April 10, 2007
Color Changing Showers!
Wow, check out these color changing shower heads! It seems pretty basic (probably just high intensity LEDs on top), regardless, we like the overall design and originality! I’d love to have one of these showers, it’d be really cool… (well, maybe we can hack one easy…) Perfect for creating a dramatic accent color, or mere ... More
Cleaning Robot from Japan that even apologizes
Check out this really cool robot that will even apologize to you if he/she bumps into you! This cleaning robot from Japan can scoot around on its own, cleaning up, and features WiFi and a video camera to keep it connected to home base. It can even apologize when it detects that it’s bumped into a person. Yes, that’s good; train the rob ... More
Tofu Robot from Japan!
Check out the hilarious tofu robot. The original pictures of the tofu robots are on Flickr too. Although it’s non-functional, you can get it at spicybrown for $20. Maybe someone can hack this tofu robot to be functional… maybe serve up some tofu soup…(talking about tofu soup, there’s tofu sauce, tofu seasoning, tofu se ... More
April 9, 2007
DIY UNDERWATER HACK - Shark Cam
Check out this cool DIY on making a submersible shark camera! I’ve never gone shark fishing, well I don’t fish anything I can’t eat and big sharks don’t look like they would taste good. (But I like Tuna and all the other cool edible fish in the big ocean…) Here’s a cool cheap way to make a submersible cam ... More
DIY HACK - AVR Ethernet Weather Station
Wow, check out this cool AVR ethernet weather station! My original plan was to have sensors for temperature, air pressure and wind. I started a prototype and it worked very well except for the wind measurement part. I have written a separate article about it: wind-vane-ver01.shtml. I plan to improve the wind measurement hardwa ... More
Google bought the WHOLE country!
Google buys a European country Luxemburg for 37 billion dollars! Wow, I wonder what country they will be buying next. Well, eventually a lot of small countries will have to be renamed to Googleburg, Googlece, Googland, Googrea, Googpan, Googmerica… This is much greater than Google buying a search algorithm from an Israeli student. This i ... More
Technological Breakthrough Sculptures
Check out some of these really cool Terminator-like technological breakthrough sculptures. Although none of them are really functional, it’s a really great artwork… (I’d want one in my livingroom…) Actually, the bug robots seem like they can do stuff… via microbotic amd, artwork, Blog, Blogs, chips, Consumer, C ... More
David Copperfield makes Statue of Liberty Disappear!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode This is very old but cool! amd, Blog, Blogs, chips, Consumer, Consumer, crack, david-copperfield, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Hack, hackers, hacks, home-pc, intel, machine, magic, magic, make, metacafe, nintendo, password, pc, Sony, statue_of_liberty, Video, ... More
Humanoid Robot Platforms
Check out these funny lookin’ Humanoid Robot Platforms from Hubo Lab at Kaist(Korean Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, kinda like MIT of Korea). HUBO-FX1 is the human-riding robot having 12 DOF. The development concept is that the robot can walk naturally with carrying a person or a load of 100kg, so the lower body takes afte ... More
Wha, wha, what about Google Pagerank Patent?
I was reading up on some new books over the weekend and came up googling some Google Pagerank Patent stuff. There’s some interesting stuff including the Google Pagerank Algorithm on Wikipedia. Check out the Method for scoring documents in a linked database by Lawrence Page if you haven’t yet. I think this is the original document. T ... More
The Top 5 Engineering Magazines
Here’s a good list of magazines that should help you get a feel for the engineering industry including application, products, and just for the hell of it. (It’s also the ones we subscribe to regularly…) (Click on the magazine to go to their homepage) Make has bunch of cool projects including the DIY coffee roaster among other c ... More
April 8, 2007
Robot Chicken from Japan!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Wow, these are really cool robots… via gizmodo Blog, blogging, Blogs, build, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, Educational, Gadgets, Gadgets, gizmodo, Hack, hacks, HOWTO, internet, make, Robots, robots, science, tech, technology, Video, Vide ... More
Funny Robot Video
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Here’s a funny robot video of a robot smashing some neighborhoods. Blog, blogging, Blogs, build, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, Educational, Entertainment, Entertainment, Funny, Funny, Gadgets, Hack, hacks, HOWTO, internet, make, Robot ... More
Funny Roomba Comic Strip
Check out this funny comic strip about Roomba. hehe. Blog, blogging, Blogs, build, comic_strip, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, Educational, Entertainment, Entertainment, Funny, Funny, Gadgets, Gadgets, Hack, hacks, hehe, HOWTO, internet, make, roomba, science, tech, technology, Web, web2-0, web2.0, weblog, Wordpress, Zedomax ... More
LaptopTablet turns any laptop into a touchscreen!
Wow, check out this cool gizmo that will turn your laptop into a touchscreen! (if it ain’t touchscreen already) NAVIsis(www.navisis.com) presented its ‘Laptop Tablet’ that supports tablet functionality to a general laptop. Just attaching it on LCD monitor frame and connecting it to USB port, you can enjoy tablet on your laptop monitor. ... More
Use iPod as bullet-proof vest!
Now, you can use the iPod to stop bullets! Kevin Garrad (3rd Infantry Division) was on a street patrol in Iraq (Tikrit I believe) and as he rounded the corner of a building an armed (AK-47) insurgent came from the other side. The two of them were within just a few feet of each other when they opened fire. The insurgent was killed and Kevin was hi ... More
April 7, 2007
Snow surfing with a Antartic Snowbot
Check out some of the cool Antartic autonomous solar robots being developed here. Above is a picture of a guy (yes holding a laptop), snow-surfing at about 5mph… Not too bad on solar power, we give thumbs up for that. One morning, while taking walking behind the robot and dragging a sled of equipment for quantitatively measuring the strengt ... More