Radioactive Tritium Flashlight Runs for 20 Years Without a Battery

A Multi-Functional Tritium Lantern (MFTL) that triples as a miniature flashlight, a bottle opener, and a small pry tool. Oh! And it’s a keychain, so you’re likely to have it with you at all times or at least when you’re out of the house.

The gadget, designed by an Athens, Greece-based maker and prophet of what he refers to as the “Next Industrial Revolution”–3D printing or additive manufacturing–is digitally designed and then 3D printed in stainless steel (420 stainless steel alloy with infused bronze–40%). It’s about the width of a cigarette, although a bit shorter. The designer, who’sEtsy Shop, InnovoDesign, offers the pieces for $63.58 each, says he most enjoys creating “functional, innovative, unique objects and artifacts.” We agree that there’s something kind of retro and mysterious about this gadget. The texture of the stainless steel and the shape of the object are evocative of the Art Deco style.

 Tritium–symbol T or 3H as it is also known as hydrogen-3–is a radioactive isotope of hydrogen. It’s not cheap; the market price for a gram of tritium is $30,000, which is why the InnovoDesign MFTL gadget costs just under $65. We think they’re definitely worth it. Those hermetically-sealed vials are amazing little light sources thanks to the gaseous tritium isotope. It glows without requiring a light “charge,” as is the case with most phosphorescent, glow-in-the-dark products. During the day and in well-lit spaces, you won’t see the flow. In low- or no-light settings, however, the gadget will basically be your tiny lantern. As its creator boasts, it’s a genuinely, “nuclear-powered gadget.” Speaking of which, it occurs to us that the thing resembles a tiny submarine–a nuclear sub.

The real treat, however, is the gadget’s unique feature: It glows in the dark. After its creator receives the 3D-printed objects from Shapeways (as he doesn’t print them himself), he embeds each piece with non-removable tritium isotope, with 3×22.5mm in a vial for each. 

The vial itself is resin and, since it is carefully embedded within the stainless steel body, it is not easily removed or broken, so you needn’t worry about leaks. You can choose what color your gadget will glow from eight different color choices. InnovoDesign also offers a larger tritium light, a “beacon,” which triples the glow of the smaller bottle opener-pry tool-flashlight. Our favorite piece in the Etsy shop may well be the Tritium Overlord Ring, which is 3D printed in silver and glows a satisfying, sci-fi blue. It sells for $219.95, which is an altogether reasonable price.

 

Online Store : https://www.etsy.com/listing/219710060/mftl-multi-functional-tritium-lantern?ref=shop_home_active_1

Update: limited stock

I got my vial in 7 days  from Greece.

They Also have other available Design  to choose..

Update: InnovoDesign is no longer active on etsy  you can buy on his own webstore @  http://www.byinnovodesign.com/

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Exclusive Previews PlayStation(R)4 (PS4™) Exclusive Games - The Order:1886TM and BloodborneTM

Set to reach our shores in February and March respectively, “The Order:1886” and “Bloodborne are this year’s biggest and most anticipated titles exclusive to the PlayStation®4 (PS4™) gaming platform.



“The Order: 1886” is a single player, action-adventure game created by the acclaimed developer, Ready at Dawn Studios LLC known for the creation of Daxter® and God of War®: Chains of Olympus (PSP Game of the Year), whileBloodborne, is the latest Action RPG game from a renowned Japanese developer FromSoftware, the makers of the hit Dark Souls series.

“The Order: 1886™” spectacularly re-writes history by introducing a unique version of Victorian-Era London where myths and technology co-exist and which fuses actual history with familiar myths and legends. Players will wield advanced weapons and gadgets that didn’t exist during the Victorian era and the realism of the game will make you feel like these elements could have existed during the time.

“Bloodborne” features a a terrifying new world and a journey to a horror-filled gothic city where deranged mobs and nightmarish creatures lurk around every corner. The Yharnam city is cursed with a strange endemic illness spreading through the streets like wildfire. Players will have to face their fears as they search to discover the city’s darkest secrets in order to survive.


It gives us great pleasure to invite you to the preview of The Order:1886 and Bloodborne ahead of their official availability in the Philippines. A spokesperson from Sony Computer Entertainment Japan Asia who is well versed with both games will be available for Q&As on both games. The two games are available for hands on as well.


