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A True Ninja Installs Hidden Cameras Everywhere
For those who are anal enough to see or observe everything even when you’re not physically there, and be able to do so as covert as possible, installing a Hidden Camera might be your first smart move. A Spy Camera can be installed anywhere. And even better, such cameras can be made to look exactly like common furniture: say, disguised as a wall clock or air purifier. You can even put one in a door’s peep hole!
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For This Irish Scientist, You Can Have Your Drink And Drive On It, Too
A scientist from Country Cork has invented a new bio-fuel made from Scotch which can be used instead of traditional petrol in cars.
Professor Martin Tangney from Macroom in Cork, is the man behind the new ground breaking fuel which key ingredients include whisky by products.
The new bio-fuel which could be available at petrol pumps in the near future offers consumers greater power than other conventional motor fuels.
That Strange Smell From Your Old Man’s Room Is Probably Your Old Man Being Dead
If you have aging parents or grandparents who insist on maintaining their independence by living alone, it’s very likely that they could get into some serious accident and you won’t even know it until it’s too late. One day you notice grandpop stopped coming out of the room, followed by the smell of decay. The thing is, the elderly are fragile—even a very small mistake can prove fatal. But here’s something really useful: a Medical Alert device that allows you to make sure your elderly loved ones are safely monitored 24/7. As far as we know it, it’s the only medical alert provider that offers fall detection—wearing the device during any sudden fall automatically sends an alert. So even if the elderly person fails to push an alert button, you will still be notified.
What about if your parent or grandparent is on the road outdoors and they suddenly need immediate help and no one knows where they are—worse, they may not even know where they are? For such a case, BrickHouse offers a GPS Tracking Bracelet with a two-way speakerphone, which can be used like a mobile phone whenever assistance is needed. The wearer can also be tracked just in case they wandered around and could not find their way home, as with patients with Alzheimer’s.
These devices effectively connect your loved ones to available help anywhere in the world. Specifically designed to serve and protect the over-50 crowd, Medical Alert devices such as these gives elderly people the convenience and reassurance their families need.
The Coolest Toothbrush Ever: Plasma Blowtorch To Clean Your Teeth
Though it looks like a tiny purple blowtorch, a pencil-sized plume of plasma on the tip of a small probe remains at room temperature as it swiftly dismantles tough bacterial colonies deep inside a human tooth.
It’s not another futuristic product of George Lucas’ imagination—it’s the exciting work of USC School of Dentistry and USC Viterbi School of Engineering researchers looking for new ways to safely fight tenacious biofilm infections in patients.
Two of the study’s authors are Chunqi Jiang, a research assistant professor in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering-Electrophysics, and Parish Sedghizadeh, assistant professor of clinical dentistry and director of the USC Center for Biofilms. “Nanosecond Pulsed Plasma Dental Probe†appears in the June issue of Plasma Processes and Polymers.
Sedghizadeh explained that biofilms are complex colonies of bacteria suspended in a slimy matrix that grants them added protection from conventional antibiotics. Biofilms are responsible for many hard-to-fight infections in the mouth and elsewhere. But in the study, biofilms cultivated in the root canal of extracted human teeth were easily destroyed with the plasma dental probe, as evidenced by scanning electron microscope images of near-pristine tooth surfaces after plasma treatment.
Plasma, the fourth state of matter, consists of electrons, ions and neutral species and is the most common form found in space, stars and lightning, Jiang said. But while many natural plasmas are hot, or thermal, the probe developed for the study is a non-thermal, room-temperature plasma that’s safe to touch. The researchers placed temperature sensors on the extracted teeth before treatment and found that the temperature of the tooth increased just five degrees after 10 minutes of exposure to the plasma, Jiang said.
The cooler nature of the experimental plasma comes from its pulsed power supply. Instead of employing a steady stream of energy to the probe, the pulsed power supply sends 100-nanosecond pulses of several kilovolts to the probe once every millisecond, with an average power less than two watts, Jiang said.
“Atomic oxygen [a single atom of oxygen, instead of the more common O2 molecule] appears to be the antibacterial agent,†according to plasma emission spectroscopy obtained during the experiments, she said.
Sedghizadeh said the oxygen-free radicals might be disrupting the cellular membranes of the biofilms in order to cause their demise and that the plasma plume’s adjustable, fluid reach allowed the disinfection to occur even in the hardest-to-reach areas of the root canal. Given that preliminary research indicates that non-thermal plasma is safe for surrounding tissues, Sedghizadeh said he was optimistic about its future dental and medical uses.
“Plasma is the future,†Sedghizadeh said. “It’s been used before for other sterilization purposes but not for clinical medical applications, and we hope to be the first to apply it in a clinical setting.â€
Hugo Chavez Thinks You’re Nothing, NOTHING, If You Don’t Own A Penis-phone
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is endorsing a very inexpensive cellphone called “El Vergatorio,” which is also Venezuelan slang for “penis.” And in a fit of rapture, he said, “”This telephone will be the biggest seller not only in Venezuela but the world. Whoever doesn’t have a Vergatario is nothing.”
Big penis lurve right there.
Jaquet Droz’s “The Machine that Writes the Time”
It took Jaquet Droz about a decade and more than 1,200 components to create his “La Machine à Ecrire le Temps†(The Machine that Writes the Time). And it’s also totally affordable at 400,000 Swiss francs ((US $342,275) apiece.
In the video below, see how “accurate” Droz’s “time writing machine” is — by the time it’s done writing “10:30,” it’s already 10:31. Awesome!
