Bullet counter leaps off PC FPS shooter screen and lands on real weapon

transform modern warfare to an arcade-like (or doom-quake-call of duty, if you will) experience :P

 

 

Sent to you by diluted via Google Reader:

 

 

Bullet counter leaps off PC FPS shooter screen and lands on real weapon

via SlashGear by Shane McGlaun on 1/31/11

One of the things that most FPS gamers are used to are bullet counters that tell you how much ammo is left in your digital weapon. I reckon that is an important bit of info to know in the real world too if you are in some sort of firefight.

If real bullets were coming my way, I would be too busy screaming like a little girl to count my shots. I would need something like this sweet bullet counter. It attaches to a weapon and counts the bullets as they are fired.

It is able to count the bullets using an integrated microcontroller and an accelerometer. The accelerometer registers a single bullet when it recognizes recoil in excess of 22.5g. It has time out so rounds fired aren't messed up by vibrations after the shot. It's apparently accurate enough that it could count automatic fire better than the people shooting and filming could.

Via Kotaku

---

Relevant Entries on SlashGear

• USB Drive encased in a machine gun bullet
• The Bullet makes WiFi out of any antenna
• Active Media Products unveils .50 cal flash drive
• A taste of things to come: Android phone came making use of what's available
• Active Media Products Silver Bullet USB drive won't keep werewolves away

 

 

Things you can do from here:

• Subscribe to SlashGear using Google Reader
• Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites

 

 

BP and Russia sign Arctic oil deal

BP will open a portal to another galaxy and BP's CEO will send video messages declaring that he is sorry.. truly sorry :P

Sent to you by diluted via Google Reader:

BP and Russia sign Arctic oil deal

via BBC News - Home on 1/14/11

BP has signed a joint venture with Russian energy firm Rosneft to exploit potentially huge deposits of oil and gas in Russia's Arctic shelf.

Things you can do from here:

• Subscribe to BBC News - Home using Google Reader
• Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites

diluHome after interior design

Hi!

In the following link, photos from my newly painted home can be found:
http://dilu.no-ip.info/wiki/index.php/HomePhotos

Ta ta,
elias a.k.a. diluted

house painted

Hi!

Here are some photos of my house's living room painted:

The apocalypse of synergy

Hi!

In my work I use two computers (a linux and a windows box) side by side. I was just fine until now with two keyboards and two mice.
A colleague then introduced me to synergy, which is a great tool for sharing the screens (and the clipboards) of two entirely different computers using the same mouse and keyboard. Words cannot describe the magic. Here's a video though :P

Ta ta,
--
elias a.k.a. diluted

Italian Scientists Demonstrate Cold Fusion?

wow. the sweetest of all is that it converts nickel to copper. imagine converting platinum to gold and palladium to silver.

 

 

Sent to you by diluted via Google Reader:

 

 

Italian Scientists Demonstrate Cold Fusion?

via Slashdot: Hardware by CmdrTaco on 1/24/11

Haffner quotes physorg which says "Italian scientists Andrea Rossi and Sergio Focardi of the University of Bologna announced that they developed a cold fusion device capable of producing 12,400 W of heat power with an input of just 400 W....when the atomic nuclei of nickel and hydrogen are fused in their reactor, the reaction produces copper and a large amount of energy. The reactor uses less than 1 gram of hydrogen and starts with about 1,000 W of electricity, which is reduced to 400 W after a few minutes. Every minute, the reaction can convert 292 grams of 20C water into dry steam at about 101C. Since raising the temperature of water by 80C and converting it to steam requires about 12,400 W of power, the experiment provides a power gain of 12,400/400 = 31."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

 

 

Things you can do from here:

• Subscribe to Slashdot: Hardware using Google Reader
• Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites

 

 

Laser popcorn cooking is awesome (but time consuming) [Video]

Popcorn as it was meant to be prepared. :D

 

 

Sent to you by diluted via Google Reader:

 

 

Laser popcorn cooking is awesome (but time consuming) [Video]

via SlashGear by Chris Davies on 1/14/11

You're desperate for popcorn, but you've only got a pair of Arctic Spyder III lasers to play with; can you still enjoy a movie theater style treat? According to WorldScott, the answer is yes, as long as you also have plenty of time on your hands or very little appetite. His video shows that with some patience – we're talking kernel by kernel here – you can create popcorn using just the strength of the two high-powered lasers.

