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Sonication - healing with focused sound waves

2012-02-01T09:20:00.000+13:00

Ultrasound for medical imaging has been used for a long time now, but focused ultrasound in conjunction with magnetic resonance imaging produces some amazing breakthroughs in non-invasive surgery. Watch this inspiring Ted Talk from Yoav Medan.

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Getting geekier - upskill with these online learning sites

2012-01-16T05:34:00.000+13:00

Looking to improve your geek skills this year? Here are some online tech education resources that look interesting: Kahn Academy - brush up on your math, physics and chemistry skills with lots and lots of video tutorials and exercises Some Stanford Courses: Computer Science 101 Human-Computer Interfaces Software Engineering for Software as a Service TeamTreehouse - Web design, Web development, iOS apps CodeAcademy - Learn to code

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Get any gadgets for Christmas?

2012-01-16T05:32:00.000+13:00

Greetings of the season! While I didn't get any gadget loot this year, I am thankful for my loved ones who gave me: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson 50 Architecture Ideas You Really Need to Know Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things My son got a solar robotics kit and a Logiblocs Super Inventor Kit. We got our daughter a mineral exploration kit and we had fun digging semi-precious stones out of a block of plaster. She also got The Lego Ideas Book.

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Amazing build of a model V-12 engine

2011-11-22T10:20:00.001+13:00

Perhaps the world's smallest motor of its type, this hand crafted V-12 air injection engine is constructed from stainless steel, aluminium and bronze. It has 12 cc displacement with a cylinder bore of 11.3mm and piston stroke of 10mm. Created by Patelo from Spain, it is dedicated to his four oldest grandchildren and not for sale.

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Cotton Candy (prototype) - a sweet little computer

2011-11-20T05:13:00.000+13:00

This USB memory stick sized device contains a dual-core computer with a pre-loaded Android Operating System (and Ubuntu and embedded virtualization client for Windows, Linux, Mac). Named Cotton Candy after its 21g weight, the device is powered from the USB port, outputs to screens via HDMI, has Wifi and Bluetooth for connecting to networks and devices and uses the internal 1GB memory or up to 64GB on a microSD card for storage. Designed for "Any Screen Ccomputing", it turns a TV, monitor, laptop, tablet or phone into a dumb-terminal device capable of browsing the web, running apps and even playing streamed HD video. When plugging the Cotton Candy into another computer it is recognized as a USB drive and starting the virtualization software opens a secure computing environment. Files can be transferred between the computers by drag and drop. This could be a useful environment for Android app developers - writing code on a desktop/laptop and testing it in another window on the Cotton Candy. Read a full review at http://blog.laptopmag.com/usb-stick-contains-dual-core-computer-turns-any-screen-into-an-android-station and find out more about the device at Cotton Candy (prototype) « FXITech.

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Two incredible nanotechology advances

2011-11-18T09:48:00.001+13:00

Watch liquids just pour off this superhydrophobic coating: The world's lightest metal has been developed by a team of researchers from Univeristy of California, Irvine HRL Laboratories and the California Institute of Technology. The material is about 100 times lighter than styrofoam and could be useful for battery electrodes and acoustic or vibration absorption. "so light that it can sit atop dandelion fluff without damaging it" Photo by Dan Little, HRL Laboratories LLC Read more at http://today.uci.edu/news/2011/11/nr_lightmetal_111117.php

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Flying motorcycle

2011-11-10T20:53:00.000+13:00

My friend John alerted us to the work being done by Samson Motorworks on a very nicely designed flying motorcycle.

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A Roadable Aircraft

2011-11-07T10:20:00.001+13:00

An update on the Transition Flying Car from Terrafugia. I like how Anna Mracek Dietrich, one of the Transtion's creators says: As a multi-purpose passenger vehicle, it is now officially "designed for occasional off-road use."

