One Per Cent: Turn anything (even your clothes) into a touchscreen
Want the convenience of a touchscreen without the hassle of removing your phone from your pocket? Researchers at Microsoft have you covered, with two new touch interfaces that let you turn any surface into a touchscreen or control your phone through a trouser pocket.New computer interface are pouring out of the labs. Which with the breakdown of the mouse and keyboard paradigm now will most likely spread everywhere. Just think of how few mechanical or moving parts (read: expensive and needs mechanical repair and replacement) a computer using an interface of light will have.
I wonder how long it will be before it is main stream commercial. 3 years?
(via thenextweb)
World News: 33 Mexican Soldiers Accidentally Invade Texas
Whoops!!! Need to get these guys GPSs…
More than two dozen Mexico soldiers accidentally invaded Texas in Humvees on Tuesday after allegedly losing sight of the border line between the two countries, The Monitor reports.
The 33 soldiers were quickly processed by U.S. authorities and allowed to return to Mexico,…
What a serious waste of time and money. He should be feeding the hungry - bonehead!
A billionaire from the United Arab Emirates, Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan, hired a crew to dig his name in the sand near Abu Dhabi, and the result was visible from space. The name “Hamad,” in this image from Google Earth, is two miles long. (Google) (Taken with instagram)
A South American grasshopper
The US Tax Burden Falls Disproportionately On Individuals and Small Business
Corporations need to step up and pay their fair share; take the burden off the individuals and balance the budget. Pinheads! (referring to “government”) [follow the link for supporting data]
Amazon rolls out textbook rentals for Kindle, promises discounts up to 80 percent
In addition to the $$ savings; the Kindle “platform” provides search, bookmarks and memory across devices (such as furthest page read, book marks, notes, etc.)
Video description: This video shows our Sun over several weeks during a period of highly unusual solar activity. It is comprised of images taken by a device called the Solar X-Ray Imager (SXI), which is aboard one of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association’s (NOAA) weather satellites. NOAA monitors the Sun with the SXI in order to predict when solar flares may cause dangerous problems on Earth, such as communications failures and power outages.
This video is fascinating, yet terrifying. The sun is the type of thing I like to trust will always be there and doing just fine, and the idea that the sun can go through “a period of highly unusual solar activity” gives me anxiety. Chill out, sun.
Turntable.fm’s co-founder Billy Chasen has his business on lock, literally. You don’t use keys to enter Turntable.fm’s HQ, you send a text message from a white-listed phone number and voila, it opens. This is a much smarter, safer and cheaper option than handing out a ton of keys.
UPDATE: This won a Twilio prize and he explains how to build one yourself.
(via soupsoup)
Photos: Riots, fire, destruction after Vancouver’s loss
A Vancouver Canucks fan holds a hockey stick after smashing the windows of a bank as he reacts to the Canucks losing game seven of the NHL Stanley Cup finals to the Boston Bruins in Vancouver, June 15, 2011.
He is screwed!
(via abcworldnews)
