Scottredd @ Instructables has created a nice instructable on building a faceplate that looks like an old crappy car stereo tape deck that will conceal your nice cd player that lies behind it. A brilliant theft deterrence. Link to Instructable
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Checkout Keylemon which is a
free software that uses facial recognition from your webcam to log you into your pc. Of course this is not totally fool proof as one can most likely just hold a picture of your mug up to the camera. But nonetheless it is some very cool technology right at your fingertips for free. Link…
There is talk in the UK government to implement a database that will store the details of every phone call made, every email sent and every web page visited by British citizens in an act of anti-terrorism. Another perfect example of how global terrorism is forcing George Orwell’s prediction of the future to a frightening reality. All the while a 15-year-old in the UK is facing prosecution for using the word ‘cult’ to describe the Church of Scientology at an anti-Scientology demonstration in London earlier this month which “violates” the Public Order Act, which ‘prohibits signs which have representations or words which are threatening, abusive or insulting. I think ol’ George about hit it right on the money. Perhaps he was off by about 30 years or so however, say he was dead on, you probably wouldn’t even know anyway. Watch out for those “tele-screens”!
This little security gadget that Engadget deems “genius” projects light like that of a television into a room to emulate someone watching tv. Now I am always looking for cooler and better security systems for when I am away from home, and this little guy priced around $49.95 almost lives up to Engadget’s label of “genius” however I must file this under slightly stupid for simply one reason. If it cost’s as much as a small TV, takes up the space of a small TV, It might as well BE a small TV. I’m sure it is more energy efficient however I don’t imagine a small TV requiring mass amounts of energy, plus one would get much more use from a small garage TV rather than a box of light. Nice try but this one just doesn’t make the cut in our book. Link….
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