Category: Tech
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Vertigo on the top floor
As if climbing up was not enough to create vertigo in some sky-scrappers, here comes an Italian architect, David Fischer, proposing to have a tower whose floors would rotate independently in a 68-floor tower. This is in Dubai. This is not decided yet. But the local lack of architectural restraint make it very believable. Thanks…
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12 monochrome laser printers
12 monochrome laser printers compared by Tom’s Hardware. These are not the printers that grab all media attention, but a mere B&W laser printer can reduce significantly your printing budget and they come at really low prices.
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How to visit freely some paying web sites
This is really not complicated, many web sites (even subscription-based) want to be indexed by Google. To this end, they recognize the Google spider and give it priviliged access rights. Why not try to disguise yourself as the most well known search engine of the world? Simple: Modify your browser identification string? Simple, but not…
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Periodic table of the Internet
Chemists and physicists are all very well aware of the importance of classifying atoms in the periodic table of elements. Internet users may discover that the presentation of the main web sites through another kind of periodic table would be useful. Seen on WellingtonGrey
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Watches, watch madness
Do you love watches? Are you a geek? You should love these surprising watches. WebTime Series Elite is displaying time by the alignment of the colored polygons and the vertical scale: Shinshoku prefers to use a colored light code: Seiko’s e-Ink is more a prototype using flexible electronic ink or electronic paper to display time.…
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Bioshock is having real DRM problems
We have been speaking a lot about Bioshock the newest First Person Shooter (FPS) PC video game from Second Take. We expected a very nice game in a complex environment with varied adversaries and game tactics. But we did not expected the most poweful adversary: The Digital Rights Management (DRM) protection against copy. TwitchGuru video…
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Nikon and 12 million pixels: Nikon D300
Here it comes! Nikon follows in Canon’s footsteps and announced its new digital single lens reflex camera, the Nikon D300 improving on the foundation of the D200 whose commercial life was quite nice. The job is a tough one: making even better sales than a successful camera and countering the attempts of Canon, Sony, Pentax,…
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News from the P2P front line
It has been quite some time that I did not write about the P2P news. They start popping up everywhere and it is time to talk about the wonderful things happening right under our eyes. First, the Internet users start to find again -in Europe- some protection since a decision from the European Justice Court:…
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Special sleeping bag
After the socks with fingers, here comes the sleeping bag with arms and legs: Selk-bag.