Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
I remember wanting one of these so bad when they came out, 32 bit CPU, QWERTY keyboard, huge LCD screen, graphing and real time 3D rotation… Man, these were the hottest things out there. Now days I think you can get all that and more in a PDA but they don’t look nearly as cool.
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Well, I know if I had a huge home and more money than I knew what to do with I’d have a home theater like this. I’d have a bigger screen though, I’d also want one of those 3-chip DLP projectors. You need real good black levels and absolutely no rainbow distortion if your going to blow, er, I mean ‘invest’ money into a home theater like this. Nothing says ‘I have it where it counts’ than owning a crew served video projector!
[via Digg]
I spotted this on MAKE today, looks pretty cool. Sadly, it’s not part of some giant Victorian inspired wooden robot thats driven by steam and springs that will clamber across the lowlands in search of villages to trounce. It’s part of an assignment to build a wooden toy that was inspired by the works of Leonardo da Vinci.
[via MAKE]
Traditionally, an air plane uses control surfaces like flaps to translate from one position and orientation to another in space (air). In England, an aircraft is being developed that will do away with movable surfaces and replace them with vectored thrust. Than means that in place of a flap there will be a vent that will blow air out of the trailing edge of the win. The result will be a plane with far fewer moving parts, lower cost, and an over all higher reliability.
My Flickr contact Nicolai_g posted a how to on adding bulb and multiple exposure capabilities to a simple ‘toy/crap’ PHD camera. You might not think that it’s worth doing but if you want to have a very cheap camera to mess with this is the way to go. I expect that the the internals of this camera are not all that different than the ones you will find in your local Goodwill or thrift store so if you can’t find this exact model you should be able to figure out the correct hack.
(BTW, in this case ‘PHD’ means ‘push here dummy’)
This is sweet! As it could only come from an Asian manufacturer the ad blurb is a little quirky but who doesn’t like that? As they say, "It is a fashion Embodiment of the audio-visual products.." I should have been looking for these on my trip to Thailand, I bet these are pretty popular there. Heck, I bet they would be popular in the states if you could get away with selling them. Something like this would be labeled a tool of terrorism by the RIAA and anyone owning one would be an enemy of the state.
Support MPEG1 (VCD ) / MPEG2 (DVD ) / MPEG4/WMV/WMA/MP3/JPEG forms of many kinds of multimedia. Support 2.5" mainstream IDE hard disk (notebook computer hard disk), One 40G hard disk have can hold 100 MPEG4 high-definition film file , support Divx, Xvid the code compresses. It is the present hot multimedia that play form , the finished product is small , light, easy to use, can In order to download the multimedia file from the computer through USB2.0 port, ,And can hold concurrently and act as the Move hard disk. Can meet user’s instructions for use in different occasions . It is a fashion Embodiment of the audio-visual products..
MPEG4/DVD/HDD Multi-media Player-MIDI/HDD Karaoke machine,DVD/hard disk/MPEG-4 decode board