This new system, developed by Iran uses radar to track incoming projectiles, then uses a 'secret countermeasure' to detonate the head on the RPG/missile before it hits, meaning the only damage is done by the weight of the missile hitting. It's not exactly a forcefield, but from the video it looks pretty similar.
That’s the type of Honda advert machine for anyone that doesn’t know. This 9 minute video must have taken hundreds of takes to make.
Did you know that a five digit alphabetic password can be cracked in 20 minutes. Quadruple the length to 20 digits, and it would take 63 quadrillion years (no really). I think most of my passwords are pretty secure, the one for this site is a combination of three different passwords, which makes it… 19 digits, alphanumeric with uppercase letters. Unless you have a CRAY, bring it on
The instructions are pretty simple. All you do is add potting soil to the green sewer-pipe-shaped flower pot, and push the spores deep into it. Soak the soil with water using the dropper, add a squirt of the food solution, and then it's off to a dark location for a few weeks. Break out our NES to relive some classic Mario memories, then three weeks later, check on it and hopefull find your very own 1up mushroom.
I've ordered mine, I'll post pics when it comes.
Some of these show innovation, but others are just stupid. The 'Safetype keyboard' for example. How are you supposed to reach the keys in the middle when your fingers are on the outside. Then theres the IR keyboard which projects a virtual keyboard and monitors where your hand are. If god would have wanted man to type on light, he would have given him fingers made of shadows 
These should probably also have been included…
Senseboard
The Microwriter
Doesn't use any batteries, and is apparently lighter than other mice. It must use some kind of magnetic induction from the included pad to draw it's power. 
Now that Dell have aquired Alienware, they seem to be selling ridiculously over-specced and over-priced PCs. The XPS Renegade has four 512Mb GeForce 7900 graphics cards in SLi, two 10,000 WD Raptors in RAID 0 aswell as a 400GB drive. It also has a 4.26Ghz overclocked CPU. Pretty amazing, but for the price of $9930 USD, it should be.
28th March 2006
According to The Inquirer, Dell has sold all of these. They probably didn’t make that many, but it’s suprising they sold any at $9930.
XGL is an X server which uses OpenGL for it's drawing operations, allowing you to create some pretty swish desktops. By the time Longhorn's finally released, most of the technology it offers will probably have been around under linux for a while, but I'd still like to see a DirectX version running on windows.
I have a Holux GR-213 for sale. It’s brand new and unused, the only reason I’m selling it is because I bought it to use with Tomtom, but my PDA isn’t compatible with cabled GPSs, only Bluetooth. I’m just looking to break even really, so it’s half the price that Holux sell at.
BT Wholesale in conjunction with the service providers has been testing an up to 8Mbps ADSL service for what seems forever. Today sees BT Wholesale announce the product.
From 31st March 2006 the product will go live on a national basis. The service should be available on around 5300 exchanges, which will cover around 99.6% of homes and businesses in the UK. The key component to the Max services is that they are rate adaptive (i.e. will run at the highest speed they can) in both the downstream and upstream directions, which should see the vast majority of lines running a lot faster than under the existing planning rules used by BT Wholesale.
The potential line speeds are 160kbps to 8192kbps downstream, with upstream from 160kbps to 448kbps on Max, and 832kbps on Max Premium. 78% of BT lines are expected to manage 4Mbps or faster, 6Mbps to around 42%. It should be pointed out that even if you get the full 8192kbps, this is actually 3.6 times faster than an existing 2Mbps line. This is because a 2Mbps line runs at 2272kbps so that with the network overheads people will see close to 2Mbps under ideal conditions, so an 8192kbps line speed will provide around 7.1 to 7.3Mbps of potential data speed.
First it was 512k, then 1Mbps, now 2Mbps, and soon to be 4Mbps or more. 
A project of Niklas Roy, a german artist who works with electronic components instead of paint, Pongmechanik is a version of pong whcih uses motors and relays instead of a screen. There's a video with subtitles in english, which I recommend you watch.
It's hard to imagine using a higher resolution display than my notebook's 1920×1200 WUXGA screen, but there are Q-WUXGA 3840×2400 displays available. Images and text are so sharp on my TFT, that I couldn't imagine using a resolution that high on a panel less than 60″. It's four times the resolution of HDTV!
I have a few Vista domains for sale. For anyone that doesn’t know, Vista is the next operating system from Microsoft, the successor to Windows XP.
I also have GetVista.org and VistaSite.US. Leave a comment if you’re interested. 
The United States Army is testing lasers on the battlefield. Ionatron, Inc. of Tucson has developed a weapon called a femtosecond laser, which creates light pulses that last less than 10 trillionths of a second. These pulses carve a channel of ionized oxygen in the air which can conduct electricity. Then, the weapon blasts lightning bolts through these 30-foot channels of conductivity. This is said to be especially good at neutralizing bombs. Ionatron's CEO says his company will be sending 12 of these units to Iraq, the first one by the end of July.
SAN FRANCISCO -Intel Corp. has developed a single-chip wireless LAN solution that meets the 802.11n MIMO (multiple input, multiple output) standard, which offers 108 Mbit/second of bandwidth.
The chip, which integrates two radios and the associated power amplifiers in CMOS, was described here Monday as "the first CMOS MIMO radio."
Krishnamurthy Soumyanath, director of the communications circuits lab at Intel's Hillsboro, Ore. campus, told reporters here at the International Solid State Circuits Conference that it is likely that Intel will put the chip on the market fairly soon, though he called that a "business decision". What I can say is that the technology works and that it can go on the market very soon, no question about that.
Intel engineer Yorgos Palaskas led a design team which put two transmitters and two receivers on the die, with integrated power amplifiers. Intel also could offer high-end customers three transmitters and three receivers for more consistent bandwidth, or solutions with two transmitters and three receivers.
Looks like I'm going to have to wait even longer for that dual core laptop I've been waiting for.
