KUSP station manager, Terry Green, joins Al and Lyle for a pledge drive show. Al and Lyle keep the Geek News fresh and flowing.
Many a nerd has dreamed of exploring space
The Starship Enterprise 1:1 Scale
This thing is the greenest set top box we’ve ever seen: * Super small, so minimal materials and shipping * 5.95 Watts while running flat-out, 1W on standby * Very repairable, which is rare for Apple these days. We gave it an 8/10 repairability score. (Nobody’s getting to 10 without an open source repair manual!)
Imagine if this thing replaces everything from your blu-ray player to xbox to cable TV box. That’s a lot of vampire draw done away with. Of course, you have to factor in the power draw of the device streaming to Apple TV, but people have those anyway, and iPads don’t use much power either.
The whole TV media player / set-top box market has caused so much environmental damage over the last 20 years, just to transmit bits. That needs to stop, and it finally will now thanks to things like Apple TV, Roku, and Boxee box.
Watch what you say around Pepper Mouth!
Fri, Jul 16, 2010
Foul language has become an increasing bad habit and thanks to the Internet its harder to be caught out
The device includes five buttons on the face of a card and a paper-thin flexible display. The display hides a portion of a cardholder’s payment card number. To turn the device ON, a user must enter a personal unlocking code into the card. If the user enters in the correct unlocking code, the card will then visually display the user’s payment card number so that the user can read the number for online transaction. The magnetic stripe is then populated with the correct magnetic data such that the card can also be used with magnetic stripe readers. After a period of time, the display turns OFF and the Electronic Stripe
Matchmaking, if you think about it, is at the heart of so many business transactions. Buyer meets seller; volunteer meets nonprofit; investor meets worthy startup. It
The Emotiv EPOC headset is the most advanced mass-produced consumer-grade EEG headset on the market. It has 14 electrodes (as opposed to NeuroSky’s single-electrode and OCZ’s three-electrode headsets) and it can also detect head movement using a built-in gyroscope. The EPOC uses its sensors to detect changes in electrical activity using EEG monitoring techniques that let it detect facial gestures and estimate roughly relative mood states.
I forgot to mention this app is free and also lets you load Twitter feeds. Totally worth a look if you want to browse posts in a magazine format.
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