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Sony's "World's Smallest Full HD Cam" Has Miniature Sensor
2008-04-03 12:03:00
'The HDR-TG1's WOW factor tainted by MemoryStick format'Sony's diminutive new heir to the newly minted "world's smallest Full HD camcorder" throne is the travel-ready silver titanium frame HDR-TG1. While Full HD (1920x1080, also known as 1080P) with a 1.3 x 4.7 x 2.5 inch body and $900 price tag would have seemed like fantasy just a short while ago, Sony made it real and gave it a horror twist that just one day after the launch already has potential customers complaining. Stealthy voyeurism in HD may have to wait a while more.This is a memory card camera, but it can only use Sony's unsuccessful proprietary MemoryStick format. While it ships with a 4GB PRO Duo Mark 2 card, using it in its most attractive role – as a travel/vacation cam - would most likely force you to buy extra MemoryStick cards, which just happen to be more expensive than (almost twice as much as) the norm. I can see this camcorder joining the pile of Sony products being boycotted by savvy gadgeteers who are...
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Sony's "World's Smallest Full HD Cam" Has Miniature Sensor
2008-04-03 12:03:00
'The HDR-TG1's WOW factor tainted by MemoryStick format'Sony's diminutive new heir to the newly minted "world's smallest Full HD camcorder" throne is the travel-ready silver titanium frame HDR-TG1. While Full HD (1920x1080, also known as 1080P) with a 1.3 x 4.7 x 2.5 inch body and $900 price tag would have seemed like fantasy just a short while ago, Sony made it real and gave it a horror twist that just one day after the launch already has potential customers complaining. Stealthy voyeurism in HD may have to wait a while more.This is a memory card camera, but it can only use Sony's unsuccessful proprietary MemoryStick format. While it ships with a 4GB PRO Duo Mark 2 card, using it in its most attractive role ? as a travel/vacation cam - would most likely force you to buy extra MemoryStick cards, which just happen to be more expensive than (almost twice as much as) the norm. I can see this camcorder joining the pile of Sony products being boycotted by savvy gadgeteers who are d...
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Things That You Can Do To Fight Global Warming
2008-04-03 11:31:00
Global Warming is a dramatically urgent and serious problem. We don't need to wait for governments to find a solution for this problem: each individual can bring an important help adopting a more responsible lifestyle: starting from little, everyday things. It's the only reasonable way to save our planet, before it is too late.Here is a list of 50 simple things that everyone can do in order to fight against and reduce the Global Warming phenomenon: some of these ideas are at no cost, some other require a little effort or investment but can help you save a lot of money, in the middle-long term!Replace a regular incandescent light bulb with a compact fluorescent light bulb (cfl)CFLs use 60% less energy than a regular bulb. This simple switch will save about 300 pounds of carbon dioxide a year.Install a programmable thermostatThermostats will automatically lower the heat or air conditioning at night and raise them again in the morning. They can save you $100 a year on your energy bil...
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Computer Scientists Have Devised Tools To Help Children With Autism
2008-04-03 11:17:00
'Computer scientists have devised two tools to help people interact with autistic children. Videotaping interactions allows teachers or parents to replay situations and evaluate the cause of particularly good or bad behavior. Cataloging actual data, rather relying on memory or interpretation, proves to be a more accurate measure of a situation.'Autism affects one in every 165 children. For the parents and teachers of those boys and girls ... knowing what works and what doesn?t can be key to their development. Now, new technology is helping them help these kids.From riding on dads back ... to bouncing around the kitchen. There's little down time in the Abowd home. Both of Gregory Abowd's sons have autism."With Aiden you have to work really hard to get him to say anything. With Blaise you have to stop him from what he wants to say, to get him to actually communicate with you," Abowd told Ivanhoe.It?s his boys who gave this human computer interaction professor his next project at G...
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Computer Scientists Have Devised Tools To Help Children With Autism
2008-04-03 11:17:00
'Computer scientists have devised two tools to help people interact with autistic children. Videotaping interactions allows teachers or parents to replay situations and evaluate the cause of particularly good or bad behavior. Cataloging actual data, rather relying on memory or interpretation, proves to be a more accurate measure of a situation.'Autism affects one in every 165 children. For the parents and teachers of those boys and girls ... knowing what works and what doesn’t can be key to their development. Now, new technology is helping them help these kids.From riding on dads back ... to bouncing around the kitchen. There's little down time in the Abowd home. Both of Gregory Abowd's sons have autism."With Aiden you have to work really hard to get him to say anything. With Blaise you have to stop him from what he wants to say, to get him to actually communicate with you," Abowd told Ivanhoe.It’s his boys who gave this human computer interaction professor his next project ...
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Disposable Credit Card Numbers
2008-04-02 12:23:00
'Anti-Fraud Scheme'Each time you give your credit card details to a phone agent or Web site, it can feel like you die a little ? after all, you've just given away the keys to your personal kingdom.Security experts nowadays are trying to help address this fear by developing disposable credit card numbers (DCCNs).Under one new proposal, the disposable digits would be good only for a single transaction. As detailed in a recent edition of the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics, researchers at Anglia Ruskin University in the U.K. suggest a scheme whereby consumers submit a DCCN instead of their regular card number when making online purchases.Researchers Mohammed Assora, James Kadirire and Ayoub Shirvani suggest that the customer would get the secret code number from the credit card company. Using a simple calculation, the code would be a combination of a number from the e-commerce site (probably the sale price) and the credit card number to create a "h...
