Category: Computers

Sony Librie – A Users Review

Sony libre

I happened across this while checking out some Flickr images. He had a close up shot of the screen of a Sony Librie :
Close up
So far this is the first ‘screen shot’ I’ve seen and it looks gteat! Best part of all is that it’s still visable in full sun light, as Nick says “It is like there is a small laser printer inside of the Librie, printing a new piece of future paper each time I turn the page.”
If it wasn’t so flipping expencive I’d own one. I do enjoy reading eBooks. I’m stuck with my flakey Viewsonic V36 PDA for now.

nick gray dot net

Bigger Shuffles Soon?

Bigger iPods?

Well if its not a screw up then Apple lawyers will not go hungry this month.
Larger Shuffles are inevitable. As flash storage drops in price the demand is going to keep going up – although I can see it topping out at 10GB just because transfer times. I wish that the interface wasn’t only USB 2. A Firewire 800 option would be nice.

Wouldn’t be the first time that a price comparison site has jumped the gun and accidentally revealed the existence of an unannounced new product (or screwed up and “announced” a product which doesn’t exist), but apparently some listings have turned up on Shopping.com for both a 2GB and a 4GB iPod shuffle. Neither listing includes any extra juiciness like a release date or pricing, but we’ve been hearing rumors about 2GB and 4GB iPod shuffles since May and supposedly Apple’s planning to announce a mess of new iPods at next month’s expo in Paris.

2GB and 4GB iPod shuffles?

LEGO 3D Chocolate Printer

Chocolate 3D printer

I’d like to see some of the results of his contraption…

Using lego and a few custom components a 3D printer for chocolate is possible. I did this project a long time ago so the documentation is incomplete, but hopefully it will inspire someone to rebuild it and fill in the blanks.

Some of the other projects at Instructables are pretty neat as well, its like Flickr for people who build things.

3D chocolate printer made from LEGO

IMSAI Series Two USB Case or Real Retro Computer

IMSAI Case

The classic IMSAI micro computer is back! Well, kind of, the IMSAI Series Two USB has the ability to house a Zilog eZ80 Acclaim 50 MHz computer or an ATX or mini-ATX PC (if you just want that retro look).
Now, what I want to know is if they will have support for an 8 inch floppy drive!
The guys on MAKE are going go nuts over this one.
[via Boing Boing]
IMSAI Homepage

WAR!

Google War

I just saw this on Tech Drool tonight.

GEwar is the first truly interactive game built using Google Earth. The game itself is fairly simple, but should provide some fun entertainment for you.

The basic idea of the game is this: You build armies to go around the world and capture cities. The cities all have a “value”, which is based on their population. The total value of all of the cities in your control is called your “total value”. The person with the highest “total value” is the one that is currently winning the game (and on top of the top players list). You can attack (and capture) cities using your armies. Armies (and other items) can be purchased using “Geos” that you can earn.

Once I get my PC that runs Google Earth up I’m so playing this.
Google War