This is a great idea out the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, this bike will use a pneumatic system rather than that of a chain, this makes the ride smoother as when the pedals are used these will then make compressed air to push through the bike and then turn the wheels in a smooth action.

The frame of the bike is made from a vacuum formed metal, which has been heated to very high temperatures and as for the tyres, these are light completely air tight rubber which in all adds to the smoother ride.

Source [Gadgettastic]

This is a really great idea that one looks like you have brought your breakfast into work with and secondly for the idiot who goes around the eating everyone’s stuff, he wont do it anymore after a mouthful of that.

It looks really funny and with will get a few good laughs at work.

Source [Oh Gizmo]

Here’s a great resource of what Apple uses to build their stores. I didn’t know they used so many stuff…it’s cool to know though just in case you want to build your own store like an Apple store.

If you want to re-model your home in the style of an Apple store, here are links to the suppliers of the actual items they use.

The designs of the Apple stores may not be particularly original in terms of architecture, however they break new boundaries in retail design with an attention to detail that is normally only found in major public buildings. The principal inspirations for Apple’s interiors range from Norman Foster’s Mediatheque in Nimes, with its central glass staircase and I.M. Pei’s entrance to the Louvre which is the inspiration for the fifth avenue store. Although the cube itself (particularly when it was shrouded in black) is more like the Kaab at Mecca, proving that Apple is a religion after all.

Many of the fittings they use, such as Erco lighting are used by people like Pei and Foster (where I used to work) and the exterior panels are made by the same firm that provided the panels for San Francisco’s greatest modern building - the De Young Museum.

via Gizmodo

Check out the Atmel AVR temperature controller hack, although I made a better one last year that can be controlled via ethernet, the case looks awesome!

Wine doesn’t like subzero temperatures, and during wintertime, my “winecellar” got pretty cold.
There was an electric heating element, but the thermostat was broken, so it was either full burn or nothing.

That’s how the temperature monitor/controller came to be.
It was an obvious task for a small processor and I’ve always wanted to test the Dallas temperature sensors.

So, I designed this little device which could monitor the temperature and control the heater.

via Aboutmicrocontroller.blogspot.com

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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 generated as the person is traveling to his destination, if the battery runs low at the destination he can drop the kick stand and start cycling in place. Generating electricity from pedaling allows us to travel to the central park, a remote town or a big festival increasing access to inexpensive telephony anywhere.

via HackedGadgets

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 about uranium and doubling the normal background radiation count in his room, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission raided his home. He won’t be getting his Darwin Award or even arrested, though, since the Feds didn’t find anything dangerous.

They did take away his toy though, embarrassingly because his parents asked them to. Defending his experiment in an interview he argued “People do it in universities all the time, it’s just not usual that somebody does it outside of a university”, which is pretty true, after all.

via Gizmodo

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Remember the Wii Robot? Well, check out Robot catapult. It’s tight.

Every hacker wants a budget to do bigger, cooler hacks. Well, we got our budget, all $1000 of it, and decided to turn a borrowed industrial robot into a catapult, a hack we’d been hoping to do for a long, long time. We’d been joking about throwing heavy objects with one of these robots ever since we saw the payload specs and an anvil in the shop

via MakeZine

Hey, we made it easier for you to browse CES 2008 blog posts.

Simply go to the below URLs to enjoy CES 2008 blog posts from Engadget, Gizmodo, TechEBlog, and of course, Zedomax.

Random Surfing:

http://sitehoppin.com/Special:Random?tags=ces 2008&mode=1

Iterative Surfing:

http://sitehoppin.com/Special:Random?tags=ces 2008&mode=2

You can also submit your own CES 2008 blog post here.

And make sure to check out Bill Gate’s comment on the current Vista that it SUCKS! Hey, at least he’s honest about how Vista sucks.

This hack will give you light from soda cans or rather energy drinks.

Materials needed:

1) 60 Watt light bulb (other wattages can be used)

2) Power cord (can be scavenged from anything)

3) Encasing (in this case, a “Jolt Energy Drink”)

4) Wire Strippers

5)Electric Tape (if you want to go the fast and easy route, a socket from a lamp and got it to fit with some slight grinding)

6) Soldering Iron

7) Solder

This makes a pretty basic lamp, but it is still a lamp.

Source [Hacked Gadgets]