Dark Side of the Moon IRL

Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon artwork recreated by Sky Arts on Primrose Hill in North London’s Regent’s Park using lasers and a smoke machine. source

Default https access for Gmail

In 2008, Google rolled out the option to always use https - encrypting your mail as it travels between your web browser and our servers. Using https helps protect data from being snooped by third parties, such as in public wifi hotspots. Google initially left the choice of using it up to the user because there's a downside: https can make your mail slower since encrypted data doesn't travel across the web as quickly as unencrypted data. Over the last few months, google's been researching the security/latency and decided that turning https on for everyone was the right thing to do. more...

LCROSS Lunar Impacts

SLOOH Space Camera will be providing free LIVE Telescope Feeds of NASA's LCROSS Lunar Impacts today. The feeds will start approximately one hour before impact at 16:00 IST & Bob Berman will begin broadcasting on SLOOH Radio click here for live feed.

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Awesome F-35B Video

F-35B's short take-off vertical landing capabilities.


According to Flight Global, this sophisticated war machine—which is now in its testing phase—won't see real action any time soon, as its engine is getting redesigned turbine blades. (Flight Global)

Richard Wright Dies

Wright died of an undisclosed form of cancer in his home in Britain on 15 September 2008. He was 65 years old. At the time of his death, he had been working on a new solo album, which was thought to comprise a series of instrumental pieces.

Bandmate David Gilmour in his website said: "In my view, all the greatest Pink Floyd moments are the ones where he is in full flow. No-one can replace Richard Wright - he was my musical partner and my friend." He added: "In the welter of arguments about who or what was Pink Floyd, Rick's enormous input was frequently forgotten. He was gentle, unassuming and private but his soulful voice and playing were vital, magical components of our most recognised Pink Floyd sound. Like Rick, I don't find it easy to express my feelings in words, but I loved him and will miss him enormously. I have never played with anyone quite like him."

I was hoping that Pink Floyd would re-unite one day and play again. Now, that dream remains a dream.

Tokyo Flash - Oberon S Mode

My New Oberon S Mode Watch!!!

Bought it from Tokyo Flash online. Placed the order on 31st July and was able to track it till it reached Chennai and it took 3 days to reach there but could not get any update for about a week. Had to make a lot of calls to Chennai post office and Bangalore Customs offices to know where the shipment was. Finally it arrived home on 12th of August.

I was not home so had to wait till the following week end to get my hands on it.

It takes a while to get used to the new way of time representation but you will get used to it after sometime. Overall its a neat watch!!!!

Emil Paul

Lightning in Slow Motion

If you thought lightning couldn't be any more awesome, you thought wrong. The power of slow motion let's you see every last spark as it dances across the sky. This is just about the most amazing thing I've ever seen.

Intel details future 'Larrabee' graphics chip

Intel has disclosed details on a chip that will compete directly with Nvidia and ATI and may take it into unchartered technological and market-segment waters.

Larrabee will be a stand-alone chip, meaning it will be very different than the low-end--but widely used--integrated graphics that Intel now offers as part of the silicon that accompanies its processors. And Larrabee will be based on the universal Intel x86 architecture.

The first Larrabee product will be "targeted at the personal computer market," according to Intel. This means the PC gaming market--putting Nvidia and AMD-ATI directly into Intel's sights. Nvidia and AMD-ATI currently dominate the market for "discrete" or stand-alone graphics processing units. More

Lightsaber Duel

A lightsaber duel between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs and YOU get to control one. Whats it going to be?? Mac or Windows?

Research UAV is Preview of Hovering Spy Drones of Tomorrow

Meet STARMAC, the Stanford Testbed of Autonomous Rotorcraft for Multi-Agent Control. Possibly the cleverest remote control mini-helicopter you've ever seen, packed with GPS, sensors and computer power. It's a research quad-rotor that the Stanford team is using to develop algorithms for future aircraft like it.

The algorithms the team develops will allow hovering 'bots like STARMAC to navigate, deal with collisions or avoidance and even to work as a team, sharing info on their environment and navigating around each other.

TI Builds Pico Projector Into Dummy Blackberry Curve

Texas Instruments has managed to cram that LED lit projector into a BlackBerry Curve. Of course, they stripped everything else out of it, but that’s not really the point. Previous prototypes shown by TI were double, maybe triple, the size of the Curve. TI is certainly getting there and once it’s small enough and efficient enough, we’ll be seeing it in a slew of random places you never thought about. Video

Love Thing

Here is me playing Love Thing by Joe Satriani

DisplayPort, ATI's RV635 XT board has it!!!

