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LSN Global's ECOPLUS converts unwanted pens into styli {Engadget}
May 7th 2007 8:32AM You can also dip the tip of the pen in nail polish for the same effect :)
Blow Light: the wind generated LED toy {Engadget}
Apr 27th 2007 11:26AM This Blows
Calls for WiFi safety inquiry to be carried out in UK {Engadget}
Apr 22nd 2007 6:53PM this really isn't complicated, heres a site that explains the difference between Sound and RF waves:
http://www.kettering.edu/~drussell/Demos/waves/wavemotion.html
sound is Longitudinal and RF is Transverse
this is why you can have sound compressions like sonic booms and also why ambulances are louder as they approach
this means that it is impossible to hear RF
what you can hear is the sound of the capacitors squealing when current passes though them and causes them to vibrate.
vibration makes sound.
electromagnetism makes RF.
as for it being damaging, the 50,000 watt radio stations all around us are putting out far more power than any wireless router does, even with after market firmware
same as cellphones and cordless phones
wifi is just as safe as anything else and probably more so as the transmit power is only rated in milliwatts.
now how do i ask the government for 6 million dollars so i can tell them this same thing?
Laptops and flat panels also vulnerable to Van Eck eavesdropping {Engadget}
Apr 22nd 2007 12:46PM I wonder how the MPAA will react to this as the screen is essentially "rebroadcasting" the signal.
Everyone who has ever watched a movie is technically guilty of unauthorized retransmission of copyrighted work.
Microsoft corroborates Windows Vista OEM hacks {Engadget}
Apr 13th 2007 11:03AM people are dumping on Vista because Gates dared hackers to try to hack Vista and it turns out that ms left the door wide open for them to do it, much to the benefit of the legitimate user that finds his legit copy non-functional and must resort to aforementioned hacks.
vista is pretty, I'll give it that, but there was no need to take what is essentially XP SP3, change the look of the menus and call it a new OS.
Vista reminds me of Windows ME in oh so many ways.
Microsoft corroborates Windows Vista OEM hacks {Engadget}
Apr 13th 2007 10:49AM I just bought a Toshiba laptop with vista preloaded on it. I figured i'd give it a try and it was alright. I reformatted it and did a clean install to get rid of all the toshiba preinstalled "value added" crap. Everything went fine.
Then 30 days later i got a popup saying my copy was not genuine even though i used the cd key off the bottom of the laptop and made sure i installed using the right version for the key, home premium.
In the end I had to use one of these hacks to make my legitimate copy of vista function.
Vuck Fista
