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The technology is there, but E Ink (the company) is steadfastly refusing to lower prices because they believe there's a market for this. Now go to Alibaba and find that you can get…

NYC performed a LIDAR scan of NYC in conjunction with CUNY a few years ago so that they could build a 'solar map' to help estimate how much solar capacity could be installed on a b…

When looking for new apartments in NYC, a combination of Google Street View and the Flyover feature in Apple Maps does wonders to validate how truthful brokers are in their listing…

It looks like this is actually the strategy that Memoto is doing with its life logging camera, which makes perfect sense in that use case: save battery by offloading the geotagging…

To do: sign up for this, hook it up to a webcam, point it at the sky, and try to do face detection on clouds.

Amateur radio also has an unused IPv4 /8 block as well. That $500 mil could go quite a ways towards building a few amsats.

Exactly this. I was in GoonFleet several years ago and was always amazed at the crazy behind-the-curtain machinations were going on all the time when I was just a newbie. But VR wa…

It will work if you have <64 GB of data to back up. You can optionally exclude things that take up a lot of space like your Applications folder. Honestly though, your best bet woul…

Interesting information point to add: Chumby designed a product for Best Buy (the Insignia Infocast). Not sure how successful it was, but I'm pretty sure that there are a lot of de…

Something to add into the mix: I've had a few friends have decent success with Cedexis' tools for content targeting. One of the complaints that I hear about retina-enabling website…

My university had a big cogen plant, but it was never designed to power the entire campus (it was only able to do so at around 3 AM). Aside from providing heating and power, becaus…