Philips patents ‘fabric display’
 by in Ideas & Concepts, Random Rantings |
I just read on Tweakers that Philips applied for a patent to a ‘fabric display’.
Couple of years ago, while watching the Snooker championships on TV, noticing the advertisements on the players’ clothes, I had this nasty vision that at one point, ‘internet-connected sponsorships-tags‘ could just change on the fly… (The patent doesn’t mention any network [...]
WTF!?
| by in Internet & Technology, Software |
More software patent craziness…
Quote Of The Week #48
Marcus Brigstocke once said (and this is a pretty well-known quote I believe),
“If Pacman had affected us as kids we’d be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.”
Quote Of The Week, QOTW
You screwed around as a teen, now why can’t your kids?
Couldn’t help but notice the ‘hype’ surrounding the article entitled ‘You Grew Up Playing Shoot’em-Up Games. Why Can’t Your Kids?…. Although the title of that article may sound grown-up and wise, personally, I think it’s a bullshit wise-crack because I seriously doubt it has anything to do at all with computer games at all.
You [...]
Things that make you go ngggggggggg
| by in Computers & Hardware, Software |
So last week, the hard-drive in my MythTV box started acting up — it was happily transcoding when all of a sudden, it showed an empty Recordings-list. I’ve had that before, so knew that MySQL was having problems due to not enough diskspace. Checking the logfiles however, I noticed more scary stuff was going [...]
