Ultimate Ears
Developed in 1995 by Van Halen’s touring monitor engineer and drummer, this line of earphones ranges from the simple $50 set for the daily commuter to the extravagant professional in-ear monitor custom-made to mold to your ear ($450-$1350).
Qlocktwo and Qlocktwo Touch
The gorgeous display on this digital wall clock will deliver accurate readouts without the stress of a … Read More → "More gifts for gadget lovers"
Every Christopher Soghoian production follows a similar pattern, a series of orchestrated events that lead to the public shaming of a large entity—Google, Facebook, the federal government—over transgressions that the 30-year-old technologist sees as unacceptable violations of privacy. Sometimes he discovers these security flaws by accident, other times because someone has pissed him off, but mostly because he’s parked at his computer all day looking for security flaws.
When he finds one, Soghoian, a PhD candidate in computer science at Indiana University Bloomington, learns everything he can about it … Read More → "The pest who shames companies into fixing security flaws"
MIT researchers have developed an algorithm that can predict whether a car is about to run a red light, a calculation they estimate could prevent millions of crashes and 700 deaths each year if paired with vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication.
Using data collected from DOT-sponsored surveillance of a busy intersection in Christianburg, Virginia, to track vehicle speed and location, the researchers could determine, within two seconds of a car approaching an intersection, with 85 percent accuracy whether it would run … Read More → "Mathematical model predicts which drivers will run red lights"
Ravel’s Bolero at Copenhagen Central Station.
Copenhagen Phil (Sjællands Symfoniorkester) did a flash mob at Copenhagen Central Station on May 2nd 2011 playing Ravel’s Bolero. Conductor is Jesper Nordin.
Dangit! I was JUST in Chelsea and managed to miss this show.
On November 10, “Randy Regier: H. Maxwell Fisher’s Underground Toy Emporium and Spaceship Parking” opened at Jim Kempner Fine Art, 501 West 23rd Street, NYC, where it remains on view through December 23.
According to the gallery’s press release, “Jim Kempner Fine Art, in collaboration with Mr. Fisher’s eldest son, H. Maxwell Fisher II, is … Read More → "Underground toy emporium and spaceship parking: Incredible art by Randy Regier"
UK intelligence agency GCHQ has launched a code cracking competition to help attract new talent.
The organisation has invited potential applicants to solve a visual code posted at an unbranded standalone website.
The challenge will also be “seeded” to social media sites, blogs and forums.
A spokesman said the campaign aimed to raise the profile of GCHQ to an audience that would otherwise be difficult to reach.
“The target audience for this particular campaign is one that may not typically be attracted to traditional advertising methods and … Read More → "Spy center seeking code breakers"
… Read More → "30 years of the BBC microcomputer"The system was built by Acorn Computers as part of the BBC’s Computer Literacy Project.
It ran a new programming language, BBC BASIC (beginner’s all-purpose symbolic instruction code), and helped bring computing into people’s homes and schools. via BBC
… Read More → "More on Synopsys’ acquisition of Magma"In a big strategic shift for the chip design software industry, Synopsys said today it plans to buy Magma Design Automation for $507 million.
The deal leaves two juggernauts in electronic design automation software (EDA) — Synopsys and arch rival Cadence Design Systems — to battle it out as the software of choice for engineers who design electronic chips. via Venture Beat
Astronauts and cosmonauts are generally chosen based on a balanced blend of desirable traits: mental acuity and psychological stability (it’s isolated up there), physical fitness, physiological durability, willingness to be strapped to a massive controlled explosion and hurled into an environment that is extremely hostile toward life, etc. But it’s no secret: Right Stuff or no Right Stuff, astronauts stink. There’s simply no good way to stay clean … Read More → "NASA commissions a laundry machine for the International Space Station"
Jonathan Liu over at GeekDad compiled a list of the five best toys of all time.
Here at GeekDad we review a lot of products — books, toys, gadgets, software — and I know it’s impossible for most parents to actually afford all of the cool stuff that gets written up. Heck, most of us can’t afford it either, and we’re envious of the person who scored a review copy of … Read More → "The five best toys of all time"
