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Re: Cool Techie Geeky Stuff...
« Reply #165 on: February 07, 2014, 09:43:26 am »
Well this is innovative.... Door

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Re: Cool Techie Geeky Stuff...
« Reply #166 on: February 08, 2014, 02:08:55 pm »
Whaaaaaat......the......fuuuuuuuuuuuucck.........
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Re: Cool Techie Geeky Stuff...
« Reply #167 on: February 08, 2014, 08:15:59 pm »
There's money, and there's "showing off" money.  That's the latter.

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Re: Cool Techie Geeky Stuff...
« Reply #168 on: February 19, 2014, 09:35:55 am »
I'm still of the opinion, the cat is out of the bag. I find most people with cell phones behaving in an assh ole kind of way. Google glasses is only going to perpetuate. it.

Google: How not to be a 'Glas shole'

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(CNN) -- Google has heard all the concerns about Glass, its digital headset expected to hit the market by the end of the year.

They've heard people's fears they'll be secretly recorded by a Glass-wearing creeper. They know somebody's going to be stupid and drive while using them. And, yes, they know that some people might think you're a "Gl****."

So, now, they're serving up a list of "do's" and "don'ts" to avoid those awkward moments and get the most out of what may be the most high-profile entry in the emerging wearable-tech market.

On its website for Glass, Google has posted advice for testers in its current Explorer program and, presumably, the folks who will be entering the world of Glass when the headset goes on sale to the public.
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Here's a breakdown of some of our favorites.

DO: Ask for permission

"Standing alone in the corner of a room staring at people while recording them through Glass is not going to win you any friends," Google says. "The Glass camera function is no different from a cell phone so behave as you would with your phone and ask permission before taking photos or videos of others."

Fears about privacy around Google Glass have been one of the device's biggest hurdles on its path toward acceptance. Restaurants have banned them, and complete strangers have confronted testers because of the device's ability to shoot photos and video.

Easing those fears will be important for Google as it moves forward.

DON'T: Be creepy or rude (aka a "Gl****")

Yes, Google itself used the derogatory term "Gl****" (although it's been massaged into a description of bad behavior, as opposed to its broader meaning as a slur, voiced by some critics, used to describe anybody wearing the headset).

This is the flip side of the first entry.

"If you're asked to turn your phone off, turn Glass off as well," Google writes. "Breaking the rules or being rude will not get businesses excited about Glass and will ruin it for other Explorers."

DO: Take advantage of the Glass voice commands

This is the real advantage of a lot of wearable tech. You don't have to fiddle around with it like you do a smartphone. But we mostly just like Google's hypothetical scenarios here:

"Glass can free your hands up to do other things like golfing, cooking, or juggling flaming torches while balancing on a beach ball."

DON'T: Glass out

Google is pushing Glass as a way of getting quick updates or performing quick actions, as a complement to other mobile devices instead of a replacement.

"If you find yourself staring off into the prism for long periods of time you're probably looking pretty weird to the people around you," the post reads. "So don't read War and Peace on Glass."

DO: Use screen lock

Once you've customized your Glass, bad guys who get their hands on it will have access to your e-mail and other sources of personal information, just as if they'd snagged your phone or laptop.

DON'T: Wear it and expect to be ignored

Google is treating its Explorers (many of whom forked over $1,500 for the right to say they were first) as walking billboards for the product.

They don't want those billboards acting like ... well ... Gl****s.

"If you're worried about someone interrupting that romantic dinner at a nice restaurant with a question about Glass, just take it off and put it around the back of your neck or in your bag," says Google.

Around the back of your neck? That sounds like a fashion faux pas -- and another "don't" to us.
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Re: Cool Techie Geeky Stuff...
« Reply #169 on: March 02, 2014, 11:03:43 am »
Really.... art mixed with innovation

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Re: Cool Techie Geeky Stuff...
« Reply #170 on: April 10, 2014, 08:31:44 am »
Venom Trickshots (Pool)

It's here because this is all about math

I've never seen anything like this...