Video after the cut

It takes a couple of minutes, and involves balancing the kernel on a swivelling platter and keeping a steady hand, but it's undoubtedly another important step in combining cooking and lasers. At $299.95 a piece, however, lasers probably aren't the cheapest way to make a movie time snack.

[via Twitter]

 

 

Things you can do from here:

• Subscribe to SlashGear using Google Reader
• Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites

 

 

Kinect combos Street Fighter IV, fires single-fisted boomsticks at the FPS c...

OMG, I want a kinect now :D

 

 

Sent to you by diluted via Google Reader:

 

 

Kinect combos Street Fighter IV, fires single-fisted boomsticks at the FPS crowd (video)

via Engadget by Sean Hollister on 1/20/11

Oh sure, we've seen the Kinect assist a hadouken or two, but that wasn't the same: here, the YouTube user who brought us Call of Duty via Wiimote, Nunchuk and Kinect is throwing fireballs and taking names in the real game. Demize2010 manipulated the FAAST emulator to recognize a variety of virtual martial arts gestures, including the infamous dragon uppercut and whirlwind kick -- giving him everything he needs for a flowchart victory with only his bare hands.

Meanwhile, one Bill Maxwell has taken the Kinect and made it recognize his fist, the better to control first-person shooter games with requiring an Wiimote intermediary. He's developed a "high-speed kinematic tracker" called MaxFPS that monitors his hand's position in real time, allowing him to move, turn, jump, and reload with quick swipes of his paw. How do you shoot? Why, by punching those baddies' lights out, of course. See it on video after the break.

Continue reading Kinect combos Street Fighter IV, fires single-fisted boomsticks at the FPS crowd (video)

Kinect combos Street Fighter IV, fires single-fisted boomsticks at the FPS crowd (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink GeekWord, Joystiq  |  Inside Kinect, demize2010 (YouTube)  | Email this | Comments

 

 

Things you can do from here:

• Subscribe to Engadget using Google Reader
• Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites

 

 

How the Berkeley Overmind Won the 2010 StarCraft AI Competition

WOW the team chose the Zerg and named their AI "overmind". Excellent.

 

 

Sent to you by diluted via Google Reader:

 

 

How the Berkeley Overmind Won the 2010 StarCraft AI Competition

via OSNews by donotreply@osnews.com (Thom Holwerda) on 1/19/11

"StarCraft, one of the most popular games ever made, also serves as the perfect proving ground for artificial intelligence. Here's the inside story of how a Berkeley team won the world's first StarCraft AI competition with code that can beat even pro-level human players."

 

 

Things you can do from here:

• Subscribe to OSNews using Google Reader
• Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites

 

 

Big breakfast means bigger belly

didn't the mythbusters get that? :P

 

 

Sent to you by diluted via Google Reader:

 

 

Big breakfast means bigger belly

via BBC News - Home on 1/17/11

It's a myth that eating a large breakfast means consuming fewer calories during the day, according to researchers in Germany.

 

 

Things you can do from here:

• Subscribe to BBC News - Home using Google Reader
• Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites

 

 

Flying telescope's first results

 

 

Sent to you by diluted via Google Reader:

 

 

Flying telescope's first results

via BBC News - Home on 1/17/11

A telescope in the back of a modified 747 jet has snapped images of the Orion Nebula at a colour of light no other observatory in the world can see.

 

 

Things you can do from here:

• Subscribe to BBC News - Home using Google Reader
• Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites

 

 

LG Optimus 2X 1080p video surfaces, captures a slow day at the docks

Another Android first for Greece, after the PSP phone.

Sent to you by diluted via Google Reader:

LG Optimus 2X 1080p video surfaces, captures a slow day at the docks

via Engadget by Christopher Trout on 1/17/11

Since we reported that the Tegra 2-based LG Optimus 2X was slated to hit Korea and Europe this month, we've been dying to check out its 1080p video recording capability. Lucky for us, someone in Greece has uploaded a video to YouTube that was apparently recorded on the smartphone, and the results, well, decide for yourself. While we're impressed by the video quality (digital zoom excepted) the subject matter leaves something to be desired: a shaky camera slowly pans a port full of docked fishing boats. Sure, we'd like to see some more action, but this sample still has us excited about getting our hands on our very own Optimus 2X. HD video after the jump.
Continue reading LG Optimus 2X 1080p video surfaces, captures a slow day at the docks

LG Optimus 2X 1080p video surfaces, captures a slow day at the docks originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 Jan 2011 13:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink GSM Arena  |  Tech Blog  | Email this | Comments

Things you can do from here:

