Dr Mark Gasson, from the University of Reading has had a virus infected computer chip implanted in his arm. Tests proved this virus could spread to external control systems wirelessly. The BBC who initially reported this proof-of-concept ‘infection’ stated that Dr Gasson admitted that the test is only proof of concept but believe that there are [...]

Dennis Hong, the founder and director of RoMeLa, a technology and robotics lab based in Virginia, gets straight in to discussion and video demonstrations of his robotic lab’s awesome robots in his talk below. The robots focus on various forms of robotic motion, such as walking, climbing and humanoid style. I really think some of [...]

Although not all of the default applications on the Nokia N97 can be uninstalled, the following steps show you how to uninstall all the applications you are able to. Press the menu/applications button (bottom left of the phone). Tap ‘Settings’ Tap ‘Application mgr.’ (Application Manager) Tap ‘Installed apps.’ (Installed Applications) You will then be presented [...]

If you are trying to retrieve the ‘value’ of a file input box via Javascript, and you are receiving C:fakepath within the returned value, it is time to blame Internet Explorer 8. The inclusion of C:\fakepath\ is a security feature of Internet Explorer 8, designed to prevent information regarding the file system structure being exposed [...]

Gizmodo, a blog well known for spreading hype about Apple products has apparently found ‘Apple’s next iPhone’. Here is a quote from the article Gizmodo recently posted. You are looking at Apple’s next iPhone. It was found lost in a bar in Redwood City, camouflaged to look like an iPhone 3GS. We got it. We disassembled [...]

Values can be reduced to facts about the experiences and related well-being of the minds of concious beings. Since we know the human brain is the physical existence of the memories and personality of concious beings, we will be able to, eventually ,map these experiences and the related effect on the well-being of individuals. Based on this logical [...]

This is just a quick follow up to my previous post regarding Opera Mini for the iPhone to state that, contrary to Apple’s own terms and conditions, Opera Mini has been approved for the Apple iPhone App Store. iPhone users now have a choice in their web browsing experience! I previously ran a post regarding [...]

I previously wrote about using SQL check constraints in MySQL. It seems however that the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS) does not actually support the fundamental verification used by check constraints in other RDBMSs. This means that although you can add check constraints to tables without issue, they are not validated and data is [...]

I recently came across an interesting Climate Care website that lets you do you the following to help your environment with ridiculous ease. Calculate how much carbon your are using, be it in electricity usage, air flights, driving costs or other. Display the amount of money it would take to offset your measured carbon usage. Donate [...]

I recently posted quite a large article on my company blog regarding the various Internet pranks that went on this 1st of April 2010. Google April Fools’ Day Pranks Google went a bit heavy on the pranks this year, with each department seeming to produce its own set of pranks. Google Animal Translate - Google have [...]