Geek Bazaar

Raven got r00t3d …

Umm .. and yea this blog is probably very hackable. Just a reminder

Since humans only use a rather small partition ( ) of their brain for daily surival routines, skills, emotions and memories, perhaps the remaining can be used as flash memory …
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/32230/118/

Google Gears (BETA) is an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality functionality using following JavaScript APIs:

• Store and serve application resources locally
• Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database
• Run asynchronous Javascript to improve application responsiveness

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Very interesting set of 7 videos of Jobs and Gates being interviewed by Walt Mossberg. Interesting discussion which covers lots of ground.

We tend to oversimplify daily life and always have a very basic top level understanding of things going on in the world around us (information hiding).

How many of us have actually took the time and saw what is behind the mouse cursor we use everyday?

Like many items in life I am sure you overlooked the details and taken it for granted. Click here to see what actually goes on:

http://www.1-click.jp

Not terribly excited about the design or impressed by the speed or anything like that … but it’s always good to see new alternative sources of energy. Therefore .. here comes .. the Air Car from MDI. Green Yahoo has some comments on this thing.

Uhm, did I mention I want this thingie?
More here

Thought you guys && gals would like to try out the brand new spanking “Yet Another Geek Test”.. here.

We do need more questions (and answers) and feedback, so kindly leave a comment.

Novell’s SEC filing reveals details of the company’s controversial agreement with Microsoft. A previously unknown condition of the deal could mean that “clone” programs like Wine and OpenOffice are excluded from patent protection because they mimic Microsoft software.

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Some sexy innovation .. this time coming from .. er .. Microsoft! It’s something that we already saw being done on YouTube - but now Microsoft has a press release about it and some exceptional clips.

The launch of Microsoft Surface marks the beginning of a new technology category and a user-interface revolution. Surface, Microsoft’s first surface computer, provides effortless interaction with digital content through natural hand gestures, touch and physical objects. Surface computing breaks down traditional barriers between people and technology, changing the way people interact with all kinds of everyday information — from photos to maps to menus.

Bla bla bla .. just check out the Microsoft Surface page. The future looks bright and the end of the world has been postponed by a decade or two. Should be available in Winter 2007 (which I guess would be somewhere around the end of this year).

There is strong evidence that the future of sex toys lies in open source. I can’t imagine myself running something like the following to upgrade my little friend’s firmware:

svn checkout http://virtualblowjob.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ virtualblowjob

Or maybe I just did. Either way, the point is.. The Register have an article about a symposium on Sex Hack. Enjoy

Update: Ok .. the project does exist already and its at the below link (qDot’s comment). Just for the record .. to get the code the command is:

svn checkout http://pystim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ pystim

And once again … enjoy!

The guts are a Routerboard 532A motherboard with 564 daughterboard. A 400MHz MIPS-CPU, Debian, 9x LAN, 6x wireless, uhm, nice setup. More here…

That’s exactly what Hasbro is trying to market to your local 24/7. This new toothbrush will play a 2 minute song while you’re brushing your teeth.

http://www.realitysandwich.com/indias_10_laptop_initiative

 This is also quite interesting - Techutopia In Tibet: http://www.realitysandwich.com/node/178

erm, don’t know if these people get paid for writing such articles (DUH!), it might be stupid, though some of you might need it…. especially if you don’t have the touch

Click here please

A good reminder ..

An automated news service, able to construct news based on blog articles, video and images taken from sites such as Flickr. This is a pretty cool concept (though not new), and its being worked on by Northwestern University’s InfoLab. More can be seen at the official site which unfortunately seems a bit dated (today’s news is marked as 22nd May).

OK so you’re looking around for really useful gadgets which you know you don’t really need, but tend to want to buy anyway…. and you come across this GPS receiver on Ebay. On first glance you think OK cool just plug this thing to my PDA/laptop and go for a drive. But then you are struck with this label on the device saying: “For Home or Office use” - WTF???

OK so if a GPS satellite signal is not usually reachable indoors and I ‘cannot’ take this device out of my home/office building, then what is exactly the purpose of this unit? Guess this would be extremely useful in low-visibility scenarios such as when I come home drunk and can’t find the light switch. Using this wonderful device I could actually track my position with relation to the bathroom and find my way in the dark! Pity I can’t get a GPS signal in the corridor!