• Subscribe to Engadget using Google Reader
• Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites

Scientist Aims to Bring a Woolly Mammoth to Life by 2016

Cool \m/ Velociraptors are the next to be brought back to life. After that.. the Jurassic Park becomes a reality :P

 

 

Sent to you by diluted via Google Reader:

 

 

Scientist Aims to Bring a Woolly Mammoth to Life by 2016

via SlashGear by Evan Selleck on 1/17/11

This wouldn't be the first time that a scientist, and a relatively huge team, have tried to bring back an extinct animal. Furthermore, it isn't the first time that a Woolly Mammoth has been the extinct animal of choice. But for one scientist, those previous attempts mean nothing, because within the next five years, Dr. Akira Iritani wholeheartedly believes that he can bring back the giant animal.

Dr. Iritani plans on travelling to a Russian-based Mammoth research facility this summer, where he will try to acquire a working tissue sample. Iritani says that as long as the sample is three square centimeters, he should be able to retrieve what he needs to create life from the sample. He will insert the cells into an egg of an African elephant, where the gestation period is said to be last up to 600 days.

Iritani will be using a method, while slightly altered to fit his precise needs, that was originally used by Dr. Teruhiko Wakayama of the Riken Centre for Developmental Biology 16 years previously. This method successfully cloned a mouse that had been frozen for 16 years. Obviously 5,000 years, which the Woolly Mammoth has been extinct, is drastically different than 16 years, but Iritani believes the "technical problems" have been overcome, and therefore it is finally possible to bring back a Woolly Mammoth.

Dr. Akira Iritani is a professor at Kyoto University. If he succeeds in his endeavor, Iritani plans on studying the Woolly Mammoth's genes and ecology to figure out why the species became extinct.

[via PCMag]

 

 

Things you can do from here:

• Subscribe to SlashGear using Google Reader
• Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites

 

 

Living Room Cabling

Hi!

This is the cabling schematic for my living room:

I created the schematic using Sweet Home 3D and gimp. They both are open source, licensed under the GPL.

Can also be found in my also open source wiki :P

Ta ta,
elias a.k.a. diluted

Quadrocopters learn to build things, when will humans learn to fear them? (v...

\m/

 

 

Sent to you by diluted via Google Reader:

 

 

Quadrocopters learn to build things, when will humans learn to fear them? (video)

via Engadget by Vlad Savov on 1/15/11

The GRASP Lab quadrocopters were impressive enough by themselves, all slashing and swooping through the air with unerring precision, but then their makers had to go and give them the intelligence to work in groups and today the inevitable has happened: they've learned how to construct things! Sure, the structures are rudimentary, but we can recognize the beginnings of human containment cells when we see them. Skip past the break for the bone-chilling, teamwork-infused video.

Continue reading Quadrocopters learn to build things, when will humans learn to fear them? (video)

Quadrocopters learn to build things, when will humans learn to fear them? (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink Hacked Gadgets  |  TheDmel (YouTube)  | Email this | Comments

 

 

Things you can do from here:

• Subscribe to Engadget using Google Reader
• Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites

 

 

Samsung Withholding Froyo Updates to Increase Sales?

are they a little bit gay? i need a froyo update for my hero :P

 

 

Sent to you by diluted via Google Reader:

 

 

Samsung Withholding Froyo Updates to Increase Sales?

via OSNews by donotreply@osnews.com () on 1/14/11

A new wrinkle in the update and fragmentation story emerged today. AndroidSpin is quoting an unnamed T-Mobile employee as saying that the carrier is being told not to release the Android 2.2 update (Froyo) to customers that own the Samsung Vibrant. The reason: to increase sales of the new Vibrant 4G.

 

 

Things you can do from here:

• Subscribe to OSNews using Google Reader
• Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites

 

 

Geek hacks Kinect to work with Wii controllers for Call of Duty action

not bad at all :D

 

 

Sent to you by diluted via Google Reader:

 

 

Geek hacks Kinect to work with Wii controllers for Call of Duty action

via SlashGear by Shane McGlaun on 1/13/11

We have seen all sorts of hacks for the Kinect since the motion tracking gesture controller launched for the Xbox 360. The thing is really cool and has turned out to be quite the hackable little device for people to take and use for all sorts of things. So far, most of those hacks haven't been anything that I am interested in.

A geek going by Demize2010 over on YouTube has posted up a video of him using the Kinect with the Wii nunchuck and remote for playing some Call of Duty. The movement of the player is controlled with the normal Wii motion controls with the Kinect picking up the gestures to control other things.

