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  I replaced my 12AX7′s in my Peavy Windsor to get a cleaner sound, I used 2 – 12AT7′s and one 12AU7  It worked Great !!   Different 12A*7 Family Tubes in a Blues Junior Everybody talks about how you can tailor the tone of an amp by swapping tubes in various gain stages or

$25 toy radio used to knock out feds Thousand dollar radio can track them too “Going to have to get one of these. You have to watch out for “Big Brother out there “ Kev —————- Researchers looking at the security of the US Project 25 radio network, used by federal agents and local police,

This is pretty neat, but a tad to pricie. $$$         Oscium’s iMSO-104 hardware offers to turn your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch into a 12MSPS digital oscilloscope with an analog bandwidth of 5MHz. For folks like me with limited desk space & shifting work environments, that’s an interesting offer indeed. Oscium

  It’s got a cop motor, it’s got cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks … and now it has a infrared night vision camera, automatic license plate reader, and dashboard touchscreen. This souped-up Chevy Caprice is theLAPD’s future cruiser, enabling cops to track down suspects with the greatest of comfort. The vehicle is operated by a

      Metamaterial Hyperlens This brass acoustic hyperlens can magnify imaging sound waves to increase the resolution of sonar and ultrasound. A new metamaterial superlens developed at Duke directs waves within the bulk of the lens between the outside surfaces, giving researchers greater control over whatever passes through it. Xiang Zhang research group.  

Its been a secret for a long time. The iCloud is on its way !! Kev–           One of the mysteries surrounding the 500,000-square foot server farm Apple (AAPL) has famously constructed in a small North Carolina town called Maiden — besides its ultimate purpose — is why it didn’t show up

        ViewSonic made good on a rumor from earlier this month and debuted its ViewPad 7x tablet running Google Honeycomb at Computex in Taipei. The 7-inch slate is powered by Android 3.0.1, the same version I used on Acer’s 10.1 tablet for my review. The company hasn’t yet announced a price point

        As companies like Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo and Dell have recently experienced with a drop in sales of their notebook PCs, the coming of the tablet is affecting the IT business in several areas. While sales of solid-state NAND flash drives are expected to boom by 400 percent over the next year, researcher IHS

  A showroom employee displays a tablet computer from one of Taiwan’s top PC vendors, AsusTek Computer Inc., in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, May 28, 2011. Dozens of global computer firms and their obsession to get a piece of the expanding tablet computing market will be on full display Tuesday May 31, 2011, as Computex, the

        The world’s first commercially available quantum computer, which uses principles of quantum mechanics rather than classical mechanics, was sold to aerospace, defense and security company Lockheed Martin.   Unlike computers based on transistors, quantum computers rely on principles of quantum mechanics to conduct operations. The computers take advantage of properties like

    Nissan has taken a potshot at General Motors by mocking its plug-in electric hybrid Chevy Volt in an ad for its pure plug-in electric car, the Nissan Leaf. The ad mocks cars that use internal combustion engines and gasoline by showing a world where any electronic gadget is powered by gasoline and an

    Park, California. To identify a mystery garment, the robot first holds it up using one of its two grippers. This allows it to estimate the garment’s length, by using its twin cameras to detect its lowest point. Next, the robot holds the garment with both grippers and records its outline as well as

Kat Austen, CultureLab editor (Image: BBC) Silicon Valley in the 1990s. Excitement filled the air. Hopeful entrepreneurs drove fast cars to their shiny workplaces, where they discussed the boundless possibilities arising from the technological explosion unfolding before their eyes. They progressed in leaps and bounds towards their utopia: a self-stabilising network of human beings who

More ways to spy on you   To Fly By beating its wings back and forth, the UAV creates lift by deflecting air downward, creating an area of high pressure directly below the wings and low pressure above. Bob Sauls View Photo Gallery In 2006, Darpa, the Department of Defense’s R&D arm, commissioned AeroVironment, a

    http://en.eyeka.net/  a crowdsourcing company that specializes in “online co-creation” of products, has published some intriguing concepts for future smartphones. eYeka’s community came up with the following list of requirements for a next generation smartphone: a minimalistic, non-complicated design; more features (which may clash with the previous requirement); a design which feels like an

