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February 16, 2011

Disposable Flash Drives of the Future

Disposable Flash Drives of the Future


Here's a new concept for spies (or people who like to throw things away) disposable "Flashkus" flash drives.

In the near future (hopefully), you'll be able to toss your data in the dumpster with these 8GB or 16GB cardboard drives designed by Alexei Lyapunov and Lena Ehrlich at Art Lebedev Studio. It looks like these drives will be cheap and produced on a cardboard strip, so you'll need only to tear one off and write a note on it if you want to give your friend a song, say, or carry some quick data with you.

The Art Lebedev website suggests (translated from Russian) that these portable, disposable flash drives will be "even simpler" than floppy disks. I'll assume that means they'll be easier to part with (more disposable, if you will).

Yes, the Flashkus is still just a concept, but it doesn't seem like one that's too far off. My guess is that the first people to use them will be CES vendors, as electronic press kits. 

February 02, 2011

Free Morphing

Free Morphing creates a sequence of frames which are the transformation of the source image to target image, giving the appearance that the source image "becomes" the target. Images must be true color (24 bit) and have the same size. In the program you can create lines (the same number in Source and Target) which describe the transformation. You should create line objects in the same order on both images. There are various viewing tools for preview morphing.

Features:

- You can specify the number of frames in sequence.
- You can create symmetric sequence.
- You can save resulting movies as animated GIF, AVI and so on.
Freeware.


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ASCII Animator 1.2

ASCII Animator is a unique, funny and free software to convert GIF image to animated ASCII art.
First, ASCII Animator extracts GIF image into frames, then converts each frames to ASCII art, and encodes the ASCII art into a new animated ASCII art GIF image.
ASCII Animator needs Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or later.
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