Now for the part that will really blow your geeky little mind, the version of Call of Duty the dude is playing is running on the PC. He hacked the Wii controllers to work for motion, aiming, and shooting and the Kinect to do things like lean and others. Talk about a geeky mashup of gaming goodness.

Via PC World

 

 

Things you can do from here:

• Subscribe to SlashGear using Google Reader
• Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites

 

 

Firefox Overtakes Internet Explorer in Europe

The king is dead. Long live the king :P

Firefox Overtakes Internet Explorer in Europe

via OSNews by donotreply@osnews.com () on 1/6/11

Is Motorola back on top to lead in mobility?

that's a damn nice phone :P

Is Motorola back on top to lead in mobility?

via SlashGear by Ben Bajarin on 1/6/11

Late mid-week shocker: young adults get their 'news' from the 'net.

Down with the TV. All the way down. :D

Late mid-week shocker: young adults get their 'news' from the 'net, not from television

via Engadget by Laura June on 1/6/11

Arm Holdings up on Microsoft deal

Go ARM! Saddle your horses and Conquer the world! Fight the evil i686 and AMD64 to the death :P

Arm Holdings up on Microsoft deal

via BBC News - Home on 1/6/11

Arm Holdings shares rise 8.2% after Microsoft says its new Windows operating system will be able to run on Arm chips.

Green ham and eggs

The last sentence I saw the words eco-friendly and GM had to do with cars :P

Go eco-friendly GM hybrid pigs. A nice pun also! Pigs in this sentence could also be the new hybrid truck by GM ;)

But, after reading the article I found out that this is indeed a pretty sweet modification :D

Green ham and eggs

via BBC News - Home on 1/4/11

Will eco-friendly GM pigs be coming to a plate near you soon?

First X-Ray Image of Lightning Captured

 

 

Sent to you by diluted via Google Reader:

 

 

First X-Ray Image of Lightning Captured

via SlashGear by Evan Selleck on 12/28/10

Scientists have reportedly known that lightning emits radiation within it for quite some time, but unfortunately for those scientists they have been unable to take any kind of x-ray photographs of the event. It simply moves too quickly, and up until recently, there simply hasn't been an x-ray camera that was able to take the necessary shots to capture lightning in mid-strike. That is, until now. A giant x-ray camera, which was created by a graduate student named Meagan Schaal, has been the first ever to capture a lightning strike with an x-ray camera.

The photograph was taken during a batch of recent thunderstorms at Camp Blanding, in Florida. The lightning bolt streaked down from the sky at almost one-sixth the speed of light, but the camera was able to capture it. Joseph Dwyer, who is a lightning researcher at the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, said, "Something moving that fast would go from Earth to the moon in less than ten seconds." Obviously, finding a camera on the shelf wasn't going to cut it, so Dwyer turned to his students. One of his graduate students, Schaal, managed to create the x-ray camera. It weighs in at 1,500 pounds, and it is made of an x-ray detector that's housed in a box that resembles a refrigerator. It's lined with lead, to make sure that the x-ray detector is kept safe from stray radiation.

How many images does this new camera have to take to capture lightning in its natural state? 10 million per second. Unfortunately, storage of so many photos meant that the images couldn't be all that detailed. The camera can only take 30 pixels. Meaning, the results are images that are produced on a hexagonal grid. However, the researchers were able to learn that lightning carries the majority of its x-rays at the head of its strike, with barely any lingering radiation trailing away. Dwyer confirms that the lightning's strike holds all of its x-rays at the tip, rather than through the entirety of its length.

One thing to note, is that while these tests were being run during thunderstorms, the scientists had to make sure that the bolts struck where the camera could capture them. For that to happen, the researchers had to shoot rockets into the thunderstorm's clouds, with wires trailing behind them, making sure that the lightning would streak down the wire and into the camera's field of view. With that being noted, Dwyer points out that this artificial creation of lightning probably had no affect on the results, and if they could reproduce a truly natural strike, he is confident the same conclusion would be revealed.

[via National Geographic]

 

 

Things you can do from here:

• Subscribe to SlashGear using Google Reader
• Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites

 

 

Spanish smoking ban takes effect

Will spain beat greece on the implementation of the prohibition of smoking? :P

Spanish smoking ban takes effect

via BBC News - Home on 1/1/11

facebook popularity

This surely won't come as a surprise, but facebook is currently the most popular site in the US.

I certainly think that this is not a good sign. Wikipedia should be the most popular site.