Dream of Solo Flight – A Thrilling Wonder has posted a great pictorial history of the personal flying vehicle (i.e. rocket packs), in this great article.
Hexadecimal Color Chart – Every possible hexadecimal color in one chart.
Midomi – Got a song in your head, but don’t know the title? A new website launched by the Melodis Corporation may be able to help you. Midomi features a Multimodal Adaptive Recognition System, or MARS Search for short. The search service allows visitors to sing or hum music into a microphone hooked into their computers in order to find the song, which may have been submitted by another Melodis user. Though it features an impressive music search tool, the website is marketed as a social website. Users can submit performances that other users can then rate and comment on.
Rupture – Napster founder Shawn Fanning is about to launch another new project, a social network built around World of Warcraft. I’m excited about the site just because Shawn Fanning is the brains behind it, but, of course, it’s not the only social site out their for WoW. You should also check out Guildcafe and >MMO Guildsites for free team hosting. Both are newish and fairly cool.
Scary Uses for RFID Technology - eWeek has released a brief but thought-provoking article on possible distopian uses for RFID chips that we may be seeing in the near future. In fact, considering the fact that RFID passports are rapidly becoming standard fare for western nations despite their shortcomings, some of these uses may become daily realities sooner than you shout, “right to privacy.”
Toy Tachikoma – You know that you’ve wanted one of these for years now. Well, someone finally made one! The Japanese toy company Megahouse is currently taking preorders for a “scale” model of the mini-tank Tachikomas from the popular anime series, Ghost in the Shell. The toy was a part of Wired’s Cool Toys for Grownups article.
Web Two Point Oh! – Generate your very own Web 2.0 Company name and product.
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