Category: Cool

You Have Been Eaten By A Grue

Zork

You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.
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Ah, now that was the day. Computer games had the best graphics, the smoothest animation, and the best soundtracks because it was all in your head… Yep, text adventures games were and are some of the best fun you can have with a computer game. For a little history go see what Wikipedia has to say about the historic Zork series and when your done with that go a head and play the game. Some guys made a version that runs via PHP. Now if that don’t rock I don’t know what does.

… 404 Error: Now what??? …

(If you want to cheat a little you can look at some maps of the game)

grue, zork, computer, game, retro

In Car Black Box Video Recorder

In car cameras

I can see these becoming the next thing in high tech ‘must have’ add-ons in luxury cars. If you think about it, if you had one of these and you knew it would be buffering images from the cameras all the time even while driving you might be a bit of a better driver. Even more so if you knew that if there were an accident that you were involved in the device would have a record of the accident and a few seconds before it. It might be a real help in pointing the finger at who did what to who. Then again, the same idea might ensure that the idea never gets off the ground, from what I have seen on the roads most of the more expensive cars and SUVs are driven by some of the worst drivers around. No, an H2 can not make a left had turn from the right lane and think that no one will notice! Maybe its just that the cars are so freaking huge that you notice them more and thus their poor driving is thrown into sharp contrast. Anyway, this is a mighty clever security system – one I’m sure that will make the main stream news any day now.

The Insight System is designed to operate in buffering mode for an average of two weeks without starting your vehicle. Thereafter it will run uninterrupted without buffering , all on a standard car battery. This ensures that the most useful images are recorded…Cameras are placed inconspicuously throughout the vehicle…a typical camera installation covers all angles of the vehicle, including events that occur both in front of and behind the vehicle.

InSight Sales brochure
Product images and ordering

8×8 LED Billboard

pixie2

A fun little hardware project if you have some down time. This is an 8×8 update to his original 4×4 project, I’m not sure how many ‘pages’ you can store in the micro’s memory but it should be enough to make some simple designs move. in my opinion, this would be a good project for someone who is looking to build a PIC based project for the first time.

picxie 2 led billboard
[via: hackaday]

LEDs, project, DIY, hardware

Buggy Coffee Machine

Coffee wagon

Not only does this heavely modded golf cart serve up coffee, but it also offers a way for a person to rebuild their life.

Experience of running the DASH business has taught us that is unfair to expect existing Streetwork staff, who’s skills and primary motivation is to help very vulnerable and damaged young people, to also run a retail business that competes with Starbucks or Costa. Therefore, in order to maximise the social business potential of street-based coffee selling, a new subsidiary company has been formed called Streetwork Trading Ltd.

Streetwork
[Via: we make money not art]

homeless, coffee, UK

Paper Forest

Paper Forest

Anyone with a love of building things out of paper will enjoy this site. Inside this blog you will find links to origami, info on paper Disney castles, way cool japanese ‘make-it-yourself’ paper version of Life, and other coolness.
Go grab your card stock and fire up the inkjet printer and build yourself silly this weekend.

Paper Forest

cool, paper, paper toys

Solar Kitchen

Solar cooker

Neat, another solar cooker! If your in a place where the sun shines a lot – like the southwest United States – one of these could save you some bucks on gas on y our next BBQ. Good for camping too, you could boil water without worring about starting a forest fire.
The site leads you to one in Italian but you can find there in the US. The Solar Cooking Archive is a good place to start, lots of information there. If your looking for one that is a bit like the Italian one, the ClearDome SolaReflex Parabolic Solar Cooker should do the trick for you. And if your wondering why the heck you would use a big old silver salad bowl to cook with, you should read this.

Solar kitchen

solar, cooking, green