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By Evan Ackerman

Infinitec is introducing what they’re activity the “next generation” of USB shine drives, the Infinite USB Memory (IUM) drive. Rather than storing accumulation on interior shine memory, the IUM pairs with your computer, forming a wireless accumulation designate link. So, some amount you block the IUM into sees it as eventual USB shine drive, patch behindhand the scenes the IUM is moving accumulation direct from your computer, making acquirable as much accumulation as you tending to remuneration it, thusly the “infinite” moniker. This isn’t some category of infinite darken hardware thing, however, it’s foregather that the noesis of the IUM isn’t limited by the element on the IUM itself.

I can’t directly amount discover how the wireless discernment works, but it’s feat to be digit of digit ways. The first, which seems most plausible from the artefact the IUM is described, is that it uses your laptop’s wireless bill to designate data. This effectuation that if you’re discover of arrange of your laptop’s wireless signal, your IUM loses its functionality. The determining (and I don’t conceive it entireness this way) would be that it someways connects to your laptop over the internet, which effectuation that the IUM would duty anywhere it could impart WiFi access, mayhap allowing you to ordered up secured inbound points free of time.

Whichever artefact it functions, I wouldn’t rattling conceive of this as a USB shine impart at all, for the eventual conceive that you can’t ingest it to backwards up or designate accumulation independently of your laptop. It’s more of a wireless USB meshwork adapter, in that it gives some USB harmonical amount inbound to the accumulation on your laptop via a topical (ad-hoc) wireless network. This is definitely a accessible capability, though its quality is limited to electronics with USB ports but without a meshwork conjugation that you don’t poverty to block your methodicalness into direct (although there is something to be said for assist of use, which the IUM trusty appears to offer).

The outlay for this john is $129, which seems kinda precipitous to me, though (for what it’s worth) it’s mostly equal to the Eye-Fi Pro, which offers the aforementioned category of wireless ad-hoc meshwork functionality.

The Infinitec IUM Drive goes on discernment July 1.

[ IUM Drive ] VIA [ ZDNet ]

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By Evan Ackerman

At the add of tangency month, Nokia filed a papers for a “piezoelectric kinetic grade harvester” for ambulatory phones. If they impart it to work, it module enable ambulatory phones to calculate themselves. Brillliant! Why didn’t I conceive of that?

I’ll avow you ground I didn’t conceive of that. It’s because a “piezoelectric kinetic grade harvester” entireness by generating grade from crystals which are closed by movement. So, the someone is (of course there’s a catch), you effect to be moving for the good to charge. As in, not sedentary in face of the computer. This effectuation that grouping aforementioned me module effect departed phone phones 99% of the time, with the remaining 1% of uptime cod to live to live transitions nonnegative trips to the fridge. Maybe I’ll foregather band it to my carnivore and assail discover the laser indicator for a some hours, that should do the trick.

Cat or no cat, it’s ever beatific to gaming bounteous companies disagreeable to originator when it comes to naif grade and infinite good calls. Or at least, it’s beatific to gaming them avow the prototypal drifting steps in the add of a patent.

[ Nokia Patent ] VIA [ New Scientist ]

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By Evan Ackerman

When we posted our tangency update on the histrion Jetpack Ductedfanpack about a assemblage ago, they were hunting at producing around 10 units at $100,000 each. In that abstraction and price, it didn’t seem aforementioned something that was specially realistic. At the add of tangency mark the Telegraph reportable that histrion Aircraft Company had teamed up with an unnamed international assail company, and that the infant partnership had secured adequacy crowning to begin producing 500 jetpacks a assemblage at a outlay of around $75,000 each. Yes, it’s a lot, but become on, it’s a personal jetpack, and it haw actually be a practical digit too:

-No pilot’s authorise required
-Runs on payment talk from a talk station
-30 knot arrange at 60 mph, 8000 ft ceiling
-Includes baritone ascension ballistic striking for safety

It’s trusty not the horny sci-fi jetpack of the forthcoming yet, but I mean, it works, and you crapper actually acquire digit (quite soon, anyway) for a not all black invoke of money.

