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Here's an interesting little story about someone finding a lost digicam and working out who it belonged to from the pictures in it, so it could be returned. The only clues were the pictures on the camera: typical tourist snapshots, complete with a visit to the Statue of Liberty. How could they find a stranger among the huddled masses?
BLeR spotted this visual search engine. Interesting idea but it seems a bit slow and awkward to use, to me. With RedZee 2.0 you have a choice of up to 100 results which you can zip through lightning fast! The Web sites are the results instead of plain ordinary text, allowing you to sift through massive data quickly.
A spy satellite has stopped responding to commands and will drop out of orbit soon. Such incidents occur every few months, and it is often difficult to control the satellite’s trajectory or its re-entry into the atmosphere. The debris, if any survives the fiery descent, typically lands in remote areas and causes little or no harm. Presumably it'll mostly burn up in the atmosphere though.
From Justin: For those who don't know, the RPM challenge is a challenge where, during February artists record an album without the labels, without the RIAA, the IFPI etc and release them.
SSJX sent in this huge DIY guide to adding pretty much everything to an Eee PC. Wouldn't it be cool to have a Eee PC with a integrated GPS unit? Yes! I certainly thought so.
Justin also spotted this bizarre patent story. Reading the patent, you realize it describes the quite common smartphone. It's a patent for a mobile phone with removable storage, an internet connection, a camera and the ability to download audio or video files. The patent holding firm who has the rights to this patent wasted no time at all. At 12:01am Tuesday morning, it filed three separate lawsuits against just about everyone you can think of, including Apple, Nokia, RIM, Sprint, AT&T, HP, Motorola, Helio, HTC, Sony Ericsson, UTStarcomm, Samsung and a bunch of others.
LegionHW have an Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Overclocking Guide. he fact that we were able to reach 4.4GHz without having to use a water-cooling system is impressive.
Martin sent in this video of bored people with 1500 XBOX hard drives. This woman sets up a line of 1500 old hard drives and knocks them down.
Another video, this time from Mr T: Hey, don't believe I've seen this on your front page before, but this is pretty damn impressive stuff. I imagine it will be future of the Next Gen consoles. Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote.
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