EVENT DETAILS

Date: 4 February 2015, Wednesday

Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Venue: Imperium e-Sports bar and Video Game Lounge

Address: Second Floor, Metrowalk Commercial Complex, Meralco Avenue,Ugong, Pasig City

Detailed Directions: https://www.zomato.com/manila/imperium-e-sports-bar-and-video-game-lounge-ugong-pasig-city


Source:
RSVP c/o DIANE VALBUENA

Mobile: 0917.523.4624

Email: diane@newzilla.geisermaclang.com

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Apple Releases iOS 8.1.3

The iOS 8.1.3 update contains bug fixes, stability enhancements and performance improvements. Among the new features, it reduces the amount of storage space required to perform a software update.

Apple has rolled out iOS 8.1.3 for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad devices, after weeks of extensive testing.

The update can be downloaded by going to Settings > General > Software Update. The download size of iOS 8.1.3 is 246MB.

Apple users with 8GB and 16GB devices will definitely appreciate the reduced storage requirements for updating to iOS 8.

In addition to bug fixes, iOS 8.1.3 also includes a number of security improvements which can be viewed in detail on Apple's security page for the update.

Apple is also preparing to release OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 beta update, which contains a patch for the Thunderstrike vulnerability that allows malware to be injected into Macs via the Thunderbolt port.

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HTML5 video is the default on YouTube No more Flash and Crash Browser

YouTube defaults to using HTML5 video on all modern browsers, including Chrome, IE 11, Safari 8 and the beta versions of Firefox. The same technology that powers adaptive bitrates also makes it possible for YouTube to live-stream video to the Chromecast and game consoles like the Xbox and PS4.

HTML5’s Encrypted Media Extensions have been somewhat controversial in the web standards community because they enable DRM support in web browsers. But as YouTube engineering manager Richard Leider notes in today’s announcement, support for this feature now enables the service to use a single video player across a wide range of platforms.

“Combined with Common Encryption, we can support multiple content protection technologies on different platforms with a single set of assets, making YouTube play faster and smoother,” he writes.

Before

After

Now that HTML5 video is the default on YouTube, Google is deprecating its old-style <object> Flash embeds and its Flash API. YouTube recommends you only use its <iframe> embeds to embed videos going forward because that allows it to use whatever technology your visitors’ browsers support.

Some website already support this  example where I always watch anime is Kissanime.

By switching to HTML5, YouTube can now also make wider use of Google’s VP9 video codec. YouTube says this switch allows videos to start 15 to 80 percent faster and reduces the average bandwidth needed to stream a video by 35 percent. That may not seem like a big deal right now, but once you start streaming 4k video, that 35 percent reduction could be the difference between enjoying the video or staring at the “buffering” screen. YouTube started streaming VP9 videos in 2013 and has since served “hundreds of billions of VP9 videos.”

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RANGE-R is a handheld sensor capable of sending Radar signals through the walls and locating people inside buildings.

RANGE-R is a handheld sensor capable of sending Radar signals through the walls and locating people inside buildings. It is powered by 4 AA batteries and weighs less than 1.5 lbs.

The basic RANGE-R concept of operations is shown in Figure 1. The sensor is held against the wall and activated via a pair of buttons (one hand operation). A series of Radar pulses is transmitted through the wall. The pulses are reflected from objects inside the structure. These returns are analyzed as Doppler radar returns, allowing detection of any moving objects in the structure.

The sensitivity of the RANGE-R is sufficient to detect people breathing, making it difficult for individuals to hide from RANGE-R. The range to a target is displayed on the user-friendly graphic display. RANGE-R covers a conical field of view of 160 degrees, sufficient to cover an entire room (or small building) in a single scan. The entire scan/detect sequence takes only a few seconds.

Doppler radar

RANGE-R uses a form of Radar known as Doppler Radar. In Doppler Radar, a radio frequency (RF) signal is transmitted, strikes a target and returns to an RF receiver. If the object is moving, the frequency of the signal is altered. With appropriate signal processing the amount of motion can be determined. Using this technique, RANGE-R determines the presence of moving objects inside a building and classifies them as “movers” (more movement) or “breathers” (less movement) while providing the range to the object on a small display.

