tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-210145622011-07-31T00:12:16.345-07:00TechSwarm: How cool technology affects our lives -- real and virtual. From Google and Wikipedia to hive minds, wonderful gadgets, and social networks. Breaking news every day. (Cliff Pickover)Cliff Pickoverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15658349168482343854noreply@blogger.comBlogger831100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21014562.post-64791322524493366702010-04-24T16:19:00.000-07:002010-04-24T16:22:02.675-07:00

Woman begins experiments with Mobius music box. Click here to listen.

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Wonderful world of early computing.

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The strange future of avatars and virtual worlds. "With each generation of avatar, they will become more life-like, growing in realism, pressing the limits of autonomy as we become more and more reliant on them for experiencing the world."

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Beautiful and transcendent long-exposure photos.

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Tiny cities made of crystal

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Water follows the coriolis effect and spirals into the drain on its own - this clever sink design just helps it along and accentuates the proecess in a dynamic and elegant way. Shaped like the imprint of the shell, the curves of this sleek sink are at once organic and clearly the product of design. Source of photo and text: dornob.com.

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8 Brilliant Scientific Screw-ups

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6 Top-Secret Aircraft that are Mistaken for UFOs.

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Perpetual motion machines. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_motion

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Strategy games may help conquer aging.

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The sideways bike is an invention by Michael Killian, a software engineer from Dublin. He was inspired by the way that snowboarding is preferred to skiing due to the greater artistic potential, and decided to design a snowboard equivalent for the conventional bicycle. The result: a bike ridden sideways with the rider operating both wheels. The bike, unlike a conventional bike, uses front-to-back

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Recent strange and wonderful fashions for women.

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Reserve a spot in heaven.

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The biggest secret on the Internet: Web security words actually help to digitize old books. "And the number of words that we've been able to digitize like this is insanely large, it's like over a billion. It's like 1.3 billion by now," von Ahn says.

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The Remember Ring™ utilizes patent pending Hot Spot™ technology to deliver a reminder that it's "That time of the year again!"

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Will your next computer setup look like this?

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Emotiv has created technologies that allow machines to take both conscious and non-conscious inputs directly from your mind.

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Cool Gadgets - The Digital Video Brush, uses digital paint - Video

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We present a study of anonymized data capturing a month of high-level communication activities within the whole of the Microsoft Messenger instant-messaging system. We examine characteristics and patterns that emerge from the collective dynamics of large numbers of people, rather than the actions and characteristics of individuals. The dataset contains summary properties of 30 billion

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Ultimate office setup. Strange computer and game workstations with surround-sound speakers, custom colors, and actual car seats instead of a standard office chair.

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These may look like your typical cheap schlock shop knock-offs of popular gadgets, but they’re much more devious than that. You see, while they may bear a slight resemblance to a certain portable gaming system, media player and a dime-store pocket laser, they’re actually practical jokes that deliver a nasty shock. More information here.

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People continue to play with 3D desktops on Windows.

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The artist who created the Vanessa Kensington Femrobot from "Austin Powers 2, The Spy Who Shagged Me," was selling the original on eBay. Vanessa has silicon skin, and comes with removable face plate, lights inside eyes and mouth (powered by a 9-volt battery).

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China, in an effort to curb criminal activity, is installing 20,000 cameras in Shenzen. Cameras will track the city's 12.4 million people, and are fitted with software from American firm that promises to automatically detect the faces of those breaking the law. But there's more: 180,000 other cameras are constantly filming in Shenzen.

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Man falls in love with photos of high voltage piles. More info here:http://pileofphotos.com/view/293/High-voltage

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50 terabyte flash drive made of bug protein

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"The Computer Tree", from Electronic Computers Within the Ordnance Corps, by Karl Kempf. "U.S. Army Diagram".Click here to see magnificent magnification.

