I/O Brush  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
It's for kids only, but I want desperately the I/O Brush, an input device with a camera that lets you pick up real world colors and paint with them. Pictures at this link. [engadget] [comments]

Young Man, Don't Watch Television  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
American men between 18 and 34 are watching less television than they used to. The proferred explanation is that there are a plethora of other opportunities in which this age group indulges. Speaking for myself, I'd like to note it's because I hate advertisements. [slashdot] [comments]

Lock Down The Cell Phone  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
To my own chagrin I must admit to admiring Mobile Guardian, a (seemingly) well-designed service for exerting fine-grained control over another's mobile phone usage. Chagrin, because the anarchist in me rejects the authoritarianism this kind of service affords. [smartmobs] [comments]

Industrial Mine Clearing  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
Kiyoshi Amemiya, president of Yamanashi Hitachi Construction Machinery, worked with a small team to invent, build and give away highly effective mine-clearing tractors. This is the second story in a week about Japanese entrepreneurs who turn their skills toward socially beneficial projects (here's the first). What's in the sushi over there, and can we get some here? [gizmodo] [comments]

Wireless Tech Roundup  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
Nice overview of up and coming wireless technologies on USA today. [engadget] [comments]

Methane On Mars  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
Methane on Mars is likely to come from one of two sources: vulcanism (as far as we know, not present on Mars) or microbial life. Cow farts, I suppose, are out of the question. [mefi] [comments]

Medical Rice  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
A biotech company near Sacramento, California, will soon be growing genetically modified rice that produces two medicinal compounds. [comments]

Tamogotchi Talk  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
Bandai's nefarious plot to ruin our children's eyesight and destroy any hope of graduating elementary school has just gotten more nefarious: Tamagotchi with infrared communications. [comments]

Elementary Stability  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
A joint team of Americans and Russians have discovered two new elements (113 and 115 on the periodic table) that seem to confirm a theory that there's a region of relatively stable super-heavy elements to be found. [metafilter] [comments]

The Dead Zones Are Expanding  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
Dead zones, areas of the ocean where no marine life can exist, are among the most horrific effects of industrial agriculture. Dead zones are created when the nitrogen in fertilizer run-off triggers algal blooms that die and use up all the available oxygen in decomposing, and there are more and bigger zones every year. [dangerousmeta] [comments]

The Artistic Future  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
If you're interested in an artistic interpretation of the future, check out Epilogue.net. It's a very slick site with some impressive genre artwork. I particularly like Ville Anttonen (creepy) and Charli Siebert (creepier). [comments]

Stick On Headset  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
The Arriva FM receiver headset conforms to the shape of your head and stays that way. It also has a stereo jack for connecting to MP3 and CD players [gizmodo] [comments]

Robot Camel Jockeys  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
There's something really appealing about the idea of robot camel jockies, employed in Qatar to replace exploited children. [engadget] [comments]

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle That Cardboard Box  [+] posted by Brian Wanamaker
It's been so long since I bought an OS in a non-OEM format, I forgot that they were still sold in cardboard boxes. However, the Windows XP Box casemod, if one considers the non-OEM price of the OS, it is one of the most inefficiently expensive cases for its size. So the builder made an additional box for Red Hat Linux, and the system can dual-boot, detecting via sensor which OS-case it's in. [alterslash, the /. digest] [comments]

File Sharing Has Nicht Effect On Album Sales  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
Koleman Strumpf is an economist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who headed up an effort to determine through hard-headed, numerically based, empirical data whether file sharing hurts album sales. The answer? "Even in the most pessimistic specification, five thousand downloads are needed to displace a single album sale...high selling albums actually benefit from file sharing." Read all about it in this 396KB PDF document [boingboing] [comments]

Underwater Jet Ski  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
Oh hell yes, I want the world's first underwater motorcycle. Call it scuba diving for dummies. [gizmodo] [comments]