A cheap way to turn a screen of any size into a touch-sensitive device. An ultra-precise game controller. A new way to manipulate images. These are just some of the possible uses for ZeroTouch, an interface unveiled this week at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing by researchers from Texas A&M University in College

What time is it, Really ? ______ Chip-Scale Atomic Clock NIST via Wikimedia Commons The slightest whisper of warmth induces miscalculations in the world’s most precise atomic clock, researchers say. Accounting for this effect can make future clocks even more precise, eventually leading to atomic clocks that lose only one second every 32 billion years

  Intel is taking nano-scale chip design literally to another level. After more than five decades of putting flat (or planar) transistors to work in billions of chips in billions of digital devices ranging from big-iron mainframes to minuscule embedded sensors, Intel said May 4 that it now will build the tiny processing units in

Wow, there goes my iPhone cracked display repair business Kev ____________   Most of the weight of mobile devices comes from the metal inside, where copper conductors shuttle around the electrons that make your smartphone or touch-screen tablet work. However, by switching from stiff-metal to flexible-plastic conductors, the mobile devices of the future will be

Tons of info on Cable TV and data transfer. Kev   The ideal way to build a national broadband network for access to the Internet would be with a high-bandwidth, bidirectional cable running to each individual household. But sometimes you have to work with what you’ve got, and in America, what we have are cable

Wow, lets get small. Wish I had one of these back in the days.  Looks like you will have to wait a while till they go on sale though. Kev David Braben is a very well-known game developer who runs the UK development studio Frontier Developments, but is just as well known for being the

      (PhysOrg.com) — A new audio/video cable techology is being developed that might spell the end of HDMI cables, which are currently used to connect a wide range of audio and video devices. The new technology is known as HDBaseT and carries audio and video signals and power on standard Cat 5e/6 Ethernet

  This is a Teleportation Device The setup Noriyuki Lee and colleagues used to teleport quantum light. Science/AAAS Beam me up Scotty !!  Well not quite. Getting closer though Kev _____   In a real-life use of Schrödinger’s theoretical paradoxical cat, researchers report that they were able to quickly transfer a complex set of quantum

Oblong Industries is remaking the world of computers. Our technology transforms the way you work, create, and collaborate. The era of one human, one mouse, one screen, one machine is giving way to what’s next: multiple participants, working in proximity and remotely, using a groundbreaking spatial interface to control applications and data spread across every

Hmm, I replaced the News Paper years ago with my iPod Touch. Then my Tilt 2 with windows mobile. Now of cource its the iPhone and the iPad. Was even doing alot of news updates with my dusty old laptop.  Save the trees, get a Tablet (grin) Kevin From Rupert Murdoch’s The Daily to the

    Mobile phones have evolved into smartphones because these devices have basically become computers in the form of a cell phone. Besides browsing, one of the key components that make smartphones as interactive as a computer are the apps that can be used within the device. And it’s interesting to consider how we can

    LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman said, recently, “that if Web 1.0 involved go search, get data and some limited interactivity, and if Web 2.0 involves real identities and real relationships, then Web 3.0 will be real identities generating massive amounts of data.” Reid is a visionary and certainly had this right. But the information that Reid described is

Tablets have really come into their own within the last year. With Apple’s introduction of the iPad and now Google and Blackberry entering the game, many people have been left asking, “do I really need a tablet?” and “what is the point of having one?” Some people believe that tablet computing is just a fad,

This is pretty neat !!! — Da Vinci Robot’s Plane Swedish Seattle via YouTube The da Vinci robot, renowned for its prostate surgery skill, can also fly planes. Well, paper ones anyway. With Dr. James Porter of Seattle’s Swedish Medical Center guiding its tiny robotic arms through the process, da Vinci successfully folds and flies

Hmm, reminds me of the days when you could not own a phone. Only could lease it from Mountain Bell. I must of had 50 of them illegally. Taking them apart to see what made them tic. Hopefully this takeover will improve phone service in Colorado. Dr. Kev —————- Abel Chavez and Pete Sardaczuk have