The Geek Church

What is with this whole denomination thing? Can’t we just do the whole Christian thing?

Read up in Joshua 21-22, 1 Corinthians 1, and then the entry.

You know those new Microsoft phones we discussed earlier? SanDisk said that their microSDs would be perfect for them, but the Kin1 and Kin2 don’t take microSDs.

If only all USB hubs were like the SmartE USB Extender.

Google Earth is going 3D.

Here’s an interesting charger called the Cube Magic.

Here’s an interesting iPad ebook application for Alice and Wonderland.

Here is a Google Mobile App for the iPad.

Here’s the WePad, with a price and a release date.

Here’s a cool iPad game known as SketchNation.

The company Palm could be bought up by Huawei.

Apple is releasing Core i5 and Core i7 Macbook Pros.

Here is some biodegradable 3D glasses.

Hitachi is working on some glasses-free 3D LCD.

Better get your Netflix for the Wii.

The Vision Research Phantom Flex has been unveiled at NAB.

The Season Finale of House will be shot with Canon 5D MarkII cameras.

Here’s a Focus ring for the DSLR with iPhone.

This is the automated helicopter that stop some drug traffickers.

Here is a multi-touch floor that can do wonders.

Of course, the practice of using dogs for search and rescue is nothing new. They’re still used in law enforcement, fire departments and other organizations dedicated to protecting the safety of human life. Now, it seems that even man’s best friend is not immune to the involvement of technology to make them more effective at their job.

A student named Laura Boffi from Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design and some of her colleagues have developed a special collar for dogs who are used in search and rescue. The collar is a piece of technology that allows dogs to tag the location of survivors in a life-threatening situation and send back messages from the survivors to family, friends and other people of interest. According to Boffi, survivors feel fear and displacement in the first hours of being in-danger and their desire is to notify the people close to them about their safety and present status. The dogs used to test the high-tech collar have been called “messenger dogs” and they wear a special uniform that is equipped with a recording device to take messages and also collect data about geolocation and the time in which the message was recorded.

To simplify use of this device, the selected dogs only need to be trained to sit in front of the people they’re supposed to find. Then a accelerometer located in the collar is used to activate the device, causing it to read when the dog is sitting and a located survivor is free to record a video or type out a message in text. This concept of the messenger dog could definitely see practical application and success in the future as long as the training of the dog and the technology itself are proven to be effective.

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With the iPad and iPhone O S 4.0 recently announced by Apple, Microsoft is now poised to present their latest developments to stay competitive in the ever-changing market of mobile technology for communication and internet access. These products by Microsoft come in the form of two handsets called the Kin One and the Kin Two and they are being marketed as Windows phones. Here’s a rundown of these brand new handsets.

The Kin One and Kin Two are based on the Windows Phone 7 but they have some unique differences. The Kin series has its own custom-made user interface which is very focused on social media and also has a custom browser. The screen displays are multi-touch capable and you can even pinch and zoom with the browser. However, there is no support for third party applications, in-browser Flash or Silverlight.

The Kin One is also known as the “Turtle”. It’s a curved square sliding phone equipped with a QVGA display, 4GB of internal storage, a five megapixel camera with LED and a full QWERTY keyboard. Meanwhile, Kin Two is nicknamed “Pure”. It’s a more conventional QWERTY sliding phone with a HVGA display, an eight megapixel camera and 8GB of internal storage. Beyond that, it’s the same as the Kin One.

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