Like most nerds, I’m in full Iron Man mode as the motion picture release date draws closer. So, I couldn’t help but get excited after hearing about a Personal computer case mod based on Tony Stark’s Mark 1 Iron Man suit. Is it the ideal case mod I’ve ever seen? No, not really. In fact, I would have expected a little more from the dude who brought us the Team Fortress II sentry gun mod. Still, I appreciate the hand-crafted look and the 2x BFG 9800GX2 Quad Sli under the hood. At the very least, it is pretty damn cool for a three- week build. Check out the video after the jump.
A month after releasing its plugin that detects if your ISP is performing reset voodoo on your torrents, Azureus/Vuze is claiming AT&T hexes them with the same reset TCP packet curse as Comcast, despite AT&T’s explicit statements otherwise. AT&T denies the accusation and points out a flaw in the plugin’s method, that it can’t tell the difference between naturally occurring TCP resets and artificial ones generated by an ISP. Azureus, while admitting the issue, still says AT&T is full it.
According to their data, “the results show a significant enough difference in the level of resets from one network operator to another, to warrant asking certain network operators to describe their network management practices,” and AT&T, Cablevision and AOL are at the top of the heap. In our feature on ISP network management, while AT&T directly stated its “techniques don’t include degrading or blocking traffic,” they did decline to elaborate on what they did do.
While in Comcast’s case, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin told a Senate committee they lied about throttling torrents only during periods of congestion and never issued a flat denial, AT&T’s repeated, direct counters incline us to believe them. But we still concur with Azureus’s goal, to push ISPs to be completely transparent about how they manage their network—we’ll leave whether the FCC should mandate net neutrality up to the policy wonks. Besides, it’s looking like the FCC is moving toward transparency regulations anyway, if not neutrality. [PC World]
There’s an experimental necklace developed by the Georgia Institute of Technology that reminds you to take your medicine. Users must first ingest a special pill, along with your other pills, that contains a small magnet, which then activates the necklace. The necklace then records when, exactly, you swallowed the pills. That way, your nurse or […]
There’s an experimental necklace developed by the Georgia Institute of Technology that reminds you to take your medicine. Users must first ingest a special pill, along with your other pills, that contains a small magnet, which then activates the necklace. The necklace then records when, exactly, you swallowed the pills. That way, your nurse or caregiver can know when, or if, you’ve taken your medicine.
Gimme an i! Gimme an M! Gimme an A! Gimme a… the Apple Store is down right now, worldwide. Yes, it’s not Tuesday, but there will be announcements this day. Or so the usual suspects say. Your bets after the jump.
A small device, implanted in the chest, can potentially treat depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder in most patients. The device, produced by Medtronic, prevents recurring feelings of depression or obsession by shocking the brain consistently. Seventeen patients, diagnosed as having major depressive disorder, were followed for a year and demonstrated overall improvement in mood as well as […]
A small device, implanted in the chest, can potentially treat depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder in most patients. The device, produced by Medtronic, prevents recurring feelings of depression or obsession by shocking the brain consistently.
Seventeen patients, diagnosed as having major depressive disorder, were followed for a year and demonstrated overall improvement in mood as well as social and occupational functioning, he said.
The technique, called Deep Brain Stimulation, stimulates the neural circuits which control mood and anxiety.
A half-way home between a digital watch and those crazy do-it-all multimedia watches, the digital pic frame watch may actually appeal to more people. The built-in memory can store 60 photos and it can superimpose the time in analog or digital format over the top. And that’s all it does: simple. It charges through USB, lasting about 8 hours —its main drawback, perhaps— and is Mac and Personal computer compatible. In leather and stainless steel, it’ll set you back $99.95. [EverythingUSB]
The main complaints about the current Nike+ Gear aren’t that it doesn’t do a good job keeping track of how far you run, it’s that it doesn’t measure stuff like heart rate, body temperature and other factors runners care about. Nike hears you. Their latest patent for upcoming Nike+ gear expands on the current concept and features all kinds of sensors over a person’s body, even possibly adding a GPS receiver so you can automatically map out the path you took on your run.
What’s even superior for people who live in cold places or don’t like to run outside (me) is that there are sensors for speaking to exercise machines to fetch data. The only downside? Nike’s slow-ass development cycle means you’re not going to see this for another year or two. Seriously. Some of these leaked Nike products back from January 2007 still haven’t been released. [iPodNN]
Like most nerds, I’m in full Iron Man mode as the motion picture release date draws closer. So, I couldn’t help but get excited after hearing about a Personal computer case mod based on Tony Stark’s Mark 1 Iron Man suit. Is it the ideal case mod I’ve ever seen? No, not really. In fact, I would have expected a little more from the dude who brought us the Team Fortress II sentry gun mod. Still, I appreciate the hand-crafted look and the 2x BFG 9800GX2 Quad Sli under the hood. At the very least, it is pretty damn cool for a three- week build. Check out the video after the jump.
A month after releasing its plugin that 
Gimme an i! Gimme an M! Gimme an A! Gimme a… the Apple Store is down right now, worldwide. Yes, it’s not Tuesday, but there will be announcements this day. Or so the usual suspects say. Your bets after the jump.
A half-way home between a digital watch and those crazy do-it-all 
The main complaints about the current Nike+ Gear aren’t that it doesn’t do a good job keeping track of how far you run, it’s that it doesn’t measure stuff like heart rate, body temperature and other factors runners care about. Nike hears you. Their latest patent for upcoming Nike+ gear expands on the current concept and features all kinds of sensors over a person’s body, even possibly adding a GPS receiver so you can automatically map out the path you took on your run. 
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