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teledildonics

Incredibly Weird Global Teledildonics

Dash over at Fleshbot's got a very interesting look at Ars Elektronika in SF, where inventors and teledildonics fanatics gather together to show off the weird, gadgety and sexy things they made in their sex dungeons. One invention is a vibrator that's connected to the U.S. Geological Survey which only activates during an earthquake somewhere in the world. "Only trouble is that when your own "Big One" finally arrives, it's tempered by the realization that a building might have collapsed somewhere with people trapped inside." It gets better. Another is tied to how many Iraqi civilian deaths there are a day which you can read about over at Fleshers (NSFW). [Fleshbot]

6:00 PM on Thu Jun 19 2008
By Jason Chen
10,078 views, 10 comments

Latest by OneObuyan: As of 5 min ago SATAN is pleading innocent, and disowning any relation to the idea or any products that may be spun as a result and is actually horrified at the thought that someone else other than him can more »

earthquakes

Laptop Accelerometers Used to Study Earthquakes, Desk "Bumping"

Seismologists at Stanford are learning from their roommates over in the biology department and rigging up a distributed computing system to gather quake data from laptops with accelerometers. It's used to save resources for scientists by using assets (your laptops) that are already deployed in a widespread area. They're rolling this out primarily in quake-heavy areas like SF and LA, but should be spreading to other zones later. More »

12:20 PM on Thu Apr 24 2008
By Jason Chen
1,977 views, 16 comments

cellphones

Japanese Want Quake-Alarm Cellphones Sooner Rather Than Later


With all the natural disasters this past year, Japan isn't taking any chances. As one of the highest risk areas for earthquakes, the country's Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry is looking to develop an emergency broadcast system that would be able to turn on your cell phone and send a warning alarm and other information via text messaging. The system would use a digital terrestrial television broadcasting signal and would receive data, including information about disasters and evacuation instructions and routes. The plan is to use a new broadcasting system called One Seg that will be used to play TV shows on cellphones—due out in April of next year. More »

4:57 PM on Mon Dec 19 2005
By tgrumet
136 views, 2 comments

Latest by x23: it actually looks surprisingly similar to the Tok Cut-Off. because thats what it is. 7.9 earthquake. set off my car alarm. and shook a bit longer than was comfortable. and then broke some roads. the Tok Cut-Off... and the Parks Highway more »