Category — Useful Stuff

This guy at Carnegie Mellon University built a VR system using a Wii remote control and sensor. Its ground-breaking, jaw-dropping, earth-shattering and then some - check it out!

You can read the blog for this project here

Just found out about a great way to sign up to new web services using a fake email address. The fake email address is available from mailinator.com. While you could sign up for a fake account with Yahoo or Gmail. Mailinator is really creative because here you dont have to sign up to create the fake mailbox. Once you create the fake mailbox, anyone can access it - there is no login required to create or access the fake mailbox. Just go to the site, enter the name of the mailbox and mailinator displays anything sent to that mailbox.

Now when you sign up to a any new online service, you can enter the fake email address from mailinator.com. Mailinator will collect any kind of verification email sent which can be used to complete registration. So now you have signed up to the service without sharing any of your personal info. Great way to protect online privacy.