It’s the same old story. Boy meets girl. They fall in love. Boy uses radioactive condom for virility. Yeah, romance has a shelf life of forever.
In the early 20th century, it was all the rage to add Radium to items. The most famous being watch faces, where the numbers would glow so you could see what time it is in the dark. You know, in case you had to a night-time chemo session.
via Once Upon a Time, We Used Radium Condoms For Glow in the Dark Sex.
A prototype of an Apple phone has been uncovered and it dates all the way back to 1983. Designer Hartmut Esslinger came up with the design whilst working for Apple on other projects such as the Apple IIc. Wikipedia has it noted that Esslinger was contracted to Apple in a $1,000,000 a year deal.
via Apple phone prototype from 1983 shows an all touchscreen interface | TiPb.
Ho Ho Ho-ly shit. The Hennessey Jeep Grand Cherokee HPE800 $235,000 takes Jeeps top-of-the-line SUV and turns it into a veritable speed demon by expanding the factory Hemi V8 from 6.4 to 7.0 L and adding in a twin-turbo forced induction system to achieve 805 hp and a 0-60 time of 3.1 seconds. Of course, all that power isnt useful if you cant harness it, which is why it also boasts an upgraded transmission system, 15.1-inch Brembo brakes in the front and rear, and a lowered, more sporty suspension, and to make sure no one mistakes it for the “regular” version, it also packs lighter alloy wheels, a carbon fiber front end, and a custom leather interior with an Alcantara steering wheel. Itll arrive in 24 well-appointed garages next year.
Two bills now pending in Congress-the PROTECT IP Act of 2011 Protect IP in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act SOPA in the House-represent the latest legislative attempts to address a serious global problem: large-scale online copyright and trademark infringement.Although the bills differ in certain respects, they share an underlying approach and an enforcement philosophy that pose grave constitutional problems and that could have potentially disastrous consequences for the stability and security of the Internets addressing system, for the principle of interconnectivity that has helped drive the Internets extraordinary growth, and for free expression.
Theres a Kickstarter campaign going that might interest those who carry sensitive data and swooned over Tom Hanks in The Da Vinci Code — if it comes to fruition, the Crypteks USB drive will combine both a physical lock as well as 256-bit AES hardware encryption. The drive itself is sealed inside an anodized aluminum cylinder with five rings containing all the letters of the alphabet; all you have to do to remove the drive is enter your password. Once the drive is removed, you can reset the password by removing and re-orienting the rings in the position of your choice. Even after the drive is removed from its shell, its still secured by the aforementioned AES encryption, a standard currently in use by the US government.
via Crypteks USB offers physical lock and AES hardware encryption | The Verge.
A gentleman does the right thing even if it’s not easy. A gentleman is guided by his conscience rather than by popular opinion. A gentleman knows violence is never the answer to any problem. A gentleman can defend his convictions without stepping on those of others. A gentleman fights for his beliefs but never at the expense of others. A gentleman is tolerant even when he doesn’t understand. A gentleman knows when to speak up, but more importantly he knows when to be quiet. A gentleman knows there is always something to be learned from every situation and is willing to accept he doesn’t always have the answer. A gentleman strives to be a better man, but he never considers himself better than other men. There are many men in the world but few gentlemen. We need more gentlemen and gentlewomen in our world. I hope to one day be a gentleman.
Working with the same files in multiple places used to be a hassle. You’d have to make sure to bring the file with you, email it to yourself, or save it in a place you could get to it later. Now, there are a number of online file storage and syncing services that will make your data available on as many computers as you like. Here’s a look at five of the best of those services.
If you allow applications to save your passwords, anyone with physical access to your PC can decode them unless youre properly encrypting them—and chances are pretty good youre not. Lets walk through the right and wrong ways to store your passwords.
via Your Passwords Arent As Secure As You Think; Heres How to Fix That.
While skin grafts are an essential tool for treating severe burns, Avita Medical has developed a compact kit that grows replacement skin that can be sprayed on. Which has resulted in faster healing and better cosmetic results in patient testing. Instead of growing patches of skin that can be draped over severely burned areas, the ReCell kit uses a small sample of the patient’s keratinocytes and melanocytes skin cells that quickly reproduce in a special suspension solution. Where as growing actual pieces of skin in a lab can take weeks, the ReCell kit only needs about half an hour to produce enough cells to cover an area about 80 times as large as the original sample. A special nozzle is then used to spray the new cells over the burn area, where they continue to grow and multiply, in effect using the patient as an incubator.
via ReCell Kit Grows Spray On Skin At Your Bedside In Just Half an Hour.
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