Tag: technology

Your pocket change isn’t spying on you after all

Turns out that report about tiny transmitters in Canadian coins wasn’t true. Guess I can take the tinfoil out of my pockets now and put it back on my head where it belongs.

Scuba-scuba-doo!

Had I known of this personal submarine before I wrote my new novel set on a water planet, I might have used something like it in the story. Then again, now that I’ve gotten a good look at it…maybe not. (Via Gizmodo.)

Storing an entire image on a single photon

It gets into that whole wave/particle quantum thing: a team led by associate professor John Howell at the University of Rochester passed a single photon through a stencil bearing the letters UR. But since a photon is both a particle and a wave, as a wave, it passed through the entire stencil and thus captured …

Continue reading

Now that I’m a house owner…

…stories like this get my attention: Homeowners could see their electric bills reduced considerably with Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s integrated heat pump. It says they hope to have a commercial manufacturer by 2008.

Sometimes when they say "It’ll never work," they’re wrong…

…but sometimes, they’re right. Behold The Museum of Unworkable Devices.

Yes, it’s a silly way to spend $15,000…

…but if you don’t think this Star Trek-themed home theatre is cool, you have no poetry in your soul. Uh-oh, did I just let my inner geek out in public again? Darn.

Cooking by numbers

Are you cooking-challenged? Then Philips’s new invention may be for you (if it ever becomes a real product). From New Scientist‘s invention blog: The secret is to measure the amount of water released while the food cooks, whether it is baking, frying or being cooked in a microwave. Apparently, this accurately reveals the food’s dryness …

Continue reading

Presumably you select landscape format in print setup…

…to print a house. And no, “print” is not a typo for “paint.”

The "grizzly man" goes high tech with battle suit

Looking like something straight out of a science fiction movie, Troy Hurtubise, the Hamilton-area inventor of the bulky bear-protection suit that got a lot of attention a few years ago, is back with a high-tech (yet remarkably cheap, at $15,000 for the prototype) battle suit he’d like to see the military and police adopt. The …

Continue reading

From now on, view your pockets with suspicion:

U.S. Warns About Canadian Spy Coins, says the headline, and the gist is: In a U.S. government warning high on the creepiness scale, the Defense Department cautioned its American contractors over what it described as a new espionage threat: Canadian coins with tiny radio frequency transmitters hidden inside. The government said the mysterious coins were …

Continue reading

Self-publishing has never been easier…

…than it is with Blurb.com. Traditional publishers won’t be quaking in their boots, but traditional vanity presses–and bottom-feeding writer-scamming con artists–ought to be. Design your book today and have it in a few days, one copy or as many as you want. Nothing could be simpler.

Self-cleaning underwear…

…goes weeks without washing, hygenically.

Easy AdSense Pro by Unreal