Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
I remember wanting one of these so bad when they came out, 32 bit CPU, QWERTY keyboard, huge LCD screen, graphing and real time 3D rotation… Man, these were the hottest things out there. Now days I think you can get all that and more in a PDA but they don’t look nearly as cool.
See more classics at the Datamath Calculator Museum
This is sweet! As it could only come from an Asian manufacturer the ad blurb is a little quirky but who doesn’t like that? As they say, "It is a fashion Embodiment of the audio-visual products.." I should have been looking for these on my trip to Thailand, I bet these are pretty popular there. Heck, I bet they would be popular in the states if you could get away with selling them. Something like this would be labeled a tool of terrorism by the RIAA and anyone owning one would be an enemy of the state.
Support MPEG1 (VCD ) / MPEG2 (DVD ) / MPEG4/WMV/WMA/MP3/JPEG forms of many kinds of multimedia. Support 2.5" mainstream IDE hard disk (notebook computer hard disk), One 40G hard disk have can hold 100 MPEG4 high-definition film file , support Divx, Xvid the code compresses. It is the present hot multimedia that play form , the finished product is small , light, easy to use, can In order to download the multimedia file from the computer through USB2.0 port, ,And can hold concurrently and act as the Move hard disk. Can meet user’s instructions for use in different occasions . It is a fashion Embodiment of the audio-visual products..
MPEG4/DVD/HDD Multi-media Player-MIDI/HDD Karaoke machine,DVD/hard disk/MPEG-4 decode board
The degrees of freedom on these things just gets better and better as time goes on. I keep thinking that a clip of dancing robots will surface showing the guys building ‘robot’ pyramids or doing monkey chains. Looking forward to when they become waterproof and start doing synchronized swimming routines. The coolest innovation so far has got to be the way they can be programmed. You can still use the old spread sheet looking method of setting the joint position on a time line sort of interface if you want but the coolest way is the following:
The simplest way to program ROBONOVA-1 is with the “catch and play” function. Using RoboScript or RoboBasic, just move the robot into any position and click the mouse to “capture” that position. Move the robot into another position and repeat the process. The software then links these “captured” positions and once activated, smoothly transitions the robot’s movements through these programmed positions.
Hard to beat that!
(Thanks to special agent Kevin who is on assignment at the digital frontier for this link)
Very cool but cool with a non cool price. Who would have known that a computer 2"x2"x1.7" would cost $1330!
[via Gizmodo]
Wow, talk about serious old school. An entire computer built out of relay logic is quite an impressive feat. OK, fifty years ago it was pretty normal but the transistor wisened everyone up pretty quick. He’s got this cool video clip of the LEDs blinking and stuff here.
Crud, it looks like one of my favorite web pages is down. I use Protopage to keep a BUNCH of my web links orginized on my various computers. I like the fact that it was the same on every page and so darn easy to maintain. If they are down due to a server crash or somthing it would be nice to have their main page redirected to a ‘sorry, it broke’ page or somthing. I hope it’s up soon…