Kingyo Senbei

Some very cool watches are being made these days. Sure I do like the simple elegance and grace of classical timepieces. But who can really afford them and why not have a little funkiness?
There’s a lot of those thick wristed watches, from Fossil and sporty ones from various companies. Yet I still haven’t […]

“In 1969 Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith, while working at Bell Laboratories, designed the first Charge Coupled Device (CCD), a working version was produced just a year later. The CCD as we know has become the bedrock the digital imaging revolution including digital photography and video. They have just been honored with the […]

It’s interesting to know that movie studios in America embed all sorts of “invisible” information into reels of film. From forensic watermarking, high pitch sounds to extra frames. All this being undectable to the average human or moviegoer.
Unfortunately this hasn’t really done too much to stop bootlegging. Plenty of people still secretly record movies in […]

“Much to the delight of many Leica aficionados there’s now more than a hint that Leica are readying a digital version of the M7 rangefinder camera. Stefan Daniel of Leica is quoted in the latest edition of LFI (Leica Fotografie International) magazine as saying “The Digital M will be introduced as a complete package that […]

“Bacteria genetically engineered to respond to light have not only resulted an image ten times sharper than a high-resolution printer, but could help bring researchers one step closer to printing complex biological materials, such as spider silk or human skin for burn victims.”
News source: Discovery News

While browsing through ThinkGeek I found another amazing “gadget”. I think this is even more interesting than the ant farm. A self sustaining ecosystem! You’ll find two forms of active micro-organisms (bright red shrimp and algae) existing in a clear “soup” of filtered sea water. No need to feed or clean either, just give them […]

All I can say is WOW! This makes having an ant farm way cooler! You can even get an LED base so your little farm “glows”. Ok the deal behind this is, supposedly the technology they used in a NASA 2003 mission for studying how animals fare in zero gravity led to this. The blue […]

Cool looking mice…but that’s about it. Personally I’d like an update to mice to make them more comfortable to use. (Note to self; I should probably invest in a trackball or a soft plastic grip mouse).
But if they were a little cheaper I’d buy one, especially if you could customize your own!

I’ve found an article which dissects the lomo effect and analyses exactly how the colour casts, contrast and just plain lomoness is produced. Thanks to Wolf Schweitzer for this interesting write up and of course not to forget he made some special Photoshop actions and image colour settings!
I haven’t tried these yet, but can’t wait […]

“Samsung Electronics is planning to produce a new memory chip that will double the storage capacity of digital cameras, reports Reuters. It is expected that Samsung, which holds a 60% share of the NAND flash memory market, will launch a 16-gigabit chip late next year. NAND flash memory chips are built into memory cards or […]

Don’t you find it annoying when shopping catalogs try and explain what digital technology really is?
They have little boxes with ‘helpful hints’ and ’special facts’. Yet you’d learn more in a product manual. One of my pet peeves is the way digital camera resolution is marketed. The more megapixels the better is the adage and […]

With the release of the nano I could be buying something from apple for once. I was always undecided on the iPod with so many other mp3 players out there. Yet this ones rather nifty. Price seems alright but with a little extra money you could always go from a 2GB to 20GB. That’s the […]

This is too good to be true. A ‘printer’ which uses water to create images. It’s really like a fountain with drops coming out at set times instead of a continous flow of water. It’s still hard to get my head around it as the picture it creates must go by fast. The company has […]

It’s not a magazine or a book it’s a mook! Well that’s what one reviewer at Amazon called it. I’m talking about Make: technology in your time. I haven’t had the chance to look over a copy but from the website, what subscribers say and some scanned articles it’s pretty cool.
There are articles on the […]

Remember those plain old speaker boxes from over a decade ago? The ones only available in black, beige or fake wood trim (for as poorer people)? Well I don’t!
The past few years have seen so many cool gadgets being produced. And sound systems haven’t missed out. Okay so I’m focusing on the physical […]

“The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has warned users to stop using Microsoft Internet Explorer after a bug which Microsoft had previously claimed to have fixed has resurfaced.
….the US-CERT recommended using alternative browsers. Microsoft meanwhile is hurriedly trying to increase IE’s security with the Windows XP Service Pack 2.”
News Source: The Age
So instead […]

- Mutant son of MyDoom plans three-pronged attack
- Multiple vulnerabilities exploited, end of world nigh
“Virus writers have used code from the infamous Mydoom worm to create a potentially dangerous new Internet worm which uses multiple methods to spread.”
News Source: The Register

“Internet music piracy has no negative effect on legitimate music sales, according to a study released today by two university researchers that contradicts the music industry’s assertion that the illegal downloading of music online is taking a big bite out of its bottom line.
Songs that were heavily downloaded showed no measurable drop in sales, […]

“Nokia Lifeblog creates a multimedia diary of your life through images, messages, and videos you collect with your phone.
Nokia Lifeblog is a PC and mobile phone software combination that effortlessly keeps a multimedia diary of the items users collect with their mobile phone. Lifeblog automatically organizes their photos, videos, text messages, and multimedia messages into […]