Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
Forget touch typing with this baby. Mitsubishi and NTT DoCoMo are working together to create a phone with no keys, just touch screens. The idea is that new features can be added to the phones at any time. The menus can also be modified by the users to reduce the over all complexity of the system. Sounds like an idea that has come none too soon. Still in its experimental phase for now but when it hits it should be very popular.
[via Gizmodo]
You heard of touch screens now check out touch keys
This puts a whole new spin on the old “fly low, go fast, turn left” of the sport of air racing.
The RRL will see Grand Prix-style races between rocket planes, flown by top pilots through a “3D trackway” just 5,000ft (1,500m) above the ground.
The first “X-Racers” will be built for the series, but it is hoped new teams will soon enter with novel designs.
Events will be staged across the US, culminating in a final in New Mexico
[via BBC, title by Dusty Weasel]
Rocket Racing League
Mummm… More ePaper goodness but in color this time!
[via Gizmodo]
Bendable electronic color paper with Image memory from Fujitsu – New Launches
I liked TechTV a lot when it was on and I was very upset when it was absorbed by G4. Where on TV could I find my nerd fix? It looks like the answer isn’t on the TV but on the Internet. DigitalLife TV is hosted by TechTV alumni Patrick Norton and Robert Heron host a weekly program on all sorts of high tech gadgets and computer stuff. A sample from the current show notes follows:
# Jim Louderback shows us how to roll your own NAS (that’s Network Attached Storage) box.
# If you’re looking for NAS kits check out the ADS NAS Drive Kit, the Server Elements NASLite, or just go to the NASLite Sourceforge page.
# Lance Ulanoff on robots: VEX Robotics Design System, and the DARPA Grand Challenge Preview.
# Ripping vinyl to MP3.
# The BitPim cell phone data tool… a nifty tool for getting data in and out of your cell phone.
# And, as always, your questions!
Pretty well rounded to me!
If your lucky enough to be near Minnesota between October 16 and January 0f 2006 you should make a point to stop by an visit the Cabaret Mechanical Theatre touring exhibit at the Science Museum of Minnesota. These Automata are amazing and enlightening . If you can’t get up to the chilly north, you can browse their online shop and pick up a kit that will let you build hundreds of Automata of your very own. If your one that enjoys seeing how things work then this kit is for you.
[via Tech Drool]
Cabaret Mechanical Theatre – A Museum of Automata
What a riot! I built one of these about 17 years ago as a joke. My sonic grenade has a 1/8 phono jack ‘pin’ with a green LED in the end that would light up when the main switch was switched. The main switch was covered with one of those cool aircraft switch covers. When the pin was pulled five LEDs would count down and then blast the area with a mind numbing 120dB sonic blast of pain. Everyone loved it. If only I had know that people would buy stuff like this.
This one works about the same except the only way to shut it off is to replace the pin! Sounds like a one use wonder to me, if someone used it one me I know hat I’d be pretty keen on breaking it in to little silent pieces.
[via The Red Ferret Journal]
Sonic alarm