RANGE-R uses a type of Doppler Radar known as Stepped Frequency Continuous Wave (SFCW) Radar, where specific frequencies are emitted in a controlled fashion. This approach makes RANGE-R inherently resistant to jamming or interference with other electronics. Additionally, RANGE-R is certified by the FCC to operate in an approved Radar band and therefore, will not interfere with most non-Radar electronic systems.

Wall Penetration

RANGE- R will penetrate most common building wall, ceiling or floor types including poured concrete, concrete block, brick, wood, stucco glass, adobe, dirt, etc. However, It will not penetrate metal. RANGE-R will generally penetrate up to one foot of wall thickness without adverse effects. While small metal objects embedded in walls (i.e. rebar, conduits, etc.) usually do not inhibit operation, a large enough metal object can impair operation. When this happens, the wisest course of action is to make more than one scan from different locations (move a few feet) for confirmation. If a porous wall is saturated with water, performance can also be degraded due to excessive absorption of the radar energy.

Conical Field of View

The RANGE-R has a conical, 160 degree field of view (FOV). This FOV provides complete coverage of a rectangular room with a single scan. This FOV covers +/- 80 degrees in azimuth AND elevation. This feature enables RANGE-R to penetrate ceilings/floor as well as vertical walls. A typical scan of a two-story house will detect people on the second floor as well as people on ground level.

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"Mouse Box" PC in a mouse

And you thought the Raspberry Pi was a neat little PC. The Mouse Box is an entire working computer that fits inside a mouse. Just plug in a monitor and a keyboard, and away you go.

Poland-based Przemysław Strzelczyk and a team of software developers working on a new concept have created what they believe is the future of desktop computing — a mouse that's also a PC.

Called "Mouse-Box", a wireless gadget that packs a 1.4 GHz quad-core ARM processor, a micro-HDMI port, WiFi up to 802.11n, accelerometer, gyroscope, two USB 3.0 ports and 128 GB storage space into a mouse. The only extra hardware needed is a monitor.

There are two USB ports on the front for hooking up peripherals, or you can use the Mouse Box as a standard mouse for your desktop or laptop. Then you can switch to your Mouse Box PC at the press of a button. Amazing.

It has huge potential for monkeying around at work, letting you play a game or work on your own project, then switch over to your business computer as soon as the boss comes sniffing around. Not that we would of course. Ahem.

Mouse-Box comes with built-in Wi-Fi connectivity, and charges wirelessly using an inductive charging mat that doubles up as a mouse pad. This means the device would never run out of battery. However, the hardware also includes space for an optional battery.

It also has a micro-HDMI socket, so you can hook up a projector or an HD TV and watch movies or beam out presentations. You can transfer data to it from another PC, effectively using it as a portable hard drive. Its 128GB of flash storage should be plenty of space, and you can bolster that with cloud storage.

The firm is asking for help in terms of feedback and guidance, so it doesn't look like it'll go on sale anytime soon. But here's hoping it touches down sooner rather than later. Just don't tell the boss.

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Scam email "Police Ransomware" cause a 17 Year Old boy with Autism to commit suicide

Joseph Edwards, a 17-year-old schoolboy from Windsor, Berkshire, hanged himself after receiving a bogus email appeared to be from police claiming that he'd been spotted browsing illegal websites and that a fine of 100 pound needed to be paid in order to stop the police from pursuing him.

The scam email pushed the well-known Police Ransomware onto the boy’s laptop and also downloaded malware that locked up his system once it was opened.

As far as we all know, a Police ransomware of this type does not encrypt files and usually asks a victim to pay a small fine that last around $200 or €200. It’s normally much easier to remove the threat from infected systems by using dedicated tools specially designed to remove such infections.

Edwards was an A-level student with Autism, a developmental disability, that likely made him more susceptible to believing the Internet scam mail, supposedly sent from from Cheshire police, was genuine, a coroner heard on Thursday.

Edwards was so upset and depressed by the accusation and the extortionate demand that he hanged himself hours after falling victim to the crucial threat. He was found hanged at his family home in Windsor by his mother Jacqueline Edwards, who told the coroner that he probably didn't understand the implications of his actions.

