July 25, 2008
Top 10 Portable Speakers for iPod/iPod Touch/iPhones!
1. The iLive IBCD3817DTBLK Portable Boombox is probably the best bet for your money as it’s not only an iPod-dockable speakers, the Boombox itself is also a radio/CD player. This is probably the best speaker you can get for your money. Specs: Black iPod/CD/radio boombox with built-in iPod docking station Pair of front-firing speakers and ... More
April 14, 2008
DIY TV HACK - How to hook up your TV to your computer! (Or 2 Monitors)
Well, this is a real short hack (or a howto really) for hooking up your TV to your computer. First, you will need a dual-monitor graphic adaptor or extra graphic adaptors. (1 per monitor) If you don’t have one, go buy one with lots of RAM over at your favorite electronics store. *If you have a laptop, you don’t need a dual-monitor, ... More
January 2, 2008
The photo watch
How about showing your photos to all of your friends and relatives but without the hassle of having the hump a great big of photo albums around with you? This photo watch has a neat little 1.4 inch screen and has an easy computer to watch transfer rate. Priced at $50 to $70 depending on the type and memory. Source [Uber Gizmo] easy_computer, ha ... More
December 17, 2007
A cool Santa
This is great little device which will allow the user to download digital photos to the Santa frame, which is essentially a digital picture frame. The device is keychain size and has a 1.1 inch LCD screen and has a memory of 8 mb’s, which for its size it quite good. All images are resized to 96 x 64 for easy viewing, there is no information as ... More
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
February 21, 2007
DIY HACK - Voltmeter Ammeter LCD
Check out voltmeter and ammeter LCD panel you can make using an Atmel8 MCU. Tight! This multimeter was designed to measure output voltage and current in a PSU, where the current sense shunt resistor is connected in series with load at the negative voltage rail. It needs only one supply voltage that can be acquired ... More
January 24, 2007
Control your car using your Cellphone!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Here’s a cool Smart Car system for your car with GPS tracking so you don’t have to pay some big name service to track where your car is. Do you need to control your vehicle using your cellphone or track where it is in the world on your computer? Here’s a cool smart car system bui ... More
January 21, 2007
RSS Feeds coming to life…
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Here’s a video from CES 2007 showing RSS Feeds coming to life from your computer screen to a physical LCD on your desktop. This shouldn’t be too hard to make but maybe making like a podcast device would be… 2007, blip, bliptv, Blog, Blog, ces, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Educationa ... More
December 29, 2006
DIY HACK - The simpler USB2LCD using HD44780
Here’s a cool little USB to LCD hack! The hardware of the LCD2USB interface consists of the Atmel AVR Mega8 CPU, a cheap and easy to obtain microcontroller with 8 KBytes flash (of which ~3k are used in this application) and 2 KBytes RAM. The processor is surrounded by few parts, mainly connectors to interface to the PC and the LCD. via a ... More
November 11, 2006
Programmable bumper stickers
Here’s some cool bumper stickers LCDs being worked on by VW. the electrophoretic displays make use of a thin foil membrane that can be programmed to show messages and pictures that reflect a driver’s mood at any given time. At the moment, the application is specific to VW’s Chameleon concept car, but designers tell us they’ ... More
November 5, 2006
DIY - network tester
Here’s a cool little network tester you can make. I’ve always used to use one while working as a IT technician couple years ago, but this is a good way to hack one instead of buying one such as this, which can cost you almost $200. Well, what would really be cool is if you can make a wifi tester such as this. I’ve seen the ones ... More
November 3, 2006
DIY - Use your laptop as a second monitor for your desktop
Here’s a cool DIY on how to use your laptop as a second monitor for your desktop using maxivista software. It’s really cool as you can expand your desktop across your local ethernet LAN to any other laptops or PCs on it. via microsoft Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, ethernet, Graphics, Graphics, lan, La ... More
Uniden Bluetooth Landline Phone
This thing can link to your mobile while you’re at home, records phone calls, connect other handsets to your call, and a bunch more features. If you own this phone and would like to post comments. Please feel free. Bluetooth, Business, Business, cell phones, cell-phones, cellphone, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, landline, LCD, uniden, Wi ... More
October 31, 2006
Upcoming LCD Technology - Touchscreen LCD with pressure sensors
This touchscreen slightly different from traditional touchscreens since it can sense over 1000 different pressure senses. The Wacom Cintiq is very different from the rest of it’s brethren, featuring an LCD monitor with an integrated touchscreen sensor, making it a graphic tablet-LCD monitor hybrid. With 1,024 levels of pressure sensitivity ... More
Cingular HTC 8525 400Mhz with 3G
Wow, this is nice phone, but 400Mhz might still be kinda slow for PocketPC… It’s still forwarding us back to the old-skool 8125’s product page at the moment, but a tipster has managed to coax Cingular’s site into giving up the goods on the 8525 — Buy Now link and all. We’re guessing it has something to do with ... More
Aurora Multimedia’s WACI PAD-6 dynamic button controller
Wow, this little button controller is actually a powerful little device for your wall. It’s got a web server, 64MB of RAM, well it really is a small powerful embedded computer that you can plug into a wall…WOW! Looking to hop into the home automation game, but don’t feel like installing a computer in your wall or throwing down ... More
October 30, 2006
DIY Hack - HD Projector
Here’s a cool diy on HD projector from engadget. Been eyeballing those sweet new high definition projectors? So have we. We’re not going to feel guilty for it either, we know what we like. But if your wallet is a little light from your last Engadget inspired shopping session you might dig our how-to latest project. In Today’s ho ... More
October 26, 2006
Make a Wireless Monitor with WID101
This is great, now you can make your computer monitor or LCD go wireless upto 1366 by 768 pixels! You’ve got a wireless keyboard, wireless mouse and wireless speakers, so why are you still connecting to your monitor with a cable? What are you, some kind of luddite? You need a wireless monitor connector, like the new WID101 from Teq Gear. Th ... More
October 2, 2006
Quasi the robot from Carnegie Mellon Univeristy
Wow, check out this quasi the robot from Carnegie Mellon University! Very hilarious in the video and seems to be very interactive at talking with people! We’ve already got robotic eyedrops that can facilitate conversation and react accordingly to their surroundings, and there’s even an R2-D2 clone to get your feet shuffling once you& ... More
September 29, 2006
The coolest table-top LCD
The coolest table top LCD i’ve seen in a while… i need this since I am always crouching over my coffee table but it would be nice to actually have a screen inside my coffee table…very innovative! via gummyavenger awesome, coffee_table, coffee_table_lcd, Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, dude, keep_doing_it, LCD, Zedomax ... More
September 26, 2006
Time Curtain Clock
Yes this would be cery neat to have… via feber clock, Cool, Cool, curtain, LCD, time, Zedomax ... More
September 11, 2006
POWERless LCD displays from Kent Display
Everytime I goto ESC (Embedded Systems Conference), it seems like Kent displays is among the top pioneers of powerless LCD displays. If you have any apps requiring powerless LCDs (that’s right, they are powerless!), I suggest you check these guys out. Yes, these LCD are cool, I’ve seen them in real life, they require no POWER! You ne ... More
