It's Thursday, the 11th of March, in the year 2010
CoN: An Electronic Magazine for the Puerile Pundit

Currently: You Can Now Buy Your Own Jetpack
posted on Thu, Mar 11, 2010 12:03 EST

Latest article: Really boring books (You have to read anyway): Silmarillion
written by David Dylan

Filed under Technology

A Thought on the Modern Computing Chris Cummer Dec 17, 2007 Article 785
Why there will never be a Web 3.0 Collin Douma Dec 17, 2007 Article 782
Tata’s Nano to hit India’s streets in July capnasty Mar 24, 2008 News 1662
Plastics unite to make unexpected 'metal' leandro Jun 15, 2008 News 1777
Happy Birthday Compact Disc leandro Aug 21, 2008 News 1824
Cars of the Future leandro Sep  7, 2008 News 1840
And speaking of cars... leandro Sep  7, 2008 News 1841
Ships with Solar Panels for Sails leandro Sep  9, 2008 News 1843
Police Cars from Around The World leandro Sep 15, 2008 News 1845
5 Retarded Space Travel Ideas (That Might Actually Work) leandro Sep 19, 2008 News 1848
Prevent Motorcycle Theft, Scare Your Neighbours leandro Sep 20, 2008 News 1851
Star Trek's holodeck coming soon leandro Sep 20, 2008 News 1854
The Calculator Reference Page leandro Sep 21, 2008 News 1858
I Want High Speed Trains, too! leandro Sep 23, 2008 News 1860
How To Make Microsoft Cool Again leandro Sep 25, 2008 News 1862
ISPs should own your eyes and ears leandro Oct  1, 2008 News 1874
Space Elevator Now Being Taken Seriously by Japanese leandro Oct  5, 2008 News 1892
Trains of Russia Jake the Snake Oct  6, 2008 News 1893
The Bad Guys Beat GMail and Hotmail's Captcha leandro Oct  6, 2008 News 1884
Dr. Grordbort's Infallible Aether Oscillators leandro Oct  8, 2008 News 1886
Google Mail now checks to see if you're drunk leandro Oct 15, 2008 News 1901
Steve Wozniak can't wait for the iPod to die leandro Oct 20, 2008 News 1906
I can't live without SSH either leandro Oct 26, 2008 News 1918
Linux to power BMW's open-source car software leandro Oct 26, 2008 News 1917
EVs in Australia possible leandro Oct 26, 2008 News 1913
The dumbest thing a voting-machine maker ever did leandro Oct 29, 2008 News 1919
Solar-powered robotic lawn-mower leandro Oct 30, 2008 News 1920
Can you tell me the meaning of Yahoo and Google? leandro Nov  3, 2008 News 1924
Claromachines leandro Nov  5, 2008 News 1926
The Proposed Anara Tower in Dubai leandro Nov  6, 2008 News 1927
Convert people to Firefox and get a dollar leandro Nov 21, 2008 News 1945
Google Gets Shafted By Apple's Ridiculous App-Approval Process leandro Nov 23, 2008 News 1947
Dubai's planned new subway system leandro Nov 28, 2008 News 1952
Brute-force attacks might be worth reporting leandro Nov 29, 2008 News 1956
10 Dirty Little Web Development Tricks leandro Dec  5, 2008 News 1961
Space Travel Will Be Next leandro Dec  6, 2008 News 1973
The Police Car of 2012 leandro Dec  6, 2008 News 1962
The Geneva-Convention Aware Terminators leandro Dec  7, 2008 News 1963
International Space Station leandro Dec 25, 2008 News 1990
10 Weird Forms of Human Transportation leandro Dec 26, 2008 News 1986
Console Power Consumption leandro Dec 29, 2008 News 1989
Word Lock leandro Dec 30, 2008 News 1992
The Nokia Gun Phone leandro Dec 31, 2008 News 1993
Happy New Year leandro Jan  1, 2009 News 1994
Wikipedia pulls in flood of cash from users leandro Jan  2, 2009 News 2000
The Everlasting Pets leandro Jan  3, 2009 News 2001
Mars Rovers celebrates five years capnasty Jan  3, 2009 News 2019
The State of Spam and What to Expect in 2009 leandro Jan  5, 2009 News 2003
Why He Hates Touch Screens leandro Jan  6, 2009 News 2004
