DIY HACK - HOWTO Build your own Roll Up Keyboard!

Here’s a great instructables on how to build your own Roll Up Keyboard!
Have you ever wanted one of those pricy roll up keyboard but didn’t want to spend the money? Here is a quick and dirty way to make your own.
Secure your home easily
This can be used in either the home or a small business, you can get four channels which you can record and manipulate to suit whatever your needs. This is a really easy to use system and excellent for many uses in the home.

Features:
4 channels video input in one card, the maximum display/recording rate is 25 fps under PAL format, and 30 fps under NTSC format
4 screen display modes are available
Multi alarm triggering method: sensor, motion, video loss, and HDD space shortage
Support schedule recording mode, recycling recording method available
MPEG4 video compression format. 5 level recording quality options available and the recording frame rate range from 1 to 30 fps adjustable for each channel
Support multi-channel playback, searching by time/date and recording events, images can be Zoom/capture/save/print/backup
Support remote surveillance and PTZ control through web browser, support dynamic domain name
Configurable auto reboot function for preventing PC deadlock
Dimension: 89 x 27 x 15cm (approx.)
Weight: 67g

Priced at $38
Source [Gadgettastic]
Giant iPod ear buds
These are what are what you call ear buds, a bit too large to place in your ears, unless you have a huge head.

These giant sized ear buds will make a great addition to the top of desk or work space, and because they are giant sized they look really cool and have got to get people talking, which is great. They are in fact 500 times the size of a regular set of ear buds.
Source [Uber Review]
Prove your gaming skills
Its ok going around saying that you can get to a certain level or have reach the highest score.

But unless you could actually show your game play, there was no way of proving your games skills, until now that is.

This is the Console War Medal, wear it with pride and show the world that your are a pro gamer.
Priced at $26.
Source [Techna Bob]
The USB powerstick
This may look like a flash drive, but it’s not because it is a power drive which will power up any device as fast as it would if you had plugged it into the wall.

This is a good idea if you are going to be out all long and have no way of charging up an essential device. To charge it up it needs to be placed into the USB port for around ninety minutes, this can then be taken with you and by using one of the nine connectors supplied is can then be used on cell phones, mp 3 players and other devices.
Priced at $70.
Source [Gadgettastic]
The 160 mega pixel camera
Now this is what you call a camera, measuring in at seventeen inches by six inches, it has a massive 900 mb of storage and 160 mega pixels.
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Clearly this is not the sort of thing that you can carry around with you, but there just has to be a call for something like this otherwise they would not have made it, would they? There is however a slight price issue.
Priced at $44,414!
Source [New Launches]
Flickr 3D Tiltviewer!

Wow, these guys know how to make use of Flickr API. Here’s a 3D Tiltviewer that let’s you hop different Flickr pictures in 3D!
TiltViewer allows you to browse Flickr’s most interesting images in a 3D space. Images are pulled from Flickr’s Interestingness list.
TiltViewer was built using Away3D, a branch of Papervision. Currently Away3D provides better handling of mouse events for nested 3D Objects. One limitation of Away3D is that there is no access to a 3D object’s sprite, so you can’t apply filter or alpha effects. I’m guessing that soon these features will be added to both engines.
Does a 3D UI give more functionality than the equivalent 2D interface? No, but its certainly a lot cooler! Part of the motivation to build this was to explore ways to make 3D interfaces simple and intuitive.
Being able to load Flickr images into a 3D engine was recently made possible when Flickr added crossdomain XMLs to it’s image servers. Thanks Flickr!
Data exchange rings
Imagine that all you need is to shake hands with someone to get all of their personal info; well this could be true soon if the concept design gets the thumbs up.

You get a card and ring, the data on the card is transferred onto ring and when you shake hands with another ring holder the data is exchanged.

No need to worry about power either the rings are powered by the heat from your body.
Source [Gadgettastic]
HOWTO use Internet Explorer in Firefox and protect yourself from spyware!

Here’s a quick 2AM post on how to use Internet Explorer in Firefox as a tab.
First, go to your Firewall application and deny Internet Explorer for incoming and outgoing network traffic. This will protect you against malicious IE hackers.
Second, download and install this cool IE tab Firefox extension for your Firefox.

Now, simply right click and select “View page in IE Tab” for any website you need to use IE.
I like this extension simply because I can view SiteHoppin in Firefox and IE without opening up 2 browsers.