"He didn't seem to have any worries known to me. I don't think he really understood," Jacqueline Edwards told the coroner. "Joseph was subjected to a scam on the internet, a threatening, fake police link that was asking for money," his mother said in a statement. "He would have taken it literally because of his autism and he didn't want to upset Georgia [his sister] or me."

According to Detective Sergeant Peter Wall, it will be almost impossible to trace the fraudsters behind the 'crude' email, but believe it may have originated outside the UK.

This is not first time when Ransomware has become deadly reason to take someone’s life. Over a year ago, a Romanian family faced same Police Ransomware threat and the Romanian victim hanged himself and his four-year-old son, scarring that his young son would pay for his mistake and his life would be spend in the moment of delusion.

Ransomware is one of the most blatant and obvious criminal's money making schemes out there, from which Cryptolocker threat had touched the peak, and cyber criminals have developed many Cryptolocker versions (prisonlocker, linkup, icepole, cryptobit) by which you have to safeguard your system.

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How to encrypt your hard drive, but the protection less hassle

If the PC is using Windows 7 Ultimate or Enterprise, or Windows 8 Pro or Enterprise, you can use BitLocker, which comes with these versions of Windows. But you have to know what you're doing.

NOTE: Encrypting the entire drive can brick your PC. Make an image backup first, and make sure you have emergency repair drives for both the encryption software and your image backup program.

That's not all. Should your computer or hard drive crash, your chances of successfully recovering lost files drops considerably. Even a Windows reinstall can leave your files inaccessible if you didn't take proper precautions.


BitLocker works best in an environment where a professional IT department serves users who may not know what the word encrypt means. You can set it up so that the user doesn't even know that the drive is encrypted. When they log into Windows with their password, they get access to the encrypted files. If they log into another account, or boot with another OS, the files are unreadable.

What's more, if you need to reinstall Windows, or restore the files from a backup, you'll need a special digital key that's created when you encrypt the drive. That key has to be stored elsewhere and someone has to know where to find it. That's where IT comes in.

Third-party encryption programs are more straightforward. When you boot the PC, you have to enter the encryption password before Windows can load. Because the password is used on a daily basis, it's unlikely to get lost.

The free and open-source VeraCrypt does a good job. The wizard to set up drive encryption is long, but reasonably intuitive.
link: https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/

But VeraCrypt has its limitations. For instance, it won't work on PCs using the newer GUID partition table.

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Coolest PC mod and build 2015

Chasing the dragon

MSI's corporate logo is a dragon. What better way to show that off than to have a custom-modded PC created in that shape? It's a Haswell-E-based rig with a pair of MSI GeForce GTX 980 cards. The dragons are plexiglass, with a rod holding them in place.

XoticPC Elysium

On the other hand, there's a good chance you'll actually be able to buy this PC. XoticPC's Elysium may look like a modded PC, but it's far more attainable—XoticPC has even hinted it may try to sell it.

And yes, because it's all about the specs, this is a Haswell-E machine with a pair of GeForce GTX 970 cards in SLI.

Off-road computing

This modded PC, built by ACE_Finland to celebrate the 500 millionth Asus motherboard sold, is a meaty little system. Inside is a Sabertooth Z97 Mark S, an Asus Strix GeForce GTX 980, and 32GB of Kingston HyperX Fury ram. What's really clever is the use of the Cooler Master V850 liquid cooler, which looks like it actually belongs on top of the Humvee. 

The chassis for the mod is a fairly large RC car. There's apparently still enough room in the car for it to function as an RC Humvee. You'll just have to make sure you disconnect it from your monitor and keyboard unless you want them dragged along behind.

Project Snowblind

Called Project Snowblind, this modded PC by DarthBeavis and Primochill was also built to celebrate Asus' 500-million-motherboards mark. The case is a laser- and plasma-cut Praxis chassis with an Asus Sabertooth Z97 Mark S inside. There's also an Intel Core i7-4790K chip and a pair of Asus GeForce GTX 980 powering Project Snowblind.

CyberPower Fang Trinity

CyberPower's Fang Trinity is a radical-looking system with not so-radical parts inside. But that's actually a good thing! The Fang Trinity uses a liquid-cooled Intel Devil's Canyon CPU and a GeForce GTX 980, and it packs no fewer than four SSDs. In other words, the Fang Trinity might look insane, but it's stuffed full of off-the-shelf parts that you can replace yourself (rather than weird proprietary components). A crazy-looking chassis that's also convenient? Now that's cool. 

