Our Deep Throat at the Pentagon’s parking lot has sent us an update with new pictures and the reason why the DARPA Challenge vehicles have taken over the military installation today: “they are showing off.” After all, the men with the funny hats pay the bills. You can check his complete explanation here.
Via [Gizmodo]
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Phone maker Hop-on Inc. apparently found success at CTIA in Las Vegas with its disposable cell-phone concept, a $20 (13 euros) phone with no LCD screen that can be thrown away or recycled after use. The company stated on Thursday that a European distributor has purchased 10,000 of the phones for an initial test run. The phone uses a Texas Instruments chip set and works on the 900/1800 MHz frequency.
Hop-On markets the phone as an ideal choice for children, teens, seniors, and world travelers. If you ask me, it also sounds like a good option for anyone who… well… may not want the government tracking their activities, if you know what I mean. [Telecoms.com]
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Japan-based Brother Industries has created a wearable, portable version of its retinal imaging display (RID) technology, which gives people the opportunity to see things Terminator-style. How is this different than other HUD glasses we’ve seen? The new RID prototype attaches to a basic set of spectacles and works by focusing light onto the retina, moving it at high speeds to generate images that look like they exist right in front of the user. Too bad the source box is freaking enormous.
The RID is composed of three parts: the light source, the light scanner and the eyepiece module. The new prototype of the light scanner is roughly the size of a bulky bluetooth headset, about 1000 times smaller than a version Brother showed at EXPO 2005 in Aichi, Japan. Again, the only thing stopping regular users from calling up stats and checking documents only they have the ability to see while strolling around town is the size of the light box:
Brother said it’s planning on a public launch of the device in 2010. By that point in time, it’s hoping to have gotten the light box down to the size of a portable hard drive.
With these glasses, that crazy 3-D camera, and the news that we have the ability to make stuff hover it’s like all my science fiction fantasies are coming true this week! [Newlaunches.com]
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Well, isn’t this some muthafricking bullhockey. The NY legislators approved a statewide sales tax last week that requires online retailers to collect tax for buys shipped to the state. That includes online retailers that have no physical existence in the say. NY Governor David Paterson is expected to sign off on this. “This is a […]
Well, isn’t this some muthafricking bullhockey. The NY legislators approved a statewide sales tax last week that requires on the web retailers to collect tax for purchases shipped to the state. That includes on the web retailers that have no physical existence in the say. NY Governor David Paterson is expected to sign off on this.
“This is a first step — but a critical one — in our ongoing battle to level the sales tax playing field between New York retailers and the out-of-state Internet giants that have, for years, capitalized on an unfair and unintended competitive advantage driven solely by tax policy,” James Sherin, president CEO of the Retail Council New York, said in a statement reacting to the bill’s passage.
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With Apple allegedly gearing up to battle the iPhone Dev Team in the incoming iPhone 1.2.0 firmware, the other side keeps refining and updating their iPhone firmware unlocking and hacking tool, Pwnage. According to the usual suspects, the new version pictured in this screenshot will be hitting your personal soon via automatic update. [Pwnage Page and iPhone Dev Team in Gizmodo]
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