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Funky stuff, man!

cool tech July 29, 2006 posted by

Tourist Remover.

Tourist Remover. Remove unwanted personnel from your photos with this handy online tool. You’ll need to sign up for a whole photo storage area as well though, which kind of sucks. Anyway, worth a look. [via boingboing]  Remove moving objects such as tourists or passing cars from your photos. Take multiple photos from the same scene and the «Tourist Remover» blends them into a composite photo without any interfering elements.


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cool tech July 19, 2006 posted by

Hellodeo video maker.

Hellodeo. Very neat little online app which lets you create a video clip instantly at home and upload a simple snip of code to display it to the world on your website.  Fast, dirty, no registration. Lovely app. Lots of potential for people wanting to create their own mini-YouTube, and you can see this becoming very very viral. Wow, since when did web video become so blooming popular all of a sudden? Sheesh.  hellodeo – Got a webcam? Say hello with…


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cool tech July 18, 2006 posted by

Warm water power plant.

Jeff Sterling and his colleagues at Matteran Energy claim to have designed and built a working power plant which generates electricity and refrigeration from nothing more than water warmed up by hot plates on a roof. No fancy expensive solar panels needed. The implications, if true, are astonishing, but it’s hard not be cynical in this day and age. Maybe some thermo-knowledgeable readers can tell more from the animated demos on the site. There’s apparently a working plant down in Florida…


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Bookmark This! July 14, 2006 posted by

MusicLens.

MusicLens. Super cool free app to help you find new music via a whole heap of sliders to input mood, loudness, tempo etc. Lovely interface, interesting results. Definitely worth a bookmark. [Via Metafilter]  With MusicLens, music lovers can expand their own personal music repertoire with songs that they perhaps did not know about before, or with songs they could not previously describe in order to search for them.


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cool tech July 13, 2006 posted by

The 20 Coolest Ruby Apps you’ve never heard of…

The 20 Coolest Ruby on Rails Applications You’ve Never Heard Of. NativeText. Human translation of RSS feeds from blogs and podcasts to give global syndication? Whoa! ClickGrid. Pixel advertising gets the advertising network treatment. Allocate a bit of your website, set your price per pixel, profit! Very interesting! BigCartel. A free online store for your website. Complete with PayPal, multiple currencies and customised headers. Nice! CrispyNews. Fascinating app where you start your own news community (e.g. American Idol) where you post news…


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cool tech July 11, 2006 posted by

Skystream Personal Wind Generator.

The Skystream 3.7 Residential Wind Generator. At last, a way to stick it to those utility company blowhards. The press release talks of $80,000 $8,000 purchase price, to supply 40–90% of an average home’s energy needs. Waddya think, true or a lot of hot air? Stick one of these on your rose garden, add a glob of solar panels on the roof and you’ll soon be bigger than Enron. And twice as rich.  Skystream’s low cost and low profile provides homeowners an affordable energy supplement…


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cool tech July 6, 2006 posted by

Smart Retina.

The Smart Retina project is pretty cool. Basically a gesture based computer interface, but one that actually seems to work, at least in lab type environments. Not sure how long it would last in an office full of idiots all flailing around like Kermit the Frog. Check the video with the Google Earth demo.  The above video demonstrate how Smartretina can be used as a navigating tool combined with Google earth. SmartRetina (working on the black laptop on the right)…


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Bookmark This! June 29, 2006 posted by

Crowdsourcing comes of age?

CambrianHouse.com. OK, so they’re Canadian, they’re trying very hard, and they appear to be full of the kind of earnest integrity that is missing from many other current start-ups. What’s the beef? It’s basically an ideas incubator a la Open Source with cash prizes, and there are a couple of very cool twists. First the community decides on whether an idea goes forward, and then, if it gets to market, everyone who has helped out along the way (i.e. inventor, copywriter, coder, logo designer etc) gets a…


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cool tech June 21, 2006 posted by

WiGLE Earth.

WiGLE Google Earth Mashup. What happens when you map the WiGLE database of global WiFi points onto Google Earth? You get an interestingly useful map of WiFi points of course. That you can wifi-fly-by. Geeks only though.  


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cool tech June 8, 2006 posted by

Cell phones to become web servers.

Cell phones as web servers? Hmm…that is something that could really change the face of the web in ways we can’t even imagine. Several billion volatile web sites flooding the Net would certainly add a new dimension to the game of search and seek.  Nokia has ported the Apache webserver to Symbian, in order to enable mobile phones to serve content on the World Wide Web. Many mobile phones today have more processing power than early Internet servers, suggesting that…


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cool tech June 8, 2006 posted by

Over the Ether.

Hmm…just been granted access to the Ether Beta program, which is kind of interesting. Really like the concept – see my About Page for an example – wonder if it will take off? It’s a cinch to set up, and things like the billing and automatic scheduling take all the hassle out of the process of offering fee based telephone services. Anyhoo I’ve now got a couple of Beta invites to give away, so add your comments telling me why…


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Bookmark This! May 29, 2006 posted by

Pin in the Map.

Pin in the Map. Google Maps plus some smarts = a neat way of sending map info of a specific location via email. Mark it, attach some info, send the link. The links are permanent, you can have private and public links, and it creates Google Earth links too. It’s pretty darn cool all round, mateys.  When you’re happy with your preview, click “save”. The system will remember what zoom level you were at, and the type of map you…


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cool tech May 26, 2006 posted by

Free WiFi, whee!

FON. A global free Wi-Fi community, a bit like a wireless timeshare. You share your Wi-Fi connection with members and you can then use that of others when you travel. Sounds v. cool to us.  ON is a Global Community of people who share WiFi. Share your WiFi broadband access at home/work and enjoy FREE WiFi Access all over the world! FON, share locally, enjoy globally!…The bandwidth of your equipment will be controlled in such a way that you will…


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Bookmark This! May 23, 2006 posted by

Pixpo.

Pixpo. Hmm…I’ve been playing around with this beta video sharing application and it’s very sweet. In a ‘really easy to use’, Bubbleshare, 2 minute sign up kind of way. What’s nice about some of these new service apps is that they’re really quick and dirty to use – no fiddling about with long winded sign-ups, reading FAQs or figuring out obscure user interfaces. With this one for example, it’s literally  – download app, install, choose all the videos you want to…


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