UK Crossing Guard Signs to Get Cameras

The British apparently never met a problem that couldn’t be solved with surveillance cameras. Now the most surveilled nation on Earth plans to INSTALL $2,000 CAMERAS (front and back) on those handheld stop signs carried by volunteer crossing guards who help kids cross streets near schools. Local councils hope the cameras will deter growing abuse heaped on “lollipop ladies” by drivers who would prefer to plow through groups of school children rather than having to wait.

Original post by Mike

Oh, No! It’s the Return of the Keyboard Shortcut!

The conventional wisdom is that icons are pretty and shiny and that keyboard shortcuts are ugly and scary. But for applications or Web sites used every day, keyboard shortcuts are far more appealing in actual practice. The reason is that keyboard shortcuts become habits that you can do without even thinking. Muscle memory takes by, and they become second nature. But icons always require mental processing and time-consuming, spastic lurching from mouse to keyboard and back. that is a nugget of geek wisdom lost to the sands of day.

Fast forward to 2008 and the era of online productivity applications, which are on balance even more icon-happy and less keystroke-friendly than the world of Windows, Mac and Linux desktop applications.

I have, however, been gravitating lately to two sites that I use all day, every day, which are by far the most supreme and fastest sites I’ve found. One is an online to-do list called Todoist, and the other is a search site called Quick.as.

Besides being super fast to use and ultra minimalist in design, these two sites have something else in common: their capability comes from the use of KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS.

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New Jeans With Built-In Keyboard Repel Women

Designer Erik De Nijs has invented pants with a fully-functional BUILT-IN-KEYBOARD, which is great for fast-typing and repelling women.

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Google Maps Street View Snaps Stunt Gone Bad

Google Maps Street View, which shows street-level photographs, captured a SPECTACULAR BIKE STUNT GONE WRONG. As the photo-truck passed by, it captured before, during and after shots of a kid having a horrible bike accident.

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Lamest defense Gadget Yet: GPS Tracker Defense

The GPS Tracker Defense will disable any GPS tracking device within range. It does that by disabling any GPS gadget’s ability to connect with satellites — INCLUDING YOUR OWN! Its limited, 16-foot range guarantees that trackers will be safe, while your own GPS is disabled. The GPS Tracker Defense has the exact same effect as simply turning off your GPS.

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New iPod Cover Looks Like Raw Meat

Japan’s Solid Alliance is now selling an Apple iPod cover that’s designed to look like RAW MEAT. It comes in a cellophane-and-Styrofoam package just like meat does. It’s what’s for dinner.

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Brainwave Headset Needs No Batteries

A new brainwave-reading headset needs no batteries — it’s powered by BODY HEAT AND SUNLIGHT. Called a portable electroencephalogram, the headset could be used for seizure patients or as input devices for computer games — you control them with your mind. And when they figure out how to get society to control simple text using brainwaves, we’ll have telepathy. The headset was developed at the Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre in Belgium.

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