February 10, 2008
Devices to convert your work-out energy into electricity!
Wow, this is something that could really change the world! Advances in biomechanical engineering could use energy generated while walking, hiking or running to power any device requiring portable power, including night-vision goggles and other battery-operated devices used by soldiers as well as robotic prosthetic limbs, cell phones and computers ... More
February 5, 2008
May the force be with you
This is just what every young Jedi needs, their very own light sabre construction kit, now you know how Luke built his own light sabre for the Return of the Jedi! Clearly he had an Amazon account. This kit is pretty comprehensive though because with it youEntre más http://www.mega-poquer.es compares mejor. can build around a thousand different v ... More
January 18, 2008
Bicycle Powered Mobile Phone Center!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Tight, this is way too cool and good for our mother nature. The one essential thing that a cell phone has that a call shop doesn’t is a battery, so using parts found in a junk yard we created a constantly recharging battery by pedal power. Electricity is gener ... More
Gamer Tries to Build Nuclear Reactor at Home, FBI Came Around to Play
Cool, this guy’s on TV for tryin’ to build a nuclear reactor. Too bad he didn’t have a SiteHoppin.com shirt on… :p Apparently bored of his amateur game-building hobby, he decided to try to make a small-scale nuclear reaction in his room, blogging his antics on the web. Someone blew the whistle on him when he made claims ab ... More
January 14, 2008
Use the force
This is supposed to be a personal force shield, this is clothing that has had conductive filaments woven into it, when you begin walking a static charge builds up. The power that is generated is enough to charge up a mobile phone while it is just placed in the pocket. But the main use could be that as a personal force shield, the stored electrici ... More
November 9, 2007
3-Axis servo motor drawing “HackADay”
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Here’s the video if you can’t see it. (some kinda YouTube bug…yes blame it on the big company) Cool, check out this awesome 3-Axis servo motor drawing “HackADay”. You can get the board for really cheap from this guy. The preprog ... More
November 6, 2007
Solar Fan Cap/Baseball Hat
Here’s a nice invention if you live in a very hot city. We dare to make one yourself. This baseball hat has a solar panel on top and DC motorized fan on the front with a nice ventilation hole cut in the bill. Very handy for a summer day or also useful for walks through well lit bakeries if you want the full aromatic experience. via Make a ... More
October 7, 2007
ZAP cars - electric cars of the future?
Check out some of these wacky ZAP cars that run on battery. Really cool lookin’ Xebra Xero’s do not attempt to behave like other vehicles. They are unique. They are quiet, yet agile. Imagine a world filled with silent Xebra Xero’s instead of noisy internal combustion engines. The ZAP Xebra Xero is the offspring of more than thre ... More
September 30, 2007
DIY rainwater harvester by FutureFarmers
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Wow, check out this really cool rainwater harvester! via Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Educational, Educational, Energy, Energy, harvester, Industrial, Industrial, make, makezine, rainwater, rainwater-harverster, Zedomax ... More
September 27, 2007
DIY HACK - HOWTO make your own Jacobs Ladder version 2!
Wow, check out this Jacobs Ladder too! This is how I used a neon sign transformer to create my own classic sci-fi prop the Jacobs Ladder. A Jacobs Ladder is nothing more than two vertical wires attached to a very high voltage. The wires which form the ladder are close together at the base but diverge as they go up. When switched on an electric arc ... More
Batteries powered using p…
Here’s some batteries you can power with some human p… You can even use it 3-5 times to re-fuel your batteries! This is tight, too bad it’s only available in Japan. I’d get one next time I head over there! In February we talked about a Pee Powered battery that was in the testing phase in Japan. Now it would seem they hav ... More
DIY HACK - HOWTO make your own Jacobs Ladder!
Here’s a cool DIY on making your very own Jacobs Ladder. I always goto Fry’s with my friend Eric and find that they have this giant Jacobs Ladder that’d go off as soon as you were about to touch motherboards and whatnot. But this is great that now I know how it’s made. The basic construction and principle of a Jacobs lad ... More
September 13, 2007
Blackle - The energy saving version of Gooooogle
Check out Blackle, it’s a Google-based search engine that supposedly saves energy by making the background black. But when I do searches, it seems to give you those limited results kinda like the Google search bar on Zedomax.com. I think all they really did is put a Google Search on a black HTML page. (Maybe we will make one to and get so ... More
September 9, 2007
Homemade Jet Engines
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Looks like this Jet Engine uses a Turbo-charger off a car as one of its parts… quite incredible… via make Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, Educational, Educational, Energy, Energy, Entertainment, Entertainment, Industrial, Industrial, jet_engine, Mo ... More
September 2, 2007
At last Mr Fusion is here
One thing about sci fi is when the features from the movies become a reality, we have seen this happen in many aspects of life and now we have Mr Fusion from Back to the Future II. All the professor needed to do was to put any organic trash into the reactor and he could then power up the De Lorean time machine car. The Institute of Technological ... More
August 27, 2007
DIY HACK - Recycled Bridges and Walls
While we are on the subject of making some BIG projects using virtually recycle-able stuff, here’s a recycled bridge and wall you can build. Yet this is exactly what architect Shigeru Ban has done, over the Gardon River in the South of France. This is an ingenious idea to show that you do not need concrete, steel and glass to build a struct ... More
DIY HACK - This guy builds a GIANT Paper Boat!
Yes, this is great news for all of us DIYers and hackers. You can actually build a GIANT Paper Boat! Yes, we need more people who can think “BIG” like this… Well, we will see how the sail ends… The 37-year-old artist came up with the idea one breakfast time, while he was sitting at his kitchen table fiddling with an empty ... More
August 15, 2007
DIY HACK - How to make a portable Laser Projector!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Wow, this is somethin’ I’ve always wanted to make with the free laser Dragonlasers sent me a long time ago… But here it is! Looks like he’s from the UK. P.S. Remember we ARE giving out a FREE Dragon Laser to the top commentator this mo ... More
July 19, 2007
System X lighting system
Try having something different to light up your life, or office, this lighting system called SystemX is made up of lots of X shaped fittings which can connect to each other to build up to fit the rooms ceiling or whatever shape you may require from it. This sort of lighting is pretty unique and very stylish. Which is the trade mark of Yamagiwa th ... More
July 18, 2007
Electric plant prototype
Do you ever get fed up with all of those electrical sockets that lay empty? Well you can now brighten them up with a nice flower planter. Now that is flower power! These have been designed by serial socket filler Scott Amron of Die Electric, who has made installations for the electric sockets out of some very odd things indeed, including fire ext ... More
June 6, 2007
Get 35% more MPG on your car with this little device.
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Basically this little device produces HHO and feeds it into your fuel line in your car. The HHO is produced by distilled water and baking soda. The only drawback is that you much keep adding the distilled water and baking soda once a week. This is a very good idea. I’ve heard of water inj ... More