In 1961 did some Italian HAM radio operators hear the last dying gasps of a Russian cosmonaut, weeks before the famous flight by Yuri Gagarin? Could this be the untold story of a Soviet cover up in the early years of the space race?
Author: John
Travel Tinker Trouble Kit
Fancy yourself a bit of a MacGyver? With this you might be a bit closer if you make one of these.
This little unassuming Altoids tin holds the following:
- A small Swiss Army Knife with the plastic removed to save space (the usual tools, knives, screw drivers, scissors, files, ect…)
- The tiny ball point pen from the above knife, used to sit in the side cover but was inefficient there.
Mini Sharpie marker. - Lock Picking Set, Tension Wrench, Rake, Diamond Pick.
- LED light, from an old headlamp.
- Folded piece of sand paper.
- Paper clips.
- Rubber bands.
- Zip ties.
- Dental Floss.
- Strike anywhere matches.
- Pills, sleeping, Clariton, Decongestant.
Not the sort of think you want to try explaining to the TSA guy when your trying to board your next flight, but then again if it will save your bacon in a tight spot you might want to stow this gem in you checked luggage. For years I kept a tiny (3″x”3″x1-/2″) first aid kit that had all sorts of ‘extra’ stuff in it with me and I can’t tell you how many time that came in handy. I think I need a new one… And some curiously strong mints.
[via MAKEzine]
Escape My Head: TTTk, Travel Tinker Trouble Kit
USB Data Transfer Thingy
Eh, I might see a use for this if your real lazy and don’t want to have your computer with you every waking moment of your life. Not that anyone if fool enough to pull a stunt like that.
Xmultiple has come up with a new technology called FlashPoint, which lets you transfer files between all kinds of flash drives (or any other USB memory peripheral) without a laptop or any USB bridge. With SOTG (Sharing-On-The-Go) technology, Xmultiple’s new ShareDrive USB flash memory pen drive is small, light and powered by a rechargeable lithium-ion battery. Comes in 128MB, 256MB, 512MB, 1GB and 2GB sizes.
J3tlag, for the Elite that Travel and Like to Look Neat
If your trendy and like to go places and look trendy there, you need to see this place. Its just for you. You and your designers sneakers and expensive pre-stressed shoulder bag (the one that makes you look like you’ve been places but you actually bought it at the mall yesterday).
DIY Sentry Gun
Kevin sent me this weapon of choice the other day:
The idea of this project was to create a fully-automated sentry gun, capable of picking out a human target and accurately tracking and shooting him or her in the heart. Really, the idea was to find a cool robotics project for the summer while I was working at an advertising agency, and I’d only ever seen sentry guns in movies (like Congo) and video games (Half-Life 1, Half-Life 2, Team Fortress Classic). I couldn’t find any record of anyone building one, even the military, although it seems likely I just didn’t look hard enough. It’s a pretty simple technology.
I think I can answer why there arn’t any of these systems in the real world. You just can’t trust a robot to not shoot you in the back. Thats a tough one to code around.
Sony’s PCM-D1 Digital Field Recorder
Looks cool, hope it sounds good too. I can see these being used by the pro bloggers as soon as they hit the market.
The PCM-D1 is a retro-looking field recorder that can capture audio at 96 KHz/24-bit quality on either the 4GB of built-in memory or any size MemoryStick Pro card. Since one microphone is totally amateur-hour, the Sony model sports two angled, high-sensitivity condenser mics along with a five-line LCD for displaying recording and playback info, and two analog level meters.