March 20, 2008
Giant USB Duplicator!
Wow, check out this gizmo that duplicated up to 20 USB Flash drives at one time! These days, with so many people carrying their 4GB flash drives on their neck, keychain, etc…etc…, these Giant USB Duplicators can be useful for companies trying to promote their businesses. (For example, you could put a 4 Gigabytes of company presentatio ... More
March 17, 2008
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! - Brooklyn Brewery is the ‘real’ Green Beer!
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Make sure to get that Easter egg and your Irish lunch and dinner. On a green note, Brooklyn Brewery claims to be the ‘real’ Green Beer with its brewing facility souped up with wind-generated electricity: Brooklyn Brewery, located on Brewer’s Row in Brooklyn, New York, is one of a handful of brewer ... More
March 4, 2008
Oil Roomba!
Wow, check out this Oil Roomba that will clean up any oil spills. Get bunch of these together and they look like ants! There are some new bots called OSP on the drawing board. Using advanced robotics, these guys autonomously work together to contain an oil spill by surrounding it with an inflatable barrier. Once contained, clean-up crews ca ... More
Watch as water jet cuts through steel to make a steel sunflower!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Videos like these make me go WOW! via Make Consumer, Consumer, Design, Design, Gadgets, Gadgets, Industrial, Industrial, jet, make, makezine, steel, Video, Video, wow ... More
February 13, 2008
The compressed air bike
This is a great idea out the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, this bike will use a pneumatic system rather than that of a chain, this makes the ride smoother as when the pedals are used these will then make compressed air to push through the bike and then turn the wheels in a smooth action. The frame of the bike is made from a vacuum formed ... More
January 28, 2008
A new idea on post its
This is a really great idea that one looks like you have brought your breakfast into work with and secondly for the idiot who goes around the eating everyone’s stuff, he wont do it anymore after a mouthful of that. It looks really funny and with will get a few good laughs at work. Source [Oh Gizmo] Art, Art, Business Ideas, Business Ideas, Co ... More
January 26, 2008
Build your own Apple Store
Here’s a great resource of what Apple uses to build their stores. I didn’t know they used so many stuff…it’s cool to know though just in case you want to build your own store like an Apple store. If you want to re-model your home in the style of an Apple store, here are links to the suppliers of the actual items they use. ... More
Atmel AVR HACK - Temperature Controller using Microcontroller AVR
Check out the Atmel AVR temperature controller hack, although I made a better one last year that can be controlled via ethernet, the case looks awesome! Wine doesn’t like subzero temperatures, and during wintertime, my “winecellar” got pretty cold. There was an electric heating element, but the thermostat was broken, so it was ... More
January 18, 2008
Bicycle Powered Mobile Phone Center!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Tight, this is way too cool and good for our mother nature. The one essential thing that a cell phone has that a call shop doesn’t is a battery, so using parts found in a junk yard we created a constantly recharging battery by pedal power. Electricity is gener ... More
Gamer Tries to Build Nuclear Reactor at Home, FBI Came Around to Play
Cool, this guy’s on TV for tryin’ to build a nuclear reactor. Too bad he didn’t have a SiteHoppin.com shirt on… :p Apparently bored of his amateur game-building hobby, he decided to try to make a small-scale nuclear reaction in his room, blogging his antics on the web. Someone blew the whistle on him when he made claims ab ... More
Robot catapult
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Remember the Wii Robot? Well, check out Robot catapult. It’s tight. Every hacker wants a budget to do bigger, cooler hacks. Well, we got our budget, all $1000 of it, and decided to turn a borrowed industrial robot into a catapult, a hack we’d been ... More
January 10, 2008
Check out CES 2008 on SiteHoppin’
Hey, we made it easier for you to browse CES 2008 blog posts. Simply go to the below URLs to enjoy CES 2008 blog posts from Engadget, Gizmodo, TechEBlog, and of course, Zedomax. Random Surfing: http://sitehoppin.com/Special:Random?tags=ces 2008&mode=1 Iterative Surfing: http://sitehoppin.com/Special:Random?tags=ces 2008&mode=2 You can also ... More
