Posted on July 01, 2008 by Bored Larry

Wouldn’t it be nice to power your gadgets for free? I mean, if you do the math on how much you spend on batteries (even if you use rechargable ones) a year?. Well the answer to this is quite simple, Yes you can! (No pre-electoral pun intended). I’ve being this a try and it seems [...]

Posted on June 27, 2008 by Bored Larry

One of my favourite all time favourite bands is back! And they are celebrating 25 years with a new (old) album. It is called “Apocryphon” Electro Roots 1982-1985

Limited Edition 2-CD Digipak, signed by Kurt, Paul, and James, complete with full-color, 30-page booklet chock full of never-before-seen photos of Information Society in the early days.
Contains the complete [...]

Posted on June 25, 2008 by Bored Larry

Brain-machine interfaces have done quite a bit in helping handicapped individuals interact with prosthetic limbs, computers and other humans, but a new neural implant concocted at the University of Florida could make all those past devices look archaic. Put simply, researchers have discovered a method that would enable brain-machine interfaces to “adapt to a person’s [...]

Posted on June 24, 2008 by Bored Larry

Unlike Audi and friends, Mercedes has actually had its eye on non-gasoline burning vehicles for some while. According to a recent interview, Daimler’s chief executive was quoted as saying that an “electric Smart [was planned] for 2010,” and he continued by asserting that an electric Mercedes model would be arriving “the same year.” Sadly, he [...]

Posted on June 24, 2008 by Bored Larry

So, we hear that Planet Earth is home to four billion phone lines. Now it can claim to house over one billion installed PCs — what do those neighboring planets have on that, huh? According to research firm Gartner, the number of “installed PCs worldwide has surpassed 1 billion units,” and it estimates that said [...]