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Google’s augmented reality eyewear is coming to disrupt your face and your business model. If you don’t even have to pull your phone out to take a photo, get directions, or message with friends, why would you need to buy the latest iPhone or spend so much time on Facebook? It could be a year before Google eyewear reaches stores, but that’s why these and other tech companies need to strategize now.
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Sometimes it's the unknown or overlooked little mistakes that leave an organization wide open to attack: a missing hash mark in a server configuration, a long-forgotten PBX user account, or an embedded Web server in an office printer. With compliance pressures, increasingly cagey malware, and the fear of being the next front-page data breach victim, it's no wonder that enterprises might not notice potential problems with their lower-profile devices, or make subtle configuration mistakes. Even so, ignorance is no excuse when the bad guys hone in on an inconspicuous weakness, like a few older, rarely used desktops that haven't been updated with the latest patches.
Six Deadly Security Blunders Businesses Make - Dark Reading
Posted Saturday, May 7th, 2011 at 10:00 am by Antonio Wells Comments Watch on Mobile The innovative team at Human Media Lab have pulled of some Sci-Fi wonders by creating the Paperphone which is functional, running Android using “bend gestures” to navigate and operate. The Paperphone can make calls, run apps like the music player to play tracks, read eBooks, plus more. Additionally, they demonstrate it being worn on the wrist and operated by touch; alternatively when laid flat it can accept input from a stylus.
Paperphone running Android, Future of Smartphones? | Android Tapp. Android App Reviews
This is so simple. Continuance is a set of batteries with a USB interface on the side. The batteries are rechargeable plus dole out some juice to stranded gadgets that are starved of power. Handy, compact and a totally do-able concept!
Continuance – Rechargeable Battery with USB Interface by Haimo Bao, Hailong Piao, Yuancheng Liu & Xiameng Hu » Yanko Design
A tutorial on how to bypass Internet Censorship using Proxies, Shells, JAP e.t.c. Different ways to beat the filtering in schools, countries or companies (blocked ports e.t.c). This is the original and so newer than the translations because I'm still working on it. In the last 10 years the Internet grew very, very fast.
HOWTO bypass Internet Censorship, a tutorial on getting around filters and blocked ports
Earthbag Construction
earthbag home Long sandbags are filled on-site and arranged in layers or as compressed coils. Stabilizers such as cement, lime, or sodium carbonate may be added to an ideal mix of 70% sand, 30% clay. Straw may also be added.
Hear, hear all hardcore fanboys, we have a special treat for you and want to know your take on it. Presenting the iPod Nano Touch Concept: Extended and Smarter! The concept includes juicy features like WiFi, front facing camera that enables Facetime calls, weather status, ability to record Nike+ exercise results, classic apps like time, music, radio, images & podcasts. Designer: Enrico Penello
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Virgin Atlantic Looks to Biofuels to Halve Carbon Emissions on Some Flights - IEEE Spectrum
Virgin Atlantic Airways hopes that within two to three years its planes will start flying some of their long haul routes on a fuel with only half the carbon emissions of standard jet fuel. Richard Branson's airline announced a partnership with LanzaTech , a company based in New Zealand that takes waste gases from various industrial facilities and converts them into usable fuels. The end result, theoretically, is a jet fuel that Virgin Atlantic will use on routes between London and Delhi, Shanghai, and elsewhere, with half the carbon footprint they have now. According to Branson, in a press release: "This partnership to produce a next generation, low-carbon aviation fuel is a major step towards radically reducing our carbon footprint, and we are excited about the savings that this technology could help us achieve....This new technology is scalable, sustainable and can be commercially produced at a cost comparable to conventional jet fuel."
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Dry Erase Whiteboard Paint IdeaPaint PRO turns virtually anything you can paint into a high-performance dry-erase surface! No matter where you use it, big ideas follow.Construction has begun on the $150 million Martin Luther King, Jr. Multi-Service Ambulatory Care Center in Los Angeles, expected to take LEED Gold green building certification. Read more →
Green Building | EarthTechling
The Original Electric Car: Unplugged? Perhaps the most notorious suppressed invention is the General Motors EV1, subject of the 2006 documentary, Who Killed the Electric Car? The EV1 was the world's first mass-produced electric car, with 800 of them up for lease from GM in the late '90s. GM ended the EV1 line in 1999, stating that consumers weren't happy with the limited driving range of the car's batteries, making it unprofitable to continue production. Many skeptics, however, believe GM killed the EV1 under pressure from oil companies, who stand to lose the most if high-efficiency vehicles conquer the market. It didn't help that GM hunted down and destroyed every last EV1, ensuring the technology would die out.