July 28, 2008
Eco-Friendly Harddrive Lowers Carbon Footprint!
Here’s a cool eco-friendly harddrive called “[re]drive” by Fabrik made with materials that lessens the carbon footprint. The [re]drive has 500GB of storage and promises 25% faster data transfer with its Turbo USB 2.0 connectivity compared to standard USB 2.0. Both Mac and Windows users can use the [re]drive and it ships with auto ... More
June 6, 2008
Go Green and “Digitize” your Physical Data into Digital Documents!
Note: This is a paid review through ReviewMe. As a former IT technician, I can understand the importance of digital documents. A lot of businesses today still uses hundreds for file boxes for all their information, creating more paper waste and information hard to file, organize, and retreive. What exactly are digital documents? Basically a digit ... More
February 5, 2007
Homemade brushless motors
Here’s some cool looking homemade brushless motors made using some PC Hard drive parts and power tools…. wow! My first home-built outrunner motor from hard drive stators (Western Digital Caviar). Motor designation is 280-10-6 as it has a 28dia x 10mm long stator. I used 6 windings of 3-strand 0.35mm wire with a delta connection and a ... More
November 26, 2006
Harddrive made out of paper!
Okay, here’s a way you can store information on paper. All though it’s not in commercial stages, this seems like a technological breakthrough for storage of information. We might actually travel back in time to the beginning of computers where paper was the storage. Let’s keep our eyes keen on the development of new technolog ... More
October 23, 2006
Wall Clock made from an old Harddrive
Here’s a great way to recycle your old harddrive, looks like a technological art, I like it! via make Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Entertainment, Entertainment, harddisk, harddrive, recycle_harddrive, seagate, Storage, Storage, technological_art, wall_clock, Zedomax ... More
October 8, 2006
Video - What happens inside a harddrive
View This Video on You Tube Here’s a really cool video of what the harddrive does while the user types, copy & pastes, and etc…etc… Joshuamarius writes - “Simple operations performed by a hard drive with no cover, so that you can see what it looks like inside. This experiment was performed on an old hard drive, do not t ... More
