Plasma jets are the future, Dental drills are history

2010 February 8
by jhay | with 80 views

In my two decades of living on this planet, I’ve only visited the dentist just two years ago to have my teeth thoroughly cleaned and the cavities filled up. It’s almost everyone’s nightmare, going to the dentist and having all sorts of tools, pastes and tubes stuck in your mouth and who knows how painful [...]

iPad Lego

2010 February 5
by jhay | with 102 views

Nothing seems to be impossible with a pile of LEGO bricks and a creative fan to create some of the coolest iterations to date. Catching on the latest hype about Apple’s iPad, Flickr user brickjournal has made an iPad out of LEGO bricks.
It’s all bricks and look at how the screen was made. I so [...]

Handgun with biometric lock by Armatix

2010 February 2
by jhay | with 124 views

Here’s a very clever idea, so it seems, German fire arms maker Armatix has created a handgun that will only fire once the user is wearing a biometrically unlocked wrist watch. It has an LED that goes green when the gun is ready to fire and red when it is locked.

“To activate the wrist watch, [...]

E. coli strain engineered to produce biodiesel directly from biomass

2010 February 1
by jhay | with 176 views

We commonly know the E. coli (Escherichia coli) as the bacteria that can cause serious food poisonings and a PR and marketing disaster for food manufacturers. But this only caused by a strain of E. coli called O157:H7, the rest of other strains are harmless and in fact have been living inside the intestines of [...]

Better services and not just faster broadband speeds

2010 January 27
by jhay | with 175 views

The good news is that Globe is moving together with other telecommunication companies in Southeast Asia to lay down a fiberoptic cable that would connect the region with Japan which in effect would add 30 Gbps to our country’s current total bandwidth capacity of 21 Gbps.
Well and good. I would not dwell on the sentiments [...]

Vivaz – Sony Ericsson’s new smartphone with 720 P HD video recording

2010 January 25
by jhay | with 267 views

Sony Ericsson has come up with a new phone that could be at par with other smartphones from BlackBerry, LG, Nokia and Apple; the SE Vivaz Symbian smartphone is touted as mix-up of its Walkman, Cybershot and messaging phones.

It sports the following specs:

107.0 x 52.0 x 12.5 mm size
Symbian (S60, 5th Edition) OS device
weighs [...]

IronClad – secure PC on a USB

2010 January 24
by jhay | with 181 views

Talk about military technology being directly used in a commercial product. US defense contractor Lockheed Martin, the same company that made the F-22 Raptor fighter jet, has introduced a USB drive that serves as secure PC-on-USB device.
It’s a USB thumb drive the size of a chewing gum stick but embedded with Lockheed Martin’s IronClad technology [...]

Would you give Facebook apps your email?

2010 January 22
by jhay | with 236 views

Spam. We just hate it. I remember the first few months of signing up for an account in Facebook, notices were a common feature of the site as with other social networking sites, but as Facebook got more popular and as well as another app called Poke Me, the notices were coming in by the [...]

Press Release: The Dangers of the CyberCrime Act

2010 January 18
by jhay | with 212 views

It really amazes me how some of our legislators come up with ideas for new laws especially when the bills they propose are riddled with ambiguities, sometimes devoid of reason and out of touch with reality. Another such proposed bill is HOUSE BILL NO. 6794 or the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2009.
Fortunately, some of our [...]

Bukas na liham para kay Ms Ann Charmaine Obedencio

2010 January 17
by jhay | with 191 views

Kamusta?
Nais ko lang tugunan ang mga punto mong ibinigay noong SCE Seminar para sa mga Kandidato noong ika-16 ng Enero, nang tutulan mo ang aking pagpapaliwanag tungkol sa Implementing Rules and Guidelines on the Use of Electronic Election Propaganda o IRG para sa SCE.
Ang tungkuling ito ay iniatas sa akin ng E-code Revision Convention. Naroon [...]

The Basic Rights of a State

2010 January 15
by jhay | with 182 views

Later today in my Introduction to Political Science class, we would discuss the basic rights of a state. So the question is, what are those rights?
However, one basic question comes up, to begin with, what is a state?
Justice Isagani Cruz gives a definition in his book on International Law:
a state may be defined as [...]

Jeans protect you from snake bites

2010 January 13
by jhay | with 231 views

It’s hard to tell whether a snake has a poisonous bite or not and the scary part is you’d only get to find out once it has bitten you.
Farmers may have known this for years because jeans are part of the standard attire when working in the fields, especially in places where the grass [...]