The Mac Startup Sound leandro Jan  8, 2009 News 2007
MS-DOS Saves the Day leandro Jan  8, 2009 News 2027
Smash Your Hard-Disk to Smithereens leandro Jan  9, 2009 News 2028
Pole Dancing Robot leandro Jan  9, 2009 News 2025
Telephoto lenses for your iPhone leandro Jan  9, 2009 News 2008
Top 500 worst passwords leandro Jan 11, 2009 News 2010
A new bus for London capnasty Jan 15, 2009 News 2014
Windows 7 leandro Jan 18, 2009 News 2036
What a Windows 7 BSOD Looks Like leandro Jan 18, 2009 News 2034
Lego announces digital camera leandro Jan 22, 2009 News 2040
Nikon D3 Cut in Half capnasty Jan 25, 2009 News 2057
Obama wants to know: why open source? capnasty Jan 26, 2009 News 2064
The USB Hot Lunch-Bag capnasty Jan 28, 2009 News 2061
The Space Exploration Company capnasty Jan 30, 2009 News 2066
The world's most powerful electric car? capnasty Jan 31, 2009 News 2069
The Pneumatic Hybrid Engine capnasty Feb  2, 2009 News 2070
Goodbye Analogue Airwaves capnasty Feb  5, 2009 News 2085
When Satellites Collide capnasty Feb 11, 2009 News 2095
Telespoof capnasty Feb 15, 2009 News 549
Facebook Owns Your Soul capnasty Feb 17, 2009 News 2107
Googling your Energy Meter capnasty Feb 19, 2009 News 2099
Can't Call It a NetBook Anymore capnasty Feb 21, 2009 News 2104
Encouraging Canadian Content on the Net capnasty Feb 22, 2009 News 2108
Tasers have a higher safety margin than Tylenol capnasty Feb 25, 2009 News 2112
Pirates Kill the Music Biz capnasty Feb 25, 2009 News 2133
Microsoft Sues TomTom Over Apparent Patent Infringement capnasty Feb 26, 2009 News 2135
FUH2 capnasty Mar  2, 2009 News 2116
1969: Concorde flies for the first time capnasty Mar  3, 2009 News 2155
Apple Disk ][ enclosure used to house Mac Mini capnasty Mar  4, 2009 News 2131
Troops in Iraq Get Silly String capnasty Mar  5, 2009 News 2158
Did Google Earth find Atlantis? capnasty Mar  6, 2009 News 2134
Microsoft's Backdoor Licensing Agreements capnasty Mar  7, 2009 News 2162
Printing The NYT Costs Twice As Much As Sending Every Subscriber A Free Kindle capnasty Mar  8, 2009 News 2138
The Revolution in Micromanufacturing capnasty Mar 10, 2009 News 2143
Second Woman to Win Turing Award capnasty Mar 11, 2009 News 2168
Google introduces phone services capnasty Mar 12, 2009 News 2172
Web founder looks to big changes capnasty Mar 14, 2009 News 2175
Apple Adds Still More DRM to iPod Shuffle capnasty Mar 14, 2009 News 2178
Google's GrandCentral Is NOT The Hottest Mobile App Ever capnasty Mar 16, 2009 News 2181
Microsoft launches latest browser capnasty Mar 20, 2009 News 2194
Earth Hunter Probe Launched capnasty Mar 22, 2009 News 2165
The Meanest Drill capnasty Mar 23, 2009 News 1661
Just Add Sun capnasty Mar 24, 2009 News 2177
Sixth Sense Technology May Change How We Look at the World Forever capnasty Mar 27, 2009 News 2183
Deaths of gamers leave their online lives in limbo capnasty Mar 31, 2009 News 2187
Fina cracks down on hi-tech suits capnasty Apr  1, 2009 News 2188
Giant laser experiment powers up capnasty Apr  1, 2009 News 2215
Looking for a keypunch machine? capnasty Apr  3, 2009 News 1665
Conficker Eye Chart capnasty Apr  3, 2009 News 2252
Net firms start storing user data capnasty Apr  6, 2009 News 2255
Cold fusion experimentally confirmed capnasty Apr  8, 2009 News 1669
New Botnet Runs on DSL Modems and Routers capnasty Apr  9, 2009 News 2206
Sit or Squat? capnasty Apr 11, 2009 News 2207
Principal removes cellphone jammer capnasty Apr 14, 2009 News 2222
Man uses 35 cable modems to provide WiFi, sued by Comcast capnasty Apr 15, 2009 News 2223
Band Geeks Play iPhones, Not Instruments capnasty Apr 15, 2009 News 2259