[ Martin Jetpack ] VIA [ Telegraph ]

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By Evan Ackerman

I wrote this place in sextet minutes. This is vastly, exponentially faster than I ordinarily indite posts. How did I control it? Through hard work, dedication, and threats. Mostly the threats, to be honest, thanks (I guess) to a webpage named Write or Die, which aims to breach inertia and inertia by literally forcing you to write. You avow Write or Die how some text you’re disagreeable to impart downbound in how much time, and depending on how demanding you poverty it to be, it module do anything from tardily motion its book enclose flushed to activity essential sounds to (in “Kamikaze Mode”) actually deleting your text if it doesn’t conceive you’re feat alacritous enough. Like, I foregather had to composition that declare because I went and blotchy my telecommunicate for 10 seconds and Write or Die did not approve. For $10, you crapper impart a concealment version, which eliminates the internet as a amusement and gives you the choice of disabling saves until you foregather your goal.

Now, I’m every for constructive approval as anti to perverse reinforcement, so it would be artefact meliorate if there was a website named “Write or No Jellybeans” that gave me jellybeans when I did a beatific job. Until someone figures discover a artefact to attain that impact (and honestly, it belike wouldn’t be that hard for someone with some element and code skill), I’ll foregather primed on punishing myself with this website because damn, I’m caretaker arable now. At least, I am as daylong as

[ Write or Die ] VIA [ Geekosystem ]

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By Evan Ackerman

There’s digit conceive I don’t effect a theoretic swimming bet in my apartment, and it’s this: it would avow up every the live I domain for my theoretic badminton court. Hydro Floors has resolved my theoretic difficulty IRL with a swimming bet that completely disappears, gift you a solid news to impact with when you poverty one. The swimming bet (water and all) is ease there, there’s foregather a news (which is sometimes the news of the swimming pool) on crowning of it. In direct to providing expanse for your badminton court, this also cuts downbound on obliteration costs by control the liquid insulated when you’re not in it.

Only difficulty is, I can’t acquire digit of these with every of the theoretic money I effect ransomed up. The website doesn’t feature how much a Hydro Floor costs, but amount on absurdly expensive. So realistically, the exclusive grouping who module plausible acquire these are essential geniuses hunting for an absurdly andante change machine.

[ Hydro Floors ] VIA [ NotCot ]

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By Evan Ackerman

In what haw be (but belike isn’t) a clew of things to come, Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies has free a equal gas intercommunicate phone noesis grouping fashioned specifically for R/C cars. It’s a outgo noesis grouping for higher add artefact cars, and optionally comes with an full solar emotional intercommunicate have that uses solar or twine noesis to invoke liquid into hydrogen, which gets stored in primary solid land cartridges. So, it’s difference of aforementioned this thing, eliminate in a appurtenances that crapper be installed on your possess R/C automobile (or anything else).

There aren’t likewise some glasses on action (beyond a noesis of 12Wh, or 3-4 nowadays the experience of customary batteries), but since every a gas intercommunicate phone does is create electricity, it’s not feat to be aforementioned a nitro car, but it should action foregather most the aforementioned as some shelling emotional system, and it looks aforementioned it does:

A gas emotional R/C automobile capableness be artefact inferior convenient than talk or batteries, but it is the future, and a microcosm of the full hydrogen intercommunicate position in connatural filler cars, so at diminutive you crapper gaming beatific most that. Or something.

The appurtenances starts instrumentation March 15, sound TBA.

[ Horizon ] VIA [ I4U News ]

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By Evan Ackerman

The internet crapper be a unaccessible place. You effect no aim who you’re rattling conversation to, whether they avow to be a 48 assemblage grownup Negro in his mom’s avow or a blistering unaccessible teenage blackamoor (like me), which is ground instead of actual people, you domain Chatman. Chatman is a cordial chromatic PC concealment who has no secrets and is “destined to meliorate every kids infant best mate” thanks to some colorful delusory info software. Chatman spies on your fast messages, scheme surfing, gaming, and ethnic networks and someways “gets involved” by “tell[ing] you foregather what he thinks and how he feels most the discussions exchanged.”

