Multifinger biometrics
Posted on June 30, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts, biometrics, fingerprint | Leave a Comment
jkOnTheRun points to BiometricPIN system, which improves upon existing single-fingerprint readers by jointly recognising a number of fingers and the sequence that they are tapped in. This should reduce the spoofability of your biometrics, but I’m not sure it is a complete solution.
Read More..>>I Park Like An Idiot
Posted on June 29, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
Don’t stick I Park Like An Idiot bumper stickers on other cars like these people did.
I’m a bit dissapointed by the images on the website, there’s a fair bit of (bad) photoshopping there, and not that many really bad parkers anyway. Interesting idea though.
Shrinkwrap Contracts for Housing
Posted on June 25, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
We are used to hidden clauses in software shrinkwrap, but apparently it happens in the “real world” too. Luckily, the purchaser in this case insisted that the relevant clauses be removed from the contract, which was lucky because they didn’t perform as required and would have got away with it otherwise:
When the reader complained after [...]
Google Maps Australia?
Posted on June 22, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
Google Maps appear to have upgraded their satellite imagery for major Australian locations. I hope this is a precursor to including map information for Australia. Our current online map provider, whereisn’t hasn’t even bothered to update their data from around 2002. Here is my current house, and here is my uni and here is my [...]
Read More..>>Monks and Hyperspectral Image Processing
Posted on June 20, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
Monks at an old Christian monastery plan to use digital cameras to extract hidden text in old parchments. Hyperspectral imaging, which would be the imaging of many spectra, the monks plan to examine editing of the oldest existing Christian bible. Another interesting point is there are some wrinkled pages that are two brittle to be [...]
Read More..>>brisbane craigslist
Posted on June 17, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
Hey, there’s a craigslist in Brisbane!
Read More..>>Commercialisation of Retinal Implants
Posted on June 17, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
According to Engadget, IIP Technologies are the first company to commercialise retinal implant technology. Retinal implants are used to stimulate the retina is such a way that vision can be aproximated in people who previously had none or limited vision. We are doing some interesting research in our image labs in this area. (However, there [...]
Read More..>>Short Videos
Posted on June 16, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
This is cool, and this is freaky (as in nightmare-inducing).
Thanks to j-walk blog, and ektopia.
Get off Drink Driving because of closed source code
Posted on June 7, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
This is interesting: Judges in Florida have tossed out a large number of drink driving cases because the accused asked for the source-code of the breathalisers to be released to the court to verify that the devices were accurate. Thanks, Boing Boing.
Read More..>>Two Litres of Icebreak
Posted on June 1, 2005 - Filed Under Blogger Posts | Leave a Comment
Two Litres of Icebreak
Originally uploaded by David Dean.
Did you know Icebreak came in two litre bottles? This is not good for my addiction.