My friend Greg used to tell me about using a gas flame as a speaker. This use of ‘Victorian tecnhology’ is pretty cool, looks like he might have some other examples of old tech that has been turned into art.
Category: Technology
Ceiva Adapter
What the heck is it?It’s an adapter that lets you run a Ceiva from a computer. Whats a Ceiva you ask? A Ceiva is one of those posh digital picture frames that everyone is all keen on turning old laptops into. If your fresh out of old laptop, then go search eBay for a virgin Ceiva. Get one and you can be the talk of your hacker friends. Score big points with the SO by running the emergency ‘kids photos’ script when your mother-in-law stops by for a visit.
EverLED
A pop in replacement for standard incandecent bayonet light bulbs. If it wan’t for the outlandish price I’d get a bunch.
[via Red Ferret ]
EverLED
N55 Protest Rocket System
Lets just for a moment forget the fact that if you wheel one of these up to a demonstration, convention, or rally your going to get all sorts of unwanted attention like getting thrown into a police car or shot in the head by a sniper. But then again, maybe you like that sort of thing… Kids today…
Anyway, other than that the idea is pretty cool. If you want to read a pretty good over view of how a modern high powered rocket works this is it. Because the BATF has made obtaining black powder motors next to impossible, the NO2 (nitrous oxide) and plastic motors have become very popular. Its amazing what will produce thrust if you give it a good oxidizer.
Technical specifications:
Maximum speed: approx. 475 m/s or 2600 km/h
Apogee: 5200 meters at a launch angle of 85 degrees
Net weight: 8,5 kg
Fuel weight: 3.8 kgComponent list:
Steel tube Ø 102 mm
Acrylic tube Ø 100 mm
Rocket head: Fiberglass / epoxy
Cupper nozzle
Parachute
Fuel grain: LPDE polyethylene block
Oxidizer: N20
Bolts, nuts
Launching pad
Launch Control Box:
Polyethylene box, electric cords, electric switches
Kawaii Doraemon Phone
For those of you who arn’t in the know, Doraemon is 35 years old this month and in celebration of this historic event, the motherboard maker GIGABYTE is issuing a limited run (only 5000) of Doraemon themed cell phones. If I had 15,900 yuan I’d buy one for my wife but the chances of that are slim and next to none.
Doreamon is a character from a Japanese comic. This robot cat is the only feline creature that had its ears chewed off by mice. A Doreaphone was launched a few years ago, aimed at children, and their parents could locate them with this phone in case of an emergency. The Taiwanese site ePRICE spills the beans on this new version of the Doreaphone, that is basically a GIGABYTE g-X5 (this company also manufactures motherboards) in blue robot cat colours
[via Gizmodo]
Doraemon Doreaphone
Rollable ePaper Display
WOW!!! Please let this go to market. I’d love to have one. You can see more photos here. Polymer Vision has been turning out the innovation for a while now, I made note of a flexable screen they came out with a few months ago.
Polymer Vision, a subsidiary of Philips, reports that they will present a portable consumer device with a “rollable display” at the Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) in Berlin, Germany, September 2-7. The prototype, called Readius, has a monochrome 5-inch QVGA display with four grey levels that can show maximum two images per second; colour screens with quick move images aren’t possible yet.
The screen has a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels and a high contrast, so it’s also readable in bright daylight.
The display is only 100µm thin and when rolled up has it a diameter of only 7.5mm. It also keeps showing the last image on the screen when you turn off the device.
On the IFA-exhibition Polymer Vision wants to check the wishes of the consumers and demonstrate the adequacy of the technology for the mobile market. Polymer Vision doesn’t want to put this product on the market by themselves, but they are searching for partners and investors. The first devices with this technology should be on the market within 2 years.