Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
Another company is selling little plants for your cell phone. Their selection is impressive, I wouldn’t mind getting a blue jade plant, those look pretty cool. I bought a keychain plant as a gift last year and the tiny cactus is still alive and looks ok so I’d say that they are a pretty good investment. I’d like to see one of the algae pal kinds though, those seem pretty odd.
Real or synthetic? The quality of these man made diamonds are as good if not better than what you can find in nature. Because of this these high quality chunks of carbon might become the next big thing in semi conductors.
[via neat-o-rama]
Booting your PC via a USB key drive into a cut down version of XP could have many uses. I might give this a go, it would be handy to have when I get people that have a bad virus/malware infection.
[via Mike Linnen Blog]
Have some old NTSC monitors gathering dust in your basement? Why not make a triple head display out of them. Sounds kooky but you can drive three monitors from one card by sending data on each color. So you get one monitor each for the red, green, and blue signals. Cool, eh? You have to hack your video cards BIOS a bit to get the refresh to match the TVs, but that’s well worth it.
[via hack-a-day]
I’m a little short on the batteries he used as the counter weight but other than that I’m all set! this makes a great addition to the paper trebuchet that I found online a while ago. Come to think on it, its almost as cool as the popsicle trebuchet.
Time to get bending and lay siege to the photocopier.
[via Digg]
Looks as if some enterprising hacker has built himself a robot that runs off a Nintendo DS
# 20 Digital Input/Output for multipurpose use.
# Customizable with you own Motors and Sensors
# Wireless programming and controling.
# You can use your DSRobot with NinjaDS to make the robot works alone.
# Programmable in C or C++ with devkitpro and a custom library to manage the signals.
# You can use PAlib (very easy NDS library to program you first DSRobot
# Upgradable Software & Hardware.
The prototype has six sensors and two motors on it for now. DSRobot say that they will be selling kits, I wonder what Nintendo thinks of this…
[via Robot Gossip]