Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
I know it’s in Japanese – hey, I’m giving you a link to a translated version, what more do you want?
The ‘Ell Ell: Mystery Archive’ is chock full of weird and bizarre stuff that quite frankly I have never seen elsewhere. So far all the links have been to English sites so if you work off from the Japanese page you can still go after the good stuff by clicking on the stories with the interesting pictures.
This is by far one one the more impressive DIY projects that I have seen of late. Normaly a sextant is an expencive and very precice instrument but with a CD case, some LEGO bricks and a few mirrors you can build one. I don’t think you wan’t to use it to sail around the world but you could ( by the way you had better be an ace at celestrial navigation before you start Mister!)
Anyway, the project is simple enough that you could build it in a weekend. It would be fun to take out on trips and ‘shoot the sun’ and try to figure out where you are on this big ‘ol sphere we call home.
[via hack a day]
CD sextant
Very cool watch, and is also a data storage device. Storage is 64MB and 128MB – but needs to be at least 1 GB before it would be practical for me personaly.
You can get them in either silver or blackand has a nifty blue LED at 9 o’clock to show when the data hs on the move. Cost should be about $190US.
Very clever project. He built himself a pinhole camera out of LEGO bricks. It uses 120 roll film and sports a film counter! I might use that in my next pinhole camera myself…
[via Boing Boing and Ektopia]
HOWTO Build a pinhole camera from legos
Gallery of images taken with the camera
saw this today, looks like to will make things easier for folks in the medical profession.
AdvancedBPM is a revolutionary solution in blood pressure diagnosis and management. Unlike conventional cuff-based blood pressure monitors, AdvancedBPM is a cuffless, wrist-worn sensor that continuously measures a patient’s blood pressure, heart rate and pulse oximetry. A mobile device receives data from the sensor and wirelessly sends this information to a website. With AdvancedBPM a physician can monitor a patient’s vital signs over a 24-hour period while the patient goes about their daily life.
Oh so cool! I would love to see these sorts of things all over the place. Much better than those darn orange trees (rever try to eat the fruit from those! Yuck!).
Toyota said recently that it has developed a new species of the Cherry Sage shrub family that effectively absorbs harmful substances in the air. The new species, called Kirsch Pink, will be sold for 380 yen per pot through Toyota Roof Garden Co, a Toyota Motor subsidiary, from March next year. While Cherry Sage plants are known to absorb nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide and other harmful substances in the air, the new species does so 1.3 times more effectively, Toyota says.