March 18, 2008
Virgin Galatic, 3 Hour Space Travel, ready for reservations, can you afford it?
I first saw an article about Virgin’s Richard Branson on Wired magazine couple months ago. Virgin announced that it was launching a public service where people can experience zero-gravity. Basically, Virgin is taking space travel into reality for normal people like you and me. Anyways, I was SiteHoppin’ along for some random Entrecar ... More
December 12, 2007
NASA creates flying telescope
This is an attempt to get some great images from space, but without the costs involved by maintaining the Hubble telescope in space, which is great but hugely expensive. This forms part of the NASA Origins program and by working with the DLR who are the German Aerospace Centre they have developed a flying telescope inside a Boeing 747SP. This wil ... More
December 8, 2007
Millennium Falcon Joystick
This is no ordinary joy stick as is comes with a four great games stored on the memory. The games are a light sabre duel, assault on Hoth, flying an x-wing and finally the battle of Endor, plenty of action for any Star Wars fan. Priced at $25 Source [Urban Outfitters] Computer, Computer, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, Games, Games, hoth, Hous ... More
October 28, 2007
DIY balloon sent up 30km
a href=”http://vimeo.com/359554/l:embed_359554″>Launch and Retrieval from natrium42 on Vimeo.Check out this DIY Balloon that made it 30km! High altitude ballooning is an emerging hobby, since price of GPS and communications equipment has gotten quite low. It is an excellent hobby for people fascinated by space flight and telerobotic ... More
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
May 15, 2007
It’s a chair but not as we know it
At first glance this contraption looks slightly rude, in what way I am not completely sure, but having read about the Solar System Chair it appears to be the cutting edge design for furniture, even though it does look somewhat uncomfortable. The solar system part of this chair has nothing to do with technology of gadgetry but in fact if you study ... More
April 23, 2007
DIY ROCKET - Homemade Rockets!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Holy cow, check these guys out, they made cool homemade rockets that almost resemble powerful bottle rockets! This is the first static test with our homemade tar/oxygen hybri ... More
April 16, 2007
Make Balloon headed for space!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Here’s a cool video of Bre trying to track his ballon that’s headed for space. You gotta check out the real-time data tracking which is the coolest part. Good luck in spotting your balloon! via ballon, balloon, blip_tv, bre, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, ... More
April 11, 2007
Electric Giraff, Submarine maker, and more at Maker Faire!
Check out some of the cool stuff and people that are going to be at the Maker Faire! (Including us but we have no idea what to bring…yet) We will get to play with an electric giraff (hopefully) and meet with submarine maker Mike Wernecke. You can get some tickets for the Maker Faire in San Mateo Fairgrounds here. And check out Maker Fair ... More
April 5, 2007
Space Travel from Virgin
Virgin is making some space travels available for regular maxes like you and me. Well, actually I’ve been reading about this on Time magazine but Bodin brought it up in his new travel blog, onearthtravel. (wait a minute, isn’t this out of earth?!?) Anyway, check it out. One day, space travel will be like airplane travel. Pay $500 t ... More
March 21, 2007
SpaceX Falcon 1 launch video
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Tight, SpaceX Falcon 1 launched and made it into space! It looks like there’s a good chance today’s SpaceX launch will be successful - Founder Elon Musk just wrote that they made it into space. The maiden launch attempt one year ago didn’t go so well, and ... More
February 24, 2007
Interview with Area 51 Worker on UFOs
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Wow, I just ran into this, check it out. Now UFOs seem very real… via ufo.shadowshade area-51, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, Earth, Earth, Educational, Educational, Entertainment, Entertainment, Government, Government, Industrial, Industrial, real, sh ... More
February 5, 2007
DIY HACK - The Orb - mini ITX hack project
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Check out this cool orb that has a mini ITX that serves as a HTPC, Fileserver, and HTTP Server! Cool space looking design, maybe a grill was used here… You can make your next media PC like this and put it next to your TV and let your friends admire it. ... More
January 29, 2007
Video of northern lights!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Here’s a cool video on northern lights! Consumer, Consumer, Cool, dabomb, Earth, Earth, Educational, Educational, Entertainment, Entertainment, northern-lights, Space, Space, Video, Video, youtube, Zedomax ... More
January 13, 2007
Cool science video - Sulfur Hexafluoride Experiment: Floating Ship
View This Video on You Tube Wow, check out this sulfur hexafluoride which is denser than air lift up a metal thingee! via via Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, cool-video, experiment, floating-ship, Industrial, Industrial, magic, magic, neatorama, science, Space, Space, sulfur-hexafluoride, techeblog, Video, Video, wagthis, Zedomax ... More
December 29, 2006
UFO lands on earth!
Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Okay, this video’s got to be fake, what are your thoughts? via metacafe aliens, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, Earth, Earth, Educational, Educational, Entertainment, Entertainment, Funny, Funny, metacafe, Space, Space, ufo, Video, Video, Zedomax ... More
December 28, 2006
DIY - Matchstick rocket on instructables
Check this instructables out on how to make one. How to make a rocket from house-hold materials. It will fly from a foot to 22 feet. I have perfected the match rocket! 22feet, Consumer, Consumer, Cool, Cool, diy-rocket, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, Earth, Earth, Educational, Educational, Entertainment, Entertainment, Funny, Funn ... More
December 26, 2006
DIY Tool - Epson unveils smallest GPS chip ever
Here’s the smallest GPS chip ever! Great news for us hackers and DIYers! PhysOrg.com says “thanks to clever use of space-saving technology the S4E19863 series is the world’s smallest GPS module (7 mm x 6 mm x 1.28 mm), making it ideal for applications with limited component space, such as mobile phones. ” Epson’s new GPS is alread ... More