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Impressive technology demo ("Photosynth") involving image manipulation. Curious about that speck in corner? Dive into a freefall and watch as the speck becomes a gargoyle. With an unpleasant grimace. And an ant-sized chip in its lower left molar. "Perhaps the most amazing demo I've seen this year," wrote Ethan Zuckerman, after TED2007. Indeed, Photosynth might utterly transform the way we

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Nothing is On Sale for $6.28. It had to happen. Someone is now selling Nothing. It's a piece of packaging with a with a clear plastic sphere sticking out of it that contains absolutely nothing.

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Second Life is a virtual world where age, race, gender and the other inescapable "realities" of life have been trumped by creative expression. The next great digital divide is here. People are conducting business, having fun, forming global relationships and finding innovative and groundbreaking new ways to communicate, solve problems and overcome disabilities. Eureka Dejavu, conjured by

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Man assembles photo collection of the world's weirdest bass guitars.

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The first computer that resides in your wall-socket. It offers a 500-MHz AMD RISC CPU, 128MB of memory, 64MB of Flash memory, and a VGA connector. The JackPC runs Windows CE and is priced at just $392.

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Here's another one of those cryptic watches that make you guess what time it is, the JLr7 by e35 whose little J and L-shaped LEDs seem to light up at random. Even its name seems arbitrary, but check out the top row of LEDs and you'll see: JLr7. How does it work? The first three rows of lights show the hours in a 12-hour format, the fourth displays quarter hours and the rest of the rows show

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Various gears and levers inside this clear plastic hand interact to move the fingers as if they are playing one of six classic piano pieces; as the digits play selections from Beethoven's "Fifth Symphony", Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer," or Chopin's "Minute Waltz," you'll be fascinated by their precise movement and precision-tuned mechanical genius. Sound sensor starts the music when you clap;

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A cool method of computer protection? When you run a program on your computer, data flows from the hard disk to the program via read operations. The data is then processed and displayed, and finally flows back from the progam to the hard disk via write operations. "Sandboxie" changes the rules such that write operations do not make it back to your hard disk. Read the details.

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J.J. Casalonga has fallen in love with strange watches. "Since the early days of watches, the display of the time is always the same: 2 or 3 hands turning in circle to tell the hour, minutes and seconds. I admit, it works. The reading is easy, quick, and straightforward. But when something works, there are always people who try to do something different. The idea behind this web page is not to

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"Crowdsourcing is a term coined by Wired magazine writer Jeff Howe and editor Mark Robinson. It describes a business model akin to outsourcing. The difference is that instead of professional vendors, crowdsourcing relies upon unpaid or low-paid amateurs who use their spare time to create content, solve problems, even do corporate R & D. Crowds targeted for crowdsourcing include data companies,

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Every geek likes to add new and interesting toys to their desktop. And if these toys happen to be powered by USB, well then, all the more fun to have. The USB Mini Desktop Aquarium is the home to two life-like tropical fish. A small motor generates a current in the water, allowing the fish to gently swim about the tank. The aquarium is equipped with a high-intensity blue LED that illuminates the

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A patent has just been issued for Wristease® (rist-eez'), an all portable, ergonomic wrist support. Worn while typing, writing, and using the mouse, Wristease provides support and comfort to pain caused by carpal tunnel syndrome and other wrist and hand related repetitive motion injuries. Now you can work on many different computers without having to carry your wrist rest with you.

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Engineers use far infrared imaging to reveal the ectoplasmic ghosts and ghouls hiding within all of us.

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This miraculous gel, derived from a NASA Space experiment, serves as both habitat and nutrition for your ants - allowing you to watch in awe as they turn a brick of aqua-blue gel into a fascinating colony of tunnels.

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This toy inolves six different surface materials. They are metal, wood, textile, rubber, plastic and stone. Different materials give people different senses, which thus enabled the blind men to play.

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Designed by Dima Komissarov, the Flashbag is a USB storage device that actually inflates as it "fills up with data"!

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Zocchihedron is the trademark of the most common 100-sided die, patented ( USPTO number D303553) by Lou Zocchi, which debuted in 1985. It is not a polyhedron. Rather, it is more like a ball with 100 flattened planes. It is sometimes called "Zocchi's Golfball." You can learn more about it here. You can buy one here.