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Disposable Credit Card Numbers
2008-04-02 12:23:00
'Anti-Fraud Scheme'Each time you give your credit card details to a phone agent or Web site, it can feel like you die a little — after all, you've just given away the keys to your personal kingdom.Security experts nowadays are trying to help address this fear by developing disposable credit card numbers (DCCNs).Under one new proposal, the disposable digits would be good only for a single transaction. As detailed in a recent edition of the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics, researchers at Anglia Ruskin University in the U.K. suggest a scheme whereby consumers submit a DCCN instead of their regular card number when making online purchases.Researchers Mohammed Assora, James Kadirire and Ayoub Shirvani suggest that the customer would get the secret code number from the credit card company. Using a simple calculation, the code would be a combination of a number from the e-commerce site (probably the sale price) and the credit card number to create a ...
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Google Debuts gDay: Search Today the Webpages Published Tomorrow!
2008-04-01 11:30:00
'Exclusive Image by Sergey Brin! 'Google keeps up the good work and today released another revolutionary technology, codenamed gDay, which may bring a different perspective of searching the web. First of all, gDay* is powered by MATE (Machine Automated Temporal Extrapolation), which is quite an amazing aspect considering the fact that it now works in collaboration with Google's search engine. Since I'm sure that the term MATE doesn't ring any bells to you, gDay is actually a web service able to allow you to search today the webpages published tomorrow! If you still can't believe it, here's Google explanation for gDay:"Google spiders crawl publicly available web information and our index of historic, cached web content. Using a mashup of numerous factors such as recurrence plots, fuzzy measure analysis, online betting odds and the weather forecast from the iGoogle weather gadget, we can create a sophisticated model of what the internet will look like 24 hours from now," it is ...
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Steve Jobs, Head of Apple Products, In Mosiac Art??
2008-03-29 04:34:00
'A Smart Marketing Strategy'We’ve seen some awesome photo mosaics, some even functioning as more than art and delivering social commentary.While this image of Steve Jobs doesn’t hold any moving messages about society, it could serve a function. The entire image is made of up Apple products, so the finished portrait could function as one big Apple ad campaign.It features everything from computers to the iPhone. To spare you some squinting, yes, it does also include the MacBook Air. It also has other new gadgets like the iPod nano pink.“Credit must go to Deanna Lowe @ Fortune magazine and the photographer of the original photo in which this mosaic is based,” it says below the Flickr image which also says the image was “Made with Synthetik Studio Artist, Adobe Photoshop and Apple QuickTime Pro with custom developed scripts and techniques.”The Opinions are quite divided while some readers are actually repulsed by the portrait, claiming this could have easily be done throug...
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Steve Jobs, Head of Apple Products, In Mosiac Art??
2008-03-29 04:34:00
'A Smart Marketing Strategy'We?ve seen some awesome photo mosaics, some even functioning as more than art and delivering social commentary.While this image of Steve Jobs doesn?t hold any moving messages about society, it could serve a function. The entire image is made of up Apple products, so the finished portrait could function as one big Apple ad campaign.It features everything from computers to the iPhone. To spare you some squinting, yes, it does also include the MacBook Air. It also has other new gadgets like the iPod nano pink.?Credit must go to Deanna Lowe @ Fortune magazine and the photographer of the original photo in which this mosaic is based,? it says below the Flickr image which also says the image was ?Made with Synthetik Studio Artist, Adobe Photoshop and Apple QuickTime Pro with custom developed scripts and techniques.?The Opinions are quite divided while some readers are actually repulsed by the portrait, claiming this could have easily be done through specialize...
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Nature Crisis Update: Nigeria's forests to disappear by 2020
2008-03-28 09:11:00
Nigeria will lose all of its remaining forests in the next 12 years if the rate of deforestation remains unchecked, an environmental expert warned Thursday."Considering the rate at which trees are chopped down without any regeneration efforts all of Nigeria's forests will disappear by 2020," Kabiru Yammama said.A still from the Documentary: Trees Of PlentyYammama, who heads up the National Forest Conservation Council (NFCCN), a body that acts as a consultant to the Nigerian government, said all forests in northern Nigeria have been depleted and deforestation is moving southwards."The north has lost virtually all its forests. Our 1999 survey showed that the rate of deforestation in northern Nigeria alone stood at 400,000 hectares per annum," he said.Nigeria uses 40.5 million tonnes of firewood every year, he said, adding: "Imagine the depredation wrought on the vegetation in the last decade."According to the most recent NFCCN report, released in 2007, 35 percent of arable land in 11...
