By: admin|14 May, 2012|Categories: geeky stuff . stupid ideas
when walking the dog i stepped on a few snails by accident. it was dark and its raining so there were heaps of them out on the footpath.
the snails here look a lot like the ones in the Netherlands, so i thought, they must all come from a similar place and have (very) slowly populated the whole world (or so…
By: admin|14 May, 2012|Categories: geeky stuff . stupid ideas
battery technology is improving very fast at the moment, i just read about the new lithium-ion combination with carbon nano-structures and air-batteries that promise a 10 fold improvement on current capacity.
(http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/04/ibm-develops-air-breathing-batteries/ )
in a couple of years i can imagine a ‘current affair’ report that follows somebody from work to home to ‘out’ them as stealing electricity from work.
almost everyone has…
i've been looking at the id3v2 specification that is used to add meta-data to mp3 files. here it specifies that you can include any other file to the mp3 file. i have seen that itunes already uses the attached picture id3 tag to show cover art but i haven't seen any program that uses this functionality to add for example…
Read more »when adam was talking (in one of his daily source codes ) about adding meta data to (mp3) sound files he was thinking about the mp3 id-tags but the following idea came to my mind:
in-band signaling
you could send some tones that represent data in the audio itself.
there’s a few different standards that already describe something like this so first i…