The dime has been an integral part of commerce since the 1790s, when the dime was first created for use in the United States.
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has arrived in Kabul, Afghanistan, to spend New Year's Eve with U.S. troops and the Homeland Security officers who have been working with the Afghan government to try to secure that country's porous borders from militants, as well as weapons and drug smugglers.
What did talented cinematographer Jamie Stuart and a video DSLR produce in a single evening? Have a look at this three and a half minute video on YouTube titled Idiot with a Tripod.
I point this out because it illustrates what someone with a consumer camera, passion and talent can produce with no budget and in a short period of time.
Film critic Robert Ebert said that the film deserved to win the Academy Award for best live-action short.
What are you doing with your video capable DSLR?
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...As alternative therapies slowly seep into mainstream medicine, one doctor is on a mission to treat cancer with tea.
But he wasn't really feeling the moment. The sky was gray and Tommy, who's 22, tall and husky, was more interested in checking on the weather.
Facebook has now taken top slot for Google as America’s most-visited website in 2010, according to a new report from Experian Hitwise. With three other variations of Facebook making it into the top 10 as well : “facebook login” at #2, “facebook.com” at #6 and “www.facebook.com” at #9.
Facebook was also the top search term among U.S. Internet users for the second year running with the search term “facebook” accounting for 2.11% of all searches.
With all pages combined they accounted for 3.48% of all searches, a 207% increase from Facebook’s position from last year. The social network accounted for 8.93% of all U.S. visits in 2010 (January-November), beating Google (7.19%), Yahoo Mail (3.52%), Yahoo (3.30%) and YouTube (2.65%).However, Facebook didn’t beat the traffic garnered by all of Google’s properties combined (9.85%).
With Facebook still gaining size and showing no signs of slowing down with a massive 55% increase in Facebook’s U.S. traffic in just the last year.
Other sites that made it into the top slots included YouTube, Craigslist,MySpace, eBay, Yahoo and Mapquest.
Via Mashable
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Facebook Passes Google To Claim Most Visited US Website In 2010 (C) 2010 Geeky GadgetsAmazon has now enabled a Kindle book lending service that allows eligible Kindle books to be lent to friends and family for up to 14 days, and the borrower doesn’t need to own a Kindle reading device.
So its now possible to pass on that great book you have finished, thats just stilling in your digital library, but be aware once the book is lent you will not be able to read the book yourself during the loan period.
Not all books will be available for the lending service, but any Kindle book titles that are eligible for lending, are determined by the publisher or rights holder, and will have a message on the product detail page, as shown in the image below:
Be aware that currently, the Kindle book lending can only be initiated by customers residing in the United States and if a loan is initiated to a customer outside the United States: “the borrower may not be able to accept the loan if the title is not available in their country due to publisher geographical rights”.
For more information on the new service visit the Amazon Kindle Lending help page.
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Amazon Enables Kindle Book Lending (C) 2010 Geeky GadgetsA loosely linked movement of European anarchists who want to bring down state and financial institutions is becoming more violent and coordinated after decades out of the spotlight, and may be responding to social tensions spawned by the continent's financial crisis, security experts say.
Construction workers unearthed a cellar full of 800-year-old Chinese coins in Shaanxi Province.
Romain Jerome has created another watch as part of the company’s Titanic DNA line. The Steampunk watches bezel has been made from oxidised steel from the actual wreckage of the Titanic and the materials to create the watch have been provided by the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast where the Titanic was built.
Other nautical features on the watch include the propeller on the left hand side of the watch face and the screws are also meant to resemble steam engine pistons from the Titanic.
The Romain Jerome Steampunk watch will be limited to just 2,012 pieces with a price of 12,500 Swiss Francs around $13,000
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The Titanic DNA Steampunk Watch By Romain Jerome (C) 2010 Geeky GadgetsThese days, every lab and company (IBM, Intel) with enough dough is striving for the ultimate in processing power. The geniuses at the University of Glasgow are no different. Their thousand core CPU prototype has just leaked in the press and has caused quite a stir.
The team of researches doing the grunt work are led by Dr. Wim Vanderbauwhede and what they just managed to pull off involved FPGAs. The Field Programmable Gate Array are microchips that contain multiple transistors. But instead of having the transistors set by the manufacturer, Vanderbauwhede and his team did the individual configurations themselves, effectively multiplying the CPUs power. Hence, a 1,000 core CPU.