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Intelligent Brake Lights Could Save Your Life
2008-03-28 09:03:00
'Smart lights provide more information to drivers'The messages sent by brake lights to the driver behind bear a small resemblance to the binary code used by computers. But as we all know, the binary code is hardly the perfect communication language. For example, when you press the brake pedal, the break lights signal to the cars behind your intention to stop, except that no additional information is given, such as whether the car is slowing down or you are executing an emergency brake.John Hennage, of Virginia Tech College and Engineering, believes that the solution would be the implementation of an intelligent braking system which could make a clear difference between two extremely different situations. "A driver could be tapping his foot in time to music and the brake lights would blink. Or, a driver can rest her foot on the pedal and the lights would glow. It's not enough information for the following driver."The intelligent brake lights were developed by businessman Meade Gwi...
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The Shroud of Turin: Hoax Against Reality
2008-03-24 15:37:00
'The 1988 analysis could be re-made.'For over 7 centuries, the tightly woven linen strip, displaying the vague image of a bearded man, has been worshiped as the burial shroud of Jesus. Texts signal the existence of the shroud since the first century. Two decades ago, radiocarbon dating showed that the Shroud of Turin had been just a medieval hoax. It is a morbid interest mixing science and religion. And the religious part does not want to give up. Now, the Oxford team that made the analysis wants to update the results based on subsequent technical advances. Those opposing the hoax variant can't wait."Now that we’re 20 years later, the technology certainly has improved," Barrie Schwortz, the photographer involved in the '80s Shroud of Turin Project and making part of the contester camp, told TODAY’s Matt Lauer.In 1978, scientists were allowed to take a look at the fabric kept at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Turin, Italy. Researchers took a small piece that was sub...
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The Shroud of Turin: Hoax Against Reality
2008-03-24 15:37:00
'The 1988 analysis could be re-made.'For over 7 centuries, the tightly woven linen strip, displaying the vague image of a bearded man, has been worshiped as the burial shroud of Jesus. Texts signal the existence of the shroud since the first century. Two decades ago, radiocarbon dating showed that the Shroud of Turin had been just a medieval hoax. It is a morbid interest mixing science and religion. And the religious part does not want to give up. Now, the Oxford team that made the analysis wants to update the results based on subsequent technical advances. Those opposing the hoax variant can't wait."Now that we?re 20 years later, the technology certainly has improved," Barrie Schwortz, the photographer involved in the '80s Shroud of Turin Project and making part of the contester camp, told TODAY?s Matt Lauer.In 1978, scientists were allowed to take a look at the fabric kept at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Turin, Italy. Researchers took a small piece that was subsequ...
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New Rubber-like Material Can Heal Itself
2008-03-22 16:48:00
'It sounds likes something from a sci-fi movie: a rubber-like material that can fuse itself back together after being snapped in two.'As anyone who's shot a rubber band across a room knows, standard rubbers are very flexible ? they can stretch by several hundred percent.But if you've pulled just a little too hard on that rubber band, you also know it can suddenly (and painfully) snap in two.Ludwik Leibler of the Industrial Physics and Chemistry Higher Education Institution in Paris and his colleagues have solved the broken rubber band problem by creating a material that stretches like rubber, snaps like rubber, but then will mend itself if its two broken ends are brought back together.The new stuf, made from fatty acids and urea, is translucent and can have a yellowish tint, Leibler says.The bonds between the molecules in the material, called hydrogen bonds , are what give the new rubber its self-healing ability. They form linear links, called chains, between some molecules, as ...
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New Rubber-like Material Can Heal Itself
2008-03-22 16:48:00
'It sounds likes something from a sci-fi movie: a rubber-like material that can fuse itself back together after being snapped in two.'As anyone who's shot a rubber band across a room knows, standard rubbers are very flexible — they can stretch by several hundred percent.But if you've pulled just a little too hard on that rubber band, you also know it can suddenly (and painfully) snap in two.Ludwik Leibler of the Industrial Physics and Chemistry Higher Education Institution in Paris and his colleagues have solved the broken rubber band problem by creating a material that stretches like rubber, snaps like rubber, but then will mend itself if its two broken ends are brought back together.The new stuf, made from fatty acids and urea, is translucent and can have a yellowish tint, Leibler says.The bonds between the molecules in the material, called hydrogen bonds , are what give the new rubber its self-healing ability. They form linear links, called chains, between some molecules, a...
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SmartWater = A Hard Time For Criminals
2008-03-20 17:13:00
For those who are unaware with one of the coolest invention of humanity, let me introduce you to SmartWater. It's is a vapor distilled municipal water that is a 100 % effective to spank the bu**s even of the smartest criminals. SmartWater is already a well-known deterrent in the criminal fraternity. Next time when a criminal tries to steal some valuable that has been covered with SmartWater, he 'll be nowhere far from being locked behing the bars.Smart Water has been invented by Glacéau, a line of products sold by the beverage based industry Energy Brands, Inc.Now, most of you are thinking that how the hell hoes it work?It goes like - When an offender comes into contact with SmartWater, it leaves a uniquely identifiable code on skin, clothes and anything which it contacts. To detect, only a tiny speck is needed to fluoresce brightly under UV light; SmartWater is not visible to the naked eye. Around 95% of police forces deploy SmartWater in a variety of forms and their custody su...
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