Want to improve the look of your next photo or video, but don’t want to spend big bucks to do it? Well, we’ve got you covered with these DIY projects, from the MAKE archives: Maker Workshop PDF – Steadycam , Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Video Making | Digg this!
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DIY Video/Photo Roundup: Camera rigs
Just posted an item over at SmartPlanet about a new company called Digital Lumens that is using wireless networking and energy management software, in conjunction with intelligent LEDs, to help slash lighting costs in warehouse and industrial facilities. Sort of a smart grid for lights, which is the concept that this greentech startup is going
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It’s possible to apply smart grid concepts on a smaller scale. In this case, to lights.
Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 16 March 2010 at 20:53:00 EFF reveals that law enforcement officers use sites to glean personal information Documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Federation (EFF) show that law enforcement is increasingly turning to social networking to gather evidence on suspects….
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Combing through hundreds of blog posts and news articles daily, Dirk Klingner, our technology-trend watcher, sifts through the noise to bring you the tech news most important to consumers. If you have a tip on a story you want to share, leave a comment below.
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Daily Dispatch: Facebook experiments with QR codes; Intel launches low-cost solid-state drive
Forget the laboratory supply store, you can score a centrifuge on late-night TV! I recently visited a lab that had a salad spinner on their lab bench and at first I wondered if they were putting together a salad lunch there but when I took a peek I got a nice surprise. It turns out that the salad spinner was actually a bench top, “minifuge” version of a plate centrifuge.
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Make a lab centrifuge out of a salad spinner
The Pinnacle, along with the Lexmark Platinum, Prestige and Interact, is a multifunction color inkjet printer offering SMB customers Lexmark’s time-saving SmartSolutions Technology, a large LCD touch screen, the “world’s lowest-cost … launched a national ad campaign highlighting 500-page yield black ink cartridges for $4.99, compatible with the Pinnacle, Platinum and Prestige models.
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Lexmark unveils award-winning Pinnacle
In response to the National Broadband Plan presented to Congress today by the Federal Communication Commission, Joel Kelsey, a policy analyst with Consumers Union (the nonprofit parent company of Consumer Reports ) released the following statement. We commend the commission for the goals and the vision in this plan to bring affordable, high-speed Internet access to all Americans. The U.S
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Consumers Union responds positively to FCC’s broadband plan
A Google representative has disclosed that the Android Market offers up a whopping 30,000 in free and paid applications on it’s website. The Android Market is seeing awesome growth. It hit 10,000 apps in September 2009.
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Android Market Has 30,000 Apps [Android Apps Market Seeing Tons of Growth, Outnumbered by iTunes Five To One]
Daniel Ek dodged the question during a keynote interview at South By Southwest Interactive. Here at South By Southwest Interactive , the keynote interview of Daniel Ek, the 26-year-old founder of European music service Spotify , provided some satisfying insight into the major new music site
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Will Spotify Be Fair to Artists?
” 2010-02-17 By J. Miedema Remember that scene in the movie Office Space, where the guys take the printer out to a field and beat it with baseball bats, k icking and punching it to death
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ihome zn9 dual alarm clock with speaker dock for zune (black)
81 Places I’d Love to See the PlayStation Move [PhotoshopContest] Who knew that the PS Move would be so fun to stick into out-of-context situations? Because man, the results of this week’s Photoshop Contest are some of the best ever
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81 Places I’d Love to See the PlayStation Move [PhotoshopContest]
Microsoft today announced TrueColor Technology which they claim enhances the color and brightness of webcam video in the worst of lighting conditions. True Color Technology is a new image processing technology that automatically adjusts the picture quality to provide more colorful video. It does this through a proprietary combination of software and firmware technology
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What We Learned Watching Kids with Homemade Flamethrowers #homemadeflamethrowers #flamethrowr Mega secret homemade flamethrower music video on YouTube Hwang (founder ROFLCon, @timhwang, tim at timhwang.com, brosephstalin.com) Jacobs (@underwaterpeeps, sawyer at underwaterpeoples.com, underwaterpeoples.com) Micro-genres: bodies of content that are specific yet enormous – they just haven’t been seen by anyone A cluster of related work, the majority of which receives less than 50,000 views Examples: slap the bag (drink an entire bag of wine, then slap the bag), dance the whip (2,850 videos), fire in the hole (10,000 videos), kids doing drugs (13,700 of salvia alone) Flamethrowers (1,500 videos: 25.2 hours of video) Kids are building stuff to shoot flames onto other stuff Mostly kids, mostly amateur — yet the flamerthrowers get huge.
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Notes from What We Learned from Watching Kids with Flamethrowers at SXSWi
Rosalie Marshall, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 16 March 2010 at 18:18:00 Concerns remain over the undemocratic nature of the copyright clause The House of Lords today passed the controversial Digital Economy bill, despite last-minute attempts yesterday by members to change the included copyright legislation proposals….
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Nokia and Intel caused some excitement when they announced they were merging their mobile operating systems into one that would be called MeeGo. Considering that the Nokia N900, Nokia’s current high-end smartphone, shipped with Meamo, Nokia’s half of MeeGo, it was assumed that MeeGo would run on the Nokia N900. Unfortunately, that may not be the case, or it may be.
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MeeGo Maybe, Maybe Not Heading To Nokia N900 [Conflicting Rumors From Nokia Have Created Confusion Over MeeGo]
While a normal printer can be attached to a Wi-Fi to be able to receive Wi-Fi signals, Wi-Fi printers specifically designed for Wi-Fi connections are already available a nd can be taken advantage of.
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The folks over at the Milwaukee Makerspace built these fine Pot O’ Gold floats to drive in a St. Patrick’s Day parade. They don’t seem to have build details available, however you can get a good idea of how they were build by looking through the project photos
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Lucky Makers drive pots of gold in St. Patrick’s Day parade
In honor of St. Patrick’s Day on Wednesday, might we suggest a lovely Green Mini Breadboard ? Half the size of a half-size breadboard, this Mini Breadboard is perfect for tiny projects and for sticking onto the top of Arduino ProtoShields! Normally, we’d encourage you to choose from 5 colors, but today, please consider green! Features: Measures 1.4″ x 1.6″ (3.5cm x 4.5cm) 170 tie points Brings good luck to its user Fits great on Arduino ProtoShield Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Maker Shed Store | Digg this!
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In the Maker Shed: Green Mini Breadboards
A piece published on The New York Times posed a provocative question: could wiki technology help find Osama Bin Laden? The answer is maybe. If any Pakistani or Afghan were armed with a mobile phone to send text messages to authorities with anonymous tips on where to look
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What journalists should know about Ushahidi
Where you live: It impacts your health as much as diet and genes do, but it’s not part of your medical records. At TEDMED, Bill Davenhall shows how overlooked government geo-data (from local heart-attack rates to toxic dumpsite info) can mesh with mobile GPS apps to keep doctors in the loop
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Geo-medicine: Your health may depends on where you live