Beheaded graffiti, Hoxton, London, UK.JPG

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its the_decapitator !!!
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Beheaded graffiti, Hoxton, London, UK.JPG

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Gadgets powered by our clothing!

Sick of the short battery life of your gadgets? Constantly having to check that they’re powered up before you head out? Well, running out of juice whilst in the field could soon be a thing of the past. US scientists are getting close to generating functional power via the piezoelectric effect, by weaving nanofibres into our clothing:

The nano-generators, as the technology is known, consist of pairs of fibres that look similar to tiny, bendable bottle-brushes. At the core of each…

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unboxed and playing with sonic screwdriver and psychic paper!

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Beta Tank’s MindChair

Get down to the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition at MoMA in New York and you can check out a chair that let’s you see through your skin:

mind chair

The Mind Chair describes a possible application of the sensory substitution technique developed by Dr Paul Bach-y-Rita in the late 1960s in which moving imagery is perceived in the mind via nerves in the skin rather than the eyes.

The obvious application for such a chair would be to let the blind ’see’. But I reckon it could also…

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trying to get two neurons to fire at the same time

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share your life online, but don’t be a naive idiot

Here’s a whole bunch of scary tales about how using social-networking sites can get your dog raped and bring on teh_Apocalypse:

In the US, a sex assault victim seeking compensation faces the prospect of her MySpace and Facebook pages being produced in court. In Texas, a driver whose car was involved in a fatal accident found his MySpace postings (”I’m not an alcoholic, I’m a drunkaholic”) part of the prosecution’s case. From Los Angeles to Lowestoft, thousands of social network site…

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links for 2008-02-15

links for 2008-02-15

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