Here’s a cool howto on installing your Ubuntu to a flash drive!

This’d be great for people like me since I can take Ubuntu with me everywhere.

via lifehacker

Make a floppy disk bag with your old floppy disk drives. It probably would be the geekiest bag ever!

This is a bag I made from floppy disks. I found scads of floppy disks in a dumpster and wanted to make plate mail armor out of it (that is my next floppy project) I found out that a bag would be a great proof of concept project. Here goes..

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We’ve decided to do some round-up links for the day for the hell-of-it.

1. Check out How to fake a Web 2.0 logo for some hints on your next website’s new logo.
2. Here’s Delicious bookmarking howto for anyone new to Web2.0 bookmarking.
3. Check out HOWTO fight Companies Online. Their number advice is to start a blog. nice…
4. In a response to ridiculously long mattress names: “They confuse us with silly product names (the Sealy Posturepedic Crown Jewel Fletcher Ultra Plush Pillowtop or the Sealy Posturepedic Crown Jewel Brookmere Plush?). They flummox us with bogus science (”pocketed coils”? “Microtek foundations”? “Fiberlux”?). And they weigh us down with useless features (silk damask ticking?). It’s like buying a used car, and almost as expensive—I’ve seen mattresses going for $7,000. What’s a consumer to do?”
   Yes, this is true, let’s just buy some memory foam and forget the rest.
5. Interesting take on running a business without managers.
6. HOWTO make RAM disk on Windows XP
7. Chopstick Manners?!? ridiculous…
8. HOWTO make Apple iMartini
9. My favorite Linux editor, vim HOWTO. (or vi)
10. Cool Photoshop lighting HOWTO

Here’s a cool upcoming technology that can change the world forever for you if you are blind.
It translates text into braille and lots of more features.

The bridge is a neat device. None of the technology is not revolutionary but the tiny package is impressive.

“When it is scanning the text in books or other presswork, it translates the text into braille, which is then displayed on its special screen for the blind to touch. At the same time, “Bridge” saves the text into the internal hard disk to be read later. In addition, the product can download data from the Internet. So that it can fit books of different sizes, it has been designed with a foldaway shape. The user can delete files on demand. In order to allow users more convenient reading, the Braille screen can display a column of words only. The device is easy to operate, with easily identified functional divisions. It is small and easy to carry, allowing it to be used anywhere.

How does it work? The braille screen works with electromagnetic or piezoelectric principles. When the current or voltage goes through every array of six stitches, the resulting rise and decline gives birth to braille. The product scans the original printed matter, then translates the images into analog electrical signals with an optical-to-electrical transducer. Finally, it translates the analog electrical signal into a digital signal.”

Via: Wired

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Check out clear USB! Well, the point is that we can probably apply this type of resin to make
your next application clear!

via instructables

Hahaha, kinda cute!

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We’ve received word that a respected member of our tech community, James Kim (whom many of you may know as CNET’s senior editor of digital audio), and his family have gone missing. As we understand it, last weekend James, his wife Kati (above right), and his very young girls Penelope (left) and Sabine (baby), drove from their home in the SF Bay Area to Seattle. They were expected back some time Sunday, but were last seen by a hotel clerk at 5:45 PM on Saturday in or between Gold Beach or Portland, Oregon. We sincerely do hope they are all safe, and our hearts go out to the Kim family.

We’ll have more information as we get it. If you have any information as to the Kim family’s whereabouts, please contact the SFPD at 415-558-5508 during normal business hours, and 415-553-1071 after hours.

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Getting back to some serious side of technology, we will randomly dive into nanotechnology.

What is nanotechnology?

Here’s a good Google video on nanotechnology explaining what it is:

The Environmental Protection Agency has decided to regulate a large class of consumer items made with microscopic “nanoparticles” of silver, part of a new but increasingly widespread technology that may pose unanticipated environmental risks, a government official said yesterday.

The decision — which will affect the marketing of high-tech odor-destroying shoe liners, food-storage containers, air fresheners, washing machines and a wide range of other products that contain tiny bacteria-killing particles of silver — marks a significant reversal in federal policy. It also creates an unexpected regulatory hurdle for the burgeoning field of nanotechnology, which involves the creation of materials just a few ten-thousandths the diameter of a human hair.

Basically nanotechnology is a technology that kills bacteria with its particles of silver. It has been used in shoes, food-storage container, etc…etc…
The EPA will try to regulate the technology by testing and making sure that the nanosilver is safe as its disposed into our environment and does not kill the good germs too.

There are speculations that nanosilver could kill HIV and AIDS too.
More site with nanotechnology info:

zyvex

national nanotechnology initiative

nanotech-now