You won’t be seeing any dotpitch in between these cell sized pixels with the entire LCD display measuring only 0.27 inches and sporting an impressive 600×480 resolution. This is probably the most definitive bit of information that micro-displays are getting sharper and more advanced.
This latest display prototype is Kopin Corporation which had to shrink the individual color pixel dots down to 2.9 x 8.7 µm to reach this standard just for a bit of reference the basic human hair is 100 µm wide, meaning these dots are 2% of that basically much closer to the size of a red blood cell in our body than anything else.
No one can really complain about fidelity at this insane pixel density, but Kopin promises that the development is a necessity so that they can later scale the same technology up to doing 2048×2048 displays on the size or slightly smaller than the typical postage stamps. Kind of funny isn’t it all those big boss people screaming how their TV’s are “True HD because they do 1080p, LOL just now a screen the size of a postage stamp will have the same resolution, and god forbid you start imagining if they scaled it up to full you know 24″ screen sizes :) Can’t wait to see the video cards to push something like that :) Ahhh don’t you just love the way technology keeps leaping forward every day.
Well today was nice I decided to go ahead with the upgrade to WordPress 2.8 for the improved database speed it supposedly offers, well idiot me went and click update forgetting that I had set a symlink in the theme folder from /default to my real theme because of some issues i was having forcing the theme a while back, and guess what? Well when WordPress 2.8 downloaded and installed it copied over the default theme over the default folder which would normally have been fine I mean who cares, but because it was a symlink and not the original that it was overwriting it overwrote the real theme LOL.
My own stupid mistake so i’ll take that on myself. Either way I was looking to redo the theme as the old theme I really wasn’t feeling it felt heavy for some reason. Well this theme will do for now unless something better comes along hope everyone likes it. Oh and for those wondering when regular updates will recommence… I have in fact moved into the new apartment so that’s done, but my desktop PC is D-E-A-D. Hard drive and some other issues so ya I had to accelerate my plans for a new PC so hopefully by end of the month I’ll have the parts to build myself a new PC, but this time I’m planning to build a beast. Core I7 920 with 12gb of ram and a single Nvidia GTX 275 to get me started (though I’m trying to find a cheap enough Tri-SLI board so i can expand later on to more of the 275 cards :) I think it’ll handle Crysis, Arma 2 and most other things I throw at it like reencoding videos and you know… blogging and programming lol (as if those need all that power LOL)
Ok this is a bit of an odd post for NTN but I’ve had 3 people ask me since they know I’m a DIY fanatic how to make a cherry bomb, personally I hadn’t done it before so I did a bit of research and put together a bit of a how to make a cherry bomb instruction manual for building your own homemade cherry bomb.
Let me very clear here, cherry bomb’s for those that don’t know are small fireworks but with any type of explosive and DIY theirs risk and its dangerous as hell and i always recommend you to avoid doing it, also you need to check if making cherry bomb’s is even legal where you live. But either way My friends and visitors ask and I must deliver so here it is a nice little concise how to make a homemade cherry bomb instruction set. Remember I take no responsibility for you using this instructions, I’m recommending you not to do it as it’s dangerous you could get hurt if you mess up. And no I don’t think these are the same cherry bombs that you can use for a cherry bomb exhaust as far as I understand that’s a bit different.
Supplies Needed
One Ping-Pong Ball
Black Powder (Enough to fill the ping-pong ball up to 75%)
A String of Fuse (At least 5 inches)
Small Bottle of Nail Polish
A Razor
A Needle (or nail)
Some Tape (Optional)
Instructions
Take a ping-pong ball and, with the help of needle or nail, make a hole in it, large enough to fit in the fuse.
On the opposite side of the first hole, cut another hole (bigger than the previous one), with the help of the razor, in the ping-pong ball.
Now, pour the black powder into the bigger hole, making sure to fill the ball only up to 75 percent.
After you have filled the ping-pong ball with the black powder, patch the hole with tape or anything you deem fit.
Insert the fuse into the first hole, the one you made with the help of needle or nail.
Now, cover the entire ping-pong ball with the nail polish. It will help increase the noise of the explosion.
Your cheery bomb is ready. Now, all you need to do is get a lighter and light the fuse.
Now as I said I’m definitly a big DIY fanatic but i’m not going to be showing how to build any homemade bombs or anything crazy these little fireworks are about as far as I’m going. But if anyone wants to see some other cool DIY projects post a comment with suggestions and I’ll see what I can come up with theirs surely a lot of ideas floating around in my head like homemade fireworks :)
Here’s a video of a cherrybomb in action I found on MetaCafe for those that haven’t seen what their capable of, remember I don’t recommend or take responsibility for you making one of these guys.
Well if your visiting the site today you might notice that the sites loading a good bit faster, this is thanks to some major debugging on my side to figure out what the hell was going on. With the help of FireBug and YSlow (awesome tool really, you can check both of them out in the firefox addon catalog). I managed to rein things in to 3 factors, larger than necessary images, misplaced javascripts and a widget i loved but was causing things to slow down way too much.
1. The image sizes, ok heres something awesome for those of you guys with wordpress blogs, as you know I just moved to wordpress… GO INSTALL WP Smush it’s frigging awesome, YSlow pointed me to try out YSmushIt, and after i saw that many of my images on the homepage alone could save 10-30% in size with 0 loss I decided to check and yep their was a wordpress plugin (god isn’t their a wordpress plugin for everything). Basically what it does is it sends the image before post or upon request from the media library to Yahoo!’s SmushIt API and it in turn strips away excess metadata and colors in indexed images and returns you a streamlined clean image. This plugin reduced load times and bandwidth consumption a little.
2. Javascript love, Ok I love my java and so do the advertisers but it was getting a little wacky their were 20 javascripts external running on this page, WP Minify fixed this up and compressed them into 1 tidy file (well theres still the advertisers but thats because they don’t play nice with Wp Minify yet so i had to add an exception)
3. The last thing that I changed to day is the pretty category cloud is gone, I know it was pretty but in reality it wasn’t really that useful, but the main reason it’s gone is because well… it halted page load times quite a bit and almost doubled the page load time, a big no no for my site.
So anyway hope you guys notice the speed improvements and they help in the experience on the site. As for updates to the site I’ll be getting back to posting probably at the end of the month as that’s when I’m hopefully going to be back in my own apartment :) YAY
So where the hell have I been, moving that’s where or shall I say in the middle of moving. See we were supposed to be moving into a new apartment closer to my and my wifes jobs to cut our travel time in 1/3 but it turns out that since our contract was up at the old place we had to move out before the new place was ready (it was a brand new unfinished apartment we were waiting on). So we’ve been living in my mother-in-law’s house for a 2 months now going on 3 waiting for the new apartment to be ready.
Well finally this week we got the news that it’s done and we went to see it and definitly will be moving in, we’re just waiting on word from the owners on final price and the ok for us to move in and we’ll be moved in. I’ll be back to posting and updating the site on a regular basis at that point but as it currently stands I’m still working on getting a new computer as well as my desktop barely wanted to come on before we moved, so after sitting off for 3 months in a box I doubt it will even turn back on, but fear not one way or another I’ll be back to updating the site on a regular basis and hopefully much more actively than even before we moved as I really want to get back into the multiple daily updates and not just the big news announcements that I hear about. But more on that will be coming soon after we get moved in and I get a new computer up and running.
You won’t be seeing any dotpitch in between these cell sized pixels with the entire LCD display measuring only 0.27 inches and sporting an impressive 600×480 resolution. This is probably the most definitive bit of information that micro-displays are getting sharper and more advanced.