Sharing, Contributing... and Caching capnasty Apr 18, 2009 News 2227
The Great Brazilian Sat-Hack Crackdown capnasty Apr 21, 2009 News 2263
Botnet 'ensnares government PCs' capnasty Apr 22, 2009 News 2264
Meet the Canadians who busted GhostNet capnasty Apr 23, 2009 News 2236
Apple removes Baby Shaker game capnasty Apr 26, 2009 News 2265
Dial B for Bluetooth capnasty Apr 28, 2009 News 2239
Microcontroller capnasty Apr 29, 2009 News 2244
Paving Stone in MacBook Pro Box capnasty May  1, 2009 News 2269
Firefox users caught in crossfire of warring add-ons capnasty May  6, 2009 News 2293
One Div Zero capnasty Jun  4, 2009 News 2319
Web pirates placed in 'slow lane' capnasty Jun  6, 2009 News 2322
Mod your apartment door capnasty Jun  8, 2009 News 2323
Vintage Mobile Phones capnasty Jun  9, 2009 News 2324
Kosher bacon? capnasty Jun 12, 2009 News 2327
US set for TV digital switchover capnasty Jun 12, 2009 News 2336
Cyberwar guide for Iran elections capnasty Jun 17, 2009 News 2342
High-speed Net expensive, slow: Report capnasty Jun 18, 2009 News 2333
Feds to give cops Internet-snooping powers capnasty Jun 19, 2009 News 2347
World's Most Outrageous PC Cases capnasty Jun 22, 2009 News 2339
Goodbye, Kodachrome capnasty Jun 22, 2009 News 2350
In case of fire... capnasty Jun 23, 2009 News 2351
Canadian helps Iranians bypass firewall capnasty Jun 23, 2009 News 2349
The Outlet Wall capnasty Jun 24, 2009 News 2341
Great Firewall of China capnasty Jun 25, 2009 News 2362
The Commodore 64 vs. the iPhone 3G S: The Ultimate Showdown capnasty Jun 27, 2009 News 2353
7 Man-Made Substances that Laugh in the Face of Physics capnasty Jun 28, 2009 News 2354
Pedal Power Generation capnasty Jul  2, 2009 News 2368
Big Brother potentially exists right now in our PCs capnasty Jul  6, 2009 News 2387
MPAA accuses laser printer of illegal file sharing capnasty Jul  7, 2009 News 2398
Google to launch operating system capnasty Jul  8, 2009 News 2399
Carnivorous Clock capnasty Jul  9, 2009 News 2379
i.Saw capnasty Jul  9, 2009 News 2401
Snooping through the power socket capnasty Jul 13, 2009 News 2409
Space Station Is Near Completion, Maybe the End capnasty Jul 15, 2009 News 2411
Haystack: Good Luck Finding That Needle capnasty Jul 16, 2009 News 2392
6 men endure Mars flight simulation experiment capnasty Jul 19, 2009 News 2419
Precocious Baby Starts Twittering from the Womb capnasty Jul 21, 2009 News 2432
The “Retr0bright” Project capnasty Jul 22, 2009 News 2406
Artificial brain '10 years away' capnasty Jul 23, 2009 News 2443
Amazon Faces a Fight Over Its E-Books capnasty Jul 27, 2009 News 2449
Linux slips into Microsoft's warm, deadly embrace capnasty Jul 27, 2009 News 2450
The Nixie Tube Digital Wristwatch capnasty Jul 28, 2009 News 2428
Barcode replacement shown off capnasty Jul 28, 2009 News 2454
Smart robot capable of hunting for its own "food" capnasty Jul 29, 2009 News 2433
Google Pulls Apple from Search Results capnasty Jul 30, 2009 News 2462
System Administrator Appreciation Day capnasty Jul 31, 2009 News 2464
Doorbell with inbuilt visitor statistics display capnasty Aug  1, 2009 News 2451
Wolfram|Alpha capnasty Aug  4, 2009 News 2455
Call for debate on killer robots capnasty Aug  4, 2009 News 2468
The Pissing Match Escalates capnasty Aug  6, 2009 News 2474
The Internet Kills! capnasty Aug  6, 2009 News 2480
Microsoft cites Linux as rival in official document capnasty Aug  6, 2009 News 2479
Apple tried to silence owner of exploding iPod with gagging order capnasty Aug  7, 2009 News 2470
