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Humans seem to be more sensitive to be more sensitive to weak very high frequency field than what I have believed. According to research presented in academic dissertationSpontaneous movements of hands in gradients of weak VHF electromagnetic fields concludes that spontaneous hand movement reactions occurred as a response of the human body to the gradients →
I’m Being Followed: How Google—and 104 Other Companies—Are Tracking Me on the Web is a voyage into the invisible business that funds the web. Who are these companies and what do they want from me? Even if you’re generally familiar with the idea of data collection for targeted advertising, the number and variety of these →
There seems to be a push for web based free electronics design tools at the moment. The situation is pretty different from what it used to be years ago when I though it would be good idea to add some form of schematic editing to the ePanorama.net forum, but lack of suitable ready software to →
On many on-line news sited noticed that if you copy and paste any text from the site a reference link appears at the bottom, indicating the source. That functionality could be implemented pretty easily using JavaScript. Add a Copyright Notice to Copied Text article describes you how to do it. All that is needed is →
Let’s take a peek at some of the latest, cutting edge HTML5 Canvas examples out there. 21 Ridiculously Impressive HTML5 Canvas Experiments article has a collection of some ridiculously impressive HTML5 canvas-based experiments that will make you say, “Wow!” Check also HTML5, JavaScript and Canvas – Conway’s Game of Life. →
With tech companies abandoning the proprietary Flash and Silverlight media players for HTML5, it was inevitable somebody would try to inject DRM into the virgin spec. Who’s adding DRM to HTML5? Microsoft, Google and Netflix article tells that Microsoft, Google and Netflix are that “somebody”, having submitted a proposed modification to HTML5 to the World →
Physicists Create a Working Transistor From a Single Atom and Transistor Made Using a Single Atom May Help Beat Moore’s Law articles tells that Australian and American scientists have taken a first early step toward creating a working transistor using a single phosphorus atom. The atom was etched into a silicon bed with “gates” to →
Nowness is an interesting looking footage called Jacob Sutton’s L.E.D. Surfer. It shows a pro snowboarder in an LED light suit, gliding through snow in the dead of night. At first sight, I thought this was just a normal snowboarding short with the color inverted, but it really is a man boarding through the night →
You can usually find the folks at iFixit tearing down electronics with an eye toward expanding your knowledge of how to repair your electronic devices and keep them out of landfills by extending electronics’ life span. What’s inside a smart meter? iFixit tears it down article tells that the technicians at iFixit got their hands →
Is it possible to write a JavaScript program in no more than a tweet‘s length? A website called 140byt.es says it is. The site has an implementation of “almost” Tetris to prove it. Its title is “Binary Tetris“, and it only has two types of block and there’s no rotate, but it works. The blocks →