Who would have thought, origami camping stuff. It would be nice to be able to heat foods in these but I think that would be asking a lot.
Author: John
Vectrex
I was reading Ektopia a few days ago and ran across a entry on the Vectrex game system. I remember playing one in the waiting room of my orthodontists back in 1984, many times it was the only reason I’d go to the appointments (that and the cute assistants that he would hire). Years later I found one at a second hand store and bought it in a flash. It was a fantastic game system, the games were fun and looked pretty good even if they were all vector based.
HotCam
Push the button on the top of the car and the lights come on showing it’s recording sound and video. Once the scene has been shot the kids can hook the car up to a TV and watch what they recorded.
Find-A-Human
Kevin says:
No, it’s not a dating service.
Basically a list of what to do to quickly speak to a human when calling banks, cell phone companies, etc.
All hail the internet
3D PSP from Konami
Konami is coming out with a stereoptic viewer adapter named ‘Solid Eye’ for use on your Play Station Portable. From the looks of the translated page it works on the same principal as a classic stereoscope (screen is divided down the center, each side has a slightly different view, and the brain fuses the image into 3D naturally) and works with Metal Gear Acid 2 (coming out in December for apx $50US).
Now I want a PSP so I can display my stereo slides in a cool high tech way.
Konami Introduces 3D PSP Viewer
Translated for your reading pleasure
The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 by Popular Mechanics
These books are a wonderful read, cover to cover you will find contraptions and ideas for solving all sorts of problems of every day life.
Many of them may have been practical years ago but are now jaw dropingly weird, but they will still make you knock away the cobwebs in your brain and appreciate the cleverness of these books.
Volume one is available from Project Gutenberg as a free download (its over 500 pages long!) as it’s now out of print but volume three you can buy from Lindsay’s Technical Books (a goldmine of almost forgotten information can be found there!). It would be worth looking for volume one on eBay just because having a nicely bound book is a heck of a lot better than a stack of papers held together with binder clips.
The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 by Popular Mechanics
The Boy Mechanic: Volume 3 from Lindsay Books