[Shameel Arafin, Sean McIntyre, and Reid Bingham] really dig rainbows. Going by the moniker the “RainBroz”, the trio built a portable display that can be used to add cool light painting effects to pictures. The group brings their Rainbow Machine all over the place, including parties, gatherings, and random spots on the street. Anyone is …
Rainbow Machine livens up any photograph
Custom screensaver on the non-touch Kindle 4
[Kubbur87] put together a guide to replacing the Non-touch Kindle 4 screensavers with your own images. We’ve already seen a way to remove the Special Offers banners from the newest version of Kindle Hardware, this hack lets you use your own 600×800 Portable Network Graphics (.png) file instead of the images pushed to the device by …
112 Online Child Predators from 22 Countries Arrested
A joint action of law enforcement agencies from 26 European countries that targeted child abuse file-sharing networks was a great success, leading to the arrests of 112 individuals from 22 countries.
“This is the latest major success in over 10 year…
Windows 8 to offer ‘picture password’ log in
Windows 8 will offer a new way to log in via a ‘picture password’ system that will combine images from the user’s own collection with a unique touchscreen gesture.
In another mammoth post on the Buildings Windows 8 Blog, Zach Pace wrote that the pictur…
How an IT guy used his watch to take sneaky pics of co-workers
An IT guy reveals to a female office employee that he takes covert images at work by using the camera on his watch. She is not amused.
Cheap DIY laser scanner is quite impressive
With the introduction of the Kinect, obtaining a 3D representation of a room or object became a much easier task than it had been in the past. If you lack the necessary cash for one however, you have to get creative. Both the techniques and technologies behind 3D scanning are somewhat complicated, though certainly still …
Apple looking at having LTE in many devices including iPad 3
Most of the speculation surrounding Apple at the moment is when the iPhone 5 will be released or the next iPad. But there has also been reports surfacing about the company working on having LTE after images emerged of equipment that had been installed …
[Bunnie] mods Chumby to capture epic time-lapse video
When [Bunny] moved into his apartment in Singapore he was surprised to find that a huge building project was just getting started on the other side of the block. Being the curious sort, he was always interested in what was going on, but just looking in on the project occasionally wasn’t enough. Instead, he set up a …
