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Sniper spotted this cool Bluetooth device that checks for heart attacks and lets the nearest hospital know. The device analyses electrical signals from the heart to produce an electrocardiogram (ECG) and can send an SMS alert with the information.
knowsfords found an update on Spore from E3. Right now the game is at its Alpha stage of development, which for us means that you can play the game through from your humble beginnings as a little blob of eyeballs all the way out though your species exploration and colonization and conquest of space. All of the game's editors, the tools we use to let the players make their own game content, are working so are some of those big technical features of the game such as the pollination process which allows the players to share their content.
Craig sent word of a Firefox patch involving IE. This patch for Firefox prevents Firefox from accepting bad data from Internet Explorer. It does not fix the critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer. Microsoft needs to patch Internet Explorer, but at last check, they were not planning to," she said.
A class-action lawsuit relating to incorrectly-advertised prices against Dell in Canada has been ruled out. In 2003, Dell had posted incorrect low prices of $C89($98) to $C118 for its Axim hand-held computers on its website, instead of $C379 to $C549. Dell corrected the mistake, but not before orders for 509 computers were placed.
Also from Craig: Not much to this link, but there is a cool clip of a laser engraving machine engraving a vector image onto an iPhone. The company's website appears heavily under construction but does have some more images of examples in the Flash intro.
We heard about this ages ago but now there's more details on Google's use of ambient audio for ad selection. The patent, called Social and Interactive Applications for Mass Media, outlines a system that would record ambient noise from a television while the viewer is watching, pick up relevant tidbits that the viewer might be interested in, and either pull up pages or generate them on the fly for the viewer to check out. Sounds.. kinda scary.
Beyond3D have some info on NVIDIA Tesla, which is their "GPUs for General Purpose computing" technology. Those interviewed were: Andy Keane, the General Manager of the GPU Computing group; Ian Buck, ex Stanford under the legendary Pat Hanrahan and now Software Manager for CUDA; Dr. Dave Kirk, NVIDIA Chief Scientist.
TechARP voice their concerns about how difficult it (apparently) is to address copyright concerns on Blogspot. Actually, the whole regurgitated-content-on-blogs thing annoys me. Must rant about it on the podcast sometime.
Paul spotted a few timewasters on this Tourettes page. Okey dokey then.
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