] This design, by Brooklyn company Brave Space, is intended
] for "Life-size play", and the blocks really do have the
] exact proportions of the original Tetris pieces. The
] storage units are sold piece by piece, so you can buy as
] many as you want and arrange them however you want. Just
] think - you can recreate your own gigantic Tetris
] game in your living room - only without the bottom
] row disappearing every time you align things properly!

This is awesome.

Each piece is $350. That's a little too much. The first to have the same concept in Ikea style fiberboard cheapness, wins all the money. Ready, set, go!

Furniture - Tetris Shelving

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Three Purdue University industrial designers who tapped into memories of their own childhood cycling misadventures have built a bike that ditches the training wheels but keeps rookies stable.

Called SHIFT, it slowly transforms from a tricycle to bicycle configuration as the rider pedals faster, then returns to trike formation as the rider slows down.

COOL! -LB

No training wheels needed - New trike bike takes fear out of first solo ride

StankDawg wrote:
] I posted about this on slashdot recently:
] http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=146731&cid=12292095

The only thing I'd dispute is that this occured around the time of the IPO. This has been a problem all along. Google's management simply does not understand that the kind of data retention they are doing fits under the "evil" category.

It doesn't matter that other people retain data like that too. In fact, MemeStreams retains all of its logs. Whats important is that the role that Google plays on the Internet puts them in a unique position to have an unusual amount of information about whats going on in people's heads. People are not careful about what they tell Google because they don't really understand that its all a permanent record. Google's privacy policy might resolve this for them legally, but it does not resolve it for real. It is a ticking timebomb and it will eventually explode.

Now, I ask, what search engine doesn't keep all of that data? Who has GOOD policies?

RE: Big Google is watching you

] My Search History lets you easily view and manage your
] search history from any computer. This feature of Google
] web search enables you to find information you thought
] you lost. And over time, you'll see an increasing number
] of relevance indicators in your search results that help
] you find the information you want.

So, Google retains all of this data whether you like it or not. If they are going to do that, its nice to be able to access it and put it to use. So this feature isn't really a bad idea. However, I'd rather have some local software doing this kind of profiling for me and have google politely toss my search history in the bin.

Big Google is watching you

] I was connected via a soldier on Iraq who sent me a
] picture of the radios they are using to set off the
] IEDs. Some of them are using FRS radios (Family
] Radios). The picture I saw was a Motorola TalkAbout
] 5000 (or something like that).
]
] What I did was make a FRS radio connected to a 7 watt
] external amplifier, and with a BASIC stamp controlling
] the main function buttons of the radio. It will hop through
] all 838 possible codes (22 channels, 38 privacy codes) and
] transmit for 1 second on each channel. Hopefully
] setting off the bombs before they drive through.

Very interesting. There is a picture of a nokia phone that someone has attached a small circuit board to. I assume the voltage for the ringer switches a relay that trips the explosive. Pretty tech savvy for an islamist fundi. They should find one of these guys for make magazine. :)

Check out the rest of this guy's Blog for an interesting look at Iraq.

It's complicated - IED in Iraq

abaddon wrote:
] I think I have made it clear beyond a shadow of a doubt that
] CherryOS.exe, shipped as the core of cherryos is
] nothing but a recompiled version of PearPC...it has at most
] minor changes, most to strip attribution, hide the theft, or
] remove debugging output...

I think abaddon just won the award for most 'leet post to MemeStreams evar.

RE: Advanced binary analysis of CherryOS: proof of theft

This matter is open for public comment until April 4th.

] In a misguided attempt to make US passports more secure,
] the US Department of State plans to put radio frequency
] identification (RFID) chips in all new passports. This
] RFID chip will contain the same information currently on
] our passports, including the passport holder's name, date
] and place of birth, passport number and photograph.
]
] In a dangerous world where Americans are targeted by
] thieves, kidnappers and terrorists, the RFID-chipped US
] passport will turn tourists into targets, and American
] business travelers will transmit their identities to
] kidnappers wherever they go, thanks to the US State
] Department.
]
] Close up, the information broadcast from the RFID chip
] can be read by anyone with an inexpensive electronic
] reader. Farther away, the RFID chip can be activated
] enough to identify the passport holder as an American.
]
] From identity theft to identity death, an RFID-chipped US
] passport means good news for the bad guys.

RFIDKills.com

] The Mac BitTorrent client with a live 3D view of your swarm

Neat!

Bits on Wheels

] A self-replicating 3D printer that spawns new, improved
] versions of itself is in development at the University of
] Bath in the UK.

It begins....

Do we need a technopocalypse topic on MemeStreams? Right under Current Events?

New Scientist Breaking News - 3D printer to churn out copies of itself