Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
What the heck is it?It’s an adapter that lets you run a Ceiva from a computer. Whats a Ceiva you ask? A Ceiva is one of those posh digital picture frames that everyone is all keen on turning old laptops into. If your fresh out of old laptop, then go search eBay for a virgin Ceiva. Get one and you can be the talk of your hacker friends. Score big points with the SO by running the emergency ‘kids photos’ script when your mother-in-law stops by for a visit.
WOW!!! Please let this go to market. I’d love to have one. You can see more photos here. Polymer Vision has been turning out the innovation for a while now, I made note of a flexable screen they came out with a few months ago.
Polymer Vision, a subsidiary of Philips, reports that they will present a portable consumer device with a “rollable display” at the Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) in Berlin, Germany, September 2-7. The prototype, called Readius, has a monochrome 5-inch QVGA display with four grey levels that can show maximum two images per second; colour screens with quick move images aren’t possible yet.
The screen has a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels and a high contrast, so it’s also readable in bright daylight.
The display is only 100µm thin and when rolled up has it a diameter of only 7.5mm. It also keeps showing the last image on the screen when you turn off the device.
On the IFA-exhibition Polymer Vision wants to check the wishes of the consumers and demonstrate the adequacy of the technology for the mobile market. Polymer Vision doesn’t want to put this product on the market by themselves, but they are searching for partners and investors. The first devices with this technology should be on the market within 2 years.
Not something that your going to find an application for in most homes, but it is pretty cool if your thinking of setting up a lot of computers at a business.
Chip PC continues to lead the thin-client technology market, now unveiling the ground-breaking Jack-PC, a versatile thin client computer fully integrated into the existing wall LAN jack. This unique concept of “Ccomputer in-the-wall” unfolds important advantages to enterprise IT managers and decision makers. Neatly embedded into enterprise LAN infrastructure, it is fully managed with new Users easily and quickly added and configured remotely.
Finally! Clever looking USB memory keys that are over 256MB! I wonder if I could open a store here in Phoenix that sold stuff like this and actually stay in business…
This is just super cool! Take an old dead hard drive (not totaly dead, it needs to spin up), cut a slot in the top platter, add some LEDs and a microcontroler, and you have yourself a very unique clock. You have to see the videos of it running to fully understand how it works.
[via MAKE:blog]
Alan Parekh’s Electronic Projects – Hard Drive Clock
I discovered this while poking around MAKE, if your lucky enough to own one of the Sony Librie eBook readers and Japanese is not your native language then you might want to have a go at messing with whats under the hood and make it speak English.
I’m a big fan of ebooks, eventually we’ll all be reading them in some way. The Sony e-ink Librie is the best device at the moment I think, hence my current obsession. But, that means there will be lots of how-tos and more here. This one is on English-izing the device since it’s in Japanse. The previous and latest version(s) of the Librie English GUI Firmware Patch includes a HOWTO TXT file, a few folks asked me for some help- so here’s the original how-to with my screenshots and comments…