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If you go to health clubs, sometimes you will see these cool balancing boards and a lot of skateboarders use these to actually practice balancing and doing nollies.
Well, I am really inclined to build this one myself, it really works out your lower body and increases your ability to balance yourself.
This can also be very good for snowboarders during the off-season, to keep their balancing abilities to top shape. (OR just skateboard like me…)

Build an indoor board (balance board) that can be used for
indoor surfing, skating, etc… or for general balance
training. These are sold as “indoboards” on the market, but I more…
will show you how to make your own at a fraction of the cost.
Watch out for th carpet burns though!

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Wow, check out how high you can jump with these Poweriser jump stilts! They are about $370.

The adult model Powerizers give users from 110 lbs to 265 lbs the ability to jump up to 6 feet in the air and take running strides of up to 9 feet in length.

Powerizers are for the average athletically-inclined person AND the professional circus performer!
Incredible basketball slam dunks, amazing flips, breath-taking heights — all are made possible with the
Powerizers!

Here’s a cool DIY on how to convert your home phone lines into an ethernet network. I’ve tried this before with some success but here’s a great how to you can follow.

Coarch says,

This is a guide to hacking the wiring of your home. Changing it from a phone line based system to a flexible and extensible home network. I upgraded the wiring in my condo since we didn’t use a analog phone service. I changed all my phone ports to network ports. This allows me to easily transition back to a phone system in the event we decide to use a local phone service instead of cell phones. Now that all of my phone jacks are network jacks I can add a gigabit hub for fast network access. When I don’t need to transfer large files, 2gb and bellow, I can use my wireless network.

Thanks Coarch for the tip!

Here’s another cool video of touchscreen wall technology video similar to our earlier post.

Thanks Paul for the tip!

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We have been messing around with Pligg, a digg-like social CMS (content management system).
First we made wagthis.com hosted on Dreamhost but after running for a month the shared server seems to go down a lot.
Since then, we made a new one with better hardware on wagg.it.
(It took us like a month to register the domain name through a european registry but we were finally able to get it working…)

It’s a blog voting community where you can submit your blog posts and other bloggers can vote on posts. It’s still experimental at this point but check it out and if your blog post in on there, make sure to wagg it!

Check it out and leave your thought on how we can make it better.

You might have notice the Wagg It widget on our posts, you can get one too here:

(Help us promote our new blog voting community if you have a blog.)

Add Wagg It button to your blog

Social Bookmarking Plugin for Wordpress

Go Wagg somethin’

Wagg It is a user driven “social blog content” website. What the heck does that mean?
Well, every news on Wagg It is a blog post submitted by waggers (that would be you).
After you submit your content from a blog, other people read your stuff and wagg on it. (Like your dog waggs whenever he/she sees something new)
If your story gets enough waggs, it gets promoted to the front page for all other waggers to see. What can you do as a Wagger?
Every wagger can wagg(help promote) on stories and submit new stories from any blogs.(Think of it as Technorati except you can vote on it.)
Want to share a video or news story with a friend? Wagg it!

Quoted as the first fully functional marriage between TV and the Internet. Monthly service runs about $9.99 and box goes for $199.99

Here’s a cool DIY on ethernet enabled servo motor control using CUBLOC CB220, XPORT, and Pololu Micro Serial Servo Controller by Thomas Edwards.

He also uses an Python Internet server to read the servo position information.

This was done in about 1 hour…pretty impressive.

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