10 Daily Things

MPEG Surround: quality multi-channel audio with backwards MP3 compatibility

We’re bullish about the prospects for MPEG Surround and see it as inevitable it will be adopted by the mass market. MP3 Surround enables high-quality surround sound at bit rates comparable to those currently used to encode stereo MP3 material.

Life Technology Gadget: Shoe Headlights

Pioneer is a concept shoe that converts kinetic walking energy into electrical energy. There's a tiny battery that charges up with each step and can keep the headlights on for a full 12 hours straight dispersing light at 1.5 meters. The design

Funny Animal Photo: Hot Dog

Freeware Application: TagScanner - Organize Your MP3

TagScanner is a multifunction program to organize large music collections. It can edit tags of mostly state-of-the-art audio formats, rename files based on the tag information, generate tag information from filenames, and perform any transformations

Weird Animals: Cymothoa exigua - Tongue Replacement Parasite

Cymothoa exigua is a parasitic crustacean of the family Cymothoidae. It tends to be 3 to 4 cm long. This parasite attaches itself at the base of the spotted rose snapper's (Lutjanus guttatus) tongue, entering the fish's mouth through its gills. It