Interesting article on how Estonia leapfrogged most countries in the world in their usage of technology.

Friends don't let friends: - Use their browser's password autosave, because it's trivial for anyone to recover it. See also: http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/how-to-retrieve-passwords-from-asterisks/

Augmenting humans.

A young Steve Jobs speaking at the International Design Conference at Aspen in 1983. So he's speaking to a non-technical audience in 1983, before computers were mainstream. I'm always amazed by his eloquence, incredible mental clarity, and ability to see where technology was going.

Really good article about solid state drives, for the technically minded.

The story of ARM, the company that designs the chip inside your phone. Part 2.

Incredible: A bullet that corrects its path as it flies. Amazing and scary.

Impressive video camera can do 1080p HDR video. You may or may not know (or care) what this means... but check out in the second video the shot of someone soldering. You have never seen something like this on video look so clear.

Very cheap water heater for rural poor areas. Clever.

This is a cool video from Bell Labs (1968) that explains the basics on how computer works and whether they can think of not. Forty years later we can see how the principles apply, the challenges are the same - but a lot of progress has been made on all these fronts. Very well made.

This is an extremely interesting interview to Steve Jobs published in 1985 by Newsweek.
This is right after Steve Jobs was ousted from Apple Computer, after he shipped the Macintosh but before he founded NeXT. What's most interesting is to see how a lot of his philosophy remains the same.

i had never heard about this. Very interesting.

Report on i-Dosing: getting high through your headphones. Don't try this at home, but if you do, let me know how it is.

It will never be published. It's quite funny.

Includes a video of Liquavista's prototype color e-reader screen. Think Kindle screen in color. Very cool. Can't wait to see this on a product.

Cool animation on USA Today showing how they added to the ISS.

Video shows off some features of the new Nintendo DSi. It looks great, but not great enough for me to upgrade mine, which has been sitting in a drawer for months. I should sell it. My iPhone is covering all my portable gaming needs: toilet entertainment.

"Follow the companies that are shedding workers with this live layoff tracker, which we'll continue to update as more news surfaces."
One word: Yikes.