The Dangers Of Electronic Voting Summarized  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
Democracy and the current crop of electronic voting systems don't mix, as Wired's detailed indictment demonstrates. If you've been following e-voting news you won't find anything you haven't read before in this article, but Kim Zetter draws all the bits and pieces together cohesively and intelligently. [comments]

Designing For Health  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
It takes the BBC to point out what should be painfully obvious, that how we design our environments can influence our physical fitness. [comments]

The Ant Invaders  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
We've had to deal with a couple of ant invasions in our house. We tried all natural approaches at first, but eventually gave up our principles and poisoned the little fuckers. Sounds like we might need nukes to deal with the coming waves of fire ants. [fark] [comments]

New Moon For Earth  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
Because one moon is never enough, Earth has aquired a second. Sort of. [slashdot] [comments]

Bernal Sphere Pictures  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
Sweet couple of posters illustrating theoretical Bernal sphere space habitats. [boingboing] [comments]

Electronic Pistol  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
Sounds like a serious case of feature bloat. Metal Storm, Inc.'s new electronically fired pistols use biometric identification, speak several languages, record and broadcast audio. [fark] [comments]

Mailing The Future  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
My sophomore English teacher had us write a letter to ourselves to be opened when we turned 26. Reading that missive from my 16 year old self was painful, like watching Gilligan make a fool of himself time after time. If I were ever inclined to repeat the experience, FutureMe can help. [boingboing] [comments]

Micro Drones  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
The Israeli military is using unmanned spy drones small enough to fly through windows. Stalkers everywhere break out your credit cards. [slashdot] [comments]

Keep Your Shit Safe  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
Worried about losing your valuables? Hide them in dirty underwear. [gizmodo] [comments]

All Your Media Belong To Arbitron  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
Mark Frauenfelder writes about Arbitron's Portable People Meter. Wear it all day so that Rubert Murdoch knows what you watched. [boingboing] [comments]

Malaria Killing Mosquitos  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
Some mosquito species kill the malaria parasite before it becomes communicable to humans. Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory are thinking of ways build a better mosquito to breed with wild mosquitos and pass on the malaria-killing gene. [comments]

Underwater Robotic Lumberjack  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
The Sawfish is a huge, remotely controlled submarine designed to harvest timber from the bottom of lakes. [slashdot] [comments]

Memory Prosthetics  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
David Pescovitz's article for The Feature on memory prostheses is full of interesting speculation on the likes of SenseCam and Lifeblog. [boingboing] [comments]

Great Grandpa's Gene Sequence  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
Science's ability to extract and read genetic material from fossils may make it possible to sequence the DNA of early hominids. [comments]

Me And My AirBike  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
Look, I know the AirBike VTOL Personal Aircraft is not much more than wishful thinking. I don't care, I'm going to start saving for one now. [futurehi] [comments]

Thai Food Airports  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
One proposal for reducing the net increase in carbon in the atmosphere to be discussed at the American Chemical Society meeting is to replace some of the fuel in jetliners with soya oil. [fark] [comments]

Resale Export  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
Ever wondered what happens to the castoffs you drop off at Salvation Army? I always assumed they were resold to needy families in the United States. Not so claims filmmaker Shantha Bloemen. In her movie "T-Shirt Travels" she documents the big business of resale clothing in Africa, which in some cases has obliterated the local clothing industry. [memepool] [comments]

Misplaced Missiles  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
The Ukrainian government can't account for several hundred missiles it was supposed to recycle. How, exactly, do you misplace a missile? Did they check between the cushions on the couch? [comments]

Big Changes At Kuro5hin  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
Kuro5hin is a great site to watch both for its content and for its meta-content. Rusty Foster and gang are all about intelligent, decentralized community management. That's why I'm particularly interested in the changes Rusty's implemented in response to recent provocations from obnoxious users, the most notable being that you'll have to be sponsored before you can contribute to the site. I'll be curious to see how it works, not least because it's a case study in lightweight conservation of a public good. [comments]

