This is not an ordinary glow-in-the-dark t-shirt but an interactive model that lets you draw and even write on it. The Lazer Shirt comes with a UV Lazer that charges the t-shirt material which glows in the dark for a while, until it fades out. In daylight, the interactive item looks like a regular white [...]
Dark Sucks introduces the Alpha Series lights, designed by California-based manufacturer Jason Hui. It is a limited edition of high performance, top-class LED flashlights that promise to last a lifetime. Five times brighter than MAGLITE’s latest 3D cell LED flashlight and just one-fifth the size, Alpha produces over 500 lumens of light in an intelligent, [...]
At BackType, we are heavy users of Hadoop. We use it to run computations on our 30TB datastore of social data. We’ve even open-sourced some significant projects that are built on top of Hadoop. Unfortunately, Hadoop has problems. It’s sloppily implemented and requires all sorts of arcane knowledge to operate it. We would be the first [...]