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Remembering Turbo Pascal

2011-11-01T23:33:00.001+13:00

I stumbled on this post about the history of computing. Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than Turbo Pascal 3 for MS-DOS was released in September 1986. Being version 3, there were lesser releases prior to it and flashier ones after, but 3 was a solid representation of the Turbo Pascal experience: a full Pascal compiler, including extensions that it made it practical for commercial use, tightly integrated with an editor. And the whole thing was lightning fast, orders of magnitude faster at building projects than Microsoft's compilers. The entire Turbo Pascal 3.02 executable--the compiler and IDE--was 39,731 bytes. How does that stack up in 2011 terms? Here are some things that Turbo Pascal is smaller than, as of October 30, 2011: The minified version of jquery 1.6 (90,518 bytes). The yahoo.com home page (219,583 bytes). The image of the white iPhone 4S at apple.com (190,157 bytes). zlib.h in the Mac OS X Lion SDK (80,504 bytes). The touch command under OS X Lion (44,016 bytes). Various vim quick reference cards as PDFs. (This one is 47,508 bytes.) The compiled code for the Erlang R14B02 parser (erl_parse.beam, 286,324 bytes). The Wikipedia page for C++ (214,251 bytes). This reminded me of the Turbo Pascal programming I learnt in 1987 and later actually used when I was working in a medical laboratory in the late 80s to early 90's. All of the lab's patient and test results data was stored on a Unisys mainframe (the original machine filled a room and had a tape deck taller than me). As the lab technology developed, they bought new analysis machines and to get data from them into the mainframe, we installed several DOS PCs and I wrote the various data capture and interface programs in Pascal.

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Amazing Steve Jobs Tribute

2011-10-18T22:55:00.003+13:00

AzRmusic has put together this amazing video tribute to Steve Jobs using only sounds from Apple products and Steve's own words from his famous 2005 Stanford commencement speech.

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Air Swimmers

2011-10-17T08:30:00.000+13:00

Amazing remote control flying shark and clown fish.

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We can recycle plastic

2011-10-13T08:20:00.002+13:00

An interesting TEDTalk from Mike Biddle on how recycling plastics is now possible. Mike Biddle: We can recycle plastic | Video on TED.com

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Jet powered school bus

2011-09-18T09:32:00.000+12:00

Now here is fast ride to school.

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Happy Programmers' Day

2011-09-13T22:25:00.000+12:00

Today (13 September) is the 256th day of the year and is the unofficial international holiday, Programmers' Day. Programmers celebrate the day (chosen because 256 is the number of distinct values represented by a 8-bit byte) by wearing white (because it represents the largest value 0xFFFFFF in the RGB colorspace). As 2012 is a leap year, Programmers' Day will be celebrated next year on 12 September. Some gift ideas from ThinkGeek for the friendly programmer in your life: Glowing Keyboard Stickers Story time: one day a monkey was told by his boss that he was getting a new laptop. "It will have everything," the boss said, "including a fingerprint scanner and light up keys." Then the monkey got the laptop. Sure it was super fast, but did it have a fingerprint scanner? No. And did the keys light up? No. The monkey was sad. Then he found these Glowing Keyboard Stickers. He tried them out, and was happy. Yay! The Glowing Keyboard Stickers are not "glow in the dark." Instead, they are made of a high quality fluorescent print that reflects any ambient source of light. Sure they take a little while to put on, but not that long. And sure they don't work in complete darkness without any ambient light to reflect, but give them some light and watch them shine (literally). The goal of the Glowing Keyboard Stickers is to offer you an inexpensive way to make your computer keyboard as cool as the more expensive light up ones, all the while adding a bit extra reflective illumination to your key caps. 'But how do we know they really work?' you ask. Well, that's easy. The proof that the Glowing Keyboard Stickers really work is all the words you just read above. This product description was written in a dim room on that very same laptop mentioned in the first paragraph - surprise twist ending! Glowing Keyboard Stickers High quality fluorescent print reflects any ambient source. Eases eye fatigue while typing in lower-light levels. Matte surface that is pleasant to...

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Clear glass circuit boards

2011-09-12T07:08:00.002+12:00

Here is a fascinating touch-sensitive, clear glass printed circuit board made by Charles Lohr. And in this video he shows the process he used to make the clear glass printed circuit board. As seen on Adafruit Industries Blog

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Seamless computing

2011-09-06T10:16:00.000+12:00

Dr Neil Roodyn from nsquared demonstrates seamlessly computing an architect might use between devices in this demo.