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Verizon Discovers The Cost Of Being Too Aggressive In Blocking Spam: In late 2004 Verizon got fed up with dealing with spam for its DSL customers, and implemented a massive blocklist, that seemed to block a ton of email from outside the country -- with no way to get around the list. People who used their Verizon email address to communicate with colleagues in Europe, for example, suddenly were

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Brain research leads to a Nintendo game that boosts your IQ and turns its players into instant geniuses.

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This LED device catches the eye for no apparent reason. The clip will let you stick the device on almost anything. Take the clip off and you can even fix it to a lanyard and wear it as a necklace. It seems to be a clock, a stopwatch, a pedometer, a signal, a motion responsive display, and even a scrolling message display.

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♦ Suing Google Because Your Google Site Ranking Sucks♦ Judge Orders Google To Turn Over Gmail Account To Feds

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"We really can't over-emphasize the number of envious looks this ultra-modern masterpiece attracts. Because as well as perplexing everyone who sees it (except the wearer), the Ibiza Ride looks like something Buck Rogers might wear when hitting the disco with Twiki. Best of all, it's unlike any other watch out there. And in the war of wristwatch one-upmanship, individuality is everything."

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The Imation Flash Wristband redefines wearable technology design by combining a portable flash drive that doubles as a wristband. Durable and stylish, the Imation Flash Wristband is the new, convenient way to transfer, share and save digital files. Whether it's homework, photos, graphics, music or e-mails, it's all protected beneath a flexible blue or black rubber shell. Always at the ready, the

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Six days a week, Shari Thurow spends copious amounts of time conducting searches on Google. But each Saturday, she makes a point of observing a "Google-free day." The rules are simple: Use any search engine except for Google. In practice, however, the policy is surprisingly difficult to implement.

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Turing’s paper claimed that suitably programmed digital computers would be generally accepted as thinking by around the year 2000, achieving that status by successfully responding to human questions in a human-like way. Mark Halpern says, "In the deepest sense, the AI champions see their critics as trying to reverse the triumph of the Enlightenment, with its promise that man’s mind can understand

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A federal judge has ruled that portions of Google's popular image search feature, which displays small thumbnail versions of images found on other Web sites, likely violate U.S. copyright law.

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The US Patent office just awarded Amazon.com a patent for assisting a user of an item purchasing service in giving groups of related items to recipients." TechDirt asks: "How can this be patentable? It's a patent for link together a group of products so they can all be bought in a single bundle."

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Look -- color fusion shower head! We’ve talked about showers that light up many times, but this shower is different. You see, it’s powered by the water coming through the head and changes color in response to the water temperature. No wires to run, no batteries to change—just sweet LED light bathing you while you bathe. It’s about $105 in Japan, and there it shall ever stay.Shower light generated

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I typed Wire Girl into Google and found this image

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The following is an ACM TechNews Summary of a Wall Street Journal (02/13/06) P. A1; Fowler, Geoffrey A.While the Internet's growing pervasiveness in China has made it difficult to police the activities of an estimated 111 million users, the Chinese government is nonetheless attempting to reinforce its authority, requiring all bloggers to register with the state and continuing its block on

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In Sketch Swap, you draw something on the screen, and when you're finished, you hit "Submit drawing"... to receive a random drawing from someone else. Sketch Swap was inspired by Markus Renschler's File Swap.

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Almost 1,000 Danish websites have been defaced by Islamic hackers protesting about controversial cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammad. The attacks typically replace home pages with pro-Islam messages and condemn the publication of the images.

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Some wild input devices on the market today, and it seems they get even kookier when they're ergonomic. Input devices like the RollerMousePRO, the vertical keyboard, and the vertical mouse may seem esoteric, but they prove that its users prefer functionality over beautiful form. A main driver for this is the desire to reduce the risk or pain associated with carpal tunnel syndrome and other RSI

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Flying whales, walking trees, three-eyed killer birds - NASA and SETI imagine life on other worlds.On Aurelia, an Earth-sized planet half shrouded in perpetual darkness, vast floodplains give way to groves of treelike stinger fans that use ambulatory roots to creep across the muddy surface. On Blue Moon, a lunar orb in an adjacent solar system light-years from Aurelia, winged skywhales gulp

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The blogosphere is in the middle of a big bang. According to the blog trackers at Technorati, a company that indexes and searches blog postings, the number of blogs online is doubling about every five and a half months .Read more here.

