TerminalDigit

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Posts from July 2008

Never Talk To The Police

Professor James Duane of Regent Law School explains why you should never talk to the police.  Ever.  Under any circumstances.  Veteran officer George Bruch of the Virginia Beach Police Department confirms.  What amazes me the most about Duane’s talk is how anyone can speak so fast and yet still be comprehensible and convincing.  Talk about [...]

DelFly Micro 3 Takes Flight

“The DelFly Micro only weighs 3 grams and has a size of 10 cm from wing tip to wing tip. This makes it the smallest flying ornithopter carrying a camera in the world!” read more

CherryPal: A Tiny Green Linux Machine

CherryPal is an impressive low-power, low-cost Linux machine.  It draws 2 W to power a 400MHz FreeScale chip 256 MB of RAM, and a 4 GB SSD.  It has wireless and wired network adapters, onboard audio and video (VGA) and 2 USB ports.  Price?  $250. read more

Ghost-Imaging By Reflected Photons

Quantum imaging researchers have demonstrated a method in which they image an object indirectly by measuring photons which did not hit the object, but are paired through a quantum effect with photons that did encounter the object. read more

Tilted Twister: A Robotic Rubik’s Cube Solver

Tilted Twister is a cool little LEGO Mindstorms NXT-based robot which autonomously solves Rubik’s cubes.  Don’t miss the amazing video. read more