Hasta La Gadget!

Stolen Camera Finder is a site that promises to find missing cameras, as long as they’ve been stolen by cooperative criminals. All you have to do is drag and drop a JPG photo taken with your lost camera, and Stolen Camera Finder will hunt for any matches on the web, using the image’s EXIF data. To find matches, the site consults a database of photos posted on Flickr and elsewhere, though, without only one million images to its name, this database is still very much a work-in-progress (the tests we conducted came up dry). It’s a nifty idea, but one that would probably pay dividends only under certain circumstances. For instance, the thief would have to take pictures with the camera (rather than selling it) and post the images online without wiping the EXIF data. In other words, he’d have to be someone willing to steal a camera purely for the sake of sharing undoctored self-shots on Flickr. We’re not sure those people exist.

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This article was written on May 30, 2008 by CyberNet.

Fun Friday

We decided to revisit riddles again after our first round posted back in February. Once again, there are fifteen riddles with the answers at the bottom of the page. Have a great weekend!

Riddles

1. I have keys that open no locks, I have space, but there is no room. You can enter, but you can’t go in. I am…
2. It has no top or bottom but it can hold flesh, bones and blood all at the same time. What is this object?
3. A 10 ft. ladder is attached to a ship. Each step is 1 ft. apart. If the water is rising 1 ft. per hour. How long will it take to cover the ladder?
4. I’m as small as an ant and as big as a whale. I’ll approach like a breeeze but can come like agale. By some I get hit but all have shown fear. I’ll dance to the music though I can’t hear. Of names I have many of names I have one. I’m as slow as a snail but from me you can’t run. What am I?
5. What gets whiter the dirtier that it gets?
6. Take away my first letter and I am unchanged; Take away my second letter and I am unchanged; Take away all my remaining letters and I am still unchanged. What am I?
7. What kind of animal would you hate to play cards with?
8. One man shows another, the portrait of a gentleman and tells him: “I have neither brothers nor sisters, but this man’s father is the son of my father.” Who is the man in the painting?
9. A snail is at the bottom of a 15 meter tree. He tries to reach the top. Each day he manages to climb 4 meters, but during the night, while he sleeps, he slips back 3 meters. How many days will he need to reach the top?
10. What are the two longest words in the English language that can be typed using only your left hand on the keyboard?
11. What is harder to catch the faster you run?
12. I can sizzle like bacon, I am made with an egg, I have plenty of backbone, but lack a good leg, I peel layers like onions, but still remain whole, I can be long, like a flagpole, yet fit in a hole. What am I?
13. What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?
14. I am not alive, but I grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air; I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?
15. What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in an hour?

Answers

1. A computer keyboard
2. A ring
3. Never. As the water rises the ship rises.
4. I am a shadow…
5. A chalkboard
6. The postman or a mailbox
7. A cheetah.
8. The gentleman in the portrait is the son of the man who is speaking.
9. Well, after 11 days, he will have climbed 11 meters, so on day 12, he will reach the top.
10. Stewardesses and Reverberated
11. Your breath
12. A snake.
13. Charcoal
14. Fire
15. The letter M.

And just for fun… How many legs does this elephant have?

Sources: Here, Here, and Here

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Oh, how the winds of fortune can swirl. Just a few weeks after finally selling its first LiFe electric car to a happy couple in Atlanta, Wheego appears to have suddenly fallen on hard financial times. Very hard times. Speaking to Automotive News, CEO Mike McQuary claimed that his startup’s coffers are bare enough to jeopardize future production of Wheego’s flagship, battery-powered two-seater:

“My constraint is primarily capital. We’ll be living hand-to-mouth as we try to get the first cars built. The next 200 will creep out as we raise money.”

McQuary didn’t say how far behind schedule Wheego is at the moment, but part of the problem seems to be finding enough money to buy parts for its $32,995, 100-mile range EVs. The company’s plant in California was supposed to produce 200 vehicles a month starting in January, in the hopes of eventually churning out 60,000 a year. Those plans, however, were soon derailed, due to unexpectedly delayed approval from the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration — a setback that also hurt the company’s capital raising campaigns. The company is hoping to raise some $15 million with the help of a VC firm in Connecticut, but until it does, Wheego may not be going anywhere.

Wheego needs more cash to produce LiFe EVs, ‘living hand-to-mouth’ for now originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 03 May 2011 09:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Logitech TV Cam for Skype lets you make and receive up to 720p high-definition video calls directly from 2011 Panasonic Viera Connect-enabled HDTVs.