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Adidas_1 DLX Runner shoes

Adidas have launched the adidas_1 DLX Runner - the next generation of intelligent footwear. The shoe with a computer for a brain understands your individual needs; coming to life when you put it on and adapting itself instantly to create a different shoe for every runner.

The Adidas_1 DLX Runner shoebox contains the following components:
o A Pair of adidas_1 Runner shoes
o 2 x 3V lithium coin batteries
o User Guide
o Electronic User Guide (CD)
o adidas_1 DLX Runner Demo Key



It is battery powered and the battery sits neatly in the sock liners of the shoes. The user must switch it on before each use. If the runner chooses not to or forgets to turn on the adidas_1 DLX Runner, the shoe will simply operate like a normal running shoe without the change in cushioning.

Its available for a whopping $145 (Rs.12000!) and is available in white and black leather versions.

The Furure Has Arrived !!

Remember when you were promised all those amazing future tech innovations? Just around the corner was supposed to be a shining technology utopia with flying cars, personal space travel to distant galaxies, and bio-implantable cell phones.

Don't lose hope! An amazing glimpse of this promised future has just arrived in the form of the Bluetooth Laser Virtual Keyboard. This tiny device laser-projects a keyboard on any flat surface... you can then type away accompanied by simulated key click sounds. It really is true future magic at its best. You'll be turning heads the moment you pull this baby from your pocket and use it to compose an e-mail on your bluetooth enabled PDA or Cell Phone. With 63 keys and and full size QWERTY layout the Laser Virtual Keyboard can approach typing speeds of a standard keyboard... in a size a little larger than a matchbook.

Product Features

* Connects to PDAs Smartphones and Computers using Bluetooth
* Projects a full size keyboard onto any flat surface
* Allows the convinence of regular keyboard typing in a tiny form factor
* Rechargeable battery lasts for 120 minutes of continuous typing
* Tiny size only 3.5 inches high
* Compatible with PalmOS 5, PocketPC 2003, Windows Smartphone, Symbian OS, and Windows 2000/XP. Limited Mac OSX Support.

Vista Security Test

Symantec has thrown everything it has at Windows Vista. Backdoors, Keyloggers, Rootkits, Mass mailers, Trojan horses, Spyware and adware and also uncategorized binaries were all executed on Windows Vista. Symantec stated that it has used its own virus repository as well as those of security partners as sources for the binaries.

“The results showed that 3 percent of backdoors can successfully execute and survive a system restart on Windows Vista without modification. Other categories include keyloggers, of which 4 percent can successfully execute and survive a system restart, mass mailers (4 percent), Trojans (2 percent), spyware (2 percent), and adware (2 percent). Symantec believes that these percentages would increase dramatically with only minor code changes to make these threats Windows Vista–aware, in turn allowing them to run successfully within the new Windows Vista security model,” Symantec revealed.

Test Results



My Take

Well corporates like Symantec rely on the running of malicious things for their bread and butter and it really fouls up the needs for their product if the OS is strong and resilient enough to tackle majority of malicious thingies.

However as the OS gets more torn apart there will be more vulnerabilities coming up which might get exploited. However its a jewel in the crown of Microsoft that their effort of making a secure OS has paid off. Microsoft released Vista after a long wait and it seems that they have done a good job !

Jazz up your Keyboard

Steampunk Keyboard Mod

"Who said there's no use for your old IBM "M Series" keyboards anymore? This creative fellow shows us how to convert the keyboards of yesteryear into keyboards of an even further distant, fictional time. H. G. Wells would be proud."

He has converted this ....



to this .....



Amazed ... i see your mouth wide open !

Well if you liked it please consider gifting it to me .... Please !!!!

Heres the link to the whole process ...

http://steampunkworkshop.com/keyboard.shtml