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Cool jobs

2011-08-31T10:15:00.001+12:00

Learn about the cool jobs some people have in these Yahoo Second Act videos: Lego artist Nathan Sawaya left behind his job as a corporate attorney to play full-time with his favorite childhood toy. Musician Roderick Romero has built treehouses for Sting, Donna Karan, Val Kilmer and Julianne Moore. Ten years ago, Jay Shafer downsized to an 89-square-foot house and reinvented both his lifestyle and career in the process. Inventor Mark Kirkland poured a decade of work into launching his sandwich in a can- and with it, his new career as an entrepreneur

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Live Flight Tracking

2011-08-28T11:30:00.000+12:00

A Massey University alumnus, James McCarthy has invented an aircraft locator system that tracks flights in real-time. Called Spider, the portable device that plugs into a lighter socket, relays the aircraft’s GPS position to the internet through an Iridium satellite network modem. In the event of crash, the impact can cause standard locator devices to fail, minimizing the chances of rescue. Powering on at take-off, the Spider sends its location every two minutes - a more effective system for not just aircraft, but usable in vehicles and boats too. See the SpiderTracks website for more info.

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Beautiful midi keyboard design

2011-08-22T22:00:00.000+12:00

Here is a beautiful midi keyboard design by Bård Edlund. MIDI keyboard design by Bård Edlund from Bard Edlund on Vimeo. Most MIDI keyboards look like cheap toy spaceships from 1982. But music production is now a home activity. Here's a keyboard you'd be proud to have around. See more about the design on EDLUNDART.

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Where's WALL-E?

2011-08-21T04:25:00.000+12:00

Can you find WALL-E in this artwork by Richard Sargent? How many of these robots from movies, television and popular culture can you name? The entry that identifies the most characters correctly by 31 August 2011, will win a signed poster print. See Hopewell Studio news and events for details.

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Universe Sandbox

2011-08-17T20:54:00.001+12:00

I stumbled upon this amazing universe simulator software the other day - Universe Sandbox. Some especially cool features include 3D viewing and fictional orbits like the Death Star around Endor.

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The most popular cars in the World

2011-08-16T20:34:00.001+12:00

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A Day Made of Glass

2011-08-13T21:03:00.002+12:00

Glass is amazing stuff and this video shows just some of the technology made possible with glass. Watch these other adverts from Corning Glass: Corning® Gorilla® Glass: Cooking Up Tomorrow's Kitchen Corning® Gorilla® Glass: King of the Office? Corning® Gorilla® Glass: Channel Surfing

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Street legal dodgems

2011-07-30T23:48:00.001+12:00

Tom Wright rescued some vintage bumper car bodies from the Long Beach Pike amusement park and after experimenting with two cylinder Harley Davidson Motorcycle engines he built seven of these amazing street legal cars based on four cylinder Honda or Kawasaki 750 engines. Top speed 250 K/h! See more on What Do You Do With Old Bumper Cars?

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System Administrator Appreciation Day

2011-07-30T01:57:00.000+12:00

Computer users should appreciate System Administrators every day, but today is a special day for really appreciating the System Administrators in your life. Friday, July 29, 2011, is the 12th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. On this special international day, give your System Administrator something that shows that you truly appreciate their hard work and dedication. (All day Friday, 24 hours, your own local time-zone). Let's face it, System Administrators get no respect 364 days a year. This is the day that all fellow System Administrators across the globe, will be showered with expensive sports cars and large piles of cash in appreciation of their diligent work. But seriously, we are asking for a nice token gift and some public acknowledgement. It's the least you could do. Consider all the daunting tasks and long hours (weekends too.) Let's be honest, sometimes we don't know our System Administrators as well as they know us. Remember this is one day to recognize your System Administrator for their workplace contributions and to promote professional excellence. Thank them for all the things they do for you and your business. - http://www.sysadminday.com/

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