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November 23, 2007

DIY HACK - HOW TO Control an Arduino remotely with your browser!

Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode This is kinda cool way to control an LCD hooked up to Ardunino with browsers including your mobile phone. In conclusion, this code may be pretty ragged, but the concept is what is important and it should be enough to get you started. You obviously can’t do any ... More

Posted in Circuits, Cool, DoItYourself!, Educational, Hack, LCD, LED, Microcontroller by max on the November 23rd, 2007 at 3:21 am
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November 7, 2007

Cigarette Machine uses Face-Recognition Software to detect adults!

Wow…. that’s kinda cool if it works without hackers like me hacking it… The vending machine has an “adult recognition” button, and when this is pressed a tiny camera takes a photo of the customer and analyzes certain features such as wrinkles and sagging around the eyes and mouth as well as the frame of the potential buyer’ ... More

Posted in Consumer, Cool, Entertainment, Funny, Gadgets, Robots by max on the November 7th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
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September 21, 2007

YADU to unveil humidifier with air purification function

This one caught my eye… YaDu!!! Anyway, it’s a simple humidifier w/ air purification basically like the title says. It’s like a SharperImage air purifier except it cleans with water too using the humidifier. Kinda cool concept if it worked exactly what we think it means. Wow, lots of control buttons… BEIJING, China (A ... More

Posted in Consumer, Cool, Gadgets by max on the September 21st, 2007 at 2:21 am
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September 10, 2007

UFO Mobile Transformer

Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Kinda cool random video…great 3D work. 3d_work, Consumer, Consumer, Entertainment, Entertainment, Graphics, Graphics, kinda_cool, metacafe, ufo, Video, Video ... More

Posted in Consumer, Entertainment, Graphics, Video by max on the September 10th, 2007 at 3:56 am
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August 21, 2007

Super Mario Runeburg

Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Normally, we don’t post too many games but this one is kinda cool~ via destructoid Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, Games, Games, kinda_cool, super-mario-hack, super-mario-runeburg, Video, Video, youtube ... More

Posted in Consumer, Cool, Games, Video by max on the August 21st, 2007 at 8:32 am
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August 15, 2007

Buy a mattress on our new mattress store!

    Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Yeah, you gotta buy a mattress on our new mattress store! It POPS out of a box! Kinda cool huh?  It’s a spring mattress that is compressedat the factory to be able to fit in a box. bedzine, buy-a-mattress, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool ... More

Posted in Consumer, Cool, Video by max on the August 15th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
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June 1, 2007

Midnight Cravings

Here’s some midnight cravings. Check out the Star Trek that finally got SOLD for 5 times its market value! Talk about Hybrid cars with solar panels on the roof! I’ve seen some RVs near my neighborhood in SF that are like this but for hybrid cars? It’s not new technology but great re-make of old technology. I do like the BMW Hyd ... More

Posted in Consumer, Cool, Educational, Entertainment by max on the June 1st, 2007 at 12:57 am
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May 20, 2007

Maker Faire Live Blogging - ALAVs by Jed Berk!

Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Check out these Cool ALAVs (Autonomous Light Vessels) by Jed Berk! Tight! It uses Sun Microsystems SunSpot microcontroller, which can be programmed in Java. I like this idea since there’s a lot of Java embedded processors out there but this ones from ... More

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May 9, 2007

Watch as worms make music

Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Watch as these worms make music, kinda cool~ Here we see an ensemble of worms creating sweet, sweet electroacoustic music on an electric touch contact feedback device (battery powered). No worms were harmed, despite the fact that they appear alarmed. They secret ... More

Posted in Audio, Consumer, Cool, Educational, Entertainment by max on the May 9th, 2007 at 7:10 am
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May 8, 2007

History - German Class “52″ Locomotive

Wow, check out some of these pictures of German Class “52″ Locomotive. Kinda cool if you are into history. We completed another photo shoot yesterday and made good use of Peter Shaw’s newly completed Class “52 Locomotive, believe me if it looks impressive in the photos it’s even more impressive in the flesh! Consu ... More

Posted in Consumer, Cool, Educational by max on the May 8th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
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May 5, 2007

GooglePages for DIY simple websites

I personally prefer Wordpress for making a website but you can use GooglePages to create some fun HTML-free webpages using their gadgets modules and click and drag interface. I stumbled upon this while checking out some of the users on Zedomax buddymap. Dr. Proctor had his home page on Googlepages, so I got curious and made my own Googlepage ... More

Posted in Consumer, Cool, DoItYourself!, Educational, Web by max on the May 5th, 2007 at 11:54 pm
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April 25, 2007

Mini Cooper Billboard in San Francisco

You can see this Mini Cooper Billboard in San Francisco on your way towards Bay Bridge. I guess this is actually RFID enabled which is kinda cool. Yes, it’s a very effective way of advertising as I do read it about 75% of the time that I pass by this spot looking for changes in what the Mini Cooper is saying… (mostly kinda stupid ... More

Posted in Auto, Business, Cool, Educational, Entertainment, Funny, Gadgets, Graphics, Industrial by max on the April 25th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
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March 20, 2007

DIY HOWTO - Photography

Darrell submitted his site today for some link exchange with us today. I checked out his site and it’s kinda cool. Actually Garrett and I were talking over lunch at McDonald’s today that it would be really cool to make some “how to make a good digital photos” DIYs but here it is! The one above is a photography howto that ... More

Posted in Consumer, Cool, DoItYourself!, Educational, photography by max on the March 20th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
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