August 12, 2008
DIY - Where to find Cheap Ultra Violet reactive Paint!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Here’s a cool way to paint all your gadgets to become ultra-violet reactive. Commercial UV paint is far too expensive. Using extremely UV reactive yard marking paint from any hardware store, you can pimp your case for just 26 cents an ounce! Check out ... More
DIY - How to Build a Tennis Ball Massage Chair!
Wow, here’s a really cool DIY on how to make a Tennis Ball Massage Chair that will get leave you feeling fully relaxed. Even better, you could probably substitute any type of ball such as golf balls to get a different effect.(softer or harder) The tennis balls you see are not glued in place; they are held only by different-sized holes in the ... More
August 11, 2008
DIY - How to Make a Coffee Roulette!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode No, this isn’t your Russian roulette or Vegas roulette you are more familiar with. It’s a “techno-geek” coffee roulette machine made from worn-out harddrives to find out who’s making coffee for the day. This is a gadget made from ... More
August 10, 2008
Solder-rings for Solder-dummies!
If you are going to be soldering, I do suggest you do it for real with a high-temp, quality solder. Now, if you really have bad shaking hands, you might be able to get away soldering with these solder-rings that fit in the wires before you solder. SchmartSolder makes it simple for users of any level to easily hand solder through hole components. ... More
August 9, 2008
DIY Lego Case Mod PC!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode 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 bric ... More
August 8, 2008
DIY NES Duck Hunt Lamp!
With NES popularity soaring with weird stuff that people come up with, here’s another cool NES Duck Hunt Lamp, complete with a customized hunting dog lamp cover, NES infrared gun, and the original Duck Hunt NES cartridge. So one day I picked up an NES Zapper (gun) and went “woah, that would make a cool lamp!” So… after play ... More
DIY - How to Tint/Glaze your Windows for Privacy under $20!
Whereever you live, you might wonder how you can add more privacy to your blind-less windows without spending a bunch of money. You can get the acrylic glaze paint, which is really for walls but when you apply it to windows, you get a nice “glazy” windows as shown above. Besides being cheap, this solution is also easily reversible si ... More
DIY - How to Make Laffy Taffy Candy!
If you are a Taffy-driven blogging addict like me, you will need to learn to make your own homemade Taffy. Here’s a great DIY showing you exactly how to make that sugar and cornstarch candy. Once again a failed attempt on my part to create something. I realize what I did wrong though and will guide you through what not to do if you want taff ... More
DIY - How to Write Letters and Shapes Using a Laser!
Drawing with lasers is really fun especially if you set your digital camera in stealth, long exposure mode. How to use a laser pointer to draw, to write and to record it? I think it is a very interesting thing. With the help of a camera with the function which could set longer exposure time,you could easily record what you draw and write with the ... More
Google Hack - Get Olympic Scores/Schedule on Google!
Google is providing some live scores and schedules if you type, “xxx olympics”, where “xxx” is the name of your sport. Try this for soccer Search Engine Land noticed that Google now shows a onebox* for certain Olympics-related queries, like tennis olympics or taekwondo olympics. This seems to work in the US and China but no ... More
August 7, 2008
DIY - How to Make a Hydroponics Unit for Growing Weed!
Don’t mind the post title as this DIY shows you how to make hydroponics unit for growing anything. Aside from people with medical marijuana licenses who live in San Francisco and can legally grow several pot plants, the hydroponic system can be used for growing your own organic vegetables and what not. My wife teaches 8th grade science. Thi ... More
Memcached, MediaWiki, and MySQL for optimizing Database
Today, I saw that Hackszine’s Jason Striegel has postsed a blog post about Memcached and MySQL. Well, basically Memcached is an open-source software for your web server that allows you to cache almost any MySQL query. In other words, it caches your MySQL queries. But to do this, you do need to check the Memcached cache before doing the act ... More
DIY Interactive Toilet by College Students
College students from Korea are working on their senior year project, that’s right, an interactive toilet that will make sounds and display different shapes of pictures on an LCD based on the size and shape of “poop”. This is very interesting as I’ve always wanted to hear something else than my regular ol’ “poop ... More
DIY Robotic StoneHedge Clock!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Check out this cool Stonehedge robotic clock. It’s really something when you use the latest technology to re-make something old as the stonehedge. - Link to Norris Labs the creator Stonehenge uses a CrustCrawler Smart Arm and a Parallax Propeller chip t ... More
iPhone HACK - 12 iPhone Tricks you need to know!
Here’s a cool blog post I found today that shows you 12 shortcuts for using the iPhone/iPod Touch. Basically, they are mostly Safari shortcuts that you might not have known about. Here’s one for example that will save you time scrolling back up to the top: In any application, Safari included, you can automatically scroll to the top o ... More
August 6, 2008
DIY Flame Thrower!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode (Jump to 1:11 for flames!) Here’s a cool DIY Flame Thrower project that will remind you of X-men characters. Definitely this isn’t as powerful as anything in the movies but will burn most things off pretty fast. The Pyro System is my final project f ... More
August 5, 2008
Some Cool Hacks for GMail, GoogleDocs, and more!
Lifehacker has a new post that features some cool hacks for GMail, GoogleDocs, and some other hacks you can’t miss. Are you using Google Spreadsheets as your web-based spreadsheet editor alternative to desktop programs like Excel? If you do, give the “magic” auto-completions a try. To understand what this does, enter “Super ... More
DIY HACK - How to Build a Magnetic Stripe Card Spoofer!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Here’s a fun little hack that will allow you to spoof most magnetic stripe readers including your local groceries’ credit card reader. This instructable demonstrates how to use an electromagnet, a simple amplifier circuit, and a personal music player ... More
July 31, 2008
DIY LED Dragon with Fire Animation!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode 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 th ... More
How to Teach your Female Humanoid Robot Femisapien!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Remember the female humanoid robot, the Femisapien? Well the guys at Robots Rule have made couple videos on how to teach the Femisapien how to dance and do lots of other st ... More
July 30, 2008
DIY - How to Make a Chapstick LED Flashlight!
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 ... More
July 29, 2008
DIY USB HACK - How to Make a Cheap USB Vacuum!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Here’s a fun little project. Get a PC fan, a sawed-off USB cable, and some carboard to make a cheap USB Vacuum running off 5 volts DC. via getusb carboard, Computer, Consumer, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Educational, Entertainment, Gadgets, Hac ... More