The “‘Lobster Eye’ X-ray focusing optics” device is a hand-held optical device able to see through walls, even shipping containers. Their target market is law enforcement. Great. I love how they list “contraband hidden behind walls” as a use for this device.
“Anything behind walls” sounds too invasive…
Physicists at the Bhavnagar University in Gujarat, India, have discovered a way to trap, store, and release laser light in a fluid on command. The fluid operates at room temperature, and is controlled with magnetic fields.
[The scientists] coated micron-size magnetite spheres with oleic acid and dispersed them through a ferrofluid, which is a suspension of much smaller magnetic nanoparticles (in this case held in kerosene). When an external magnetic field was applied to the fluid, which was held in a glass cell, laser light passing through the medium was trapped inside. Photons escaped when the field was switched off.
“SCiB” touted to be safer than today’s Lithium Ion, lasts 10 years, charges in minutes (@ up to 50 amps).
1/3 pound (150 gram) cell is
- the size of a mobile phone
- provides 4.2 aH @ 2.4 volts. (devices)
4.4 pound (2 kg) cell is
- the size of a small paperback novel
- provides 42 aH @ 24 volts. (vehicles)
If they are able to deliver in mass production at a profit, this could be a major new development in both transportation and electronic devices.
I usually try to keep it down at work, but the latest xkcd had me literally LOLing. Look at Stallman’s beard! Hilarious. And DVD Jon gets an honorable mention. Oh, how I love this comic.
I thought I would do my part to help this guy out. Good luck, buddy.
After I upgraded my dual-boot laptop’s Ubuntu from 7.04 to 7.10, I’ve noticed that the upgrade overwrote my GRUB settings, so when I boot my machine, I no longer have a choice for booting into WinXP. I know the partition is still there, because Ubuntu 7.10 comes with NTFS read/write capability, and automatically shows a ‘Windows XP’ drive in my devices.
I switched to Ubuntu about 8 months ago or so, and really started using it full-time about 6 months ago. As the sole IT person for an organization of 1200 users, 420+ WinXP machines, and three server centers, I can easily say that administrating everything out of 7.04 has been a breeze. I’ve been reading up on 7.10, and can say that Ubuntu is easily rivalling Windows and OSX in terms of average-user functionality.
So this Saturday I have to have my final capstone presentation done to get my Master’s Degree in Info. Sys. Mgmt. The Saturday after that the 50-80 page paper is due. I’m going a bit nutty getting it all done. I took a StumbleUpon break and came across this… video? Let me know what you think. I like it!
This is great - for those of you who have had the life-changing experience of owning a TiVo, things just got a lot better. TiVo has added bolean search to their wishlist management.
What this means is that while in the past, you were stuck choosing either to record:
OK, so most IT people I know would rather visit a dentist every day than have to deal with Windows-related issues. There was a time when you could always go to Mac - but am I alone in feeling like the Mac vs. PC commercials are bad for the Macs? I was seriously considering one, but now feel like I don’t want to sign on for fear that I’ll be cast into the iSmug crowd.
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