NPR Music: Technology Puts the Universal Back in Music has a segment about a company called Voxonic which uses voice samples to construct songs in foreign languages in the creators voice. It sounds like they cut up samples and use those to reconstruct the rhythm and structure. The site has some interesting examples.
MAKE: Blog: LED art all over Boston today is a post that talks about the art installations commemorating the chaos caused by the LED mooninites last year. At least the police realize this time that they’re not bombs, this time.
Reddot was the design concept - winners 2006 for a moldable mouse made from clay and covered in Nylon. The buttons and scroll wheel are to be stickable components RFID enabled so they can transmit to the base. If this is so, it is hereby declared awesome.
ArsTechnica has A tour of Google’s new Experimental Search. Verdict: awesome. I don’t think this is really breaking news, but it is an interesting look into the new features that google is preparing. Undoubtedly from someones 20% projects. I’m a big fan of the timeline view it’s a great way to visualize […]
Someone has built a human carrying electric plane. The original site was in French so here’s Translated version of http://www.apame.eu/Projet03.html. Now all they need is some solar panels on the wings.
Let the games begin! It turns out the TSA has started a blog called Evolution of Security. Awesome! Finally we can all know what the security agent that was rifling through your underwear is thinking. I’m going to guess it’s something like this “Damn, I messed this whole thing up, glad […]
Bathtime
Some birds bathing on this mornings walk.
Along the same vein as the previous post is Interview with Nitesh Dhanjani and Billy Rios, Spies in the Phishing Underground. An interesting article about how scammers are scamming scammers. That’s a mouthful, but not a surprising situation. Perhaps some crafty person can use the exploits that these jerks use against each […]
Check out this Interview With Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney On Technology Issues so far it’s the only one that I’ve seen where a candidate has talked about tech issues directly. This of course is of great interest to me. I’m in no way endorsing Romney, but I think it’s important to do all […]
In ‘Money Mules’ Help Haul Cyber Criminals’ Loot - washingtonpost.com the Washington Post explores the various scams around to launder money from Phishing sites. It’s an interesting read about how many places are not legit and how innocent people get roped into it.