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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008This is amazing ! Researchers in Australia (woot!) have discovered a way to coat wool (and seemingly other keratin-based materials) with titanium dioxide crystals, in a way that, using sunlight, organic dirt is ‘burned’ and removed. This is dissimilar to other methods that repell water, oil or dirt in that the dirt is actually consumed [...]
Open helix structures in space contain liquids better than closed containers.
Friday, January 25th, 2008Instead of using coffee cups in space, dear spaceman, try drinking your coffee from corkscrew (helix) cups.
I have a hard time to see how somebody on Earth managed to find this solution to a problem in space, but it is very cool ! Potentially, it could also have big implications in nano workings, where things [...]
www.international-orders.com customer service is no good. In fact, it’s bad.
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007When I ordered my iphone I ordered it from the USA via the site www.international-orders.com.While the actual delivery was speedy, the follow-up was not. When I ordered it I didn’t want to take any chances with customs and taxes, so I payed to have it shipped out to me including prepaid taxes and customs duties [...]
Hitting the nail on the head
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007Will Shiply has a very good post about a blind spot most people have. About the fact that we are denial machines, always overly optimistic.
It also links to TED talks, which is a new discovery to me. Really good talks !
I love sky
Friday, October 5th, 2007You might have already seen this before, it’s been published since a year or so, but it is still soooo good that I want to share this.
Introducing “I love Sky”.
Klik hier om het video filmpje te bekijken
I believe they also produce small 5 to 10 seconds films for inbetween kid shows.
Racetrack memory.
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007Interesting post pointing to the possibility of a new kind of memory called ‘racetrack memory‘ under development by an IBM Fellow.
If this could become a reality within a few years, I agree with the author - this could change the way we look at storing data, heck you wouldn’t mind letting your camera on all [...]
Detecting Cancer Cells in the blood in your body a.k.a Medical Tricorder !
Friday, September 7th, 2007The Star Trek medical diagnostic appliance called the tricorder is not very far away anymore. In facts, it’s here.
You do need to have a labelling-agent inside you so that only the tumor-cells fluoresce, but hey, the days are still young. A few adaptations and hop, soon we will all have those gadget devices that Doctor [...]
Amazing.
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007You can find more videos of people helped by AssistiveWare here.
Cooking with sound : a combo stove-generator-fridge
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007ArsTechnica has a cool new post about a tool to help developing nations use their energy more efficiently.
It’s a combination stove/fridge/generator that is ingeniously crafted. Yet, according to Ars, the building and maintenance of the thing itself (that is based on a stirling engine) is not difficult. What it means is that the design was [...]
RFID firewalls are here !
Thursday, May 3rd, 2007Today I read an Ars Technica article about a new protection for your RFID tags (you know, those tags that are now used for taking stock of inventory, theft protection, and are now showing up in passports).
What great about this new protection is that you can configure which tags you want to allow to [...]
Using RFID to configure your wireless network
Thursday, March 15th, 2007Apple has gotten a bright idea (and patented it right away too) : put a Radio Frequency ID (RFID) chip in your networking device, and bring them in close proximity to each other.
They’ll recognise each other, and can then configure the rest of the wireless network setup themselves : an extract from the MacRumors site [...]
So yes, I’ve got a Wii
Thursday, March 8th, 2007A friend of mine sent me this link to a google video. It’s a spoof on the mac adverts, this time between the PS3 and the Wii.
And now you know why I have a Wii.
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