November 19, 2006
Video DIY - What to do with a WII
View This Video on You Tube Here’s a cool DIY on what to do with a Nintendo Wii right after you waited in line for long hours. Goto these guys website and support their latest gadget smashing… that brings up the question, “why does anyone have to wait for anything?” via engadget Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, Entertainme ... More
Glasses made out of beer!
Can’t miss this one if you are one beer lover like me. via Make These specs are hand carved from two bottles of your favorite beer, or any other bottle for that matter. And they also come with a legal disclaimer, because I’m sure there is somebody out there who would purposely buy a pair only to take a hammer to them, causing a shard ... More
Techcruch Michael Arrington’s Bobblehead
Techcrunch’s Mike Arrington has his own bobblehead, cool… Blog, Blog, Cool, Cool, Web, Web ... More
Order PS3 at RadioShack.com Today?
PS3 can be ordered at Radioshack.com soon! (rumors from gizmodo) also some cool info on pre-ordering ps3 from ps3vault. Cool, Cool, Entertainment, Entertainment, Games, Games ... More
World’s most high tech bathroom at $75,000
View This Video on Google Here’s an awesome bathroom via techeblog! By day, the Urilift is lowered below street level for a nice clean look. Then at night, an operator comes by with a remote and the Urilift hydraulically lifts to sidewalk level in about two minutes Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, Entertainment, Entertainment, Gadgets, Ga ... More
November 18, 2006
JUN-tuned 1000bhp Nissan Skyline R33
View This Video on You Tube Cool skyline at 1000 horsepower…via techeblog The BCNR33 GT-R version also had the same RB26DETT engine that the BNR32 was equipped with, although torque had been improved, due to changes in the turbo compressor aerodynamics, turbo dump pipe, and intercooler. The turbo core changed from a sleeve bearing to a ball ... More
Chinese Security Robot - Kinda cute actually
Here’s the latest Chinese security robot which is kinda cute! via gizmodo Chinese scientists have developed China’s first security robot/automated skirt looker-upper. Weighing in at 125 pounds, this 55×75cm miniature car houses a wide angle camera that can tilt/pan/zoom for extended angles of viewing. It uses ultrasonic (sonar?) ... More
November 17, 2006
Social Networking can be fun and useful
Above is the fortune cookie thing I got today at my favorite Chinese restaurant, well I guess the Social scene can be fun today. Wikipedia has good stuff about it, but personally, the bookmarking feature is really cool since you can save your favorite sites on the web instead of your computer. If you happen to be somewhere else and not in front ... More
Make magazine vol 08!
I just got my new make magazine volume 8, cool cover aey? Audio, Audio, Auto, Auto, Business, Business, Circuits, Circuits, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Earth, Earth, Educational, Educational, Entertainment, Entertainment, Gadgets, Gadgets, Government, Government, Graphics, Graphics, Hack, Hack, Linux, Linux, ma ... More
DIY - Ultimate Night Vision Headlamp - Night golfer’s tools for putting
Here’s a cool DIY on how to make your own night vision headlamp. Well since I don’t really go to caves, I don’t really need one but I’ve always been thinking of making a useful night light for putting on the putting green at my local public golf course, Lincoln Park. This would be great as I’d be able to putt and f ... More
DIY HOWTO - PUT Wikipedia on your IPOD!
Here’s an awesome DIY HACK on howto put wikipedia on your ipod! I’ve commented now and again that I’d be willing to pay upwards of $100 for a handheld version of Wikipedia — one that I can sync via WiFi, then take on the bus and read to my heart’s content. Unfortunately, the market doesn’t seem to be responding to my lone cry… s ... More
PS3 Launch San Francisco: Video of Shantytown
View This Video on You Tube Cool, i gotta check this out! Well, only if I had more time and not have to work! Here’s a high speed flyby of the 700 diehard fans who are waiting in line for the first PS3’s to be sold in SF. The first lines, that I’ve dubbed VIP Place and Style Row, will probably get whatever version they want, 60 ... More
GPOD - the real GPOD
Update from earlier gpod article. We have been getting a lot of good traffic due to the gpod by the way, thanks gpod! Well, I guess Apple still won’t be happy… Well, we just got a reply from one of the developers of Gpod and he wants me to try one. Hmmm… the translated website in English doesn’t say if this is for males, ... More
DIY HOWTO - Turn a standard Xbox 360 video cable into a VGA cable!
