I found this video at WIRED. MIT students build a prototype of a wearable computer that projects any information on any surface, anywhere you are.

Although I am not a friend of omnipresent technology, I must admit these are faszinating applications for future technology. Read more at the Wear ur World project website

Wired quotes Pattie Maes, the project manager of Wear ur World:

In the tactile world, we use our five senses to take in information about our environment and respond to it [...]. But a lot of the information that helps us understand and respond to the world doesn’t come from these senses. Instead, it comes from computers and the internet. Maes’ goal is to harness computers to feed us information in an organic fashion, like our existing senses.

This might be right. But in my opinion, the organic fashion Mae is aiming at will rather leed to excessive Nerdism. Early adopters and grown-up-childs will refer to this technology as gadgets and will use it to impress their surrounding – just like we they do today with iPhones and Netbooks.

That’s OK with me. I just want the ePaper thingy because that’s real hot shit.
via Timo Heuer.

So this is what communication mania is making out of us and web2.0 creatives:

Somehow we -consumers and deciders- are totally horny of being part of the bigbuzz communities we simply forgot about security.

So this happened:
A hacker gained access to several Twitter accounts by brut force – among them Barack Obamas and Britney Spears’. Twitter was already known for having security isuues do to unencrypted password transmission. Well, here’s a video that explains what he did:

Official Twitter feeds belonging to Barack Obama’s campaign, Fox News and Britney Spears were hijacked to send out fake messages on Monday, two days after a password-stealing phishing attack targeted the microblogging service.

“A number of high-profile Twitter accounts were compromised this morning, and fake/spam updates were sent on their behalf,” the company acknowledged on its website Monday. “We have identified the cause and blocked it. We are working to restore compromised accounts.”

Read on at wired.com

Warning: This video is nerdy and technical.
But you will learn something if you make it to minute 6:47. You will understand the most important relations in the evolution of web technologies – from the first remote connection 1957 to the world-changing TCP/IP protocol.

It’s a diploma by Melih Bilgil.

History of the internet is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to file-sharing, from arpanet to internet.
The history is told with help of the PICOL icons, which are also a part of my diploma. The icons are soon available for free on picol.org

I always had problems with batteries for my Canon Powershot A350 camera: From the time they were fully charged, they lasted only a few days until they drained to zero.

Even at the time they were new, I only had about a week of benefiting from their capacity. It left even if the batteries were not in use.

I discovered that precharged batteries do the job better: The low self discharge enables dealers to store them up to 12 months and still sell them without pissing off their customers.
Of course, the discharging properties stay after recharging batteries at home..

The other benefit is, that the low self discharge enabled me to leave the batteries in the camera for more then two weeks. Hence I stopped suffering the loss of first class snapshots just because the camera is not ready.

This apllies to multiple camera series: Canon Powershot, Fujifilm Finepix, Pentax K series and basically all models that come with AA or AAA batteries – not with the prebuild own battery models like in the Canon Ixus series.

As for Germany, the dkamera magazine suggests these tested precharged batteries:

• Panasonic Infinium
• Kodak Digital Camera Battery Pre-Charged
• Ansmann maxe
• Conrad energy Endurance
• Duracell ActiveCharge
• Sanyo eneloop
• Varta Ready2Use
• AccuPower AccuLoop
• ELV Combo
• Hama Ready4Power
• GP Recyko
• UniRoss Hybrio

Please compare worldwide vendors and models yourself by regarding to the international brands.
Have fun using those!

I didn’t realize it’s 2051 already:

Festo AirJelly

Quoting Engadget: Suffice it to say Festo’s AirJelly is powered by some magical jelly fish properties, a lithium-ion battery, an electric motor and a bit of helium. If that’s not floaty enough for you, there’s also a water version, Aqua Jelly

Festo Air Ray

via Geekologie