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And You Thought Rubik’s Cube Was Tough
Marvel at the Petaminx — a dodecahedral puzzle designed to make you eat your shoe in frustration.
Inside A Nikon D3 Camera
Somebody visited a Nikon booth in japan, and what does he see? A Nikon D3 camera cleanly cut in half. Camera porn!
VHS Is Officially Dead
After three decades of steady if unspectacular service, the spinning wheels of the home-entertainment stalwart are slowing to a halt at retail outlets. On a crisp Friday morning in October, the final truckload of VHS tapes rolled out of a Palm Harbor, Fla., warehouse run by Ryan J. Kugler, the last major supplier of the tapes.
“It’s dead, this is it, this is the last Christmas, without a doubt,” said Kugler, 34, a Burbank businessman. “I was the last one buying VHS and the last one selling it, and I’m done. Anything left in warehouse we’ll just give away or throw away.”
Dumped in a humid Florida landfill? It’s an ignominious end for the innovative product that redefined film-watching in America and spawned an entire sector led by new household names like Blockbuster and West Coast Video. Those chains gave up on VHS a few years ago but not Kugler, who casually describes himself as “a bottom feeder” with a specialization in “distressed inventory.”
Kugler is president and co-owner of Distribution Video Audio Inc., a company that pulls in annual revenue of $20 million with a proud nickel-and-dime approach to fading and faded pop culture. Whether it’s unwanted “Speed Racer” ball caps, unsold Danielle Steel novels or unappreciated David Hasselhoff albums, Kugler’s company pays pennies and sells for dimes. If the firm had a motto, it would be “Buy low, sell low.”
“It’s true, one man’s trash is another man’s gold,” Kugler said. “But we are not the graveyard. I’m like a heart surgeon — we keep things alive longer. Or maybe we’re more like the convalescence home right before the graveyard.”
The last major Hollywood movie to be released on VHS was “A History of Violence” in 2006. By that point major retailers such as Best Buy and Wal-Mart were already well on their way to evicting all the VHS tapes from their shelves so the valuable real estate could go to the sleeker and smaller DVDs and, in more recent seasons, the latest upstart, Blu-ray discs. Kugler ended up buying back as much VHS inventory as he could from retailers, distributors and studios; he then sold more than 4 million VHS videotapes over the last two years.
Miniature $10 Microscope In Your Pocket Soon
A tiny microscope that employs the same kind of chip used in digital cameras can produce high-resolution images of cells without the expensive, space-hogging lenses that have been part of microscope design for centuries. Researchers at Caltech, who developed the revolutionary imaging system, say that the devices could be mass-produced at a cost of $10 each and incorporated into large arrays, enabling high-throughput imaging in biology labs. The device could also broaden access to imaging technology: incorporated into PDA-size devices, for example, the microscopes could enable rural doctors to carry sophisticated imaging systems in their pockets.
How To Unlock The iPhone And iPhone 3G — The Vietnamese Way
CNET editor Dong Ngo was in Vietnam and what more fruitful way to spend the time than hitting cell phone shops and asking folks how they do the whole unlocking the iPhone magick.
Hanoi shops are well-known for successfully unlocking iPhones and iPhone 3G — even the “impossible to lock” 2.2 software update for the iPhone 3G. Unlocking unlockable shit is their idea of white-knuckle fun. And this is the delicate way they do it.
You Can Stealthily “Transmit” Bullets, Not Text Messages, Thru The Cellphone Gun
This is a cellphone gun seized somewhere in Italy. It has four bullets and powerful enough to kill, but if you’re thinking about, say, whacking this guy, forget it.
Somebody Actually Turned Fred Flintstone’s “Car” Into An “Exercise Machine
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What seems to be known as “Treadmobil,” this is a treadmill on wheels. Well, you can always just run, you know, but that’s soooo normal.
Sony Tops Everybody By Unveiling The World’s Thinnest TV
This is the Sony Bravia ZX1, the world’s first organic LED TV, 40 inches of real estate, only 9.9 mm thick, and consumes less power than a light bulb. It’s so awesome it can replace your girlfriend.
The Original iPod From 1979
This is the sketch of Kane Kramer’s IXI prototype that he invented in 1979 — a credit card-sized music player that could have played a “whopping” 3.5 minutes of music. Apple, in its efforts to defend itself from the lawsuit filed by Burst.com, has admitted that it has in fact copied its iPod technology directly from Kramer’s device.
Analog Film, Meet Thy Doom
This is the Red One, a revolutionary digital motion picture camera that matches the resolution of analog film. It has been developed by Red Digital Cinema, a company owned by Jim Jannard — the same guy who built the multi-billion sunglasses-and-other-sleek-shit manufacturer Oakley from scratch.
[Jannard's] team of engineers and scientists have created the first digital movie camera that matches the detail and richness of analog film. The Red One records motion in a whopping 4,096 lines of horizontal resolution—”4K” in filmmaker lingo—and 2,304 of vertical. For comparison, hi-def digital movies like Sin City and the Star Wars prequels top out at 1,920 by 1,080, just like your HDTV. (There’s also a slightly higher-resolution option called 2K that reaches 2,048 lines by 1,080.) Film doesn’t have pixels, but the industry-standard 35-millimeter stock has a visual resolution roughly equivalent to 4K. And that’s what makes the Red so exciting: It delivers all the dazzle of analog, but it’s easier to use and cheaper—by orders of magnitude—than a film camera. In other words, Jannard’s creation threatens to make 35-mm movie film obsolete.