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Posted on 07.16.08 by John @ 6:41 pm
動く！改造アホ一台 Filed under: Computers and DIY and Dumb and Hacked and Japan and Mad Science and Technology Comments: 1 Comment |
Remembering that your typical USB port delivers 2.5 W doing anything other than lighting up a novelty hub or a clever little tree is about all you can do. Not quite. A clever fellow in Japan set out to prove this wrong. By using six five port USB expansion cards he has upped the thermal output from a wimpy 2.5 W to a respectable 75W! Oh yes, you can see where this is going. This looks like this is his second attempt at computer assisted gastronomy, he tried to |
Posted on 04.01.08 by John @ 7:37 pm
This incident is quite possibly the first computer attack to inflict physical harm on the victims: hackers uploaded a flashing computer animation to an epilepsy support forum to trigger epileptic attacks! Neatorama » Blog Archive » Hackers “Seize-rolled” Epilepsy Sufferers in a Support Forum Filed under: Computers and Cool and Hacked and To be used for Evil Comments: Comments Off |
Not that I think that doing this with the intent to harm people is very nice at all, I have to admit that figuring out what in essence causes a ‘|
Posted on 09.20.07 by John @ 8:17 pm
Filed under: Computers and Cool and DIY and Technology Comments: None |
Well, its not quite the super sensory perception you see in comic books, a group of researchers utilizing |
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 |
I have been trying this out and I can genuinely say that I’m impressed. |
Posted on 06.27.07 by John @ 6:28 am
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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 06.13.07 by John @ 3:13 pm
Japan’s electronics giant Sanyo unveils a new ultra-short focus projector "LP-XL50" in Tokyo. The LP-XL50 can project an image to fit an 80-inch screen from a distance of only eight centimeters (3.2 inches) from a range of positions and surfaces due to its new optical engine technology. The resolution will be 1024 x 768 and is aimed at computer use rather than home theater use. I’m sure this will last about thirty seconds after the devices are released in the states come December. Filed under: Computers and Technology Comments: None |
Ah, the latest in projector technology is here and with a decidedly clever twist:|
Posted on 06.05.07 by John @ 9:20 pm
Electronista | SanDisk intros 64GB flash drive for notebooks Filed under: Computers and Technology and To be used for Evil Comments: None |
It looks as if the dream of a solid state laptop is almost here. SanDisk, makers of mighty fine memory products (I use them in my digital camera) have introduced a 64GB solid state flash drive in a 2.5 inch SATA version for portable computers and knowing that the public’s hunger for music players will never be slaked, a 1.8 PATA version for things like, gee, I don’t know, iPods? It’s a short leap to the iPhone from here. 64GB of storage would be just fine for most people on a laptop. Even if it wasn’t the .11 millisecond reaction time and less than a watt power dissipation will make using these an easy move.|
Posted on 04.08.07 by John @ 8:28 pm
March 31st is going to bring some major changes when eMobile brings it’s unlimited high-speed (3.6mbps HSPDA) service for a flat monthly rate of ¥4980 ($43). The current mobile data leader Willcom offers a flat-rate service of 128kbps for ¥9000 ($77). As Gerhard points out, eMobiles service is 30 times the speed at half the price. Below is an exclusive look at eMobile’s EM-ONE PDA which will work with the new data service and has wi-fi, digital tv, a 4.1 inch Sharp display, a camera, and Windows Mobile 5.0. YOu have to check the full article out, this is one hell of a phone. Trends in Japan - Tokyo Blog » A look at eMobile, the EM-ONE, and the coming upheaval in Japan Filed under: Computers and Cool and Japan and Technology Comments: 1 Comment |
Gahh! I wish the data network here in America were as advanced as the ones in Japan. 3.6mb/s? That’s better than what I get on my cable modem at my home.|
Posted on 03.26.07 by John @ 9:19 pm
Filed under: Apple and Computers and News Comments: None |
I think I might have done the impossible, I found a review of the new Apple TV that was not written by a drooling Apple fanboy. Nice review, gives an honest opinion of the video quality of what was playing on the demo model. He does put forth an interesting idea on how one could go about turning the Apple TV into an automated bit torrent downloading monster capable of transcoding Xvid video to H264. Ooo.. I wants one…|
Posted on 03.19.07 by John @ 9:48 pm
Filed under: Artistic and Computers and Cool and DIY and Science Comments: None |
I was reading my |
Posted on 03.14.07 by John @ 3:56 pm
What do you get when you mix a 1970’s style analog chart recorder, an 8-bit microcontroller, and a Fisher-Price Doodle Pro? A truly 21st century toy: An analog PlotBot with e-paper display technology! Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories - An AVR-based Analog Plotbot with an E-Paper Display Filed under: Artistic and Computers and Cool and DIY and Design and Hacked and Mad Science and Technology Comments: None |
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Posted on 03.05.07 by John @ 5:19 pm
Home brew games and music on the move with your DS! With Games ‘n’ Music, you can put your Nintendo DS or DS Lite at the centre of your digital lifestyle. You can use it to launch home brew games written for the DS and readily available on the internet, listen to your happening sounds with the device’s integrated MP3 player or even watch videos. And you don’t need to modify your console to use it… Games ‘n’ Music comes with a 128MB Micro SD card for you to store your games and data, and if that’s not enough, just slip in a new card and expand its capacity to up to 2GB. It’s really easy to use too. Just fit the Micro SD card into the USB adapter (supplied), plug it into your computer and drag and drop your files onto the card. It’s that easy! Filed under: Computers and Cool and Hacked and Technology Comments: None |
Very nice, makes me want a Nintendo DS all the more. I wonder if the games are any good. It would be quite the thing to have a photo viewer on one. Keep a card with holiday snaps with you and pop it in when you want to show them off.|
Posted on 02.22.07 by John @ 6:01 am
The Soundgin is a serially controlled Sound Synthesizer in a PIC. The sample on the page are quite good. I can see this as an easy to implement addition to a lot of DIY music projects or a speech synthesizer for robots. [via retrothing] Filed under: Artistic and Computers and Cool and DIY and Technology Comments: 1 Comment |
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Posted on 02.22.07 by John @ 5:51 am
The xu1541 is the modern way to connect cbm iec bus devices to todays USB equipped PCs and it is meant to replace the printer port solutions based on the so-called original x1541 cable. The xu1541 interface allows you e.g. to attach a VC1541 disk drive to your desktop PC as depicted below. This allows for easy transfer of disk images from and to the old units and helps you preserve your ancient data. If your looking for a nice Commodore 64 emulator I’d recommend CCS64. I’ve had good results with that myself. Filed under: Computers and Cool and Hacked and Historic Comments: None |
Not that the need to connect an antique floppy drive to you computer happens everyday but if it does, this is just the device you will be needing.| previous posts » |