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Re: Cool Techie Geeky Stuff...
« Reply #171 on: April 15, 2014, 07:03:03 am »
Someone's dream, imagination and innovation

Simply beautiful. Concept yacht

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« Reply #172 on: April 15, 2014, 11:16:07 am »
That yacht would fit in perfectly in a Bond flick.
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Re: Cool Techie Geeky Stuff...
« Reply #173 on: May 07, 2014, 09:39:52 am »
I love everything LED. Power savings, innovations, opportunities, and SOLAR... love it.

Just ran across these Solar Powered Pop Up path lights from DealNews

I just need to figure out how we could use these. Not sure our front is conducive.

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« Reply #174 on: May 08, 2014, 09:43:02 am »
New cassette tape could hold 47 million songs

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(CNN) -- Forget the cloud, and rework your mental image of those mysterious data centers. Sony has reinvented a tool for storing a mind-numbing amount of data: A cassette tape.

But this isn't one of those rattling plastic tapes you used to compile your ultimate summer road-trip jams and, too often, were probably forced to rewind with a pencil.

Sony's record-breaking magnetic tape technology allows it to store 180 terabytes of data on a single cartridge. That's the same amount of storage as 1,184 iPod Classics, Apple's roomiest music player, which can hold about 40,000 songs. Using that number, Sony's new cassette could technically store about 47.3 million songs of its own.

That's enough jams for a really long road trip -- say, driving in Atlanta during a snowstorm.

If you're more of a movie buff, think of it this way. The cartridge, which stores 148GB of data per inch of tape, has room for 3,700 Blu-ray discs full of your favorites.

The number obliterates the standing record, set in 2010 when Fuji developed a tape that could hold 35 terabytes of data.

Sony, which worked with IBM on the tape, presented the new technology over the weekend at InterMag Europe, a magnetics conference in Dresden, Germany.

In very simple terms, the technology involves shrinking the microscopic magnetic particles on tape that store data. On average, the new particles are 7.7 nanometers wide. There are 10 million nanometers in one centimeter.

In a news release, Sony said it would like to pursue a commercial use for the new cassette tape technology, as well as continuing to improve it.

But if you're dreaming of someday popping that tape into some sort of digital-age boombox and pushing "play," you may be in for a bit of a disappointment.

Tape has the potential for massive data storage, but it's unwieldy to actually use. Recording to, and retrieving data from, tape takes a lot longer than digital storage devices and players we've become accustomed to in an era of Web streaming.

So, it's a lot more likely that tape will be used to back up huge databases than to save, and play, our music collections. That's too bad. We liked the idea of needing only one cassette for a cross-country drive.
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Re: Cool Techie Geeky Stuff...
« Reply #175 on: May 13, 2014, 06:57:22 am »
New cassette tape could hold 47 million songs

I love the idea of holding so much content. But is anyone even interested in "going back" to an old format with all the other options these days that allow you to carry less? Also, price is going to be a factor and this sounds like it would be expensive just because it's the only kind in existence and I suspect they would try to price gouge the product, which isn't going to work with said options already out there. I kinda see this more of a novelty than something that would actually catch on with the masses.
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Re: Cool Techie Geeky Stuff...
« Reply #176 on: May 13, 2014, 07:32:00 am »
Coooool

Adam Savage robotic spider project

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Re: Cool Techie Geeky Stuff...
« Reply #177 on: May 13, 2014, 07:39:14 am »
I saw this stuff at Brookstone the other day. I'm a geek, this is cool stuff.

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Re: Cool Techie Geeky Stuff...
« Reply #178 on: May 28, 2014, 12:32:04 pm »
Awesome!!!!

Solar FREAKIN' Roadways!

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Re: Cool Techie Geeky Stuff...
« Reply #179 on: June 03, 2014, 12:47:21 pm »
This has such cool potential.... Love it.

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