December 26, 2006
Pondering about Barcodes and the future
With all the barcodes existing on the market today, here’s a website that allows you to make a personalized barcode for yourself. This may be far off but maybe you can tatoo your barcode and make a touchscreen barcode system to go with it. Well with RFID in a crazy takeoff with Wal-mart and all the greedy mass merchants out there in our worl ... More
72 resources on Open Source apps for Windows
Here’s 72 resources on open source apps for windows! via listible Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, Educational, Educational, open-source, windows, Zedomax ... More
Fun for the holidays - let’s play with your mind!
Okay, it’s nearing the next year so we are going to go off topic and try some fun mind blowing exercises. You gotta try this: You have to try this, it really works. This only takes 2 secs… How Smart Is Your Right Foot? This will boggle your mind. And you will keep trying it at least 50 more times to see if you can outsmart your foot. But ... More
BlueTie - FREE online collaboration tool
Here’s a cool web service that allows you to get up to 20 free email, file share, and do collaborative calendaring for small to medium international businesses. Free Web-based email, calendaring, and file sharing for new and growing businesses. Each account supports up to 20 users with email at jane@yourcompany.com addresses. bluetie, Bus ... More
How to Bypass Most Firewall Restrictions and Access the Internet Privately
Here’s a cool howto on bypassing firewalls. It can also be very helpful those of you trying to make an ethernet application since firewalls are existent almost everywhere now. Even your basic router at your home does have minimal firewall capabilities. This week, we will digg a little bit deeper into firewalls, internet, and security hacks ... More
December 25, 2006
Original Apple II+ Sells for $1,414.87 on ebay
View This Video on You Tube With all the outrageous PS3s and Wiis being sold on ebay, here’s a little apple II that sells at an outrageous price. Talking about some Apple computers that can be programmed in BASIC, check out Comfile CUBLOC embedded computers, which can run at 20Mhz, run 320×240 LCDs, and at 30 times smaller size of an Ap ... More
Homemade Machine Gun
View This Video on You Tube Phew, finally we are on holiday vacation. But the show must go on. I am at my girlfriend’s brother’s apartment in SF having some nice drinks and well, here’s a nice little machine gun you can make for your Christmas and New Years vacation. So you’ve seen the Giant Python K’NEX coaster, now check ... More
Robot Video - Beer Pouring Robot for your lazy Christmas and New Years
View This Video on You Tube This is nice except I probably wouldn’t wait this long for a beer to open, just hack it with my lighter in less than a second. If there was a robot that could use a lighter to open a beer cap, I’d be very amazed. Regardless, we give 2 thumbs up for getting the robot drunk. Ok, so the first model wasn’t ex ... More
Gixer versus Westfield XTR4
View This Video on You Tube Wow, check this out gixer 1000 versus a Westfield XTR4! Too bad they don’t have a drag test… In this Fifth Gear segment, Vicki pits a Suzuki GSX-R1000 up against the Westfield XTR4. Which one comes out on top? via Auto, Auto, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, digg, Entertainment, Entertainment, gixer, gsx, ... More
Wii Video - Wiimote Controls Entire House
View This Video on You Tube Yes, someone evidently is controlling their entire house with a wii controller. Nice! The true mastermind here is the WACI NX control server that sets everything up, and the entire Wii interface can be emulated with a Nokia 770, as shown. The amount of convergence, and the merit of using the Wiimote as a remote control ... More
December 24, 2006
Play wii at the theaters
View This Video on You Tube Wow, check out the realism of playing Wii at the theaters! via Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, engadget, Entertainment, Entertainment, Funny, Funny, Gadgets, Gadgets, Games, Games, nintendo-wii, theaters, Video, Video, wii, wii, wii-theater, Zedomax ... More
TAILDEVIL for skateboards
View This Video on Google Wow, here’s a cool video of the TAILDEVIL, which can make your skateboard lighten up for the New Years! You can ignore the part about Jessica Simpson’s nipple thingee… Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, Entertainment, Entertainment, Funny, Funny, Gadgets, Gadgets, Graphics, Graphics, jessica-simpson-nip ... More
