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Tuesday, April 06, 2004 |
Let the sun recharge your mobile.
Bags with their own solar panels will allow people to recharge their mobile phones.The bags and cases have a plastic photovoltaic cell on the outside to convert solar to electrical energy, which inturn runs to a plug inside the bag.Mobile phone covers, laptop cases and bags with photovoltaic cells will be available later this year,and was on show last week at an Australian conference on sustainable technology called Enviro 04 held in Sydney.
Recharge your mobile wherever you are
[Smart Mobs]
7:57:44 PM 
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Wired: "If we don't do something about increasing battery life, we're toast." [Scripting News]
7:28:51 AM
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One from Mark, one from Cory:
A guy who works in an Irish cybercafe writes about busting a 419 (AKA Nigerian Fraud) scammer. Best part: After the police arrive and have the scammer step away from the booth, the scammer tells the cops that "his wallet and ID are in the booth, so he walks in, rips a USB memory stick from the side of his laptop, tries to swallow it and makes a run for it." Link (via /.)
An Ohio teen whose cellphone was ripped off called the number, found herself speaking to the thief's girlfriend, and social-engineered her into giving up the crooks' address, busting a notorious cellphone-stealing ring in the process.
'Crystal? Tiffany? Jenn,' the voice asked.
'Uh, it's Tiffany,' Dempsey said.
'Hey, girl,' the voice said.
'I haven't seen you in, like, forever.'
'I can come right over,' Dempsey said. 'Tell me where you are.'
Link
[bOing bOing]
7:26:42 AM
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In Math, Computers Don't Lie. Or Do They?. A leading mathematics journal has finally accepted that one of the longest-standing problems in the field has been conclusively solved. By Kenneth Chang. [New York Times: Technology]
Inspirational quote:
But Dr. Hales's proof of the problem, known as the Kepler Conjecture, hinges on a complex series of computer calculations, too many and too tedious for mathematicians reviewing his paper to check by hand.
Believing it thus, at some level, requires faith that the computer performed the calculations flawlessly, without any programming bugs. For a field that trades in dispassionate logic and supposedly unambiguous truths and falsehoods, that is an uncomfortably gray in-between.
7:22:16 AM
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Letters. How India is destroying the American middle class: Readers respond to Katharine Mieszkowski's "How India Is Saving Capitalism." [Salon.com]
7:20:11 AM
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Paper Chase on a Snowy Hill. The point of the competition is to do something natural laws say you shouldn't be able to do. In this case, build a snowboard out of papier mâché and race it without having the thing ripped to shreds. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News]
7:19:10 AM
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TuneCircles.
Meeting Friends based on your music. That seems like a good idea. So I did sign up right away. At first the service does need to know what music you like (they should look at my Amazon profile). For this you can point to your MP3-file directory. Unfortunately I can not access the files on my iPod (where all my music is), so I have to find another way to get the services started.
[Blueblog]
7:18:46 AM
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National Cyber Security Day is a well-kept secret. U.S. residents adjusting to the daylight savings time change will have to be forgiven for sleeping through much of National Cyber Security Day on Sunday. The semi-annual event passed with nary a mention, even as antivirus software companies warned customers of yet another virulent e-mail worm. [InfoWorld: Top News]
7:11:14 AM
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