December 31, 2007
Light made from energy drinks
This hack will give you light from soda cans or rather energy drinks. Materials needed: 1) 60 Watt light bulb (other wattages can be used) 2) Power cord (can be scavenged from anything) 3) Encasing (in this case, a “Jolt Energy Drink”) 4) Wire Strippers 5)Electric Tape (if you want to go the fast and easy route, a socket from a lamp and got i ... More
December 18, 2007
The Swiss army knife gets updated
The famous tool infested Swiss Army knife has had a bit of a update which brings together the same classic style and the latest technology as well, far removed from the older style ones that used to be around. Features: Removable USB flash-based MP3 player with 1GB capacity. Stereo FM radio with recording capability, 15 station presets. Digital v ... More
December 17, 2007
Bolt salt and pepper shakers
Put these shakers down on the table and people are not going to know what to them. The cool thing about the beauties is the fact that if someone picks these up and shake them and nothing at all will happen, but bend them slightly and you will get all of the salt and pepper that you need, cool! Priced at $54 Source [Nerd Approved] Art, Art, beau ... More
December 16, 2007
Scary crash helmet
This is the sort of thing that you would expect to see in a horror movie or something where you have the gang that ride along on motorbikes terrorising innocent people. It also looks as if it wouldn’t give much protection, but I suppose that it must have past the required tests etc. The one good thing about it is the ventilation that is gained ... More
Shoot around corners, why didn’t anyone think of this before?
Wow, check out this hilarious gun that can go around corners by flexing itself. How come no one ever thought of this? via breitbart.tv around-corners, breitbart, Cool, Cool, corners, Design, Design, Entertainment, Entertainment, ever-thought, flexing-itself, Funny, Funny, hilarious-gun, Industrial, Industrial, jung-il-lee, noone, TV, Zedomax ... More
December 13, 2007
The sponge umbrella stand
This stand is a sort of thing that you might see in an art gallery as an exhibit, it’s so cool that it has a sponge at the bottom for the umbrella to rest into when not in use, while the hoop holds the umbrellas in place. This is quite a nice stylish item which would look really nice the hallway of any home. Priced at $155 Source [Nerd Approved ... More
Grab yourself a piece of the Titanic
Now this is very strange, as you can plainly see its watch, but it doesn’t look it little rusty to you? Well it should do, because before the metal was retrieved it was lying at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean and has been there since 1912! Yes folks this is said to be made from a genuine piece of the ill fated ship, just a few pieces of like ... More
October 23, 2007
DIY HACK - 24 year old makes Homemade Helicopters!
Wow, this 24 year old from Nigeria built his own helicopter! Mubarak Muhammad Abdullahi, seen here, a 24-year-old physics undergraduate in northern Nigeria, takes old cars and motorbikes to pieces in the back yard at home and builds his own helicopters from the parts [via] Yahoo Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Educ ... More
October 7, 2007
Wii DIY HACK - Using your Wiimote to measure your car’s acceleration!
Although this is an awesome Wii hack using GlovePie and the Wiimote, you could probably do this a lot easier using a simple 3-axis accelerometer and a microcontroller. I got this idea after seeing some physics class use the wiimote in some kinda pendulum experiment. Why not use the wiimote’s built in 3-axis accelerometers to measue g-forces, ... More
October 6, 2007
Backyard surveillance system
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode You know, my neighbor used to leave about $2000 in CASH on his dining table AND he NEVER locked his front door of his house. One day, I asked him, “What if someone robs you?” He said, “I trust God and he will protect me…” Well, the ... More
September 30, 2007
DIY rainwater harvester by FutureFarmers
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Wow, check out this really cool rainwater harvester! via Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Educational, Educational, Energy, Energy, harvester, Industrial, Industrial, make, makezine, rainwater, rainwater-harverster, Zedomax ... More