Japan to introduce vending machines with age-check system

"...The institute announced that a total of 620,000 tobacco vending machines nationwide will be switched during 2008 to types that can read "tobacco cards" with integrated circuit chips bought by adult smokers."

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A radical fix for airlines: Make flying free

Michael O'Leary, Chief Executive of Ireland's Ryanair (Research), Europe's most profitable airline, wants to make air travel free. Not free as in free from regulation, but free as in zero cost. By the end of the decade, he promises, "more than half of our passengers will fly free."

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Army bans privately bought armor

The army really hates it when soldiers take care of themselves. Especially when it highlights their incompetence.

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What Bill Gates Wants That Outlook Can't Give Him

In the midst of Microsoft's Convergence Conference, which evoked memories of Tom Cruise "painting" data on a big screen in "Minority Report," Redmond's prophet staked-out a decidely prosaic vision. Bill Gates forsees vastly more powerful Outlook rules that let you tailor your message responses to the person, place and time... Easily.

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ThinkGeek Does April Fools a Day Early

ThinkGeek.com continues the tradition of coming up with some great fake gear for the tech crowd.

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MSN Messenger / Windows Live Messenger Final UI

Screenshots of an as yet unreleased Final UI for Windows Live Messenger, the MSN Messenger replacement. Best UI so far! Includes the new Voicemail feature that is as yet not public.

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New reversible male contraceptive

Nonhormonal, reversible, 10 minutes procedure, last 10 years! Doctors inject a gel into the tube that sperm travel through. Fertility returns if you get another injection that dissolves the gel.

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Virtual Cell Biology may help create pet dragons, gryphons, and unicorns

GeneDupe's scientists can customise the result so that it belongs to a particular species, by loading it with a virtual copy of that animal's genome. Then, if the cell is also loaded with the right virtual molecules, it will behave like a fertilised egg, and start dividing and developing�first into an embryo, and ultimately into an adult.

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Amazing Photoshop Retouch

How advertisers assemble reality, breakdown

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Final Cut Studio goes Universal Binary.

Apple�s Final Cut Studio is now available as a Universal Binary and will run natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs.

These apps include Final Cut Pro, Motion, SoundTrack Pro and DVD Studio Pro.

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Terror-proof jets feature missile-jamming lasers & refuse-to-crash software

"Nearly five years after September 11, the airline industry is finally adopting new in-flight technologies to keep planes safe from terrorists. Tests on passenger-carrying flights could begin by the end of the year, says Homeland Security spokesman Brian Doyle. "

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Solving Sudoku with SQL

A very informative tutorial on solving sudoku puzzles and a bit of SQL too.

Probably not your typical use for SQL.

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Eclipse: Picture of Moon's Shadow on Earth As Seen From the Space Station

The shadow of the moon falls on Earth as seen from the International Space Station, 230 miles above the planet, during a total solar eclipse at about 4:50 a.m. EST March 29.

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Radioshack game contains Commodore 64 on a single chip and is hackable

This website is devoted to the Hummer off-road racing game currently being sold by Radio Shack. Inside, it contains the Commodore 64 DTV chip, designed by Jeri Ellsworth. This chip is, in essence, and entire Commodore 64 reduced down to a single chip.

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He created the first router but Cisco got credit.

William (Bill) Yeager is 66 and still gets peeved when someone trots out the Silicon Valley fable about how the founders of Cisco invented the router. He was the guy at Stanford University that made it happen.

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Adam Curry's shady Podshow contract exposed on Keith and the Girl podcast

An anonymous listener mailed the Podshow contract to Keith and the Girl's PO Box and they read it on the show. Take a listen to see how few rights you would have left if you signed. see also: www.keithandthegirl.com/forums/showthread.php?p=28947

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Google patents free Wi-Fi

The search-engine giant has developed and patented three technologies for offering wireless Internet access, and advertising, free of charge.

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64GB USB 2.0 flash drive. Yes, flash.

Insanely huge storage for a flash drive that size. Yes, it is 6-4, sixty four, gigabytes, of flash memory. This dwarfs many hard disk based portable usb drives as well, and at a fraction of the size. Imagine a 60 gigs flash based iPod..

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Gmail New Features.

Some Gmail New Features, including table, html, image, and smiley.
And attachment???

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Sony's MP3 Player Gets Thumbdrive Form Factor

Unannounced and unreleased new Sony MP3 players. Some images floating around show a very tiny, single line display for track info that virtually ensures migraines if you try to read it. The A-series player is rumored to be available in 512MB, 1GB and 2GB capacities at up to $180 US.

