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MIT DIY Robot Gardners!

by max on March 12th, 2009
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Here’s some interesting news from researchers at MIT developing robot “Garden” automation. I have to speculate on how “effective” this would be but I imagine it will be highly effective than not. From the looks, it seems they’ve put a webcam, servo motor, and other goodies for plants in the project. This might be a sign that robot farming may not ...

Get a Snowball Launcher for This Winter!

by max on November 1st, 2008
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Snowball Launcher can launch snowballs up to 50 feet. Now, it’s really too bad that I live in California where there’s no snow unless I drive to Lake Tahoe. However, if you happen to live in snowy country, I highly suggest you to get one of these cool snowball launchers for the winter. Be careful though, snowballs can get pretty darn hard enough to break car windshields, ...

DIY Multi-Touch Kit for Do It Yourselfers!

by max on August 18th, 2008
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For Do-It-Yourselfers, making your onw multi-touch input device has never been easier with the DIY Multi-Touch Kit. TouchKit is a modular multitouch development kit with the aim to make multitouch readily available in an open source fashion. It is a sister project of the CUBIT multitouch system and aimed at rapid implementation of multitouch projects. via make, Product Page ...

5TeraByte 3.5-inch Hard Drive coming within the Next 2 years!

by max on July 6th, 2008
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5 TB 3.5 inch hard drives maybe coming soon…in the next 2 years or so. Hitachi has pledged to release a 5TB 3.5in hard drive within two years, and it claims two of the drives will boast enough capacity to store everything in your brain. According to a report by Nikkei Net, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies will use Current-Perpendicular-to-Plane Giant Magnetoresistance (CPP-GMR) ...

DIY Living Room PC!

by max on June 6th, 2008
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Wow, this does look cool… awesome job buddy! The aim here is to build a case that could be used in any living room without scaring your grandma out of her socks. For me that is a bit of a challenge since I have no experience in this type of design. But, enough with the small talk - lets get to it and do some case building. .gallery { margin: auto; } .gallery-item ...

PressLite for Photographers!

by max on May 22nd, 2008
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Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Wow, check out this revolutionary flash for cameras! Its two panels let you reflect just the amount of light you need, bouncing part of it off the ceiling for that soft, indirect look, while aiming the rest of the light at your subject. That’s just one of many possibilities. It’s also easy to ...

The smallest disco in the world

by David Allen on January 22nd, 2008
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It’s never great having a bad aim and so on, but when it’s dark what can you do? Well you no longer have any excuses with this set in your bathroom; in fact you would probably need to charge people to go in there, because once they disappear into the smallest room they are not likely to return for a while. It turns itself when you get close to it! Source [Gadgetspedia] ...