Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
If you need a heat sink that extends outside of your computer, you might be a power user…
With heat pipes and real big heat sinks this sucker should keep your card cool even in the most intense of fire fights. Good thing that BZFlag isn’t all that graphic intensive or I’d have to get one of these.
Fanreshetoshinc that expands outside Sarmaltic and case fin
Now some of these characters you can’t do with an English keyboard, but you can do a few.
Kao-moji(Japanese Emoticons)
An important step towards my coveted “eyeball camera” that would show what the human eye sees without having to worry about exposure
-Greg
New Image Sensor Will Show What The Eyes See, And A Camera Cannot
This sounds great, the dynamic range of regular imaging chips is pretty bad. The Foveon chip from Sigma is better than most in this department but still can’t give you what the human eye can see.
If you had the CPU time and extra cameras you could layer many photos of the same scene that have been taken at different exposures to expand the dynamic range of a camera. It works pretty well, except you can get halos around bright objects due to the ‘bloom’ on the over exposed images. Years ago (like around 1989) I conceived an idea of of a pair of adaptive sun glasses. The lenses would be made from clear liquid crystals sheet. There would be a camera that would ‘survey’ the scene in front of the person wearing them and lower the brightness of the highlights (the glasses would know where the wearers eyes were vie IR sensors so the ‘dodging’ would be properly placed). One application would be for driving at night, you would not be blinded by on coming traffic, they headlights would be ‘dulled’ so your eyes would not be dazzled. I’d build a prototype of this but I just don’t have the cash right now. If any investors see this and can realize the obvious monster potential for such a product, please contact me. 🙂
-John
I saw a program on TV about the latest in backpacking gear. It was amazed to see that if you didn’t mind roughing it a bit more than usual you could cut your pack weight down to less than 10 pounds for a few days worth of hiking. Here are a few handy links:
Makes me want to start camping again. I always hated to carry 40 pounds of junk on my back. BTW, if you click on the photo of me you can see a small gallery of hiking photos.
-John
I added a few stat tracking thingies and some ads from Google. Whee! Now go click on the ads and tell all youre friends to come visit my site and do the same thing! Oh yeah, donations are always welcomed. 🙂
-John
All the information you have ever wanted on those little micrto R/C cars. Go buy a few and mod them for other applications.
RC-CAM Projects: Micro R/C Car Hacks for Model Airplane Use