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Apple's Mac Os X 10.5 Leopard Will Probably Run Windows!

Rumors have been brewing that Jobs and co. are taking steps toward allowing Windows apps to run on Macs. Now evidence has surfaced that Apple has begun the process toward doing just that!

Is this the beginning of the end for Microsoft's juggernaut 95% market share?

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Autistic Spends 16 Years Designing an Amazing World

Gilles Trehin is an autistic 28-year-old. Since the age of 12, he has been designing an imaginary city called Urville. He has created detailed historical, geographical, cultural, and economic descriptions of the city, as well as an absolutely extraordinary set of drawings. Check out the pics!

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Humans Ignore the Evidence of their own Eyes

You probably think you�d notice if all the objects around you started moving, but research at Oxford University published today in Current Biology shows that in certain circumstances people do not even notice if a room grows to four times its size.

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VIDEO: Air Car. A car that runs on air

Motor Development International has developed a car that runs on air. It uses Compressed Air Technology to run the car. The tanks are made of carbon fiber. Great for city driving since it only has a range of 150km. Cold air is the only emission which can then run the A/C.

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Google DELETES their OWN BLOG by Mistake

We've determined the cause of tonight's outage. The blog was mistakenly deleted by us (d'oh!) which allowed the blog address to be temporarily claimed by another user. This was not a hack, and nobody guessed our password. Our bad

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Move over Bill Gates and Steve Jobs?

Brian Bouchard and his delusional friends think they are the next Microsoft. They have proved this by slapping together old computer parts in a pine box, writing a simple Dos-like Operating System, and stealing the name "Episoft".

"Your looking at, possibly, the newest revolution in computer history..." - Brian Bouchard

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XG Unveils first EXTERNAL power supply

XG has launched an external high-end 600 W fanless power supply, called Magnum 600 External. Yes, you read it right: external!

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Beastie Boys buy 50 video cams for their movie - then return them!

"To make their new concert movie, the Beastie Boys distributed Hi8 video-cams to 50 fans at a 2004 show in New York City". When they were done, "We put them back in their boxes and returned them for a refund." Does this mean after watching their movie, viewers can get a refund?

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iPod phone confirmed

While analysts and Apple rumor sites have been speculating, Benq confirms that an iPhone is in the works. Their suppliers who work with Apple have been requested to supply parts for the iPhone. Benq also states that the Apple iPhone is common knowledge in Taiwan. The iPhone is expected to be released in the 4th quarter of this year.

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Video iPod to come with Bluetooth (new reports from MacNN)

According to American Research Technology analysts, Apple is indeed looking to replace their high end iPod with a new video iPod in the next quarter. New to the rumor is information that the new "widescreen video iPod' would come with Bluetooth headphones.

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How TV audio produces surround sound

"HD transition tends to work against sound quality because of physical design constraints imposed by the new form factor. With limited room for speaker drivers and limited enclosure volume in flat panel sets, manufacturers have turned to signal processing to ensure that audio quality matches or exceeds video quality in their products."

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How TV audio produces surround sound

"HD transition tends to work against sound quality because of physical design constraints imposed by the new form factor. With limited room for speaker drivers and limited enclosure volume in flat panel sets, manufacturers have turned to signal processing to ensure that audio quality matches or exceeds video quality in their products."

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LEARN 3D Modeling in 30minutes! Excellent wiki primer for any program

If you want to learn 3D and don't know what you're doing, spend 30min. reading this wiki primer and you will have a great grasp on how modeling in 3d works. Universal tutorial that will help you out in almost any 3D application (blender/maya/lightwave etc..).

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Using iTunes to backup your music

This is a tutorial on how to use iTunes to back up your music to CD or DVD, and automatically keep track of new music that has not been previously archived... making future backups almost effortless.

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Adult Swim 24/7 on-line shows finally go live this Friday!

With premieres of Robot Chickens new season and being able to watch shows 24/7 like Futurama this should push the IPTV movement even more.

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Podcast News: Podcasts Outnumber Radio Station Worldwide

What took Radio stations 100 years to do, Podcasting did in just 2 years. Yeah, "Pod People" are taking over!

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How Apple ate the world

Great article discussing Apple's position in the world of Tech and the world of Art on its 30th Birthday. Well written.

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60 Minutes Story/Video - Bush Administration Censors Global Warming Reports

James Hansen is arguably the world's leading researcher on global warming. He's the head of NASA's top institute studying the climate. But this imminent scientist tells correspondent Scott Pelley that the Bush administration is restricting who he can talk to and editing what he can say. Politicians, he says, are rewriting the science.

