Booting your PC via a USB key drive into a cut down version of XP could have many uses. I might give this a go, it would be handy to have when I get people that have a bad virus/malware infection.
[via Mike Linnen Blog]
Author: John
Five Bladed Shredding Scissors of Doom
These are like a librarian’s worst nightmare. I can see the use in a craft sort of way, but it would get old quick if you had a bunch of documents you had to destroy. Neat idea though.
[via Boingboing]
Shredding scissors (translated by Excite Japan)
VGA to NTSC Without a Scan Converter
Have some old NTSC monitors gathering dust in your basement? Why not make a triple head display out of them. Sounds kooky but you can drive three monitors from one card by sending data on each color. So you get one monitor each for the red, green, and blue signals. Cool, eh? You have to hack your video cards BIOS a bit to get the refresh to match the TVs, but that’s well worth it.
[via hack-a-day]
The Paperclip Trebuchet
I’m a little short on the batteries he used as the counter weight but other than that I’m all set! this makes a great addition to the paper trebuchet that I found online a while ago. Come to think on it, its almost as cool as the popsicle trebuchet.
Time to get bending and lay siege to the photocopier.
[via Digg]
The Robotic Nintendo DS
Looks as if some enterprising hacker has built himself a robot that runs off a Nintendo DS
# 20 Digital Input/Output for multipurpose use.
# Customizable with you own Motors and Sensors
# Wireless programming and controling.
# You can use your DSRobot with NinjaDS to make the robot works alone.
# Programmable in C or C++ with devkitpro and a custom library to manage the signals.
# You can use PAlib (very easy NDS library to program you first DSRobot
# Upgradable Software & Hardware.
The prototype has six sensors and two motors on it for now. DSRobot say that they will be selling kits, I wonder what Nintendo thinks of this…
[via Robot Gossip]
The K67 kiosk
I think I might have seen one of these in Bangkok but I’m not sure.
Patented in 1967, K67 was prepared for its serial production in 1968 with the first exhibition of prototypes in Ljutomer (Slovenia). In April 1970 K67 was published in an English design magazine with the article "Low life from the streets" and the Museum of Modern Art in New York included it into its collection of 20th century design. The K67 was sold in large quantities not only to the countries of Ex-Yugoslavia, but also to the COMECON countries and other continents (eg. Japan and New Zealand). Due to the fact that the K67 principle is copied several times by other companies, K67 came to embody the Eastern European kiosk culture.