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Posted on 06.29.07 by John @ 8:35 pm
[via MAKE] If your all keen on getting one of these marvels on modern telephony technology you may want to get the perfect book for any iPhone owner: Filed under: Apple and Dumb and Technology and To be used for Evil Comments: None |
Well the elusive iPhone has been captured, dissected and photographed and is now ready to be stuffed and mounted. Somewhere in the night time sky a star has gone out.
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Posted on 06.29.07 by John @ 4:17 pm
The project live.linuX-gamers.net was founded with the idea to present Linux games at the Linuxtag exhibition in a novel way. A collection of games should be shown to directly run from DVD without the user in need to know about Linux or care about his system. After some intense brainstorming sessions the team decided to create and publish this DVD as a live distribution project. Thus an additional and very difficult problem had to be solved: The dvd should run on every x86 PC out there. Filed under: Computers and Cool Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.29.07 by John @ 4:11 pm
Cats will always remain mysterious animals–but exactly where they came from is no longer a riddle. A genetic study has shown that the ancestors of all of today’s domestic cats prowled the Near East. The work bolsters the notion that cats became useful to humans when agriculture started–which scientists believe happened in the Near East–forcing people to protect grain stores from rodents. A Fertile Domestication of Cats — Holden 2007 (628): 1 — ScienceNOW Filed under: Cool and Science Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.29.07 by John @ 2:46 pm
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I found some great driving tips, handy things like never let your arms cross over the wheel. Why? Because if there was an accident and your hands were in the way of the air bag you might break your own jaw. I never thought about that, bet you didn’t either. It has some other tips like how to back your car up in a safer fashion. It won’t teach you how to do a bootlegger turn or how to do a rolling roadblock but it might help save your life.|
Posted on 06.27.07 by John @ 6:28 am
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Posted on 06.27.07 by John @ 6:24 am
David Pouge, New York Times technology writer, gives a brief overview of the pros and cons of the upcoming uber phone from Apple. This a quick run down of what he said: Pros: Interface is slick, it’s an iPod, screen is great, feature integration is fantastic, WiFi, Apple logo Cons: No memory slot, can’t replace the battery yourself, service through AT&T only, EDGE data speeds suck. Filed under: Apple and Historic and Technology Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.25.07 by John @ 4:58 pm
Here’s a SAFE way to destroy vampires… use a catapult to toss bundles [via paper forest] Filed under: DIY and Paper Comments: None |
Looks like fun and it’s just made of paper.|
Posted on 06.23.07 by John @ 5:19 pm
Wow. This is just an amazing display of elite Theremin skills. What is a Theremin? It’s an instrument that is played by disrupting an electric field with your bodies natural capacitance. The disruption produced odd and ethereal tones. [via boingboing] Laughing Squid » Theremin Cover Version of Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy Wikipedia - Theremin Filed under: Artistic and Mad Science Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.23.07 by John @ 5:07 pm
Space Shuttle Atlantis descended to a smooth landing at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., concluding a successful assembly mission to the International Space Station. With Commander Rick Sturckow and Pilot Lee Archambault at the controls, Atlantis landed at 3:49 p.m. EDT on Friday Filed under: News and Space Comments: None |
Very good to see the crew made it back safe and sound.|
Posted on 06.22.07 by John @ 10:41 pm
Quite amazing. I hope he builds some more computer parts out of wood. … a few months ago, I had an idea as to how the divide by two mechanisms from my first marble machine could be cascaded together to actually function as a sort of adder or counter. Once I had that idea, I knew I had to try it at some point, and recently, I finally got around to building my marble binary adding machine. Filed under: Artistic and Computers and Cool and DIY and Design and Mad Science and Science and Technology Comments: 1 Comment |
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Posted on 06.22.07 by John @ 11:03 am
Uncooperative weather at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., forced flight controllers to pass on STS-117’s first landing attempt today. The crew and the Mission Control team have turned their attention to the next orbit, which has opportunities available in Florida and at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. NASA TV Schedule Filed under: Space Comments: None |
The space shuttle Atlantis may have to stay on orbit a while longer until the weather decides to clear up.|
Posted on 06.22.07 by John @ 6:10 am
Astounding! This is a solid-state Tesla coil. The primary runs at its resonant frequency in the 41 KHz range, and is modulated from the control unit in order to generate the tones you hear.
So just to explain a little further, yes, it is the actual high voltage sparks that are making the noise. Every cycle of the music is a burst of sparks at 41 KHz, triggered by digital circuitry at the end of a "long" piece of fiber optics. I personally think that this should be standard fare in a marching band. Just think of it for a second, it’s perfect. Loud enough to be heard over the roar of the crowd, easy to play (keyboard interface?), and it includes it’s own light show! Sure, it might take twenty people to haul the batteries around behind it but that is a small price to pay for something as spectacular as this. [via boingboing] Filed under: Cool and Mad Science and Technology and To be used for Evil Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.22.07 by John @ 5:52 am
A reader left a comment on my DIY Cricket bat project and he was saying that this weekend is the zombie themed Portland (Maine) anime convention. So if your in the area you might want to grab some brains and head on over… Filed under: Uncategorized Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.22.07 by John @ 5:25 am
Think of a smoke alarm…but more general. The photoset of the build is quite detailed and lends itself to being easily reproducible, it would be a fun project for a long weekend. [via brass goggles] Filed under: Artistic and DIY and Design Comments: None |
Very nice execution of this project.|
Posted on 06.21.07 by John @ 9:35 pm
I have always wanted a camcorder for myself and not just any camcorder. I wanted one a bit like a professional broadcast camcorder, where I would be able to mount ad-ons like pre-amps, lights and all the other ever so cool stuff you’ll see professionals packing. However I’m not about to pay the horiffic price of a Red Camera . So let’s just build one… [via MAKE] Filed under: DIY and Mad Science Comments: None |
This is one of those projects that makes me want to call in sick and dive into my boxes of junk and build something!| previous posts » |
