Filed under: Industry, Other hardware, Others If you're looking for HD resolution in an industrial app -- you know, so your work rig can be on equal footing with your home one -- last month's introduction of the Kodak KAI-02150 HD CCD sensor may have caught your attention. But not everyone is into developing cameras from sensors, so Prosilica has kindly done that lifting for you with its new (but almost as forgettably named) GE1910 camera. The GE1910 puts the Kodak sensor into a C-mount lens body up front, a Gigabit Ethernet interface (GigE Vision standard) around back and a...
I wake up every morning thinking, “Man, what I could really use is a social network where I could discuss the societal ramifications of the Kai En Tai-Val Venis castration angle of 1998, or join ‘The Kliq was the best unofficial stable ever’ fan group.” It seems my wishes have been granted. World Wrestling Entertainment has launched its own social network called WWE Universe, which has been cooking since April. So far, the site has 200,000 members, most of which are men in the 18-35 age bracket. While the site is primarily what you’d expect from a “social network...
Sometimes, when moving or installing WordPress blogs, you'll have a need for some simple scripts to help do simple things. I found a couple of those that helped me out, and I thought I'd share them with you! Easily install WordPress This first one I shared on my newsletter a couple of weeks back: EasyWP Installer is a script that helps you quickly install a WordPress if the only thing you have is FTP access. What it does? It downloads all the WordPress files for you, so you only have to upload this 8kb file, instead of uploading the entire...
Chinese internet users have become the top target for malware, according to a new security report by Microsoft. The company said that about 47 percent of software “exploits” it found, including ones that can record keystrokes and steal passwords, in the first half of 2008 were in Chinese, while only 23 percent were in English. Considering China surpassed the U.S. in overall internet users this June, it's probably not that surprising that the country would be targeted. Couple that with the influx of inexperienced users with freshly middle-class banking accounts, and you've got a major security problem. Microsoft recommended...
Google China offers several homepage variations, specifically tailored to be shown in Google-partnering internet cafes. For reference here’s the Google default homepage at google.cn or g.cn: Below is one for the affiliate named “icafemedia”, according to the URL parameter. The page shows boxes with pointers to things like songs or novels (I’m getting a loading message for the music content; Google China’s music search site is not available in other parts of the world): Chinese blogger Charles Peng, who noticed this homepage in an internet cafe, writes, “I searched this word on Google, and found iCafeMedia ... is a company...
Now this is the perfect shoe rack for people who like to kick off their footwear (like me!): the Kickit shoe rack/bench by Matthias Furch and Kai Ertel. The shoes that you fling off your feet will be caught by giant bristles and stored there till you need ‘em again. Link - via BB Gadgets...
C is for many things, include chutzpah: A man who was fired for calling another broker the c-word is suing his old boss for $50 million. Kai Kemnitz, who was hired from Deutsche Bank in 2006 for $2.7 million a year was sacked in 2007 after the incident. According to Bloomberg News, the word was uttered during a "high stress trade": He was mad the broker didn't have a buyer for some Wachovia options, forcing Kemnitz to sell them at a lower price and say, "How can this happen?... You own it (obscenity)." Kemnitz believes Jeffrey Michaels, who also said...
The Kickit would fit perfectly into my apartment, were it not for the ridiculous €2000 ($2500) price tag. Upon my nightly arrival home from the pub, I engage in a little ritual, loosing my sneakers by crushing the heel to the floor so they hang from my toes. I then stumble forward and in my blind, inebriated state I launch my footwear pim! pam! into the living room with the miscalculated force only a drunkard can summon. And because I cannot focus, let alone aim, the shoes inevitably hit something they shouldn't: a delicate glass vase, a carelessly placed...
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Hardware, MacBook During the meta-liveblog yesterday, I was in full-out Apple fangirl mode. I won't lie; after the MacBook specs and design were revealed, I was already contemplating putting my current BlackBook (that I bought in August '07) on eBay or Craig's List, hoping that the RAM and hard drive upgrades and all the software I would include could net at least $900. Then I would buy a new MacBook. After the dust settled and the specs were released, a dark cloud quickly dashed my plans: FireWire 400 ports are no longer included in the...
I recently had the chance to interview several long-time Googlers about the early days. To commemorate our 10th birthday, we've been revisiting our memories by digging into company lore. As fun as it has been to look back, of course we've also got our sights firmly set on what lies ahead.Vint Cerf has some predictions about the interplanetary Internet, while Kai-Fu Lee talks about the growing ubiquity of cloud computing. Also featured are stories from early Googlers, like Craig Silverstein's memories of a certain famous garage, and Marissa Mayer's reflections on the spirit that has carried over from the early...
Hmm, looks like we've go: "I'd Relish some Ketchup","Exscuuuse My Beauty", "Most Dangerous Catch", "Shaken and Stirred with a Quill", "Who Called for the Escort?" and "Yippee Kai yei, M&%$***#ers!" Yep, everything seems to be going well so far. Got a pet and costume you think will win the Martha Stewart / Cute Overload Costume contest!? Submit a photo here! Or check out all photos in the Gallery....
Filed under: Other hardwareIf your day job involves some CCD imaging, Kodak wants to bring some HD excitement to your 9-to-5 with its KAI-02150 (the name alone says "buttoned-down") CCD sensor. The interline transfer sensor reads out its 1920x1080 pixels at 60 frames per second and boasts high dynamic range (64dB) needed for many industrial applications. Engineering samples are available now, which will give you a few months to retool your microscopy/machine vision/imaging science application with eye-popping HD before production hits its stride in Q4 2008.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments...
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