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Canon Hopes To Use The Photographer’s Iris For Copyright Protection
via OhGizmo! by Andrew Liszewski on February 13, 2008
By Andrew LiszewskiCanon has filed for a patent they hope will revolutionize digital watermarking when it comes to photographs. Future cameras from the company could have a ‘REG’ setting on the Mode dial that will actually take a photograph of the user’s iris as they look through the viewfinder.This image, which is as unique as a fingerprint would be added to the photo’s metadata once a...
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Bridge over Fish Hatchery to offer relief for cyclists, pedestrians
via madison.com - RSS by WSJ: GENA KITTNER608-252-6139 on February 13, 2008
Walkers and cyclists trekking along the Capital City Trail in Fitchburg in the coming months will no longer have to dart across busy Fish Hatchery Road to continue their jaunt.
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BBtv - How to hack RFID-enabled credit cards for $8
via Boing Boing by Xeni Jardin on March 19, 2008
A number of credit card companies now issue credit cards with embedded RFIDs (radio frequency ID tags), with promises of enhanced security and speedy transactions. But on today's episode of Boing Boing tv, hacker and inventor Pablos Holman shows Xeni how you can use about $8 worth of gear bought on eBay to read personal data from those credit cards -- cardholder name, credit card number, and...
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Visualization API for Google Docs
via Hackszine.com by Jason Striegel on March 21, 2008
This looks really useful. Google recently released an API for using Gadgets and visualizations inside of (or pulling from) the Google Docs spreadsheet system. Developers can create useful visualization models, like Gantt charts or geographic heat maps, and Docs users can use these tools inside their own documents.The Gadgets in Docs framework also allows the visualizations to be plugged into...
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Bionic eyes implanted in blind patients
via madsimian's spittoon by (author unknown) on April 22, 2008
Bionic eyes implanted in blind patients
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Passenger moons speed camera
via Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder on May 06, 2008
A car passenger is in trouble for mooning a speed camera in the UK. It's interesting that the car was not speeding, but the authorities had a photo of the car anyway. Police may take action against the man for public order offences and not wearing a seat belt.Officers have the registration of the car, which was not breaking the speed limit, and intend to contact its owner.It is understood...
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Train quarantined in Ontario after mystery illness hits passengers, one - International Herald Tribune
via www.iht.com by (author unknown) on May 09, 2008
Train quarantined in Ontario after mystery illness hits passengers, one
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FLOGOS
via food for design by (author unknown) on May 10, 2008
Shared by Joshua this does not seem to be a joke...
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SMS data rate is 4x more expensive than data from the Hubble
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on May 13, 2008
... because there are only 7 bits per character in the text messaging system, and we assume the average price for a text message is 5p. There are 1,048,576 bytes in a megabyte, so that's 1 million/140 = 7490 text messages to transmit one megabyte. At 5p each, that's £374.49 per MB - or about 4.4 times more expensive than the ‘most pessimistic’ estimate for Hubble Space Telescope t...
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