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It’s just a concept for right now, but three designers at the “Innovation Unit” of the Royal College of Art in London have created a design for concrete that can double as an information display. Called Chronos Chromos Concrete, it’s basically concrete that’s mixed with thermochromic ink and with nickel chromium wires installed right below or behind. When you want to display specific words or information or whatever you just heat up the right wires and they cause the concrete just above or in front to change color. Sounds like it’s a long way off from commercialization, and the worst part is that if any of the wiring breaks you have to bust out the jackhammers to make repairs.

[Via Near Near Future]

Originally posted by Peter Rojas from Engadget

The tsunamis that devasted much of Southeast Asia happened on December 26, 2004, and the magnitude of the disaster soon started making itself apparent.

On December 27, President Bush briefly interrupted his vacation to order US military forces to the area to provide disaster relief and started the process of funneling US government money into assistance.

On December 30, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan briefly interrupted his vacation to announce that there would be an international conference on January 6 to discuss coordinating relief efforts. High on the list of UN priorities were adequate camps for the rescue workers.

Now, can someone explain to me why Bush is condemned as “insensitive” and “uncaring,” while Annan is praised for his “compassion” and “humanity?” Or has the whole notion of words meaning far more than deeds finally taken hold?

J.

Originally posted by Jay Tea from Wizbang

Get a job, sir.

Indeed is a job search engine that searches across a bunch of different job listing sites. Handy… RSS too!

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Originally from plastic bugs

Found this little ditty and I though you might enjoy…

I have to admit that I am clueless when it comes to HDTV and understanding all the options and choices that confront consumers who embark on the big screen purchase path.  There are so many choices, plasma, LCD, DLP, LCoS, what does it all mean?  Fortunately, the folks at Amazon have written a nice little overview of the technology that explains all the options. It is worth a read if you are like me and do not understand the whole HDTV thing.

Originally posted by jk from jkOnTheRun

We’ve waited and waited and waited for this, and the day has finally come: it’s a few months later than they had
wanted to, but TiVo is launching
TiVoToGo today. Here’s the scoop: if you have a Series2
TiVo you should be getting an automatic software upgrade that’ll make it possible for you to copy shows stored on your
digital video recorder to a PC over a home network (burning to DVD is coming later). You have to install special
TiVoToGo-enabled software on your PC (a version for Macs is coming, too) and the files are encrypted to prevent copying
and require a special media access code which is tied to your account for playback (and, of course, TiVo would like you
to know that sharing files and codes online could result in the termination of your account). There are a few other
caveats, like you can’t copy pay-per-view programming or some stuff from paid channels like HBO, but the worst news is
that none of this will be available to people who own DirecTiVos—TiVoToGo is only available to owners of standalone
TiVo boxes.

Originally posted by Peter Rojas from Engadget