Has it ever been easier to start a DJ career? I have collected four of the most whacky possibilities. Take your pick at your local electronics shop: DJ Battle Mix Battle against your friends on the mixing decks! Create various sounds by scratching either of the two mixing decks or by using the cross-fader between […]

Just recently I talked about Jabber an IM. But now we have Skype. It is P2P telephony which is very well secured. So, download the beta at skyper.net and give me a ring. Calls between computers are for free. It works best if you use a seperate microphone. If you are in an environment where […]

You probably never saw a nice looking Jabber client on the Windows Platform. Check out the RhymBox. It looks great and works like a charm. It supports SSL (yeah!) and when your Jabberserver has some transports installed you can very easily use MSN, ICQ or whatever legacy system you have been using. And, if you […]

For the Dutch-language radio lovers out there (I know you are listening!). Radiodocumentaires Archief

The notoriously vague EEG patterns are being used in an experiment to control a robot’s movement, promising wheelchair driving in the future. This can of course be extrapolated and you can imagine easily other vehicles (cars) being controlled by this. Then you can also easily create a system that notices if people are drowsy or […]

Surrounding city centres and likely terrorist targets with “soft walls” will make it impossible for hijacked planes to get anywhere near them. So say the inventors of an avionics system that creates no-fly zones that pilots cannot breach. Since the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, anti-aircraft missile batteries have been installed to protect buildings […]

Nice one mate: MP3’s are boring. You can’t touch them. You can’t feel them. There’s no sleeve. There’s no art work. You can’t show them to your friends. You can’t find one’s you’ve been after for years in second hand shops. You can’t rush to the door when the post man brings a couple of […]