Tag: Interesting

  • How to have your own Satellite TV Station with a $10 Wok

    The New Zealand Herald gives us an incredible example of “Kiwi ingenuity”.  A volunteer, Ken Jones, for the station, 45 South (UHF channel 41), used a $10 (I presume this is 10 New Zealand Dollars) to create a satellite dish that would transmit the startup television station’s signal.  A commerical link would have cost $20,000. …

  • Social Mobile Mapping (Mapiki)

    With Google’s release of Google Maps for Australia, I am hoping Google Maps India isn’t going to be that far away. Being a complete outsider to Indian roads and traffic, it would be a very welcome addition to our list of expat related sites and tools that we’ll be relying on after we move to…

  • Do not pass go, do not collect $200, Go Directly to Jail!

    Ban Proposed On Walking While Talking, Listening To iPod – News A state senator from Brooklyn said on Tuesday he plans to introduce legislation that would ban people from using an MP3 player, cell phone, Blackberry or any other electronic device while crossing the street in either New York City or Buffalo. I would think…

  • TED talks on Google Video

    Google is making available video from the TED (Technology, Entertainment & Design) conferences. Among videos available are talks from former Vice President Al Gore, NYTimes Writer, David Pogue, and leadership trainer and motivational speaker, Tony Robbins. Some of the talks are funny, some thought provoking, and some just plain interesting. Check it out. Official Google…

  • Make me a good photographer

    This technology might actually make me a good photographer or, at the very least, half-way decent. Now if the technology could be open sourced and plugged into Gimp, that would be great! Researchers have unveiled an image-processing technique that shows promise for fixing images spoiled by camera shake. Researchers take the blur out of shaky…