Sometimes technology can be used to benefit mankind. This is not one such example. One of the promoted features of Pimpstar (I really don’t have to comment on that, do I) is the option to change the images on the fly. While driving. As if these things weren’t already going to cause enough accidents from people staring at the sheer stupidity.
Intel are finally starting to pull some smart moves again. First they’re ditching the ultra-inefficient P4/NetBurst architecture for Conroe goodness, and now it turns out they’re also building a damn nice water cooling system. Small, efficient (it can cool a 3.8GHz P4 EE to a crazy 5GHz), metal pipes, a (presumably) quiet centrifugal pump, and all for under $50. Suddenly all the current water cooling solutions look pretty amateurish, just goes to show what you can happen when a mega corp lets their hardcore geeks off the engineering leash.
I wish I was clever enough to rename then patent an existing idea and get 4 million in funding for it. Oh, and this thing that is basically a tweaked network card will cost $300. Isn’t that called a con? And I thought the Ageia PhysX guys had a difficult sell ahead of them. Graphics cards alone are expensive enough without other (pointless) cards to buy.
Interactive visualisations, image sorting and zooming, games and more. It’s like the Nintendo DS was just the tip of the iceberg. Touch screens are nothing new but it seems the technology has advanced to a point where you can touch multiple spots at once, a surprisingly significant advance. Even more interesting - Apple has a patent on this kind of interaction.
I still can’t work out quite how this works after three times reading it, but I want a pair. (via Digg)
Some people take their Christmas lights very very seriously. Seems like it’s done in real time too. The excellent music is by Trans-Siberian Orchestra. (nice find manero)
To expand on the heading, seems butterfly wings work like LEDs. Of course, nature does it a little better thanks to the wonders of evolution so scientists are looking to learn from that.
This is like a month old but how could I not post it. Four graphics cards on one motherboard. So much power. It must generate sufficient heat to melt your kneecaps off under the desk.
Some people have far too much money matched with the opposite amount of sense. I love my 5.1 setup but it cost me under 300 quid for clear, floor shaking, directional bullet whizzing goodness. There are people crazy enough to pay 100 times that for a single cable. I’m sure it’s good quality, but even so, if there’s one industry that can successfully mark things up beyond sanity levels it’s these guys. (Thanks Fred!)
On the Million Dollar Homepage. 1 dollar for each pixel and you can advertise whatever you want. Sounds stupid but people are coughing up to contribute and the guy (a Uni student) already has £288k. Sometimes, all it takes to make cash is a crazy idea that catches on. Fun idea, cheap to contribute, news coverage, loads of “pixels”… what a stonking idea.
