Tag: Ideas
Turning a camera phone with bluetooth into a mouse (HID for you and me)
What a great idea! Turning a camera phone into a bluetooth mouse using a Java application! At the moment it uses Nokia software suite to transfer data, ideally it should use the standard bluetooth HiD spec which he says he’s developing. Brilliant!
Satire: Microsoft Patents Ones, Zeroes
REDMOND, WA—In what CEO Bill Gates called “an unfortunate but necessary step to protect our intellectual property from theft and exploitation by competitors,” the Microsoft Corporation patented the numbers one and zero Monday. At a press conference beamed live to Microsoft shareholders around the globe, Bill Gates announces the company’s patenting of the binary system.…
My space @ MySpace
Seems the MySpace craze as come to Europe. After the success of Hi5, Orkut and Friendster, MySpace is taking over the “social networking” with a good dose of music, ease of use and huge user-base. Enough talk, try it already!
What If They Gave a War…?
1968. It was the height of the Vietnam War, the year of My Lai and the Tet offensive. Student riots in Paris nearly brought down the French government. Soviet tanks put a premature end to Czechoslovakia’s Prague Spring.In the United States, the streets were teeming with antiwar protesters and civil rights demonstrators. Martin Luther King…
Snus: Do it the Swedish way
In the beginning there was rolling tobacco, and home-made alcohol. And there was much rejoice. Then came the cigarettes. Oh those cigarettes! So glamorous in the 20’s and oh-so-cool in the 80’s. But the 90’s brought to light the reality of their dangers: highly addictive and cancer inducing. Coming from a Mediterranean country myself, it…
