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Nanoscale padlockThis doesn't seem like anything that will ever be useful for me in my line of work, but it just looks so cool, I had to post it.

Sandia Labs have patented a MEMS-based nanoscale padlock as a new anti-hacker measure. The security benefits sound pretty dubious, but boy, the tech is awfully cool! [boingboing]

I'm sure there is some kind of technical reason why it is designed they way it is, but to me it is almost as if they purposely tried to make it look like an mechanical device built in the 19th century. If this is, in fact, a case of mixing form and function, then I will have to applaud those guys over at Sandia, because I am a big proponent of making things look nice while at the same time making them functional. Maybe Apple could include this in their next line of Macs <wink/>. 10:14:00 AM  permalink  comment []  


 
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A windsurfer gets a lot of air off 'swell city' on the Columbia River Gorge just south of the Hood River Bridge. Windsurfers named the area for its consistently big swells. (September 19, 2002) Photo Credit: Jeff Larsen/Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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