The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) unveils a new interface dubbed Display port which will supplant DVI and VGA connections eventually and its micropacket architecture offers significantly more bandwidth with multi-monitor support over a single cable. Like HDMI, a DisplayPort connection can carry 8-channel 24-bit audio, but also offers a dedicated auxiliary link for control communications of things like panel I/O and microphone connections. There are hundreds of big brand name companies behind the standard that is set to compete with HDMI for desktop and notebook dominance, including the likes of AMD, Intel, NVIDIA, Samsung and Dell. However, DisplayPort is more likely to co-exist with HDMI, since HDMI is specifically targeted for consumer electronics like set-top boxes, DVD players etc, while DisplayPort was designed from the ground up for computing.

ATI's RV635 XT board is beeing testing it out on an unreleased LCD panel that we'll be showing you in the coming weeks. On the board you'll note that the surrounding circuitry for each DisplayPort connection is minimal and devoid of those all-too familiar Silicon Image TMDS chips that add cost to any dual link DVI-D connection. Since each DisplayPort cable can run multiple monitors in a daisy-chain configuration, imagine a four panel setup from a single graphics card and even possibly a single cable connection!!!!

Su-30

Awesome maneuvers by a Su-30...

I Wear My Guitar Hero

After a long time a planning and hunting for David Gilmour's image I finally got the T-Shirt I always wanted....

David Gilmour - Remember That Night

Live at the Royal Albert Hall is a live concert recording of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour's solo concert at the Royal Albert Hall in May 2006 as part of his On an Island tour.The DVD version came out September 17, 2007 in the UK, Europe and Australia, and on September 18, 2007 in the USA and Canada.[1] The Blu-ray version's was released on November 20, 2007.


The track list are as follows...
1 .Speak To
2 .Breathe (In The Air)
3 .Time
4. Breathe (In The Air) (reprise)
5. Castellorizon
6. On An Island featuring Crosby & Nash
7. The Blue featuring Crosby & Nash
8. Red Sky At Night
9. This Heaven
10. Then I Close My Eyes featuring Robert Wyatt
11. Smile
12. Take A Breath
13. A Pocketful Of Stones
14. Where We Start
15. Shine On You Crazy Diamond featuring Crosby & Nash
16. Fat Old Sun
17. Coming Back To Life
18. High Hopes
19. Echoes
20. Wish You Were Here
21. Find The Cost Of Freedom featuring Crosby & Nash
22. Arnold Layne featuring David Bowie
23. Comfortably Numb featuring David Bowie

Bonus Features - Disc 2

From the Royal Albert Hall:
1. Wot's...Uh The Deal
2. Dominoes
3. Wearing The Inside Out featuring Richard Wright
4. Arnold Layne featuring Richard Wright
5. Comfortably Numb featuring Richard Wright
Special Features
* Thirteen bonus tracks including "Astronomy Domine", "Dark Globe", "Wearing The Inside Out" and "Wot's...Uh The Deal"
* Three documentaries including tour and studio footage
* Two Music Videos
* Island Jam 2007
* Photo Gallery

Here is the link for a video at Amazon...

Inside Oakley's O Lab

Oakley sunglasses are expensive. But apparently, they're expensive for reasons other than the recognizable "O" logo that's stuck on them. Nope, they're resistant to shattering if something strikes them, unlike other sunglasses that'll happily embed shards of themselves in your eyes when hit. They can also withstand 2 pound weights falling on them and handle lasers better than other glasses. They test all these things in the "O Lab."

Take a closer look...

Watch this video to find out the extensive tests that Oakley's shades undergo.



Oakley's Rolling O Lab: The Science Of Sunglasses - video powered by Metacafe

100Mbps Certification Testing

CableLabs has started testing and certifying the next generation of cable modems that use the DOCSIS 3.0 standard. In sorta English, we're talking boxes that'll handle 160Mbps download speeds and 120Mbps up, putting them on par with fiber optic services.

Cable ISPs currently use DOCSIS 1.1, which has been "good enough" in the past. Unfortunately, when compared to fiber, DOCSIS 1.1 lacks in the speed department. DOCSIS 3.0 has the potential to drastically change that, with download speeds of up to 160Mbps and uploads of up to 120Mbps possible. In addition, DOCSIS 3.0 also offers full support for IPv6, along with enhanced network management and security features. DOCSIS 3.0 also offers enough bandwidth for IPTV and other high-def video services.

Blendie 2004

Voice Controlled Blender... LOL.



MIT students have developed "Blendie 2004", a voice-controlled blender that is quite strange to say the least, in terms of functionality, but yet fascinating at the same time.