric, but it's actually a type of high-voltage circuit for spitting out HV pulses. This is probably one to put in the "Don't Try this at Home" or "Touch = Die" file as we are dealing with current here that can kill. Nice photos of the pulses. Build a simple Marx Generator More:Build your own Marx Generator Read more | Permalink ...
Hans Reiser Sentenced to 15-to-Life (40)
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(Stephen Elliot reporting) OAKLAND, California – Linux guru and convicted murdered Hans Reiser was handed a prison sentence of 15-to-life Friday, putting a final capstone on a case that began as a murder mystery, and ended with Reiser leading police to a makeshift grave a short distance from where he strangled his wife. "I wish to humbly apologize to society for my crime," Reiser said in a statement before his sentence was pronounced. "Every human ...
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'Reiser vowed to try to make up to society for what he had done. He said he was putting Namesys and ReiserFS into a trust fund his children, and that he hoped to earn money while in prison to make their lives a little more comfortable, "assuming I'm able to get access to a computer and the internet."'
Self-Organized Traffic Flow (2)
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One of the oft-revisited themes in the book is that individual actors in traffic don’t often have an idea of what might be best for traffic as a whole. In a great piece in the New Scientist (sub required), “Why Complex Systems Do Better Without Us,” Mark Buchanan (whose book The Social Atom is high on my reading list), writing about the traffic physicist Dirk Helbing, makes the following point: “Although the behaviour of individuals ...
Multitouch touch-pad support for Linux laptops (3)
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The Synaptics TouchPad device is a common input device for many laptop brands, including models made by Acer, Toshiba, and IBM. Normally, the touchpad is used for single-finger mouse input, but the Synaptics device has rudimentary support for tracking multiple fingers at the same time. Nathan Harrington wrote an article for IBM that shows you how to make use of this to add instant multitouch gesture support to your X applications. A small perl script ...
MythBusters Build a 1100-Barrel Paintball Gun Mona Lisa (65)
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In a presentation made at Nvidia's NVISION show this week, Adam and Jamie unveiled a 1100 barrel paintball gun and—in an instant—painted a pretty convincing (if not slightly drippy) Mona Lisa. In typical MythBusters fashion, the incredibly elaborate experiment was only tenuously linked to their hypothesis. The presentation was intended to represent the difference in operation between single and multicore processors, referring to current gen CPUs versus GPUs, respectively. Of course, the reality of parallel ...
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Andrey Petrov said:
Always pleases me when Adam and Jamie don't waste time making poorly planned scientific studies. And the CPU/GPU comparison is cute. Very impressive work.
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nonameplayer said:
Wow, now I want to see one of the Myth-terns stand in front of it.
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Randy said:
the best paintball gun i've ever seen...
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James B said:
In case you've never seen an 1100-barrel paintball gun in action.
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Nvidianat said:
They r the best. Jammy and Adam
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Jeremiah said:
I love MythBusters...
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Lee said:
Incredible. I almost never share video, but this video is the only way to do this justice.
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