Vitamin D, produced when skin is exposed to light, is essential for our bodies. Unfortunately, modern lifestyles have minimized our time we spend under the sun. The Sun’s Heartbeat explains why a tan isn’t as bad as previously thought. More »
The Go-Guy pocket urinal is a portable way to deal with the issue of having to go when there’s no bathroom in sight. Yes, it’s a little weird, but at least it’s cheaper than a public-urination ticket.
A deal with Twentieth Century Fox Film is another step toward an Android competitor for downloads from the iTunes store.
Continue reading T-Mobile makes HTC Wildfire S official, available August 3rd for $80
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KDDI’s looking out for Japan’s elderly, or putting them under house arrest — it’s hard to tell which. Hitting stores this September in the land of human-assistive tech, the Kyocera designed Mi-Look is a simplified GPS-capable, mobile-monitoring system that puts you in control of your Luddite parents. The waterproof device packs a strap-activated “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” buzzer and comes in an appealing shade of hospital white, all while keeping track of your folk’s whereabouts. Seems innocent enough, right? Well, it’s not really up to Ma and Pa to opt-out of location tracking — the phone does it automatically, emailing a list of relatives with coordinates and distance traveled. And for that extra special Lindsay Lohan-lockdown touch, the charging port’s sensor will not only count the number of times your rents pass by, it’ll also answer calls automagically. Starting to feel a little bad about this? We don’t blame you, but keep in mind the compassionate tech’s being targeted to patients with memory loss issues. Still, we have a suspicion those with claims of a “stolen childhood” might be using this as revenge. Payback’s a cellphone, apparently. Video demonstration after the break.
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Blackfish is a remote-controlled Jet Ski from Qinetiq that uses sonar and radar to patrol harbors for terrorist threats.
To reduce pedestrian fatalities, Toyota is testing a pre-collisin system that will steer vehicles away from a person or object if the vehicle can’t brake in time to avoid hitting it.
Originally posted at The Car Tech blog
If you’ve seen this handsome screen on your Asus Transformer, it means you’ve finally managed to root it. Congratulations. And yet, it’s all so… anticlimactic. What was the point of it? In fact, what’s the point of anything? Hey, don’t go down that road. Install Netflix instead, courtesy of a new patch from XDA Developers at the source link below. Then watch Kung Fu Panda one more time and the sense of order in your life will magically return. Like the wise Oogway said: “You may wish for an apple or an orange, but you will get a peach.”
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This article was written on May 30, 2007 by CyberNet.
Today is a big day for Mozilla because it marks the last version of Firefox 1.5 that will ship. Last month Mozilla kindly extended the "end-of-life" date from April 24, 2007 to today in order to get one final release in. This last release was definitely necessary though since Mozilla had never prompted 1.5.x users to upgrade to Firefox 2, but that is about to change.
The Firefox homepage has not been updated with the new versions yet so I have put together two downloaders for each of the new versions. The downloaders below use Mozilla’s load balancing techniques to distribute the downloads across their mirrors, so you don’t have to worry about hammering their servers:
Download Firefox 1.5.0.12:
Download Firefox 2.0.0.4:
The list of changes in these builds haven’t been posted yet, but should be available on the release notes for later today. The release notes for Firefox 1.5.0.12 will be here and 2.0.0.4 will be here. However, there are 117 bugs that have been fixed in Firefox 2.0.0.4, of which 24 caused crashes, 2 were memory leaks, 18 were regressions, 2 were privacy-related bugs and 12 were security-sensitive. So, as always, the upgrade is highly recommended.
Overall it looks like most visitors to our site have made the upgrade to Firefox 2, although Mozilla said last month that about 40% of their users are still stuck on an older version of Firefox. For the last 30-days here is how the different versions of Firefox stack up on our site:
The good news is that Firefox 1.5.0.12 is finally supposed to prompt existing users to make the upgrade to Firefox 2. This seamless transition is what a lot of people have been waiting for, but I wish they would have gotten it done a little sooner than 7-months after the release of Firefox 2.
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