Is Bing Censoring Questions About Microsoft? capnasty Aug  8, 2009 News 2486
A Little Privacy, Please capnasty Aug  9, 2009 News 2489
Brain On a Chip capnasty Aug 11, 2009 News 2484
Mobile phones get cyborg vision capnasty Aug 12, 2009 News 2498
Vanish: Self-Destructing Digital Data capnasty Aug 17, 2009 News 2495
Tipping Smart cars the latest prank trend capnasty Aug 17, 2009 News 2512
U.S. tests system to break foreign Web censorship capnasty Aug 18, 2009 News 2507
Scrap the CRTC, petition urges capnasty Aug 20, 2009 News 2528
Ownership of Unix copyright headed to trial capnasty Aug 25, 2009 News 2534
How to turn seawater into jet fuel capnasty Aug 26, 2009 News 2523
Multi-taskers not so good at multi-tasking capnasty Aug 26, 2009 News 2536
Keyboard style could give early warning of dementia capnasty Aug 26, 2009 News 2538
Marines want lots of robots they can throw capnasty Aug 27, 2009 News 2524
Artificial trees to cut carbon capnasty Aug 27, 2009 News 2543
Tech Support Cheat Sheet capnasty Aug 27, 2009 News 2544
Robots 'Evolve' the Ability to Deceive capnasty Aug 29, 2009 News 2526
Thank you, Napster capnasty Aug 30, 2009 News 2549
Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens capnasty Sep  2, 2009 News 2552
Swarms of Solar Microbots May Revolutionize Data Gathering capnasty Sep  4, 2009 News 2554
Quantum computer slips onto chips capnasty Sep  5, 2009 News 2569
Singular Simplicity capnasty Sep  7, 2009 News 2557
Not every cloud has a silver lining capnasty Sep  7, 2009 News 2574
Zapping things from the sky: Airborne Boeing laser blasts ground target capnasty Sep  8, 2009 News 2564
Engineering motivation into artificial intelligence capnasty Sep 10, 2009 News 2589
DNA fingerprinting 25 years old capnasty Sep 15, 2009 News 2600
Solar Panel Made with Human Hair capnasty Sep 16, 2009 News 2593
The SNAFU On-Line David Dylan Sep 16, 2009 News 2642
History Lesson: How Dad Used To Save Files neil Sep 16, 2009 News 2645
Choosing a Low Radiation Cell Phone capnasty Sep 18, 2009 News 2602
My New Sense Organ capnasty Sep 18, 2009 News 2652
The truth about Windows users capnasty Sep 19, 2009 News 2603
Linux is bloated capnasty Sep 22, 2009 News 2666
Apple.com, circa 1983 capnasty Sep 27, 2009 News 2614
NASA's Version of Star Trek Replicator Ready for On Orbit Test capnasty Sep 29, 2009 News 2682
Google invites users to join Wave capnasty Sep 30, 2009 News 2687
National Cyber Security Awareness Month capnasty Oct  1, 2009 News 2689
Iphone and Itouch paper stand / dock capnasty Oct  3, 2009 News 2631
Energy-from-waste powers US army capnasty Oct  5, 2009 News 2697
Threat Level Privacy, Crime and Security Online FBI Investigated Coder for Liberating Paywalled Court Records capnasty Oct  7, 2009 News 2704
A Review of the Pirated Copy of Windows 7 I Bought On eBay capnasty Oct  8, 2009 News 2705
Tiny 'nuclear batteries' unveiled capnasty Oct  9, 2009 News 2733
iPhone app store is a squatter's delight capnasty Oct 10, 2009 News 2732
Security and privacy of future household robots capnasty Oct 11, 2009 News 2717
Internet game that awards points for people spotting real crimes on CCTV is branded 'snooper's paradise' capnasty Oct 11, 2009 News 2734
Mechanical reproduction of digitized speech on a piano capnasty Oct 14, 2009 News 2720
New Jersey Outshines Most Others in Solar Energy capnasty Oct 14, 2009 News 2744
1Mb Broadband Access Becomes Legal Right capnasty Oct 15, 2009 News 2753
Canadian broadband blasted by Harvard study capnasty Oct 15, 2009 News 2758
Human Robotic Peripherals capnasty Oct 20, 2009 News 2782
Ultracapacitor Busses capnasty Oct 20, 2009 News 2783
