Posts by JBrown

Transparent OLEDs demoed

Windows TV?

"Additionally you'd be able to watch TV from you garden by clearing the back panel and horizontally flipping the picture."

You *really* want your neighbuors to know which pr0n films you watch?

Then there's the whole copyright thing of playing a rented/bought DVD on a Window TV where the whole world can watch the "illegal" public performance. You'll need curtains on the outside.

Government ads fail truthfulness exam

CBA to think of title

"The initial Diplomas are in engineering, construction and the built environment, IT, society, health and development, and creative and media."

Didn't Maggie famously state there is no such thing as "society"?

Historian slams 'absolutely crazy' UK time zone

@Quirkafleeg

"I look forward to GMT+13, and even more so to GMT+25."

+25? That would be the western part of the Aleutian Islands. The International dateline does a dog-log around them so as to keep them in the same day as the USA :-)

Great British beer moves county

@Stevie

"You know, there's a "New Castle" just outside Westbury, Long Island, NY. It would be a marvelous place to relocate this brewery, *and* you could keep the name (almost) the same."

New York, just outside of Newcastle. I don't think they have a Long Island there. Not even a Short Island. There's a few Traffic Islands though :-)

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&source=hp&q=new york tyneside&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl

Coin-sized nuclear isotope battery minted

Flying car power source?

The problem with getting a cheap and useful flying car is mainly down to power density. Nuke battery? Problem solved. Can I pre-order?

CCTV website recruits video vigilantes

@Sarah Bee

You're being stalked by internet camera. The dog in the corner of your screen says "It appears you are being stalked. Would you like some help with that?"

Google acts to quell critics of book deal

Giigle Music

So, thinking sideways, who wants to create a new "service" whereby we digitalise (thanks BBC) all of those "old" music tracks that are no longer "in print" or where the "authors" can't be traced?

I'm sure the various artists and publishers will be only too happy to allow this. After all, think of all the cult-cha that is being lost because it's mouldering away in record companies vaults.

Somehow, I don't think we'll be seeing Google Music any time soon.