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I used to run two monitors on my desk before we invested in a 24" LCD. Just when I thought I was done with monitor envy, this comes along: This is six Dell 30" LCD displays, all connected to the same computer, running at 7680x3200. Go check out the article over on Hack A Day .
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A while back, the good folks at Verizon sent us an HTC Ozone and a Blackberry Tour to play with. Ced and I split these up and I drew Tour duty (get it?). Note on my Blackberry cred: I've been using RIM's devices since the 8703, which was your basic Blackberry form factor with a physical QWERTY keyboard. We also use the Blackberry Enterprise
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Alan Turing, the British mathematician and Bletchley Park codebreaker, has received a formal apology from the British government for treatment he received in the 1950s after admitting a homosexual relationship. Considered by many to be the father of modern computer science, Turing was instrumental in breaking codes used by the Nazis during World War
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Next time you have a complaint about your internet service, consider this : JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - A South African company on Wednesday proved it was faster to transmit data by carrier pigeon than to send it using the country's leading internet service provider. Local news agency SAPA reported the 11-month-old pigeon, Winston, took one hour
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We had a good time assembling Arduinos with the Hack Pittsburgh gang last month, and they are offering a second class on programming the little beasties. Here's the summary: Build a physical pixel with your Arduino microcontroller! In this introductory-level class, participants will: set up and configure the Arduino environment on their laptop learn
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Ever been the subject of a little of life's unfairness and wished you could do something about it? Take a cue from this guy and his tale of woe. Dave Carroll , a guitarist from Halifax, Nova Scotia, had a rather unpleasant experience while traveling on United Airlines in 2008 . In his own words: In the spring of 2008, Sons of Maxwell were traveling
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Last Saturday I had the opportunity to spend some time with the good folks from Hack Pittsburgh , a local group of people from varying tech disciplines who pool their skills to come up with really interesting ideas and projects. The group gets together weekly to try new things or work on projects. Recent activities included learning how to knit and
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Verizon Wireless stopped by one day like Santa Claus and left us a couple goodies. One of them was the Verizon MiFi 2200, a pocket-sized and battery-operated WiFi router that allows up to five devices to share one 3G internet connection. At first I was a little skeptical about the usefulness of such a device but once I had passed it off to Ced, I found
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While listening to the Apollo 11 mission rebroadcast , I found this article on the BBC News site that talks about the guidance computer used in the mission. Staggeringly small in capability but gigantic in size, this thing pretty much flew the ship for the whole mission. And the best part is that it has less computing power than your average digital
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On Thursday, July 16th at 7:32am EDT, NASA will rebroadcast the entire audio of the Apollo 11 mission , forty years to the day that it began in 1969. The broadcast will continue through the splashdown at 12:51am, July 24th. To listen to the broadcast, tune in at that time to the following address: http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/apollo11_radio I was