Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
Now this is neat. Implant gobs of imaging sensors between the LCD pixels and have a chunk of software assemble the output as an image. Sounds Orwellian (yeah, that’s what everyone is saying about it…) to me. Might be handy though, I’m sure that advertisers will love this sort of thing, it so reminds me of Max Headroom.
[via core77]
New Scientist Breaking News – Invention: Apple’s all-seeing screen
The 2006 Makefaire is going on in San Francisco Ca this weekend. If your in the area or have enough cash burning a hole in your pocket to get a flight there you should go. Hobbyists, scientists, tinkers, gadget makers, Mythbusters, warrenty voiders, and a slug of other cool people are there discussing what they do and showing you how to do it. If your like me and are stuck at home, you can catch some video and see photos of it online.
I was doing research for an LED project and I ran across this site that sells all sorts of LEDs, fluorescent lamps, and very cool nixie tubes. Just thought I’d mention this because nixie tubes look real cool. So if you need some for a project you know where to go now.
LEDsales. LEDs, nixies and other cool stuff. – Nixie tubes and accessories
If you every play with webcams you quickly discover that the field of view just isn’t what is should be. These guys have put together a nice little hacking tutorial on how to mate a door peephole lens with an ordinary low end digital camera. Now I’ve been doing this for some time, either with peepholes like these guys or with some random lenses that I happen to have in my junk box (meniscus, plano convex, convex, etc.). Years ago I used to have a web cam pointed at a TV with a plano concave lens taped in front of it to expand the field of view. Worked great, it was fun to mess with. Adding a super wide angle lens to a low end camera will yield some pretty cool results, I suggest that you run out and pick a few peepholes up, they don’t cost much. I got mine and Home Depot for around $5USD. Heat up the hot glue gun and have fun!
[via Hack-a-day]
The Aggregate: Fisheye Digital Imaging For Under Twenty Dollars
NASA has announced that they will be launching a new space craft that will search for ice at the moons south pole. The hope is that water ice may be found to exist in the craters that never receive direct sunlight. If this is the case then the pathway to a fully manned moon base might be one step closer to being traveled upon. I hope that I can soon sit with my children in my arms and say, "Look at the moon, if you play your cards right you can live up there."
I’m not a big fan of cars with woofers so loud that their cheap chrome trim rattles lose but this speaker is worthy of respect:
Unfortunately, Tim and his crew didn’t realize just how much acoustical power the sub could generate, and didn’t build the vehicle to contain it appropriately. Even at less than 1/2 output, the doors were blown off the tracks, and the entire vehicle ballooned in and out several inches.
That is one hell of a speaker!
[via OhGizmo]