Robot Video - The Amazing Beer-Opening Robot
View This Video on You Tube Nice robot for beer drinkers! via beer-drinking, beer-opening, beer-robot, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, Entertainment, Entertainment, Gadgets, Gadgets, Robots, robots, techeblog, Video, Video, Zedomax ... More
Check out Zedomax tech blog feeds and rss aggregators
Check out Zedomax tech blog feeds and rss aggregators. With tech blog feeds, you can read a bunch of tech blog feeds in text in one page. With rss aggregator, you can read each article of tech blog feeds in one page. We are not exactly sure what to do with it, but we are spidering some sites for rss every hour! If you want your tech blog to be add ... More
Robot - The Chinese Nightingale - Avian Android
Check out these cool looking bird androids! There a video here too. Taking “The Chinese Nightingale”, a tale of Hans Christian Andersen, as a startingpoint to delevop an individual view on the topic of mechanical reproduction of a living organism. The chant of the nightingale, famous for its beautiful and unique sound, is being seri ... More
POC DIY - Mouse Pad Couch
Here’s a Piece of Cake DIY, Mouse pad Couch you can build for yourself if you have lots of extra mouse pads. The thing is, it look really comfortable with all those mouse pads…maybe you can make one out of a memory foam mouse pad. via Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Entertainment, Enter ... More
December 23, 2006
Red Portable Rotary Phone for $499
Check out this interesting red rotary phone from sparkfun. It looks like a regular phone but actually you can put your cellphone sim card in and use it wireless for about 4-5 hours. Lots of possibilities seems to be there for modding and hacking it. This is the ever popular Portable Rotary Phone, now in Red! Phone comes fully assembled and test ... More
DIY Useful Info - AC Devices HOWTO and IR repeaters
Here’s a cool AC Devices HOWTO from the pages of Make! Very simple and very useful. Also check out the IR repeater using McDonald toys on the same page. via ac-devices, Circuits, Circuits, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, Educational, Educational, Entertainment, Entertainment, Gadgets, Gadgets, ir-repeater, make, make-magazine, makezine ... More
DIY HACK - Make Podcast - Make a Bridge and Stand on it!
View This Video on You Tube With 1000 popsicles, you can make model bridges and test the strength of your model! Get pdf instructions here! via bridge-building, build, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Educational, Educational, Entertainment, Entertainment, Gadgets, Gadgets, Hack, Hack, HOWTO, Industrial, Industrial ... More
Video - The Amazing Beer-Pouring Rube Goldberg
View This Video on You Tube Cool beer pouring action for drinking under influence holidays! via beer, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, Entertainment, Entertainment, Funny, Funny, Gadgets, Gadgets, rune-goldberg, techeblog, too, Video, Video, wine, yes, Zedomax ... More
December 22, 2006
Electromagnetic Pistol using PIC!
Wow, check this gun out that William submitted. Thanks William! Check out the photos and how it works. Nice big ass capacitors, wow! Two coils are precisely pulsed in sequence (350 Amp peak) to fire a steel projectile Two infrared sensors detect the projectile position within the firing tube Controlled by a PIC microcontroller Powered by 8 AA ... More
Zedomax DIY125 - HOWTO make a Music Syncing Light Orb Alarm Clock!
View This Video on You Tube Here’s the last DIY for year 2006! Okay, we have seen some really cool Light Orbs while trying to make this Music Syncing Light Orb Alarm Clock. We started with Tod’s creation and soon realize that 1 LED will not be bright enough in slightest light conditions though his Light Orb is tight let us say. So we che ... More
Unicycle Balancing Bot!
View This Video on You Tube Maurits sent us his unicycle balancing robot which actually has one wheel for moving. Thanks Maurits! Now meet another balancing robot. This one balances on one wheel and apparently uses two RCX bricks and four sensors along with three tires to maintain balance on the axis perpendicular to its unicycle. The robot balanc ... More