Bio Solar Cells  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
One approach to improving electricity yields from solar cells: coat it with bacteria. [engadget] [comments]

Hovercraft Vaccuum Cleaner  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
This vaccuum cleaner floats on a cushion of air. Makes it easier to schlep around and won't scratch the hard wood floor. [gizmodo] [comments]

23 Story Tall Racing Game  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
If you'll be in New York between now and April 22 you can take advantage of Yahoo!'s largesse and play a racing game on the side of a building in Times Square with your phone. [smartmobs] [comments]

Free Culture Free  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
Lessig's Free Culture has been licensed under a Creative Commons license. Kind of an appropriate symmetry there, don't you think? [comments]

Cellular Jewelry  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
Use a bracelet from Cellular Jewelry to let you know when your phone's ringing. Because a ring of flashing LEDs around your wrist is so much less distracting than a ring tone. [gizmodo] [comments]

The Dirt Your Betrayor  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
If you commit a crime outdoors, make sure you get all the dirt off. Scientists at the Macaulay Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland, think they can do soil analysis with specificity and accuracy analagous to a fingerprint. [comments]

RFID Sushi  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
Ever been to one of those cheesy sushi boat restaurants? Where you pay by the plate? That kind of place apparently does a lot of business in Japan and the dishes can pile high. The solution is embedded RFID tags to ring up your bill in one quick scan. [smartmobs] [comments]

World Population Growth Rate Declining  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the world's population growth rate is declining and will likely drop below zero by 2050. That's when the world's population will stand at 9.1 billion people. [comments]

Super Magnetic Motor  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
Kohei Minato is a piano player, rock star manager, and inventor who has developed magnetic motors that consume a fraction of the electricity of the current state of the art. He's also got a passion for social justice, and rather than sell out to a big corporation he's bringing up small local manufacturers to produce his products. [gizmodo] [comments]

Ghostly Beer Bottles  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
Ghostly beer bottles, floating in mid-air. Sure, it might be cool at the start of the evening, but imagine what that could do to your head after you've been belly up to the bar all night? [boingboing] [comments]

Open Source Governance  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
SourceForge is a kind of incubator for open source software projects. Ethan Zuckerman and Britt Blaser propose a SourceForge for good governance projects. [loose democracy] [comments]

Erasing Hard Drives For Real  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
Here's an interesting article by Simson Garfinkel about the data we leave behind when we upgrade our hard drives. [beyondthebeyond] [comments]

Selective Image Downloads  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
MIT has kind of a sketchy write up, but enough to pique my interest: Xerox will release an image compression standard that allows you to begin with a low res image and selectively download portions of the image in high res as you go. [comments]

Playing Games With Your Head  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
Talk about mind games: think your character safely across a tightrope. [gizmodo] [comments]

Ad Hoc Wireless Networks  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
Ad hoc wireless networks have obvious military potential, which the DoD has not missed. It's a logical extension of the Internet itself: pushing the smarts to the edges of the network. It also makes a lot of sense if you're interested in mobile, ubiquitous computing. [smartmobs] [comments]

Real-Time Lego Strategy Game  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
Real-time Lego strategy game. Find plans, build vehicles, collect bricks. This is not the Lego fun you grew up with. [mefi] [comments]

Casemod To Tickle A Writer's Fancy  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
This is my speed casemod: an old Underwood typewriter outfitted with a mini-ITX motherboard. [boingboing] [comments]

The Macho Segway  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
Now you can take your ridiculously expensive geek toy off road. Just watch out for those wood chips. [fark] [comments]

Covet Thy Neighbors Fundraising Contributions  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
Political donations are public record. Want to know what your creepy neighbor's political predilections are? Fundrace 2004 makes it easy to find out. No more pretending you didn't support the idiot in charge. [mefi] [comments]

Recycled Homes  [+] posted by Jeremy Lyon
There's something curiously attractive about the Quik House, a $76K home made of recycled shipping containers (the metal kind). [boingboing] [comments]