Here’s a cool DIY for ya if you have an XBOX 360 via engadget Recent Xbox 360 updates have allowed the system to spit out resolutions up to 1080p, and with the new HD DVD add-on drive there’s more reason than ever to use a high quality VGA signal instead of the more standard 3-cable component. However there’s a bit of a catch &# ... More
VIDEO HOWTO - How wooden doors are made
Wow, here’s an awesome video on HOW to make wooden doors. Which reminds me, i just paid $450 for my new wooden door at my apartment, which I broke because I was too impatient and locked myself out… but otherwise, my life is great! Lowes has some good articles on exterior wooden doors… Yes, you can go kinda into these doors an ... More
Video - College Students Invent AWESOME Parallel Parking Device
View This Video on You Tube Wow, check this out! College students invent awesome parallel parking device. This is very useful for people living in big cities. I wouldn’t call San Francisco a very big city, but there are lots of parking problems and this is a great invention! via techeblog are, Auto, Auto, carpool, Consumer, Consumer, con ... More
November 15, 2006
DIY - Induction Heater
View This Video on You Tube Cool little video on induction heater… I used a PLL driver an H-bridge from my solid-state Tesla coil. The H-bridge is connected to the primary of a ferrite transformer with a 0,66uF capacitor in series. Circuits, Circuits, Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, heater, induction, Video, Video, zedoax ... More
Garrett’s DIY - Upcoming Boe-Bot Hacks - Remote Controlled Insect
Here’s a video of upcoming boe-bot hacks from Garrett using a Parallax Boe-Bot platform and CUBLOC CB220.as brain. This little creature has couple of cool looking features such as a tail, antennas, and eyes that can be remote-controlled via a regular TV remote-control. HOWTO will follow soon. In the meanwhile, you will just have to enjoy ... More
Garre’ts DIY - Home Automation Project - Part One: Real-Time Clock and Calendar
Garrett shows you how to setup your time and automatically sync with your PC’s time on the CB290 Proto Board, so you can program to do a lot of things such as home automation. He’s been showing me how this device will eventually control everything in his apartment, which is kinda cool… Here’s an example that might change your ... More
Hack Wii
Hohoho, here’s first wii hack from instructables via Make! Other links to cool wii stuff: IGN Nintendo Wii has some cool cheats, codes, and more. Nintendo homepage Official Wii Site Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Entertainment, Entertainment, Games, Games, Hack, Hack, hackers, ign, instructables, make, makezine, nintendo, wii, ... More
November 14, 2006
Google Picasa Review - it’s FREE!
Today, Garrett suggested to me how cool this Google Picasa is so I had to install it on my computer and find out. It happens that Picasa does a good job at a lot of things such as organizing all your pictures on your PC, kinda like a google engine on your PC just for your images… This is great, now zedomax can have cool collages in second ... More
DIY Circuit Oxygen Sensor Simulator
Here’s a cool oxygen sensor simulator via hackaday for those of you who need to build some custom control system for your turbo, nitrous, super-charged engines. I used to have a car that I put a turbo-charger on it. Well, I had this really crude fuel oxygen control management system using couple vacuum tubes, but this hack could be good ... More
HOW TO - Make a DVD burner into a High-Powered laser
Here’s howto turn your DVD burner laser into a laser you can use to point at random things… (don’t point at people) via make awesome, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, DVD, Gadgets, Gadgets, Hack, Hack, hackers, Laser, make, makezine, pointer, Zedomax ... More