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Wow, who would’ve thought you could make a Lego PC?

Most things worked out amazingly well, like the ATX power switches fitting perfectly snug in the space of a 1×1 brick, and the LEDs fitting perfectly in a 1×1 brick with hole. I hot glued a 1×1 brick to the power and reset switches to act as buttons. I also put a dab of hot glue on each corner of the ATX I/O plate, which was just a little too small to fit snugly.

I also realized that I underestimated the cohesive strength of Lego bricks. When I first put the top on, I couldn’t get it off! I had to add a nearly complete border of flat plates from my spare parts to get it to detach easily.

via crave, tfvlue

Well, I am not about get another router as my current Linksys WRT54GS has been hacked with DD-WRT firmware and it allows for power control already but D-Link is coming out with new green routers that use 40% less power.

I have never been a fan of D-Link products because they usually fail or simply suck. (perhaps because its super cheap)

Maybe this “green” router will prove us different but I am still skeptical whether D-Link can produce the goods.

The DIR-655 Xtreme N Gigabit router and the even smarter DIR-855 dual channel router (above) are the lucky recipients of Green Technology which will arrive via an impending firmware update and the consequences are dramatic. D-Link quotes the DIR-655 as benefiting from up to a 32 per cent power saving with the DIR-855 even more impressive at up to 41 per cent.

via engadget, trusted-reviews

Here’s a great idea for a mouse pad, a paper mouse pad that let’s you write notes while surfing the web.

Of course, I will still stick to my regular old notebook program but this might be good for traveling where you need a disposable mouse pad while at an airport bar or restaurant.

Need a gentle reminder of who to call, what to do, or who to email? Put your mousepad to work with this plentiful paper version, jotting notes and other important thoughts in the most convenient spot-right under your hand. Best of all, when you’ve filled a sheet up with brilliance, you get to start over clean and fresh!

via technabob

If you’ve went through IKEA for cool desk lights, you won’t find one such as this LED Chain Lamp which looks cool and is foldable.

The Chain Desk Lamp is an extremely innovative desk lamp that has the ability to adjust and collapse if necessary. This outstanding desk lamp accommodates four one watt LED light bulbs that burn at a low temperature and are extremely energy efficient. …

via ubergizmo

You better believe your keyboard is 5 times dirtier than your toilet seat.  This Keyboard Napkin, might just do a perfect job of keeping those pesky germs out of your hands way after lunch.

via ohgizmo, uberreview, gizmodo, swissmiss

Delta is finalizing their decision on offering full in-flight wi-fi for everyone on dometic flights by middle of next year.  Go Delta!  Now, I can travel and get some blogging done while flying.  THAT is cool.

ATLANTA — Delta Air Lines Inc. said Tuesday that it would offer broadband wireless Internet access on its entire domestic mainline fleet by the middle of next year.

The airline said Wi-Fi service would be offered for a fee to customers traveling throughout the continental United States.

Delta is partnering with Aircell, an airborne communications provider, to install the network on Delta’s domestic fleet of more than 330 aircraft.

The system will allow Delta customers traveling with Wi-Fi enabled devices — like laptops, smartphones and hand-held devices — to access the Internet while in flight.

A flat fee of $9.95 will be charged on flights of three hours or less, and $12.95 on flights of more than three hours.

via nytimes

It’d be hard to believe but yes, Sergey Brin and Larry Page made their first 40GB Google Storage Server with lego casing.  Perhaps they might have been great lego-designers if they didn’t come up with Google.

The development of the Google algorithms was carried on on a variety of Computers, mainly provided by the NSF-DARPA-NASA-funded Digital Library project at Stanford. Click to see the equipment in its laboratory setting on the basement floor of Gates Information Sciences. Crawling the web to obtain its link structure required an enormous amount of storage in comparison with typical student projects at that time. We show here the original storage assembly, containing 10 4 Gigabyte disk drives, giving 40 Gbytes total.

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Check out the LED Dragon, kind of a cool DIY project if you know how to engrave glass.

I have to say that even I was surprised how well the dragon version turned out. Three very simple flames and bit of light and magic can really spice up the engraving. And this was the whole point of this project.

It took only minutes to engrave the flames but I have to admit that it took way longer that I expected to get all the taping done, leds mounted and hooked up. On top of all this, it was pain to keep all the layers clean during the assembly.

via hackedgadgets

Microsoft is doing an experiment where they tell people about their new “Mojave” operating system and how cool it is.  In the end, MS tells the participants that the “Mojave” OS is actually Windows Vista.

Oh my gawd, this is the stupidest marketing study ever.  Why would you “lie” to the consumer to make Windows Vista look good?  We all know it doesn’t support 90% of my old computer devices I use and it plain sucks.  Yes, maybe there are couple good points but come on, please wasting our time trying to re-market something that simply sucks.

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Here’s a fun DIY on how to make a chapstick LED flashlight.  It’s pretty simple to do but a great idea.  Maybe Chapstick companies will pick up on this and make them as promotion materials.

This is an instructable on how to make a flashlight out of a ChapStick tube. After reading up on multiple LED instructables I thought it would be neat to make an original design that had not been done before. Since button cell batteries can be expensive, I went with an A23 (12V) battery that cost less than $2.00 for two.

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