Polymer Vision has created an e-ink display that’s totally rollable, and they’ve created a mobile device that will use it. This technology is sure to please all Earth: Final Conflict fans.

New Cellular Book Device

Drag and Draw is a set of digital drawing tools. It consists of a multicolor ‘Brush’, an ‘Eraser’, and a ‘Magic Wand’ to bring their drawings to life and a ‘Bucket’ to project the virtual drawings onto the wall.

Drag and Draw Light Technology

A video look into the mechanics of a computer hard drive in action.

A solo worm performing a thoughtful little number. No worms were hurt.

Following a gruelling audition process, one solo worm was hand selected to perform its own music, without proviso, upon a specially adapted and destabilised FM synthesis circuit disembowelled from a Yamaha PSS-470. For one day, this worm was treated like royalty; whisked around London’s swankiest mud spas and hermaphrodite clubs, before spending an evening at the very best hotel (whatever it’s called, I dunno). Ah, what a star…

As for the machinations behind the pizzazz; a Yamaha FM synthesis board is sensitivised by overclocking it with a painfully high quartz crystal (17 Mhz), various components have either been removed or replaced, and the entire circuit hard wired to run on the lowest possible current/voltage (to avoid the worm getting hurt). The worm was safely returned to its natural habitat.

Incidentally, this video was submitted to (and rejected by) the Annual Slug & Worm Conference. They did not like worm music one bit.

If you liked this worm music however, more can be seen at the 6th Annual ‘Noise!’ Festival in Canada this year. A treat for the senses perhaps? More info:
http://noise.industrial.org/

Edit: Just a quick disclaimer… Again, I swear that the worm was not hurt! Please don’t worry. The circuit was adapted to run on a very low current. The spasms are just involuntary reactions.

Due to some concern for the worm’s welfare, I state again that this circuit is ADAPTED to be as gentle on the worm as possible! It is an experimental way of creating aleatory music - with the worm’s health being MOST IMPORTANT. The ’safe’ worm current was basically calculated by scaling human resistance against an ampage that constitutes a painful shock, applying this to the worm’s own resistance and developing a circuit that runs BELOW the resultant current. I tested the circuit on my tongue countless times to fine tune the voltage/current ratio, which is the closest thing on the human body that approximates the worm’s resistance and nerve agglomeration.

THis video that details the use of RFID technologies in the supply chain

Google TechTalks examins human computation and how to achieve a better search engine by exploiting people to work for free through online video game addictions and technology.

Luis von Ahn is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, where he also received his Ph.D. in 2005. Previously, Luis obtained a B.S. in mathematics from Duke University in 2000. He is the recipient of a Microsoft Research Fellowship.

ABSTRACT Tasks like image recognition are trivial for humans, but continue to challenge even the most sophisticated computer programs. This talk introduces a paradigm for utilizing human processing power to solve problems that computers cannot yet solve. Traditional approaches to solving such problems focus on improving software. I advocate a novel approach: constructively channel human brainpower using computer games. For example, the ESP Game, described in this talk, is an enjoyable online game — many people play over 40 hours a week — and when people play, they help label images on the Web with descriptive keywords. These keywords can be used to significantly improve the accuracy of image search. People play the game not because they want to help, but because they enjoy it.

I describe other examples of “games with a purpose”: Peekaboom, which helps determine the location of objects in images, and Verbosity, which collects common-sense knowledge. I also explain a general approach for constructing games with a purpose.

Helicopter crew catches a couple fornicating in the back of a convertible. Military technology at is best.

Your Tax Dollars at Work

Homeland Security Survielence

A quick demonstration of ct92404’s Tesla Coil, showing some of what you can do with 100,000 volts at high frequency!