Here’s extra explanation from the good Dr. Vanderbauwhede:
“This is very early proof-of-concept work where we’re trying to demonstrate a convenient way to program FPGAs so that their potential to provide very fast processing power could be used much more widely in future computing and electronics.
While many existing technologies currently make use of FPGAs, including plasma and LCD televisions and computer network routers, their use in standard desk-top computers is limited. However, we are already seeing some microchips which combine traditional CPUs with FPGA chips being announced by developers, including Intel and ARM.
I believe these kinds of processors will only become more common and help to speed up computers even further over the next few years.”
No, you can’t buy one right now or next year, for that matter. But these super-CPUs are coming soon. Really soon. (Like four years soon—our estimate.)
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...This post features the top 10 fast food-related Lab Notes of 2010. Cancer and weight loss were particularly hot topics this year, with several features on cutting-edge cancer treatments and effective weight-loss programs.
When capturing HD video using a DSLR camera the lens on the camera is currently the weakest link as it doesn’t allow for both zooming and focusing simultaneously.
Nikon are now looking to change this and have filed a patent in Japan for a new lens zoom design that allows it to be controlled manually and through a zoom button on the camera body if required.
The patent describes a single lens that is capable of being zoomed by hand in manual mode or automatically in its movie and video making mode, while simultaneously refocusing.
Its alos rumoured that this new technology might be incorporated in to Nikon’s new mirrorless camera. Either way I am confident Nikon will not wait long to bring this new technology to market.
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New Nikon Patents Lens That Can Zoom And Refocus Simultaneously (C) 2010 Geeky GadgetsAre you the obsessive type possessed by a disturbing urge to secretly observe those around you? Suspicious of your relatives during the holidays? Want to catch Santa in the act of plopping down his gifts next Christmas? Then maybe this $37 wall hook-cum-camcorder is an essential investment.
Of course, if you cherish outward appearances, it’s best not to let the neighbors and a few other know you’re packing a spy cam cos that would creep people out. Another reason we can think of for buying this is for apprehending those midnight kitchen raiders who attack the leftovers when everyone else is asleep.
This USB-charged gadget is activated by a motion sensor that can take color shots and audio, saving them unto a Micro SDHC card whose content is uploaded via USB on a computer. Other important numbers to know are the tiny built-in camera’s 640×480 resolution (it’s hard to tell where it is by just looking at the pic, right?) and in case there’s no PC to charge this on, there’s a universal charging adaptor thrown in the package upon purchase.
The video format of its content is AVI mand the camera takes 28 frames per second. Of course, it wouldn’t be a stretch to assume certain voyeurs with an anti-social bent are going to drool over this new toy.
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Wall Hook Camcorder Is Custom Made For Obsessive Paranoiacs (C) 2010 Geeky GadgetsHere are the numbers: a 2×2 twill pattern on its surface, 550,000 psi tensile carbon fiber, a mere 2 lbs in weight. If you thought only astronauts could ride a seat like this, you’re wrong!
For the ultimate in endurance, comfort, and performance—being a cushion for your sitting muscle while doing yer business—nothing compares this carbon fiber seat from carbon fiber retailers Carbon Fiber Gear. Simply put, it beats most comers (meaning plastic toilet seats), by light years.
We’re also thinking it’s comfortable to actually sit on this one. Not only because it’s lightweight, but there’s a foam cushion underneath the outer cover. Due to the material, expect this to last long. Very long, in fact. Where most toilet seats break, get dislodged, and crack (from pressure), this won’t. It’s the Chuck Norris of its kind.
Unfortunately the upper-end stuff of the toilet fixtures scale don’t come cheap. One of these will set you back $279.
Update: Despite the priceyness, this baby’s out of stock. Yes, a lot of people are willing to pay good money for that Space Odyssey feel.
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Try This Carbon Fiber Toilet Seat For That Space Odyssey Feel (C) 2010 Geeky GadgetsIK Multimedia have now followed up the launch of their iPhone AmpliTube 2 application with the release of a new iPad version. AmpliTube 2 has been designed to “streamline and enhance the mobile guitar and bass playing experience.”
Packing in plenty of features to help transform your iPad into the ultimate guitar and bass multi-effects processor thats also allows you to recording your creations and tweak them within the included production studio section.
