YouTube Adds Live Streaming Channel for Instant, Interactive Viewing [Video]
Source: http://lifehacker.com/#!5790347/youtube-adds-live-streaming-channel
Saturday, April 09, 2011
Create Your Own Dvorak Keyboard [Hacks]
Source: http://lifehacker.com/#!5790451/create-your-own-dvorak-keyboard
Instead of buying a new keyboard to try out this newer layout, why not just hack an old keyboard so that they keys use the Dvorak layout?
BiOzZ, an intrepid user over at the Hack a day forums, has disassembled an old Kensington keyboard, washed the parts, and then re-assembled it using the new key mappings.
Everything was relatively easy to change over, with the exception that some of the keys had backwards connections that required a 90 degree change to the orientation of the key. With a little correction using a label maker, they keys are now very usable.
The final step is telling your OS to use the Dvorak layout rather than the standard Qwerty layout that you are using right now.
Have you attempted to make the change to a Dvorak keyboard layout? Let us know how it went in the comments!
Qwerty to Dvorak Keyboard Conversion via Hack a day Forums
3Frames Turns Your iPhone Into the Animated Gif Making Machine You Always Wanted It To Be [Apps]
The white light technology that could finally make 3D awesome - without glasses [Optics]
Source: http://io9.com/#!5790289/the-white-light-technology-that-could-make-holograms-awesome
They work with normal light and can produce full-colored 3D images — where the color stays the same no matter how you look at it.
This new technology works by hitting a thin metal film with three beams of white light, each from a different angle. Each beam excites a different color of light, which then passes through an RGB hologram, combining to form a full-color 3D image. The technique promises to more efficient, simpler, and more scalable than current color holograms.
Who's up for a nice game of dejarik?
You Owe MIT More Thanks than You Think You Do [Mit]
Source: http://gizmodo.com/#!5790309/you-owe-mit-more-thanks-than-you-think-you-do/gallery/
Photo via PSD
Ethernet
Yeah, right, Wi-Fi isn't even the new hotness anymore. Our computers have it, our phones have it—wireless is old hat, and the most super-convenient way to network. But ethernet remains a big, snaky part of the internet. And one of the men behind the ubiquitous cord? Robert Metcalf, class of '69.
Intel & The Microchip
Robert Noyce, who picked up his doctorate from MIT, and went on to both co-invent the microchip and found Intel. Not too shabby! So, the odds are fairly high that you've either used or are using something that (indirectly) sprang from this guy's cranium. His alleged earliest childhood memory is the agony of beating his father in ping pong, and having his mother comment, "Wasn't that nice of Daddy to let you win?" I guess that explains a lot about microchips, if you really think about it.
Photo via P - A - S
Texas Instruments
Ol' TI, founded by MIT grad Cecil Howard Green, has had its fingers on almost every piece of electronic gut there is—lasers in missiles, digital signal processors in audio gear, processors in phones—but at the very least, you've probably held dear a TI-83+ at some point in your educational career. Unless you were one of those supernerds with a more advanced graphing calculator, in which case I hate you. But the things are still everywhere, synonymous with exam anxiety and covert in-class gaming.
Image via Brothers Le
Campbell Soup
Yeah. Soup. Soup. Probably not what you associate with tech wizardry, but John Thompson Dorrance absorbed the chemical knowhow to turn mass-produced soup into an empire at MIT.
Image via Navin75
Zipcar
Live in a city? Don't feel like owning a car? Maybe you use Zipcar! It's a neat convenience, and was co-spawned by MIT grad Robin Chase.
Image via Dylan Passmore
McDonnell Douglas
It's not all as peaceful as graphing calculators and tomato soup, however—some MIT grads go on to make stuff that blows up other stuff, such as James Smith McDonnell. His firm is responsible for linchpins of American air power such as the F-15, the F-18, and the ever-popular Tomahawk missile. Kablooey!
Image via US Navy
I.M. Pei
Okay, so he's not a thing or a company, but he's designed some of the most incredible and significant structures in history—the Louvre's pyramid, the East Wing of the National Gallery, and, controversially, the Hancock Tower in Boston. Where did I.M. Pei pick up his architectural prowess?—Hancock tower aside—you guessed it.
Image via linz_ellina
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