Oct
23
2009
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Micro Drones flying around your head?

This company have made a 4 rotor flying drone which can be programmed to fly to a specific GPS location and hover at a specific height and fly back before its batteries run out.

Drone

(Click for a larger image)

Just thought I would mention it.. :-)

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Written by Ash in: Tech/Computers | Tags: ,
Oct
23
2009
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Wikipedia for your mobile

Came across this a few weeks ago, its a portal for Wikipedia that works on small devices and reformats the articles for WAP its called WAPedia

Awww, cute little Wap-Wikipedia

Awww, cute little Wap-Wikipedia

^searching for WAP gave this^

^searching for WAP gave this^

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Oct
23
2009
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Low Cost – Petabyte Storage

Meet the Backblaze:

67 Terabytes or Pure Sotrage!

Insane Sotrage!

A Backblaze Storage Pod is a self-contained unit that puts storage online. It’s made up of a custom metal case with commodity hardware inside. Specifically, one pod contains one Intel Motherboard with four SATA cards plugged into it. The nine SATA cables run from the cards to nine port multiplier backplanes that each have five hard drives plugged directly into them (45 hard drives in total).

Have a look at the Blog post here for more information.

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Sep
24
2009
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Locking your computer with a bluetooth device?

Check out Blue Proximity for Ubuntu/Debian and Blue Lock for windows:

The linux version has locking and unlocking scripts to pause / play music and display screen saver.

Post from Ubuntu forums:
Blue Proximity

The windows version only supports screen locking:

Website for Blue Lock:
Blue Lock

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