Category: Technology

LED Lighting

I found a Japanese page on energy efficent home lighting fixtures that use LEDs. I’d like to be able to buy lights like these from Homedepot. I bought a set of LED Christmas lights for my brother, I’ll have to pick up a set for myself next year.
Do it Ene it with the lighting of conserving?

I found a few more links to LEDs in the home. The Luxeon lamps are just darn bright, I’d like a few of them. The second link is a great review of high brightness LEDs and other LED applications. Dans Data is a pretty handy site for finding info about stuff.
Luxeon High Brightness LEDs
LED Light Roundup

Mini Tank Madness!

So cool! These are just one of the coolest things ever. I think the ultimate version would have beefed up suspension so you could move over good sized rocks, stereo cameras and a set of VR glasses (with an adjustable parallax so you could either drive a little tank or a full sized one), a set of IR sensors to detect hits and an visible/IR laser on the main gun (with an program that will simulate the reload cycle and maybe windage). A few of those in your back yard would be quite the evening.
R/C Tanks

Tablet PCs Fill With Ink

Ah, just brilliant… I remember using the ‘pen for Windows’ stuff years ago and it was just not ready for prime time. Looks to still be the case.
Turns out that there is a file that suffers from a memory leak and will go from using 10MB to using 150MB + after you used the suspend feature for a few weeks. Is a fix from M$ on the way… Nope…

Tablet PC bug ‘fills computer with ink’