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A visit to Sparkpad’s website gives you little more than a “coming soon” teaser, but not all is lost, friends: new filings in the FCC’s database today are letting the cat out of the bag. We’re still not sure exactly how this stuff is going to be sold, but Sparkpad’s products are looking a bit like a Bug Labs for larger displays, seemingly allowing hobbyists and companies without massive R&D budgets to throw together Linux-based interactive products that run on photo frames ranging from 7 to 10.4 inches — and if that’s not big enough, there’s also some sort of option for remotely-operated displays of 15 inches and larger. The devices can be programmed using Flash, the Lua language, or — coming soon — using the Android SDK, making for a pretty versatile setup. Interestingly, Sparkpad’s manual points out that this is the platform used by the iGala touchscreen photo frame from a couple years back, so we’re guessing that the company is just now looking at opening up the underlying platform to all comers. Anyhow, yeah — if you’ve ever dreamed of programming your own DreamScreen, Sparkpad might be the way to roll.

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Julian Assange may have made his fair share of enemies when it comes to world governments, but he can take stock in knowing that a few are still on his side. Russia, for one, is a huge fan. A source inside Dmitry Medvedev’s office told the press that the WikiLeaks founder ought to be nominated for a Nobel Prize.

“Public and non-governmental organizations should think of how to help him,” said the anonymous source during a Russia-EU summit in Brussels. “Maybe, nominate him as a Nobel Prize laureate.”

The suggestion is largely considered to be a potshot against the US. Russia, after all, was pretty upset when cables surfaced describing the country as a “mafia state,” with a Medvedev spokesperson calling the papers, “not worthy of comment.”

As fleshy meatbags, we tend to give off a lot of excess heat as we futilely live our lives. Fujitsu wants to help capture every last particle motion, and all the other warmth we generate through the myriad of other inane activities like driving cars, firing rockets, and trying to not freeze to death. But, it’s not just happy with that, developing a new “hybrid energy harvesting device” that does double-duty by also capturing light from the sun. It’s a process shown after the break but, with no hard numbers to go with that pretty picture, we’re not sure just how efficient it is at doing either. Still, there are some 6.7 billion people worldwide. How efficient does it really need to be?

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This article was written on February 12, 2007 by CyberNet.

It was just over a week ago that Google was demanded by Viacom to remove 100,00 video clips. Just recently, MySpace has announced that they’re taking proactive measures to protect copyrighted videos on MySpace.  They already have a filtering service in place that blocks music which is not authorized.  Their new measures would protect video content.

Chris DeWolfe, MySpace’s co-founder says that “MySpace is dedicated to ensuring that content owners, whether large or small, can both promote and protect their content in our community. For MySpace, video filtering is about protecting artists and the work they create.”

Currently, MySpace is licensing technology from Audible Magic Corp who obtained rights to a system for scanning video clips.  The system looks for signature vectors like a fingerprint to compare with vectors stored in a database.  If a match is found, then the video would be blocked.

Sharing videos is a huge part of the social-network giant, which many people enjoy and use to increase their networking. This new technology could potentially keep MySpace out of the legal limbo which other video services, like YouTube are facing.

Source: CBC News

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