With AmpliTube for iPad, you have an entire guitar and bass rig at your fingertips, including: 4 stompbox effects running into an amplifier head with effects, plus cabinet and a microphone, 11 built-in stompbox effects (delay, fuzz, overdrive, wah, envelope filter, chorus, flanger, phaser, octave, noise filter + distortion once registered), 5 amps (clean, crunch, lead, metal, bass) with full controls, 5 speaker cabinets and 2 microphones (dynamic and condenser).
Plus you can expand your rig a-la-carte with more effects like compressor, reverb, parametric EQ, graphic EQ and limiter (available as in-app purchase), a suite of effects also suitable for any other types of instruments and vocals. Plus you can name, save and recall up to 36 ‘full rig’ tone presets for quick sound sculpting when required.
AmpliTube for iPad is now available to purchase from the iTunes App Store for $19.99
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AmpliTube 2 Arrives On iPad (C) 2010 Geeky Gadgets
Five ways automakers are making it safer and easier to hit the road after sunset.
During this holiday season, from December 23 to January 2, 92.3 million Americans will travel 50 or more miles from home, according to AAA. Much of that driving will take place before or after work hours, and when you consider that December 21 had more darkness than any other day of the year—New Yorkers, for example, saw just 9 hours and 15 minutes of light—it’s clear as day how much driving in the dark we do during the winter months.
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The power of words, pictures and the internet are helping a young boy change the lives of children with cancer.
Like every other parent on the planet we trudge along the treadmill in a relentless quest for growth and development. But for more than a couple of years we’ve also been pursuing an interest in telling jokes as someone has ambitions to be a stand-up comedian.
Sadly there are so many lessons to learn along the way: timing, delivery, audibility, diction, intonation, volume control and not falling on the fall in hysterics before the punch-line.
Generally our whole family favors knock, knock and elephant jokes but occasionally we branch out into other areas. A birthday present gives us the opportunity to analyze even more aspects of this skill set but it is also the source of great frustration.
Gradually over a two-week period we achieve amazing progress, culminating in a small surprise for the world weary parent.
It is just after I have spent far too long modeling examples of what not to do that I have one last attempt at an up-beat demonstration of ‘how to.’
I ask him in fully operationally cheerleader mode, “What’s black and white and read all over?”
“A zebra with an explosive nose-bleed.”
As we expected, Toyota will use the 2011 Detroit auto show to take the wraps off new variants of the Prius hybrid. The debuts comprise the plug-in version of the current Prius, a concept vehicle of undisclosed type, and what Toyota characterizes as an “addition to the Prius family.”
We suspect the latter vehicle is the MPV teased by Toyota and seen in our spy photos. Further proof comes at the end of this Toyota video, in which skateboarder Bob Burnquist opens the spacious rear hatch of an unnamed Toyota, claims it offers 50 percent more cargo room than the existing Prius, and promises it will arrive at the Detroit show. A Prius mini-minivan should be around the size of a Mazda 5 or Toyota Matrix, and will likely employ an uprated version of the current car’s hybrid powertrain.
Toyota offers no additional information about the promised concept vehicle, but it could be a coupe model. In addition to the existing five-door hatch and promised five-door MPV, a sporty (visually, at least) Prius would expand the brand into an entirely new area. If a Prius coupe is indeed in the cards, it would compete with Honda’s new CR-Z hybrid.
We’ll bring you full information from the Detroit show in January, so stay tuned.
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Handling an estate collection can be one of the most difficult things you'll ever have to do.
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Just days before Christmas, the White House asked Americans to be vigilant this holiday season, warning of a possible -- though unspecified -- terror threat from al Qaeda.
Apple is a patent filing machine as are many tech firms today. The latest patent app to surface from Apple actually has the name of many of the members of the iPhone team on it. Once the app is approved it will get the Apple name applied to the final patent. The app was filed last year.
The patent app outlines a way that Apple wants to put antennas for various things behind logos on their gear. That means that your future iPhone antenna might be behind the Apple logo on the back of the phone.
According to the app the antennas will be used on notebooks, phones, and other devices. The design allows for multiple uses like GSM, WiFi, and GPS with the same behind the logo design. I don’t care where the antenna is as long as it works all the time.
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Apple Patent App Details Antennas Behind the Apple Logo (C) 2010 Geeky Gadgets
Quarters have become one of the most important denominations in the United States' economy.
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