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The kids are the love of our lives and quite obviously if would be an ingenious idea if children could tell us when they are ill. What is interesting is that Chris Ebejer aged 42 seems to have known about how make our dreams materialize with his novel concept of baby suit he designed for us. Dubbed Babyglows, this smart innovation appears to be a color changing suit to let us know that the children are getting too hot.

Chris Ebejer has spent many years and money to make it possible for children to have this intelligent cotton suit. This is going to be an invaluable gadget for every mother and you will find it easy to use. Once the temperature of your child was risen, the color of the garment would be changed and here is the point when the urgent actions should be taken.

In order to identify the temperature of your baby’s body, special heat sensitive ink pigments are used with Chris Ebejer who used at least 700 000 pounds of them to come this helpful suit to life. So be ready to visit a doctor, once the suit has a white color. This handy suit is expected to go on sale in October with each of them costing 32, 70 USD with 3 different colors available, blue, pink and green.

Heat is rated to be the factor of meningitis as well as sudden infant death so using these Babyglows will make it possible for you to prevent your child from any potential risk caused by heat.

The developers behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution aim to significantly improve boot performance. Their ambitious goal for 2010 is to reduce total boot time to 10 seconds.

The growing adoption of the Linux operating system on netbook devices has compelled Linux distributors to focus on improving startup performance. Ubuntu 9.04, which was released last month, is one distribution where these improvements are particularly noticeable.

In a presentation at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Barcelona, developer Scott James Remnant noted that boot time decreased from 65 seconds in version 8.10 to only 25 seconds in 9.04. This is already a substantial improvement, but he believes that there is still room for more aggressive optimization. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, will continue pushing the limits of boot performance during the upcoming development cycle for Ubuntu 9.10, which is codenamed Karmic Koala. According to Remnant, the company aims to achieve a ten-second boot time next year for Ubuntu 10.04, the release that will follow after Karmic.

In a message posted to the Ubuntu developer mailing list, Remnant describes how the additional boot performance improvements will be achieved. An important part of their speedy startup strategy will be getting the Xorg display server up and running as soon as possible. This means that a big part of the focus will be cutting down the amount of time that is needed to bring up the components that have to be in place before Xorg can start—the udev device manager and initramfs, a temporary filesystem that is loaded into system memory to facilitate the startup process.

Initramfs is mostly responsible for mounting the root filesystem and loading the requisite kernel modules. It also plays a role in the logic for software RAID, disk encryption, booting from a network filesystem, and a bunch of other similar tasks. Remnant wants to slim it down and remove some of the unnecessary “cruft” that is bogging down the startup.

There are established time budgets for individual parts of the boot process. Those targets will have to be met in order to fulfill the goal of a ten second boot. Remnant says that loading the kernel and initramfs should take two seconds, driver loading, filesystem mounting, and other “plumbing” should take two seconds, launching Xorg should take two seconds, and the remaining four seconds should be used to launch the desktop environment and other services that are part of the user’s session. The computer should be fully booted and ready to use at the end of ten seconds, he says.

One of the side effects of starting Xorg sooner, he says, is that the boot splash and associated progress bar will no longer be displayed at all. That’s a pretty surprising revelation and it should give you an idea of just how substantial the performance improvement will be from a user’s perspective.

“In the default case, there will be no splash screen,” he wrote. “I hope to demonstrate that X can be started sufficiently fast that we don’t need one.”

The reference hardware for benchmarking is the Dell Mini 9, a netbook that is available with Ubuntu preinstalled. Although a single netbook has been selected as the benchmark target for the purpose of consistency, it’s important to note that the ten second goal is for the regular desktop Ubuntu installation. Remnant expects that they can go even further with hardware-specific versions of Ubuntu that are customized for netbook devices.

“10 [seconds] is a good number, especially for a generic, hardware agnostic, non-stripped down Linux distribution. From that starting point, development teams will be able to customise and tailor Ubuntu for specific hardware—and the OEM team will be able to produce custom Remixes of Ubuntu that boot even faster,” he wrote. “I think it likely that we’ll match Moblin’s 5 [second] benchmark on similar hardware, with a device-tailored Moblin-based remix of Ubuntu.”

This emphasis on boot performance will make Ubuntu a more competitive option for hardware makers who are seeking a fast and lean distribution to preinstall on netbook devices. It will also improve the Live CD and desktop user experience. This aspect of system performance will continue to grow in relevance as Linux expands to other kinds of mobile and embedded devices in a multitude of different form factors.

Source: Arstechnica

A simple utility for educators and parents to automatically create sheets of simple math exercises for elementary school children

MathSheetGenerator is capable of generating math problems with two operands using any of the standard operators (add, subtract, multiply, divide). The number range for both operands as well as the result can be specified to allow the application to generate the exact type of exercises desired.

