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deviantARTist SantiagoJuarez might just have earned himself a place in Star Wars heaven with this detailed graphic of the lightsaber. Called the Anatomy of a Lightsaber, this piece of art will make sure that you know the ins and outs of your favorite weapon. (Click and zoom in on the image for every tiny detail […]
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The Anatomy of a Lightsaber

Just how far have we come since film? One photographer sets out to try and find the answers by comparing the results of several DSLRS, two leading smartphones and some Fuji film in both bright sunlight and low light conditions. See the results and judge for yourself at connect.dpreview.com.

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Smartphones versus DSLRs versus film: A look at how far we’ve come

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We’ve already tried and tested beer cans to figure out how to stop them from fizzing over when shaken, but what about large soda bottles? According to the King of Random (Grant Thompson), a ninja swipe is all you need.

This is a hard one to explain, so watch the video above to see it in action. Basically, you start with your middle finger(s) on the side of the cap and you jab forward quickly while maintaining pressure. If you don’t stop until you get to your wrist, you’ll cause the cap to rotate enough to fly off the bottle. This fast departure doesn’t cause the soda to explode out, but rather a lot of vapor to release from the top. As a result, you don’t spill sticky liquid all over the place and have a really cool party trick.

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Prevent Soda Bottles from Fizzing Over with a Ninja Swipe

(NSFW: Language/Gross) So much went wrong in the news last year that News Be Funny just couldn’t fit all of it in one video. Here’s more news bloopers, including the world’s best infographic, a Ron Burgundy cameo and a rapping weatherman.
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As people’s waistlines increase, so does the incidence of type 2 diabetes. Now scientists have a better understanding of exactly what happens in the body that leads up to type 2 diabetes, and what likely causes some of the complications related to the disease. Specifically, scientists have found that in mice, macrophages, a specific type of immune cell, invade the diabetic pancreatic tissue during the early stages of the disease.
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More evidence suggests type 2 diabetes is inflammatory disease

If you don’t want your computer tampered with, or you want to be able to tell if someone’s been fiddling with your gear, a little glittery, shiny nail polish may be the perfect solution. A pair of security researchers presented the idea at the Chaos Communication Congress, and it’s surprisingly effective. Here’s why.

Security researchers Eric Michaud and Ryan Lackey got to thinking about the issue when they started looking over ways to make sure your laptop wasn’t tampered with when you travel with it. Security seals and screws are easy to remove cleanly and reattach by just about anyone, or even break and forge if you have to. The solution? A dab of glitter nail polish. The nail polish effectively creates a randomized pattern that’s only established once it’s set and dry—one that’s easy to apply, look at and memorize (or photograph), and then tell if it’s been altered in some way (or reapplied later to try and mimic the original look).

Other metallic paints, or even crappy stickers, can have the same effect, they say:

Some travelers affix tamper-proof seals over ports or chassis screws. But these seals can in fact be replicated or opened cleanly in minutes by anyone with even minimal training, Michaud and Lackey said. They instead advise borrowing a technique from astronomers called blink comparison. Here’s where the glitter comes in.

The idea is to create a seal that is impossible to copy. Glitter nail polish, once applied, has what effectively is a random pattern. Once painted over screws or onto stickers placed over ports, it is difficult to replicate once broken. However, reapplication of a similar-looking blob (or paint stripe, or crappy sticker) might be enough to fool the human eye. To be sure, the experts recommend taking a picture of the laptop with the seals applied before leaving it alone, taking another photo upon returning and using a software program to shift rapidly between the two images to compare them. Even very small differences – a screw that is in a very slightly different position, or glitter nail polish that has a very slightly different pattern of sparkle – will be evident. Astronomers use this technique to detect small changes in the night sky.

By taking the picture with a cellphone that is kept with you at all times, you can be reasonably sure the original picture hasn’t been tampered with or replaced.

The researchers go on to suggest that a two-factor authentication system using two correctly shot photos of the same glitter in the same pattern could be used to gain or deny access to the system—like a smartphone app that has the original photo on it, and is then used to take a photo of the current state of the glitter before you can log in. It’s unlikely to ever happen, but it would be effective.

In the interim though, if you’re worried someone’s going to crack open your case and modify your system, or you can to seal off your USB or other ports on your laptop, a sticker with a dab of glitter nail polish is just the trick you need to make sure no one’s fiddling with your devices.

Don’t Want Your Laptop Tampered With? Just Add Glitter Nail Polish

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Use Glitter Nail Polish to Make Your Laptop Tamper-Proof