icbank.com, a technology firm in Korea makes these cool MP3 kits you can build.

They have two different types of MP3 players that you can build.

One of them uses a hard drive and the other one uses an SD memory card as storage.

The whole thing runs on a Atmel ATmega 128L, which is kinda cool.

They also give you the source code to the firmware, so you can customize after building it.

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Awesome new technology from Brown University, this will change a lot of industrial and consumer goods in the future.

The result is a hybrid. Like a capacitor, the battery can be rapidly charged then discharged to deliver power. Like a battery, it can store and deliver that charge over long periods of time. During performance testing, the new battery performed like a hybrid, too. It had twice the storage capacity of an electric double-layer capacitor. And it delivered more than 100 times the power of a standard alkaline battery.

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Here’s a camera quality shootout between Nokia N93 and Sony Ericsson K800i.
Nokia is the on the left side and Sony is on the right.

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Here’s a cool site that has some free DIYs such as sneaky counterfeit detector, sneaky boomerang,
sneaky survival watch, and more…
via sneakyuses

Cy from sneakyuses.com writes,

“Sneakier Uses for Everyday Things has a science reuse and conservation theme illustrating how we
can do much more than we think with what we already have.”

Thanks Cy for the info~

There’s also a Youtube energy saving DIY competition,
you can read about it in Make.

TDK has announced that it’s reached a capacity of 32GB with its new IDE compatible NAND Flash memory. The Flash disk is roughly 20 percent smaller in size than a standard 2.4-inch notebook drive, consumes less less power and can transfer data at rates up to 33.3MBps. It is currently available only in limited sample quantities, but with all the announcements of similar devices, expect to start seeing these readily available in laptops sometime next year.
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Here’s some cool technologies used for football these days including water cooling system, Hit System that measures Gs, Bod Pod, Cooling Shirts, and more…

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This is a really cool way of hacking your XBOX 360 to make it mobile…

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Here’s a cool way to connect a SD Card to your WRT54G, but you could probably apply it for any other application…

This guy found that an old-style floppy connector fits a SD card perfectly. He shows how to wire the connector up to your WRT54g.

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This isn’t exactly emerging technology but can be something for your kids to get started in robotics w/o all the hardware and dangerous voltages…

[via] a1qualitytoy.com

Here’s an emerging technology that will help farmers become more efficient using the latests GPS gizmos.

The CropCam is a self-guided GPS plane for keeping up with your crops. The farmer tosses it into the air, and the CropCam will fly around in a preset pattern around his fields, snapping precise stills marked with latitude and longitude of the ground below. The six pound plane can cover 160 acres per launch, which is enough for many a farmer, and is a quick option to assess distributions of disease and a convenient way to document growing progress year to year.

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