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60 Minutes Story/Video - Bush Administration Censors Global Warming Reports

James Hansen is arguably the world's leading researcher on global warming. He's the head of NASA's top institute studying the climate. But this imminent scientist tells correspondent Scott Pelley that the Bush administration is restricting who he can talk to and editing what he can say. Politicians, he says, are rewriting the science.

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Enigma project cracks second code

Online collaborators have successfully cracked the second of three recently discovered German WWII encrypted messages, as part of the M4 Project.

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1 Terabyte of Solid State Hard Drive Space!!

Texas Memory Systems are selling a 1 TB storage solution called the Tera-RamSan. Bandwidth = 24 GB per second, Latency = Less than 14 microseconds. If i could only afford it.

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cbs5.com - San Francisco-Based Jamba Juice To Be Acquired

cbs5.com - San Francisco-Based Jamba Juice To Be Acquired

Apple Offering Full Length Movie on iTunes

It appears Apple is now offering the first full-length movie for sale on the iTunes Music Store. High School Musical is a 1hr, 39minute Disney Channel original TV movie that is now available on iTunes!!!

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Google Buys Sketch Up

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/new-home-for-last-software.html

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Intel Transition to be Complete by August in All Macs?

"Citi expects Apple to complete its transition to Intel-based microprocessors in August with the introduction of a new, dual-core PowerMac, with Intel-based iBooks coming as early as April. The brokerage also expects Apple to release a new video iPod in April."

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BuddyTV... interactive TV in Beta, Try it with 24 tonight..

Its PST, from the guy who does the '24 the Podcast', log on give it a try!... or just try to bring it down.. whatever!!!!

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Pretty damn cool....

Make Me A Dirty Old Woman! (in 11 steps)

Photoshop tutorial on taking a photo of a regular guy and turning it into a dirty old woman...woot!

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Bandwidth Calculator

Bandwidth Calculator converter from MBps to Mbps

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Does Microsoft get a bad rap? Does Apple get too much credit? Good read

In pretty in depth look at the differences between the two giants and how, perhaps Microsoft is attempting to gives computer users exactly what they want versus Apple who does everything they can to tell us what we want. Very interesting read.

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Scary! Flesh-eating bacteria infects, kills woman in 3 days

On Feb. 24 a woman noticed her thumb was swollen. She had a rare, fast-spreading, flesh-eating bacterial infection. On Feb. 27 the doctors amputated her arm and removed most of the flesh off the left side of her body in a desperate effort to save her life. She died that night.

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Record Set for Hottest Temperature on Earth: 3.6 Billion Degrees in Lab

Scientists have produced superheated gas exceeding temperatures of 2 billion degrees Kelvin, or 3.6 billion degrees Fahrenheit.

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An Algorithm to Solve All Sudoku Puzzles

A scientist working an an algorithm to help develop images for microscopy accidentally found a universal solution to the Japanese brainteaser.

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New iTunes Season Pass for TV Shows

In addition to the Daily Show and Colbert Report being added this morning, the iTMS has introduced a new method for purchasing whole seasons of TV shows as they come out (instead of just the last season.)

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How to "Lucid Dream"

This is a Wikibook (one of the more completed ones) that explains the techniques and science behind Lucid Dreaming; being able to control your dreams by realising you are dreaming. Everyone is able to do this.

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Finally! REAL Origami photos from CNET!!

title says it all!

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Hak.5 episode 8 is now out!

Hak.5 releases episode 8 where they dive into IPTV subscription apps, a pandora time shifting hack, and PC video over coax mod. Oh yeah, and a TikiBar parody! And lots more Hak.5 goodness! I just love this show.

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iPod AV - Exclusive Pictures

Barely a week after the "iPod video" hoax, MacShrine has 3 new images showing off the iPod AV, and yes - they're real this time.

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Massive quotes directory

An awesome site I found that has tons of quotes, what's even cooler is they're well categorized

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ABC's Shows Will Be Free on iTunes

Ad-supported iTunes Video of Grey's Anatomy, Lost and Desp Housewives. Guess they figured out, finally, that advertisers will pay more than the consumer...

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Mac Mini NES with working controller ports

A working Mac mini placed inside an old school 8-bit Nintendo. When running an emulator, old Nintendo controllers plugged into the controller ports actually work!

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Mac Mini NES with working controller ports

A working Mac mini placed inside an old school 8-bit Nintendo. When running an emulator, old Nintendo controllers plugged into the controller ports actually work!

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Become an internet bank, with a click.

Thanks to the magic of the internet, you can now lend money or request money in the form of a loan. You set the interest rate, you take the benefits. Is this the next e-bay?

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