Optimus Tactus concept keyboard by Art. Lebedev Studio does not have physical keys, which means there are no restrictions on their shape and size.
Any part of the keyboard surface can be programmed to perform any function or to display any images.
Here we can see typing mode…
… and video mode.
I have now had the nofollow tags taken out of comments. Originally, the rel=”nofollow” tag was added to combat comment spam; but now the Akismet spam filter that comes with Wordpress is so effective that this is now a moot point.By removing the nofollow tag, the community is rewarded and commenting is encouraged — everybody wins! This movement has many names: No Nofollow, Dofollow, I Follow… but it all means the same thing.
To take out nofollow from your comments, you can use this Wordpress plug-in or use one of the listed methods on this page. Once you’ve done that, you can join the Dofollow community and find a list of other blogs using the plug-in.
What do you think of this movement? Benefits the community or encourages random pointless comments?
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is
“screeched.”
“Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters
“mt”.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
The symbol on the “pound” key (#) is called an octothorpe.
The dot over the letter ‘i’ is called a tittle.
The word “set” has more definitions than any other word in the
English language.”Underground” is the only word in the English language that
begins and ends with the letters “und.”
There are only four words in the English language which end
in”-dous” tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
The longest word in the English language, according to the
Oxford English Dictionary,
is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
From coffee to cheques and the three-course meal, the Muslim world has given us many innovations that we take for granted in daily life. As a new exhibition opens, Paul Vallely nominates 20 of the most influential- and identifies the men of genius behind them.
1) Coffee
The story goes that an Arab named Khalid was tending his goats in the Kaffa region of southern Ethiopia, when he noticed his animals became livelier after eating a certain berry. He boiled the berries to make the first coffee. Certainly the first record of the drink is of beans exported from Ethiopia to Yemen where Sufis drank it to stay awake all night to pray on special occasions. By the late 15th century it had arrived in Mecca and Turkey from where it made its way to Venice in 1645. It was brought to England in 1650 by a Turk named Pasqua Rosee who opened the first coffee house in Lombard Street in the City of London.
The Arabic qahwa became the Turkish kahve then the Italian caffé and then English coffee.
Aside from the blazing guns and Mafioso suits and hairstyles, The Corleone Family, should be an inspiring model for all budding entrepreneurs.
I cant seem to find many people that agree with me, of course I know why.
Everyone keeps asking me why chopping off a horses head, or shooting someone in the eye, should be the perfect business lesson to learn.
That’s not the point here. Just cast aside the actual mafia “business” for a moment, and look at how they actually operated.
1. Competition
Don Corleone always understood his competition. He knew their strengths and weaknesses, and often anticipated their moves.
“Tattaglia is just a pimp, he was never a match for Sonny”
“I should have known it was Barzini all along”
…
When Michael visits his father in hospital he arranges to have his bed moved, because he knows men are coming to assassinate his father.
This insight is always crucial to business. How else will you outsmart your competition otherwise? Don’t tell me your area of business has literally zero competition…that scenario doesn’t exist.
Sixty-four-year-old Thai Ngoc, known as Hai Ngoc, said he could not sleep at night after getting a fever in 1973, and has counted infinite numbers of sheep during more than 11,700 consecutive sleepless nights. “I don’t know whether the insomnia has impacted my health or not. But I’m still healthy and can farm normally like others,” Ngoc said. Proving his health, the elderly resident of Que Trung commune, Que Son district said he can carry two 50kg bags of fertilizer down 4km of road to return home every day. His wife said,
“My husband used to sleep well, but these days, even liquor cannot put him down.” She said when Ngoc went to Da Nang for a medical examination, doctors gave him a clean bill of health, except a minor decline in liver function. Ngoc currently lives on his 5ha farm at the foot of a mountain busy with farming and taking care of pigs and chickens all day. His six children live at their house in Que Trung. Ngoc often does extra farm work or guards his farm at night to prevent theft, saying he used three months of sleepless nights to dig two large ponds to raise fish.
2. Bhagat: had his twin brother on his stomachSanju Bhagat’s stomach was once so swollen he looked nine months pregnant and could barely breathe. iving in the city of Nagpur, India, Bhagat said he’d felt self-conscious his whole life about his big belly. But one night in June 1999, his problem erupted into something much larger than cosmetic worry. Mehta said that he can usually spot a tumor just after he begins an operation. But while operating on Bhagat, Mehta saw something he had never encountered. As he cut deeper into Bhagat’s stomach, gallons of fluid spilled out — and then something extraordinary happened. “First, one limb came out, then another limb came out. Then some part of genitalia, then some part of hair, some limbs, jaws, limbs, hair.”
At first glance, it may look as if Bhagat had given birth. Actually, Mehta had removed the mutated body of Bhagat’s twin brother from his stomach. Bhagat, they discovered, had one of the world’s most bizarre medical conditions — fetus in fetu. It is an extremely rare abnormality that occurs when a fetus gets trapped inside its twin. The trapped fetus can survive as a parasite even past birth by forming an umbilical cordlike structure that leaches its twin’s blood supply until it grows so large that it starts to harm the host, at which point doctors usually intervene.
What we see in the picture is a monitor that supports resolutions of 2880 x 900 with rear DLP and lighting OLED, and has a time response of 2 milliseconds. Some have suggested that having to detail the monitor live (not in the picture above) can be seen lines of various union panels. In Alienware they say they will put it for sale during the second half of this year, and they didn’t reviled the price yet but it’s most likely that is not within reach of most consumers.
See a video of it in action here
Richard Blakeley, the scamp behind Gizmodo’s TV-turnoff stunt at CES, has been banned from attending the show. Here’s the CEA’s official response to the Gizmodo TV-B-Gone prank:
We have been informed of inappropriate behavior on the show floor by a credentialed media attendee from the Web site Gizmodo, owned by Gawker Media. Specifically, the Gizmodo staffer interfered with the exhibitor booth operations of numerous companies, including disrupting at least one press event. The Gizmodo staffer violated the terms of CES media credentials and caused harm to CES exhibitors. This Gizmodo staffer has been identified and will be barred from attending any future CES events. Additional sanctions against Gizmodo and Gawker Media are under discussion.
The employee in question, Richard Blakeley, is clearly credited, so it shouldn’t be difficult to “identify” him, though both Portfolio and Silicon Alley Insider failed to get that essential detail right. Blakeley tells us that he has received “no notice at all” from CES about the banning. Though, seeing as how CES is over, we’ve got a year for this to all blow over. And Blakeley has a year to think up another stunt.
Here is the stunt that he pulled off for those who may have missed it, you can watch the video here
It’s amazing! The 2007 Web trend map, visualized and produced by a Japanese firm as the subway map of Tokyo, where each station shown as a momentum of website. Very creative!
Windows only: Freeware Microsoft Outlook plug-in Xobni (that’s inbox backwards) adds a handful of killer features to its new Outlook sidebar. Among those features: Email analytics, extraordinarily useful contact cards, fast search, threaded (Gmail-like) conversations, and more. The video above gives an excellent overview, so give it a look. Seeing as Xobni has successfully made Outlook appear exciting (which is no easy feat), this freeware, Windows-only plug-in looks like a winner. Currently Xobni is in a closed beta, but the first 50 readers to head to the download page and enter the code “lifehacker” can download. Once you’re in, you should be able to invite friends, so if you use the code, keep an eye on the comments and help out a fellow Outlook user. Outlook lovers, let’s hear how it works for you in the comments.
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