Uh, that's exactly what DVRs and VCRs do and it's perfectly legal. Way back in '84 the Supreme Court (Sony v. Universal City Studios) ruled that home use of VCRs did not infringe on copyright as long as the copied material was not used for profit.

Dragon Skin is simple round overlapping ceramic disks. If this is the same idea as a presentation I saw at a conference recently (Christine Ortiz from MIT), they're planning to design interlocking armor plates (no fabric required to hold them in place) where the plates themselves are optimized to prevent penetration.…

Wanna be scared even more? This version can follow you. Check out at 0:25 when a guy walks past. Look at the "head" area- it's got a sensor suite and algorithms to follow people through rough terrain.

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Or you could just use two headphones designed to let you hear your surroundings as well as the music ([www.airdrives.com]). I use these for running and they work great, aside from having to turn the volume up higher than with my other headphones.

Nice stuff- thanks for the link.

Considering all of the sensors in these phones now, I think it's only a matter of time before you'll be able to unlock your phone by "swiping" it around your face. Linking the motion sensors to the camera like this would create a 3D surface map that might actually be a pretty secure bimetric. Until you get a black…

I think that one could just as easily go to laziness instead of idiot proofing. It's also not as bad as it used to be, with modern automatics getting close in MPG to manuals. But it's now damn hard to find a new car with a manual. If they even make them you generally have to pay more for the manual now because you…

You also don't have to use your finger, but can use a nail or stylus to be more precise- definite advantage to resistive there. Also, newer resistive touchscreens will soon be coming out that are capable of multitouch ([www.gottabemobile.com]). I've used a TouchCo panel and it was both dirt cheap (~$10/sqft) and…

Don't forget that people might say that they want cars with good mileage, but most of them actually buy cars with good performance. Even the high MPG econoboxes are more powerful and better performing than they used to be, which also cuts their MPG.

I am so with you- all I want is a hardware keyboard and I'm going to wait until I can get it. I want to know why they don't just release a ROM to use on any Android phone.

Even biometrics have problems. Retinal scan? Might not work if you get pink eye. Fingerprint? Not going to work if you get a cut or burn on that finger.

That may be what they're supposed to do, but I've got a continuous glucose monitor (I'm diabetic) taped to my side that no scanner has ever noticed without me telling them it's there. I warned airport security the first time I went through with it and got a little too much additional scrutiny because of my honesty, so…

The difference is, you screw through the back of the cabinet and into the wall to keep them from sliding or lifting off. That better not happen to my flatscreen!

Just to take this belief to it's logical conclusion- only around 30-50% of fertilized eggs are implanted in the uterine wall to begin a pregnancy. The rest are flushed out on a monthly basis. If you believe that a fertilized egg is a human with the full rights of an adult, then you also believe that nearly every woman…

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Awesome. I have a similar story, but the leaf blower was on suck instead of blow to vacuum & mulch leaves into a bag. My dog left me a large "present" hidden under the leaves. First was the odd "fump" sound immediately followed by a nasty "splut". Cleaning poop out of that impeller isn't any fun either.

I don't trust Billy Mays for a second, but I had seen a good review of the original Craftsman Twin Cutter, which was the first tool like this. I assume that their patent ran out, which is why we're seeing a ton of these cheap knock-offs now. A good tool like this would handle the occasional nail and mixed cutting…

Uhh, Heliodisplays are the exact same thing as this and they've been around for almost a decade now ([www.io2technology.com]). Even if he could get financial backing he'd probably be violating every one of their patents.

This saw would indeed suck for many things, but it would be perfect for demolition work. You don't care how wide the cut is or even where it goes. You just want to cut things apart and you don't want them flying back at you or across the room like they might for a normal circular saw. Normally you'd use a sawzall for…