There are lots of ways to make homebrew pressure sensors, but this method from Instructables user hiskeyd is the easiest I’ve seen: Jam two stripped wires into a piece of static dissipative foam and bend the ends over to keep them from pulling out.
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How-To: Quick ‘n’ dirty analog pressure sensor
It’s a good sign that OS 5.0 is starting to move across carrier’s in North America. Yesterday both Sasktel and TELUS released OS 5.0.0.419 for the BlackBerry Tour 9630. It’s highly recommended if you have a Tour 9630 that you upgrade to this new OS. Follow the links below to download this OS, and remember your Tour 9630 doesn’t have to be from either of these carriers. Simply install the file and remove the vendor.xml file ( more details here ).
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BlackBerry Tour 9630 OS 5.0.0.419 Released by TELUS and Sasktel
Today Bitstream announced that version 1.7 of its Bolt mobile browser will add the ability to run widgets. According to Bitstream, the widgets will be installed directly into the Bolt browser, and users will be able to access their …
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Bolt Browser Pledges Widget Support in Version 1.7
Image courtesy of CinemaBlend Last spring Walmart and Best Buy made big news by announcing that they were entering the used game exchange business via a kiosk system. There were plenty of articles about what it meant for places like Gamestop and on-line game trading sites like Goozex. In the end, none of the hand-wringing and teeth-gnashing mattered much, as both companies have now stepped back out of the market, according to a report at MTV’s Multiplayer blog .
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Walmart & Best Buy Duck Out Of Used Games Market
If you are using a digital camera with 14 or even 16MP resolution, you may be feeling pretty smug knowing you have a cam with lots of megapixels. If you are the sort that likes having things with the most and biggest this or that, Hasselblad has unveiled a new medium format camera that is going to give you serious megapixel envy.
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Hasselblad H4D-40 digital camera has 40MP Resolution
It seems like 2D barcode technology, mobile tags, as they are commonly referred to, are on the come up here in the United States. Just the other day we talked about Microsoft Tag . Today we’ll talk about JAGTAG, who, just announced that their technology is now available on all 5 major carriers in the U.S. This covers 87% of users. JAGTAG works a little differently than what we BlackBerry users and smartphone users are used to. There is no application to install. Simply take a picture of the JAGTAG and text it to or send it as an email. It is a bit tedious compared to just snapping a pic on your BlackBerry and being automatically taken to a mobile mobile website. All the more reason to make your next mobile phone a BlackBerry. JAGTAG 2D Mobile Barcode Technology Live On All 5 Major U.S.
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JAGTAG 2D Mobile Barcode Technology Live On All 5 Major U.S. Carriers
ARM and Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) today announced a strategic partnership for the development of secure mobile phone platforms. Through the combination of ARM TrustZone technology, which creates a protected area in advanced systems-on-chip, and the secure Mobicore operating system developed by G&D, sensitive applications such as electronic payment and online banking via mobile phone will be efficiently protected from security threats.
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Giesecke & Devrient and ARM Protect Mobile Applications From Data Theft
Nokia has today announced that since the 21 January 2010 launch of the new version of Ovi Maps with free walk and drive navigation, there have been over 1.4 million downloads. The one million mark was reached just one week after the launch. “We’re averaging a download a second, 24 hours a day,” said Anssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President, Nokia. “When we announced free walk & drive navigation we knew it would be a game-changer.
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New Ovi Maps with free navigation races past 1 million downloads in a week
We’re kind of starting to figure out ASUS’ naming scheme — E is for Easy , and N is for eNtertainment , jolly good. In other self-evident news, Engadget Chinese is the place to go if you want the lowdown on happenings in China and its nearby states. Joining HP’s Envy 15 in the USB 3.0-sporting ranks will soon be the familiar 16-inch ASUS N61 and the seemingly brand spanking new N82 14-incher.
