Category: Science & Geeks

  • Portable phones allowed in plane! more or less…

    It’s been years that flight attendants repeat to bored flight passengers that portable phones should be switched off during the flight because they may interfere with navigation equipment of the plane. Also, it’s been years that Boeing and Airbus tested this hypothesis and found no risk at all. But nobody wants to take the risk…

  • Inkjet paper weight: Hand, weight, etc.

    All inkjet papers were not born equal. Not even all papers. Far from the surface quality, one of the characteristics easiest to evaluate and most important to appreciate a good paper is its weight. But quite often you will hear paper industry specialists and printing experts speaking about the paper’s hand. What is this and…

  • Sony, it will be alpha

    Sony just announced the name of its new/future range of Digital Single Lens Reflex (D-SLR) cameras. This is a minor surprise since they reuse the brand previously used by Minolta and Konica-Minolta in the Japanese market: Alpha. Minolta used Maxxum in the US and Dynax in Europe, but Sony seems to be shooting for one…

  • Eye of the cat

    Eye of the cat

    As all cats, felines from the Masai Mara National Park (Kenya) have fascinating eyes.

  • Need more traffic, do not pay for site submission

    There is a deafening advertisment flood to increase your web site traffic. This looks like snake oil to me: Need more traffic, xxx$ for site submission.

  • First HD-DVD: I want action, more action!

    This is probably the shouts heard in the corridors of the marketing department at Universal Video when preparing the launch of HD-DVD. In the coming month, the first titles for high-definition DVD will be: Serenity: action and science fiction Doom: horror, action and science fiction Apollo 13: suspense and action Cinderella Man: boxing and love…

  • HDCP/HDMI security: virus comes to HD TV

    HDCP/HDMI security: virus comes to HD TV

    As we are interested into the HDCP/HDMI technology that the manufacturers are preparing for a wide distribution, we start finding a few amazing facts. We had seen previously that HDCP was a technology doomed to fail in front of the attacks by the media pirates, but there is already worse (for the legal users).

  • Color and wind

    Color and wind

    A few images I shot last weekend while the sun was shining in the French Vexin (near Paris). Green hair Before the flight Colors

  • 100% risk-free P2P file sharing

    This is more or less the promise of the Freenet project. They just announced the availability of their fully-rewritten software program in its 0.7 version. But what is it really?