I can’t believe that this works. I stumbled on this page and printed out a template. I got a piece of cardboard and traced the curve on it. Got a pair of scissors and tape then I placed it on my Belkin 54G antenna - and now, the signal in my room is now 3x stronger. I will post photos and a template of the cardboard reflector I made. You will just need a pair of scissors, a cardboard and tape.

Update: You can click the template above. Below, you can see what I came up with using cardboard and tape.

Watch this clip from BBC’s Top Gear about the new Mercedes-Benz S500. This is my new dream car. Everything is automated, you don’t even have to step on the accelerator and even the breaks. It does everything for you.

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This is very good news. Intel will cut the prices of its products by up to 60% to reclaim market share from AMD. Here are some interesting quotes from the article.

Customers of Intel Corp. said the world’s biggest computer-chip maker plans to reduce prices on Pentium processors by as much as 60 percent to reclaim market share from Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Executives at Micro-Star International Co. and Gigabyte Technology Co., two of Taiwan’s biggest makers of circuit boards for computers, said Intel officials told them the price cuts will start July 23.

Intel said it will reduce prices of faster dual-core chips by about 15 percent, …Intel also told him that it plans to lower Pentium prices by 60 percent.

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Samsung has created the world’s first computer that replaces standard hard disk drives with NAND Flash solid state disks (SSD). The SSD created is only has 32 GB of capacity. Because the new laptops have been fitted with the SSD they have several advantages over the standard hard drive.

The new Q30-SSD laptop will include the 32 GB SSD hard drive. It comes with a 1.2 Ghz Intel Processor and 512 Megabytes of RAM.

This could be a very good thing. Flash drives are smaller, lighter, more durable and makes no noise. So, two thumbs up for Samsung!

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This is very cool. I don’t know exactly how it works but I’ve read that it rearranges water molecules -H2O- to HHO. I hope it makes it into production, then we could say bye-bye to rising gas prices(hopefully). But if this does become a reality, I wonder what would happen to the oil industry and the world economy in general.

Video:http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/28372/Water_as_Fuel.html

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Personally, I think Koreans are hot. But this one is just plain old creepy. It looks like the female version of Data from Startrek but definitely dumber Standing 1.6 meters tall and weighing about 50 kilograms, she can understand others, speak, blink with her eyes and makes several facial expressions.

But she is not human, rather an android developed by a team of South Korean scientists. It is only the second time in the world that an android has been developed _ Japan made the first one.

EveR-1, a combination of Eve and robot, looks just like a Korean female in her early 20s including her shape that is benchmarked against the nation’s model.

Creepy… Full article here

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Neat. I want this… Imagine doing something like this:

“if (currRecNum < maxOffSet)” a VoiceCode user only needs to say: “if current record number is less than max offset then”

Here is the article for New Scientist:

A new speech recognition tool promises to let programmers write clean code without ever having to lay a finger on their keyboard.

The tool, called VoiceCode, has been developed to help programmers with repetitive strain injury (RSI). This is a common affliction for people who spend a lot of time using a keyboard or mouse and causes pain in muscles, tendons and nerves in a sufferer’s arms and back. Some estimates suggest 22% of all US computer programmers, or 100,000 people, suffer from the condition.

Standard speech recognition software can be used to control a computer but is usually of little help to programmers, says Alain Désilets of the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa, one of the creators of VoiceCode. This is because each symbol and function and every syntactic peculiarity must be carefully spelled out.

VoiceCode lets a programmer dictate code in a more natural way, Désilets says, rapidly translating their utterances into awkward programming syntax. For example, in order to write “if (currRecNum < maxOffSet)” a VoiceCode user only needs to say: “if current record number is less than max offset then”. Traditional voice-recognition programs could require nearly 50 individual words to be dictated.