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The technology is there, but E Ink (the company) is steadfastly refusing to lower prices because they believe there's a market for this. Now go to Alibaba and find that you can get a flexible, full-color OLED sheet for the same price as a given size E Ink panel.

Go on eBay and buy an older NOOK device (they all ran Android) for $20, tape it to your wall, and point at your web page of choice.

NYC performed a LIDAR scan of NYC in conjunction with CUNY a few years ago so that they could build a 'solar map' to help estimate how much solar capacity could be installed on a building. Anyone know where to grab the LIDAR scan data from?

When looking for new apartments in NYC, a combination of Google Street View and the Flyover feature in Apple Maps does wonders to validate how truthful brokers are in their listings.

It looks like this is actually the strategy that Memoto is doing with its life logging camera, which makes perfect sense in that use case: save battery by offloading the geotagging math to the server.

To do: sign up for this, hook it up to a webcam, point it at the sky, and try to do face detection on clouds.

Amateur radio also has an unused IPv4 /8 block as well. That $500 mil could go quite a ways towards building a few amsats.

Exactly this. I was in GoonFleet several years ago and was always amazed at the crazy behind-the-curtain machinations were going on all the time when I was just a newbie. But VR was a good guy and a good poster, and loved his job. He posted as much information as possible about new job postings in the Foreign Service Information department and answered everything that was thrown his way.

It will work if you have <64 GB of data to back up. You can optionally exclude things that take up a lot of space like your Applications folder. Honestly though, your best bet would probably be to use a "real" drive for time machine backups and/or a third party online backup solution. Backblaze suits my needs quite well.

Interesting information point to add: Chumby designed a product for Best Buy (the Insignia Infocast). Not sure how successful it was, but I'm pretty sure that there are a lot of details that we are not privy to.

Something to add into the mix: I've had a few friends have decent success with Cedexis' tools for content targeting. One of the complaints that I hear about retina-enabling websites is the performance impact on mobile users. I had a demo whipped up for me once that will serve up different site versions depending on a number of factors, including platform and connection type/quality. So someone on a 3G iPad connection can get the non-retina version, while someone on a wifi link will get the full-res version.

The long and the short is that I have a feeling that we are going to see more and more interesting tools popping up in the near future as more and more web designers purchase hidpi computers and decide to write up some library to make their life easier when they decide to retina-enable their websites because it looks horrible on their machine.

My university had a big cogen plant, but it was never designed to power the entire campus (it was only able to do so at around 3 AM). Aside from providing heating and power, because it was run off of natural gas it qualifies for clean energy credits, which the university makes money off of by selling on the market.