Okay to Text from the Toilet capnasty Oct 20, 2009 News 2785
HOWTO host your very own Windows 7 torrenting party capnasty Oct 23, 2009 News 2803
Yahoo is Sorry For Offering Lap Dances at Developers Event capnasty Oct 23, 2009 News 2804
Apple Seeks Patent on Operating System Advertising capnasty Oct 23, 2009 News 2806
Focus-Fusion-1 Works capnasty Oct 23, 2009 News 2807
Color-changing roof tiles absorb heat in winter, reflect it in summer capnasty Oct 24, 2009 News 2738
Origami USB Stick capnasty Oct 24, 2009 News 2809
Brother looks to invade your retinas next year capnasty Oct 26, 2009 News 2833
WHO study suggests link between cell phones and tumors capnasty Oct 27, 2009 News 2836
Offline Inspiration: How To Find It and Get The Most Out of It capnasty Oct 28, 2009 News 2839
The Future of Social Web capnasty Oct 30, 2009 News 2851
Dining With Technology capnasty Oct 31, 2009 News 2776
Time-travel doesn't imbue quantum computers with superpowers capnasty Nov  1, 2009 News 2860
Toyota develops its own flower species to offset CO2 creation capnasty Nov  2, 2009 News 2864
Schoolboy has TV aerial confiscated by Government officials for interfering with aircraft signals capnasty Nov  3, 2009 News 2870
Can the space station's computers get a Windows virus? capnasty Nov  4, 2009 News 2883
Unmanned Squadrons of Flying Robots capnasty Nov  4, 2009 News 2884
It's The First Twitter-Only Mobile Device, But Why? capnasty Nov  7, 2009 News 2872
'Road trains' get ready to roll capnasty Nov  9, 2009 News 2902
Power for U.S. From Russia's Old Nuclear Weapons capnasty Nov 11, 2009 News 1678
Pirates navigate around Windows 7 activation again capnasty Nov 11, 2009 News 410
The Nixie Watch capnasty Nov 12, 2009 News 2877
2 Japanese Subs Are Found in Waters Off Hawaii capnasty Nov 12, 2009 News 2915
A single smartphone can DoS federal wiretaps capnasty Nov 13, 2009 News 2919
MIT wants to build a massive digital cloud above the London skyline capnasty Nov 15, 2009 News 896
Roads Capable of Harnessing Solar Energy capnasty Nov 17, 2009 News 2887
3-in-1 Paranormal Research Instrument capnasty Nov 17, 2009 News 2934
An Objective Look at the Plugs and Plug Sockets of the World capnasty Nov 18, 2009 News 2888
Modern Tech versus The Past capnasty Nov 25, 2009 News 2952
Unflattening Touch Screen Buttons capnasty Nov 26, 2009 News 2951
Virtual Reality Treadmill Goes In Every Direction capnasty Nov 28, 2009 News 2912
Would You Accept Google's Free Netbook? capnasty Nov 30, 2009 News 2950
How GPS can measure snowfall capnasty Dec  9, 2009 News 3008
New LED traffic lights can't melt snow capnasty Dec 17, 2009 News 3050
How a new communications technology disrupted America's newspaper industry--in 1845 capnasty Jan  3, 2010 News 3090
How Google Scans Books capnasty Jan 11, 2010 News 3145
New full-body scanners break child porn laws capnasty Jan 16, 2010 News 3114
Apple iPad Just Tried To Assassinate Laptops capnasty Jan 27, 2010 News 3187
Digital Doomsday: The End of Knowledge capnasty Feb  2, 2010 News 3206
Vintage Technologies That We No Longer Use capnasty Feb 18, 2010 News 3252
A Conversation I Have Every Month or So capnasty Feb 25, 2010 News 3247
Facebook, Twitter Users Could Face Insurance Hikes capnasty Feb 25, 2010 News 3276
Greener Gadgets capnasty Mar  2, 2010 News 3297
Enhanced Hearing with the Earshell capnasty Mar 10, 2010 News 3347
Steve Job's Radical Trust Fail Whale capnasty Mar 10, 2010 News 3352
Car-puccino: 56 Espressos per Mile capnasty Mar 11, 2010 News 3333
You Can Now Buy Your Own Jetpack capnasty Mar 11, 2010 News 3348