Take MathSheetGenerator for a test run and see just how useful it can be!

What’s New in This Release:

· Moved the font settings to a dedicated preferences window
· Added alternate symbols for divisions and multiplications to choose from. NOTE: Not all symbols are supported by all fonts. Switch to a more compatible symbol if the font selected is not capable of displaying the symbols correctly.
· Removed the equal sign from the math problems.
· Added the option to autimatically calculate the limits for the result.
· Improved the User Interface.
· Improved page layout.
· Added an option to include a Name Field at the top of each generated Sheet.
· Bug fixes.

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You thought you’d take a trip abroad to see some relatives in Bizwackistan. Upon your arrival, Bizwackian inspectors implant a GPS tracking device in your arm to “make sure you don’t overstay your welcome.” What they don’t tell you is that if you miss your flight out of the country, be you ill or otherwise indisposed, you will die. 

Your every move is being tracked by global-positioning satellites. Tracking by human spy is no longer necessary when one has a GPS system. Overstay your welcome or become a threat to the State by introducing Texas barbecue sauce to its beef-starved citizens, and you’re cooked by that implant in your arm.

The story is apocryphal, of course… and corny, as well. But the invention of such a device is neither.

A Saudi Arabian national is reported to have submitted a patent application for the ‘Killer Chip’ to the German Patent and Trademark Office and it was published in April, 2009, as required by German law.

The chip would emit encrypted radio waves that would be picked up by satellites and “used to track fugitives from justice, terrorists, illegal immigrants, criminals, political opponents, defectors, domestic help, and Saudi Arabians who don’t return home from pilgrimages,” reads the patent application.
“Implantation of electronic chips in the human body for the purposes of determining its geographical location,” along with the application’s Model B, which would release the poison on command, were denied for patents by the German Patent Office.

But where will the inventor show up next? Big Brother will know and will kill you if you tell.

Being at the doctor’s office sucks. It especially makes the visit bad when you are told you need your blood drawn. However, even worse than that is when the person drawing your blood can’t seem to find your vein, thereby having to stick you with a needle a couple of times.

AccuVein LLC has developed a device that offers hand-held, non-contact vein illumination, which shows the person drawing your blood where exactly they should stick that needle.

The device, weighing only 10 ounces, works by detecting and highlighting hemoglobin, and also scans up to 8mm below the skin’s surface.

“The AV300 enables healthcare professionals to see a vein map on the skin, which represents an exciting medical innovation striving to improve the time, comfort and cost of care,” said Stephen P. Conlon, President of AccuVein.” “Furthermore, we’ve found that patients respond positively when they can see a display of their veins for these procedures, so we expect that the AV300 will contribute to increased patient satisfaction – a priority in the healthcare community.”

Some of the features of AccuVein include:

* Easy to learn and use – No pre-use calibration or adjustments are necessary- it can be used immediately.
* Small size –The AV300 fits in your hand and weighs only 10 ounces.
* Hands-free option –Either hand-hold the AV300 or set it in a hands-free accessory.
* No patient contact –Because the AV300 has been designed to be non-contact, it may not have to be sterilized after every use.
* Works in light or dark –Use the AV300 in light or darkly lit environments.
* Rechargeable battery –The AV300 doesn’t need to be plugged into an electrical outlet.
* Real world ruggedness – Designed to take the wear and tear of hospital and field applications.
* Movement tolerant –Because the AV300 shows the veins in real time, when operated properly, the device can accommodate patient movement.

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Want a new way to exchange business cards without needing to actually carry them around? A company has developed a new way to “carry” your digital business card, which contains customizable personal information, inside of a normal-sized ring. The best part is that to exchange your digital business card with another person, all you do is shake their hand.

Each ring syncs with a credit card-sized digital business card, and it will display a database of all of the people that you’ve exchanged information with – including personal info, phone numbers, address, date that you met this person, and all of this information is customizable. When two people wearing the special “smart” rings shake each other’s hands, this information is transferred between the two rings. You then sync the ring with the digital business card to view this information on the card itself.

Obviously, in order for this gadget to work, you need to supply some sort of power source to the ring. The makers of this “smart” ring have come up with an innovative and smart solution – the rings are powered by your body heat. No batteries required.

Place the ring at the designated spot on the digital business card to view database of people that you’ve met.

There’s no doubt that little gadget is cool and most business travelers would probably agree, but there is an obvious drawback to this new technology. The whole system will not work unless both people are wearing the rings. So until the idea of “smart” rings which transfer digital information by handshake becomes widespread in the business world, these digital business cards are pretty much worthless. I’d love to see this technology take off though!