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Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a smart video goggle system that records everything the wearer looks at, recognizes and assigns names to objects that appear in the video, and creates an easily searchable database of the recorded footage. Designed to function as a high-tech memory aid, these “Cyber Goggles” promise to make the act of losing your keys a thing of the past, according to head researcher professor Tatsuya Harada.

I like this image, don't you? The scary glow and all... ;-)
So, people are working on contact lenses display and vision enhancer!

Will we be able to shrink Mr Mann's vision of the eyetap so it can fit directly in the eyes?

We sure will...

Will it be available to the public at a reasonable price in the near futur?

Never! I'm willing to bet that we won't see this kind of technology for at _least_ 15 years in the public stores.

Why empower people when you can keep this to yourself ?

Yeah i know, a bit cynical this morning, but as long as we don't see value and make it a priority to empower people with technologie in good ways we're doomed to be trapped in an ever increasing cycle of product release that enslave us bit by bit...

Enough rambling, i had to post something, the year is a bit slow, oh and happy new year!

And, uhm... Mars / April being a travel month to asia, we'll keep the slow release cycle for a while. After all, why not keep the good news to ourself like the "companies" for our own little short term profit?

Just kidding... ;)

Take a look at this very well made video of how stuff is made, abused, consumed, trashed and polluting. Should be watched and seen by everyone before you go running for the store buying cheap crap from china this Christmas.

Instead of giving crap to people, why not give them your time?
This will also give time to someone else on earth in the long run.
Taking your time creates time... incredible eh? :-)

From spacing montreal's article:

London’s Metropolitian Police are looking into taking its use to an even higher level by using video software — designed by a firm called “OmniPerception” — that can pick out suspects based on what they are wearing. The technology can “see” specific brands in a crowd and is currently used to identify company logos in TV broadcasts of sporting events to check the prominence of brand images.

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After looking around at some solar solution, i found this interesting video that includes parts i was already considering (Tekkeon MP3450 / Sunlinq 25) with some explaination of how they can be used together.

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But later on his blog, he seems to point out that the solar panel could actually manage to charge the Li-Ion battery directly for 4-5h a day in the summer.

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I guess that using a 25-30W solar panel would make this practical... Anyone has a good source of them for cheap?

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After some "lobbying" ;) efforts on the OLSR mailing list, it seems that an almost complete version of the PAA server/plugin for OLSR will be released shortly: Server is coming soon and the plug-in will follow!

I'm gonna try and package the whole thing for the Maemo Platform for which i got a dev rebate for the N810 (disclaimer ;). If i can make this work seemlessly for users i hope to be able to port this to the OLPC, OpenMoko, DS, Eee, etc... and general linux on laptops of course.

Roar's Announcement on the OLSR's mailing-list follows after the break! :-)

I wonder if anything is being done about opportunistic encryption being activated as a special tunnel mode between 2 hosts using sshd on both sides. It wouldn't give any special account access or command execution, just a tunnel working outside-to-outside of the machines involved.

With the number of people running sshd these days, this could be fun! And you can even tunnel at Layer 2 which could be useful for some protocol and it could be ignored for some ports so to have good latency for applications that don't need this. Of course this might be too costly for large scale servers but in another way, it could create fun p2p networks like anonet has been doing for a while, with routing, etc...

Getting Opportunistic Encryption was the best idea the *S/Wan project had and i truly believe it was a great way to slowly but surely encrypting everything without breaking old protocols. Just like OTR did bring encryption to the IMs masses, SSH might do it for the rest of the protocols before we can get this lower in the stack...

So let's start with a white list of ports first, let's say, telnet and ftp (yeah i know, sounds stupid to tunnel telnet over ssh, but you get the point ;-)

What do you think?

Here is a little guide for your relatives that can help them beat censorship on the internet.

October 11, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACTS:
Email: mailto:media@caedefensefund.org
Claire Pentecost: 773-383-9771
Gregory Sholette: 212-865-3076
Edmund Cardoni: 716-854-1694
Igor Vamos: 917-209-3282
Lucia Sommer: 716-359-3061
Dianne Raeke Ferrell: 412-352-2704

SICKNESS, "ABSURD" DOJ PROSECUTION FORCE SCIENTIST TO PLEAD IN
PRECEDENT-SETTING CASE
Scientist's Wife and Daughter Comment on Case

Buffalo, NY - Today in Federal District Court, Dr. Robert Ferrell,
Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate
School of Public Health, under tremendous pressure, pled guilty to
lesser charges rather than facing a prolonged trial for federal
charges of "mail fraud" and "wire fraud" in a surreal post-PATRIOT

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Robotic insects have been spotted in the wild... who is using them?

for what?

unsolved mysteries?

Some comments after the jump! (image)

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Here is an interesting article on the subject of the municipal Wi-Fi, why it failed, what the big corps are proposing and why we loose...

Hey it's free... so if you enjoy a good community lo-fi sci-fi show, take a peak tonight at 20h00 at the park with no name in Mile-End (Clark/Arcade).

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There is an open wireless access point at Dieu du Ciel !! OMGPONIES!!11
Combined with their incredible beer, it should generate equally incredible blog posts!! ... or not... .o00o0ooo.