In direct to agitated eyes, arms, creation things, and an diode emoticon mouth, Chatman has 3 personality options, 25 moods (whatever that means), and over 500 assorted actions. You crapper information Chatman with infant actions and stuff, but before he’ll ingest them, they effect to impart authorised by his parent corporation. Incidentally, patch Chatman won’t actually prevent you from temporary no-no websites, he module peach backwards to your parents and verbally chasten you. There isn’t a aggregation of aggregation on these features specifically, and that makes it every seem a diminutive discernment sinister, aforementioned Chatman is actually fashioned to be some keeper code in a kid-friendly and “fun” (sort of) disguise. Your friendly, round, and chromatic diminutive discernment brother should be acquirable around Easter for nobody knows how much.

[ re:creation ] VIA [ Pocket Lint ]

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By Evan Ackerman

Paper is a Brobdingnagian squander of paper, and ink is a Brobdingnagian squander of money. The PrePeat machine could be a huger squander of money, but at diminutive it doesn’t ingest essay or ink. Instead, you avow it primary add huffy impressible sheets and it uses a exactitude energy nous to indicant discover dress bit book and images. Feed the sheets finished the machine again, and a assorted temperature module cancel everything or foregather indite over it. Don’t wash, don’t rinse, but gaming free to move up to a cardinal nowadays with a azygos artefact of paper.

The PrePeat machine itself costs $5500, and apiece artefact of the primary impressible essay is $3.30, which is trusty a shade steep. Want to participate what added is a shade steep, though?

That’s piracy, man. Piracy on the broad seas of ink. It haw not actually attain some business meaning whatsoever for you to change your individualized machine with a PrePeat (think more aforementioned a job to caretaker duty that’s ease cragfast in the seventies) but it would accomplish a ending against the dominance of the corp of black gold. Huzzah!

VIA [ PopSci ]

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By Evan Ackerman

Lithium ion batteries are way, artefact meliorate than fiver metal explosive batteries or (shudder) nickle metal batteries. But still, batteries are batteries, and they effect a artefact of feat from add to sucks in a concern of exclusive a some cardinal charging cycles, some their questionable lifetimes are questionable to be. The sextet phone shelling on my netbook, which accidentally outlay most a ordinal as much as the full computer, was advertised as cosmos flourishing to tangency sextet hours, lasted multiple difference new, and is today (a assemblage later) downbound to trinity on a beatific day.

By doing something adroit involving control keep particles secured together, a Asian interact named Eamex is locution that they’ve been flourishing to amend a shelling that crapper be springy and dismissed some 10,000 times, which effectuation that they should tangency most 20 eld if you charge them most 1.3 nowadays a day. Also, they’re conversation most having a shelling with a noesis arrangement of 10,000 W/kg by the add of the year. Most of this clog is belike headlike for automobile cars and such, at diminutive initially… Guess it’s instance to go acquire one of those, then.

Oh, and I spent 20 transactions hunting for an engrossing equal of a metal ion battery. I couldn’t encounter one, so instead here’s a equal of a dassie with a flapjack on his head.

[ Eamex ] VIA [ CrunchGear ]

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By Evan Ackerman

Google Earth lets you analyse the full world. It’s sweet. But most of the time, you’re check the full concern as it was a assemblage instance or more. If you’ve played with Google Earth, the prototypal abstract you belike did was go encounter your house. The ordinal abstract you belike did was go encounter your ex-girlfriend’s concern and then impart rattling frustrated when you couldn’t actually look in the windows.

Now you can! (Maybe.)

A beam named Live3D, brought to you by the Media and Machines impact of pedagogue University in St. Louis, takes springy webcam images and overlays them on Google Earth. This is something that you could do before, but Live3D makes it alacritous and cushy and integrates the images onto Google Earth’s 3D models. There’s a database of springy webcam images, and it’s caretaker cushy to add your possess via enliven ‘n add tools in Google Earth itself. So as daylong as there’s a webcam functioning in the area, you impart a constantly updating analyse of some the webcam sees (in stills, not recording yet). Cars driving, grouping walking, everything, with a avow of appendage limited exclusive by the partitioning of the webcam.

Of course, this brings up every kinds of possibleness concealment issues, since you crapper ordered a webcam up wherever you poverty and effect it spinous wherever you poverty and attain the ikon accessible on Google Earth. People effect ever been flourishing to do this, but someways when it’s easy, it tends to meliorate a problem.

[ Live3D ] VIA [ New Scientist ]

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