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 Careful, watching to many spy movies and TV cartoons may give you strange ideas.
Neatorama has published the Top 10 strangest anti-terrorism patents. Here they are:
Anyone else with such “brilliant” ideas ?
Source: Neatorama via Schneier on Security
Tags: counterterrorism, fightback, gadget, invention, patent, safety, security, terrorism, USA
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 “One for All” URC-8350 universal remote control has a “something different” than other remote controls.
You can control up to 4 different Audio-Video devices but with the dedicated Green Energy Saving button you can even switch off all your AV standby functions at once.
Doing so you can save over 90% of standby power consumption.
- Switch off all your devices from Standby with a single button press
- Ready-to-use energy saving button + On/Off Power Plug
- Universal remote control, controlling up to 4 devices including TV (Plasma LCD, Projector), DVD, Sat/Cable/DVB-T and surround sound AMP
More details:
- Expandable with OneForAll On/Off Power Plugs
- Future Proof Remote - wireless upgrades of any new device code
- Multiple commands by pressing just one macro-key
- Learning function for easy addition of original remote functions
- Uses 2 normal AAA batteries (could be replaced by Eneloop rechargeable ones)
French website GinjFo published a complete test of this remote and demonstrates the financial and environmental impact of such remote.
- 4 tested AV equipments in standy mode 19 hours/day equal, for a year to:
- 42.5 Watts of electrical consumption
- 50.86 US dollar
- 15.62 kg of CO2 (Carbon Dioxide)
- When they are switched off, using the Energy Saver remote control, the results appear like this :
- 0.6 Watt of electrical consumption
- 0.72 US dollar
- 0.22 kg of CO2
So, if 10 millions households connect their AV system through it, it will just save per year
- 419 MegaWatts of electrical consumption
- 501.4 millions USD
- etc…
- One for All and its dealers will get 500 millions of income the 1st year (unit price is about 50 USD).There is indeed a most Eco-Friendly and cheaper solution… Turn all equipments off manually. You all do that already, isn’t it ?
More : Complete Test results on GinjFo (in french), OneforAll.
Tags: co2, consumption, electricity, energy, green, remote, remote control, standby mode, switch
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 Found two interesting posts about how Twitter becomes a real-time news media and how it contributes to spread news all over the World despite telecommunication networks breakdown and/or government censorship. Smart Mobs author Mark A.M Kramer asks if Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) could make humanity morally accountable ? Today, even with a very limited presence of the International community (politics, journalists as well as Aid workers) we continue to receive near real-time information from Myanmar through various multi-plateforms communication media such Twitter, SMS, RSS etc.
Ten days later, in China, an powerful earthquake shook the Sichuan province, information that Technology blogger Robert Scoble claimed that Twitter had the breaking news even before the United States Geological Survey, which provides early warnings of seismic events.
Is Twitter's slogan "What are you doing" should be now replaced by "What's going on" ?
Sources: SmartMobs, BBC
Tags: accountability, BBC, blog, China, communication, cyclon, earthquake, humanity, ict, internet, IT, myanmar, rss, sichuan, sms, technology, telecom, twit, Twitter
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