What does our future hold in store for us? Controlling a cursor with your brain? eh, that’s to easy, modify that to control an Xbox Controller and you have something special. How about restoring movement to...
Archive - June 2011
Video-OTD: How Visual Image Stabilization Works on a Canon
I’m sure you’ve taking a picture using your high tech camera at one point or another in your life. But have you ever taken a picture with a Canon DSLR with an 18-55mm lens? Probably not. Much less opened the...
Acoustic ‘cloaking device’ effectively shields objects from sound waves
You can put anything udnerneath this easily manufactured sheets of plastic with holes through them and it will appear, on sonar, as a flat surface. as if nothing is there. Invisibility has been a figment of our...
Darpa’s XC2V is Finally Complete
A couple of months ago Darpa made an announcement that it was looking for ideas to recreate the Humvee, they held a competition and a winner was selected 15 weeks ago. The vehicle needed to quickly get soldiers out of...
Magellan’s Wireless Back-Up Camera
For the most part, we all get by, by checking our rear view mirror or twisting our heads over our shoulders. But what happens when you have big vehicle? something like a suburban, or a big truck? Well, Magellan has...
Gallery-OTD: A List of the 25 Best Business Card Designs From the Web
A business card is worth a thousand clients… The art of giving a business card goes beyond visual representation of the card. Touch, Smell, Sight, and Usability all play an important role when you are handing out...
How to Increase Your Password Security
With all the hacking from lulz that was going on for the past 50 days, we learned a couple of good things… and we were reminded of the importance of MANY good passwords. The internet has become a type of window where...
Is Lulz Really Calling it Quits?
LulzSec, the hacker group of 6 who caused havoc for the past 50 days by hacking websites the good “old fashion way” has announced their 50 days of hacking companies and organizations that deemed themselves...