Now not many people smoke these days, yet we still have cigarette lighters in the cars, so clearly we need something useful to replace the lighter.

Luckily there is this powerful LED light that is placed into the cigarette lighter housing, where it charges up, now you have a great portable light to use in emergencies, or for just reading maps or directions, what could be simpler.

Some car owners are already using these devices as they are already installed in some up market cars like BMW.

This one will cost around $20.

Product Page [Lights and Knives]

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Wow, this is sweet… This could easily be implemented for medical robotic arms.

A master/slave system I built using potentiometers, servos, and an IFI robotics controler .

I took this robot apart a couple of years ago, but I am re-building it for a class at my university.

The shoulder rotation, elevation, and elbow joints are Expert Electronics SL820(shoulder elevation) or SL800(rotation and elbow) giant ball bearing servos. I don’t have the original gripper as it broke. it was just a regular servo with a piece of balsa wood attached to the side, and one attached to the servo horn. I used epoxy to attach the wood.

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Just released by Acer is their new GPS personal navigation system which is direct at first time users of Sat Nav.

The device that is built to French specifications may not be available anywhere else, but that would be a shame and more likely is the fact that the company may develop other versions of this Sat Nav, to be sold around Europe and the World.

Main features of the V200 series:

* Integrated SiRF III LP GPS receiver
* 3.5″ TFT LCD touch screen with 65K colors and 240×320 pixels (QVGA) resolution
* Samsung S3C2442XL Processor at 300 MHz
* 64 MB RAM for applications
* 64 MB ROM flash for OS and integrated applications
* SD/MMC port
* 1W speaker
* 3.5 mm audio out
* 1100mAh Li-Ion battery that lasts 3 hours
* Dimensions : 9.5 X 7.9 X 2.5 cm
* Weight : 172 G
* Destinator 6 navigation software of with maps of France coming from Navteq on 512MB SD card

Source [Ubergizmo]

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Wow, this drum piano is the coolest thing ever. Although you do miss the physical part of actually drummin’ on your equipment, this is a nifty device for those of you good with the piano but not with the drums. It looks like there are hydraulic actuators on it to control all the drum sticks. Anyways, this is cool…

On the site note, I have been slacking on posts lately. We had to move a lot of stuff out of our site which was slowing our site down. We will have them up and running again since we will be moving to a new server very soon~

Owners of the new Nissan Altima and Infiniti G35 sedan, are being warned by Nissan North America that they should be careful not to place their mobile phones within one inch of their intelligent keys, the problem is that in some cases by having the I Key and your mobile phone in your pocket or in a bag then there is the possibility that the data on the I Key may be wiped, which would be very handy when you out late at night.

What happens is that the an incoming call can erase the memory on the I Key, the problem is that the are apparently unable to be reprogrammed, so once the memory has gone, the I Key is finished, now that is just no good at all, how much is a new Nissan Altima.

Source [Engadget]

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Wow, this is an awesome lawnmower bike! You could probably build these one yourself and make your next lawnmowing easier!

You can check out more pictures from our flickr Maker Faire Day 1 and Maker Faire Day 2.

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Check out this cool robot from high school students. Although we didn’t have enough time to chat with them, this is cool!

I love motorcycles in general since I own a Gixer but WOW; I was amazed at these really cool electric motorcycles at the Maker Faire. These things have like 30 batteries hooked up to it!

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Check out this cool electric skateboard these guys made. Thanks Frank for letting me get on it. I was about to take off with it to my house…
It’s an electric skateboard that goes forwards and backwards by simply putting your weight towards where you want to go. It seems to be using some kind of accelerometer. If they start selling these to kids, these would be way more cool than any Segways for sure.

Check out MetroMotive.com for more information. (Although it’s not updated right now, there’s an email contact)