There are plenty of reviews of the fancy new Dell Latitude Z out there, so I won’t bother going into those details. The one detail I think is really cool is a wireless inductive charging option that lets you just set the laptop down on a little pad and it will charge wirelessly. Of course, […]
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This article in Science points to a surprising trend… life expectancies trend upward during a recession, and trend downward during periods of excess abundance. Of course, its just a data discovery at this point… nobody has yet put any research into the causes. I know for sure that, at this point in our current recession, […]
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Technologies designed to quickly test a persons race for the purpose of allowing political asylum have been developed and are currently being used by the UK Border Agency. Science has obtained Border Agency documents showing that isotope analyses of hair and nail samples will also be conducted “to help identify a person’s true country of […]
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A friend of mine has decided to destroy his BMW 7 series by letting people pay him to put stickers all over it. I snagged sticker slots 2, 5, and 6 to put my bumper sticker sized self promotions on his car. I deliberated for a bit, but ultimately decided to place all 3 square […]
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The AISight™ Cognitive Video Analytics™ software takes visual input from either a live camera or recorded video, learns what activities and behaviors are normal, and generates real-time alerts that notify appropriate security personnel of potentially threatening behaviors. Unlike rules-based video-analytics software, the intelligent AISight solution identifies threats and behaviors that were not previously defined or […]
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Documentaries seem take a long time to go from filming to release. I’ve helped film a couple of them, and I was up in Toronto a year or two ago (can’t remember exactly, it was that long ago) to be filmed assisting with a live implantation and typical door lock project. The trip was only […]
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I just found this Elective Home Surgery FAQ published by BMEZine. While I don’t suggest anyone do any kind of home surgery, this info might be useful for those that choose to. I’m re-posting it here to help protect the information in case BMEZine ever bites it. Please check the BMEZine site for the most […]
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If you want to see the forefront of public surveillance and identification technologies, look no further than London. For the last 10 years, the UK has been the leader at deploying these new technologies in order to monitor and account for its citizenry. However this latest program is hoped to be a trial run and […]
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City signs have a unique way of greeting people. In Issaquah, for instance, motorists are told they’re entering “a special place where people care.” For years, Bothell invited people to stay “for a day or a lifetime.” In Medina, a new sign bears this warning: “You Are Entering a 24 Hour Video Surveillance Area.” Cameras […]
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Back when I got an RFID implant put into my left hand, the first guy to interview me was Shannon Larratt from BMEZine. We loosely kept in touch for a while after that, and he mentioned to me the relatively new concept of obtaining a sixth sense through the implantation of magnets in the fingertips. […]
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