Tag: FINLAND

Finland is testing out a new traffic cam that not only spies you when you speed, but uses image-analysis software to read your license plate, check your insurance and tax status, and even determine whether or not you're wearing your seatbelt. Not creeped out yet? The ASSET speed cameras can also dole out tickets for tailgating, by measuring the distance between you and the car in front of you. ...

Starting today, July 1st, broadband Internet is the legal right of all Finnish citizens. Last October, Finland passed a law that guaranteed all citizens access to Internet connections of at least 1Mbps. Today, that law went into effect, requiring the nation's service providers to cover the few remaining Net-deficient households. With an estimated 96-percent of the population covered (in a country ...

The online virtual world of Habbo Hotel, at first glance, seems like just another idyllic, peaceful, fake community, where fake people exchange goods with a fake handshake and a fake smile, and decorate their fake residences with fake furniture. Basically, it's Orange County. But beneath the placid, Norman Rockwell veneer of non-existence lies an all too real underbelly of crime, deception and ...

A new experiment being conducted by Finland's postal service could raise privacy questions. According to the Telegraph, the European nation will begin a trial next week in which residents can volunteer to have their physical mail opened, scanned, and sent to them digitally by a postal worker. If you sign up, you'll receive an e-mail or text message notifying you that your mail has been sent to a ...

Just about every modern democratic state has certain pillars of individual rights upon which its social and political philosophy is founded: the right of free speech; the right to a fair trial; the right to... broadband access? In one Nordic country, that may soon be the case. In another searing reminder that Finland is, in fact, cooler than the rest of us, the Finnish government has passed a ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gadgets/Researchers_develop_braille_for_vibrating_touchscreen_device'; In braille, a character is made up of six dots laid out on a two by three matrix -- not something that can really be conveyed using capacitive touchscreen technology. Working with a Nokia 770 Internet Tablet, researchers in Finland have developed a method for piezoelectric touchscreen devices that ...

Newsroom Finland reports that the country's Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK) has announced that parents should limit the amount of cell phone use among their children. "Although studies carried out thus far have not shown mobile phone radiation to have had any adverse impact on health, prudence is advised when it comes to children as not all the effects are known," said the ...