Archive for the 'Electronics' Category

Can Cell Phones Harm Your Health?

It seems like everywhere a person goes there is at least one person in view with a cell phone to their ear whether it is on the road, in a store, in a parking lot, walking down the street, etc. Even in places where cell phone usage is banned such as concert halls or movie theaters there is the occasional offender, or more likely, at least a few people using the text messaging feature on their phone.

Cell phone usage has exploded over the past decade and continues to rise….
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Biometrics, ID cards, tagging, DNA kits being pushed on kids

DNA kit for Kids

(excerpts from the article)
I was shopping for groceries at my Local Albertsons when I saw the all too familiar Child Fingerprinting tables.
They are part of a Child ID program called Child Protection Education of America.
The fingerprint card produced in the “ID ME NOW” program not only contains the fingerprint scans and a digital photograph of a child, but it also supplies instructions on how to perform a DNA collection.

The company even suggests tagging children like they are dogs.

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Steve Watson / Prisonplanet | February 21 2006

Related: Kids Being Conditioned To Big Brother and Police State

Ventilating a hard drive case

In this project we’re working on ventilating a Hard Drive case.

This case is for housing an external IDE hard drive and interfacing it to USB 2.0

 Non-vented vents (5.38 kbs)

The case comes with a small fan, but I’d say it’s just for looks, as it only has micro-slots for the air to come out of. There are slightly bigger holes in the front for the air intake, but not by much.

So what’s the deal? The hard drive gets hot! There’s no airflow.

Our mission - to ventilate it!

The project involves routing out the fan slots to increase the non-existent air flow.

Let’s get to it! (Read the article)