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ASUS N82 and N61 join the USB 3.0 laptop party
Days after Macmillan books disappeared from Amazon’s inventory due to a feud over pricing, Amazon has confirmed that it has caved to Macmillan’s demands and will be raising the prices of Macmillan e-books from $9.99 to $12.99-$14.99 for hardcover and bestselling editions. The online retail giant expressed its strong disagreement with this pricing but decided to still offer the books to customers who can decide with their wallets whether they want to purchase Macmillan e-books at at what it calls “needlessly high prices”. A domino effect is beginning to be seen with News Corp-owned HarperCollins now jumping on the “We want higher pricing” bandwagon
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Amazon’s stronghold on e-book pricing crumbles, will renegotiate with Macmillan and HarperCollins
It’s good to know that even huge inanimate objects appreciate the need for a work-life balance. After a nice winter hiatus , Switzerland’s Large Hadron Collider is coming back online soon, set to resume smashing protonic beams at one another with the force of 3.5 trillion electron-volts (TeV) per beam, or 7 TeV in total. We have to swallow hard when we hear such force described as “low-energy,” but that’s what the LHC designers consider it, and moreover we’re learning they’ll skip past the middle and go for the full 14 TeV potential smashes after a retooling break during 2012
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Large Hadron Collider schedules holiday for 2012, full 7 TeV power for 2013
AltusLumen has just launched their latest LED product: the LightGear Gre. It’s an 18-in-1 LED light with built-in survival tools that make it handy for campers, hikers, travelers and other outdoor enthusiasts. The flashlight has 4 LEDs that output 80 lux. The tools include an aluminum whistle, a storage compartment for storing items like needles & thread, fish hooks & string or surgical blades. Also included is a detachable 10 in 1 stainless steel survival tool that has a can opener, knife, screwdriver, saw, cap opener, wrench, butterfly screw wrench, 2 position wrench, ruler and direction indicator
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Camp with confidence with the AltusLumen LightGear Gre
While we freely give away Internets – as in “you win over 9,000 Internets, sir” – for awesome content seen online, this intangible infrastructure of awesome might soon win an award itself. And not just any award – the Internet is in the running for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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the internet is nominated for the 2010 nobel peace prize
I don’t quite know why, but viewing detailed production process vids like this one, can induce a decidedly blissful, even zen-like state in my brain – and I’ve heard others report similar effects. Gfixler’s above video, documents some quality time he spent with a Sherline 4400 CNC mini lathe – mistakes, mishaps, and all – I needed a way to hook my shop vac hose to the square tube aluminum extrusion I recently made into a manifold for the Loc-Line tubing I’m using as a vacuum system for my mini mill. Here’s how I did it.
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Lathing zen – making a vaccum hose adapter
The Leisure Eyes from Brando are puffy sleep masks that have integrated speakers. It has it’s own on/off and volume buttons (plus one that says “sele”) which I think are big and distinct enough to be recognized by touch. It also has a built-in “Nature Sound”, although the product page neglected to elaborate on that. Meh, chalk it up to the company’s trademark weirdness. The Leisure Eyes sleep masks are powered by two AA batteries (I don’t know if they’re included; Brando lists “2 AA batteries” as “features”) and come in green, pink, and blue.
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leisure eyes sleep mask with speakers: sleep on the cheap
Man, check this out. The Economist magazine has Steve Jobs on its cover with a Jesus like tablet. Jobs’s record suggests that when he blesses a market, it takes off. And tablet computing promises to transform not just one industry, but three—computing, telecoms and media
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Steve Jobs On Economist Cover – The book of Jobs
Last week I mentioned a new eBook platform from Neonode that promised to bring touchscreen eReader tech to market at a low price called zBook . The zBook tech has the Neonode zForce touchscreen technology at its core. The company has announced today that the zForce tech from its eBook platform has landed in a new reader
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Neonode zForce eReader platform turns up in Koobe Jin Young Reader
Cisco earnings (CSCO) for the fiscal second quarter ended January 23rd have beat analysts expectations due to more customers upgrading their hardware for increased wireless and internet traffic. Sales rose to $9.8-billion and profit totaling $1.9-billion from $1.5-billion the same quarter last year. Continue reading to see a holographic Cisco telepresence video from 2007
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Cisco Earnings Beat Expectations
It’s not quite ready for an alpha release, but it’s nice to know that development of Firefox on Android has progressed to the stage where they’ve actually got a screenshot. [via AndroidCentral ] You’ll note that this is the full Firefox interface, and not the Fennec/Firefox Mobile UI; we’re testing with the full interface because it’s significantly more complex than the mobile UI and stresses Gecko much more. So, if the full UI works, then Fennec should work fine as well. Given the interest in Android on netbook and tablet devices, an updated version of the full Firefox UI might find a home on some of these.
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Firefox fires up on Android
The rest of the world is catching on rapidly but overall, Japan is still the world’s most advanced society mobile society . That being said, you’d assume that the first 4G (LTE) device to get an official certification from Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications must be coming from one of the many mobile companies over here, but it was South Korea’s LG who got the bragging rights [KR] for that today. Just look at how proud the model in the picture is holding said certification in her hands. The Korean company will sell not a handset but a 4G-compatible data modem, the LD100, in Japan. Japan’s biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo is ready to distribute the device in its home market (Docomo said just in November 2009 it will kick off 4G operations in Japan in December this year )
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LG gets bragging rights for Japan’s first certified 4G device
More than 1.4 million users have downloaded Nokia Ovi Maps since January 21 – when Nokia decided to offer free walk and drive navigation . 1 million downloads were provided within a week from launch, and now Nokia ’s serving one download per second.
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1.4 million Nokia Ovi Maps downloads since the service went free