Rest in peace

For those who work in and around the component industry, this modded PC, commissioned by Gigabyte to honor Elaine Su, is certainly special. Elaine worked for Enermax and tragically passed away last year at a young age. The case itself is a custom-painted Fulmo GT and obviously built on an X99 motherboard. It also features closed-loop liquid cooling.

 

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MSI GT80 Titan with Mechanical keyboard and trackpad similar to the Razer Blade Pro

MSI's new huge GT80 Titan SLI integrates a Cherry MX keyboard by SteelSeries. Yes, a laptop with a mechanical keyboard. Why? Partially because they can, and partially because mechanical keyboards are awesome to type on.


MicroStar International  officially introduced CES2015 its unique GT80 Titan laptop. As the first of its kind, the MSI GT80 Titan takes a step into the future by integrating a proper mechanical keyboard with Cherrywith 18.4” display that combines incredible performance with easy upgradeability and mechanical keyboard, for the first time in history. The MSI GT80 Titan is to be powered by quad-core Intel Core i7 “Haswell” microprocessor for laptops and two GeForce GTX 980M graphics adapters in SLI configuration. The system is expected to feature up to 32GB of DDR3L memory, M.2 solid-state drives in RAID 0 mode for maximum performance and a 1TB hard disk drive with 7200rpm spindle speed for maximum amount of storage.

That just leaves one major sticking point: price. And the GT80 Dominator isn't cheap. It starts at $3300, though the version on display at CES cost $3700 thanks to a step-up Intel Extreme 4980HQ processor. The system also included 24GB of RAM, a 1TB 7200 RPM HDD and two 128GB M.2 SSDs running in RAID. A trackpad on the right side of the keyboard doubles as a 10 key numberpad with haptic feedback.

 To provide the best experience for gamers, MSI worked with our long-term partner, SteelSeries, the gaming peripherals leader who brought the first mechanical keyboards to gamers and aided in the keyboard development of previous MSI gaming notebooks. With the new GT80 mechanical gaming notebooks, the keyboards are powered by SteelSeries through its anti-ghosting design (N-key rollover) and SteelSeries Engine software suite.

The MSI GT80 Titan SLI has an offset trackpad similar to the Razer Blade Pro's, so you can use it as an ad-hoc mouse for FPS games. But what if you need a number pad for some hardcore Excel work? With the push of a button, the trackpad converts into a ten-key with haptic feedback. While this may seem like a wild PC that'll never be sold, MSI expects this heavy-duty (and just plain heavy) gaming laptop to be on sale .

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Japan's booms with high-tech funeral solutions for ageing population

With spaces costing up to $100,000, high-tech alternatives like skyscraper graveyards are becoming a necessity.They are fully automated and store thousands of urns.

Relatives are given an identity card and robotic arms retrieve the loved one's ashes from vaults deep underground.

At one temple in Tokyo at Shinjuku, thousands of tiny Buddhas illuminated with LED lights represent the family crypts.

A smartcard activates the crystal Buddha, which lights up the specified tiny vault that sits behind it.

Elderly people are increasingly taking charge of their own funerals, rather than leaving it to their families.

Kazuko Okumura tried a coffin for size at a suburban shopping centre in Tokyo to see what the journey to the afterlife would feel like.

"It felt warmer than expected, I imagined it would be much colder so I'll be comfortable when I'm sent off," Ms Okumura said.

End-of-life preparations are a booming business and in Japan the industry is worth $5 billion a year.

Supermarket chains hold regular seminars that are a one-stop shop from types of funerals to insurance to wills.

Kasuhiro Shishido from Aeon supermarkets said the event gave people a chance to think about death.

"You can choose the kind of death you want and get rid of worry, and enjoy the rest of your life," Mr Shishido said.

At the Aeon seminar, 76-year-old Ayako Senda had her funeral photo taken, saying she wanted to be remembered as a healthy, vibrant person.

"It's good to take charge and be ready for my own funeral," Ms Senda said.

"My parents didn't and didn't have what they wanted.

"Also I don't want to burden my children with funeral arrangements."

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