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A amazing, recent University of Washington study of more than 20 million Internet addresses has found that spyware is driving computer users insane. The researchers found that more than one in 20 executable files carried spyware, while one in 62 domains attempt to forcibly upload spyware for users who merely visit a site. Piggybacked spyware appeared most frequently on celebrity and game Web

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Ray Kurzweil and Stephen Wolfram predict what Google will be like in the year 2100!

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♦ Microsoft has just made available their latest beta preview build of their Internet Explorer 7.0 web browser. It is said to have several new features.♦ Boing Boing Threatened By Software Creator

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♦ Wikipedia vs Congressional Staffers♦ Children with highly analytical parents are more likely to be autistic.

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♦ Microsoft Tricks Hacker Into Jail♦ The Los Angeles city attorney's office has sued the makers of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for allegedly hiding pornographic material inside the video game, officials said.♦ Oh God, who wants to work in an office "cubicle"?♦ Evidence for String Theory?

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They're exploring the deep sea and distant planets. They're saving lives in the operating room and on the battlefield. They're transforming factory floors and filmmaking. They're - oh c'mon, they're just plain cool! From Qrio to the Terminator, here are our absolute favorites (at least for now).

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♦ The USA based mobile operator, Cingular Wireless has managed to get a patent on the concept of using emoticons -- symbols like smiley faces -- on mobile phones!♦ A bizarre photographic history of computer hard drives.♦ The Google Cache feature does not violate copyright law.♦ Now people are talking about charging for endtones, hang-up tones and drop tones -- bits of music to play when a mobile

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Man patents hyper-light-speed antenna

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Kama Sutra worm seduces PC users. A new e-mail worm that spreads under the guise of pornographic content has jumped to the top of the worldwide virus charts.

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♦ Amazon.com to allow book page purchases♦ Penny sculptures beyond reality

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♦ Man keeps his computer on slow phone line for security reasons♦ When should Bloggers turn off their comment function?♦ Humans are hardwired for geometry

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♦ The latest gossip on e-books♦ Search for the world's most prolific inventor♦ The lastest gossip on sex blogs

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♦ Utility Fog: The Stuff that Dreams are Made Of♦ Wikipedia Germany Shut Down♦ Myware and Spyware♦ Sex.com sold

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♦ Woman cooks Rubik's Cube cake!♦ Asking People To Hit Reload Is A Felony?♦ Under attack, spammer begs for mercy

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♦ A swarm is propelled by people with a unified vision and a common desire to "change the world" without reaping any immediate financial rewards.♦ The biography of Jimmy Whales, Wikipedia founder

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♦ Internet Black market for relicts: Online auctions have included a feather from the Holy Spirit and a vial brimming with the breath of Jesus Christ♦ Internet users judge a website in 1/20 second♦ LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug?

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♦ Human and machine intelligence will become indistinguishable due to new brain scanning technologies

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♦ Creative Internet money-making scheme: filling room with LEGO bricks for a fee♦ We are all currently living in a virtual reality

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♦ Funeral involving real people and real emotions, but on a virtual scene♦ Virtual reality iPod display♦ Troublesome players in their virtual world game Second Life are thrown into a secret in-game prison called The Corn Field♦ Sex offender supports false identity with Wikipedia bio♦ In Web-based games, items that exist only online are bought and sold in the 'real' world - sometimes for thousands

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♦ Use urine if battery dies♦ Metatagging and social networks -- ideas that originated in personal online media -- may save the U.S. Patent Office♦ Computer Security Graphical Passwords♦ Porn industry quick to jump on new technologies♦ Top-10 must-have gadgets♦ Wikipedia Plagiarism Ends Journalist's Career

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