Don’t mind the post title as this DIY shows you how to make hydroponics unit for growing anything.

Aside from people with medical marijuana licenses who live in San Francisco and can legally grow several pot plants, the hydroponic system can be used for growing your own organic vegetables and what not.

My wife teaches 8th grade science. This project “The Hydroshack” is a rendition of one I built over 20 years ago in my college teaching methods class. It is designed specifically for performing experiments in a science class. It therefore incorporates some modifications for flexibility and control purposes. It also needs to be collapsible for storage in tight quarters. If you are considering building something similar for your home, it can be less complex.

via instructables

Of course, if you don’t want to build one yourself, here’s some resources too:

Hydroponics.com sells bunch of nutrients and other hardware needed for home-growing.

All about Hydroponics at Wikipedia.

Hydroponics.net sells bunch of stuff for home-growing too.

Here’s a cool eco-friendly harddrive called “[re]drive” by Fabrik made with materials that lessens the carbon footprint.

The [re]drive has 500GB of storage and promises 25% faster data transfer with its Turbo USB 2.0 connectivity compared to standard USB 2.0. Both Mac and Windows users can use the [re]drive and it ships with automate backup software for archiving important data. The SimpleTech [re]drive is available today for $159.99.

via gadgetoholic - ohgizmo

Here’s an awesome portable chair design.  At first look, you will notice 3 pieces and wonder, “How is that a chair”?

Now start putting the pieces together in your mind.

Little more…

Almost there…

Wow, look at that, a portable DIY chair in seconds.  Now, if you got a whole stadium of these chairs, it might do some stylish design wonders while keeping your storage cost down over traditional fold-a-chairs.

What amazes me is the simplicity and elegant design of this chair.  If went into production, I think it’d do real good with any kind of material including carboard.  (Heck, why don’t they make these in cardboard, they’d make some awesome re-usable disposable chairs)

via YankoDesign

Also check out Cardboard Furniture.

Check out some of the gravy food USB Drives from Brando.

The one pictured above are actually pizza and hamburger flash drives. - USB Fast Food Flash Drive

Continue reading ‘Food USB Drives from Brando!’

If you are looking to replace your large desk with something that’s more compact, this IKEA PS laptop workstation/cabinet might do the job.

Key features

Combined workstation and storage for laptop http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laptop and accessories. Saves space and is easy to place anywhere in your home.
The cable outlets inside and at the bottom of the cabinet make it easy to organize cables according to need.
The upper space is lockable for safe storage of the contents.
An elastic strap keeps your laptop in place during charging.
The lower compartment is just the right size for hidden, easy-access storage of modem, router and multiple sockets.
designer:
Henrik Preutz
Product dimensions

Width: 27 1/2 ”
Depth: 7 7/8 ”
Height: 23 5/8 ”
Max. load/open front: 55 lb

Width: 70 cm
Depth: 20 cm
Height: 60 cm
Max. load/open front: 25 kg

via bedzine

Although there are many mini-usb drives now, this credit card size 8GB USB drive might do the trick of hiding safetly and discreetly in your wallet.

‧ 3mm Thin (Aluminum Alloy Casing )

‧ Retraction Connector

‧ Mobile USB flash drive, USB 1.1/2.0 compatible

‧ Hot swappable, USB Plug & Play compatible

‧ LED access indicator with three modes: Busy, waiting, and off

‧ Carrying caddy for easy storage in your wallet

‧ Built-in personal customizable software (USB Notebook Professional)

via pqi

Need some serious storage for your files? Here’s the LaCie little big disk quadra with 1 terabytes (that’s 1,000 gigabytes!) of storage.

1 x eSATA 3Gbits port; 2 x FireWire 800 ports (FireWire 400 compatible); 1 x Hi-Speed USB 2.0 port

via gizmodo - fareastgizmos

Nokia E71 looks so much like Blackberry 8830 I’ve got here, perhaps slimmer. If the price is right, Nokia E71 might not be a bad choice.

The E71 is one of the thinnest phones we’ve ever seen exit the doors of the Finnish giant, at 10mm thick, but there’s still plenty of room for everything you’d expect out of an E series phone like WiFi, HSDPA, A-GPS and even a 3.2 megapixel camera and a front facing camera for video chat — the main place the E71 differs on specs from its new E66 sibling is the 2.36-inch QVGA screen, just a fraction of an inch smaller. The E71 even manages to squeeze in extra battery, with 20 days of standby, 10.5 hours of GSM talk or 4.5 hours of 3G talk. There’s 110MB of built-in storage and a microSD slot if you grow out of that, and the same business / personal switcher of the E66.

via engadget

Well, since we started a new blog over at Laptop Pimp blog, we will do a daily digest of what’s going on in the laptop world.

Today’s daily laptop digest:

Eec PC help ASUS become the 6th largest PC vendor.   Intel Eco PCs are another great sign of the on-coming mini-laptop revolution.

My next laptop will be something like the ASUS 1TB laptop with 1,000 gigabytes of storage and solve all my laptop shortage problems.

OLPC XO2 will be hotter than the first version with its dual monitor setup.

CTL IL1PC is a weird name, can we get a better name for a laptop pleeez?

DIY Laptop stands here and here.

With all the cool folding bikes out these days, here’s another cool folding bike called Strida.

The Strida from Area Ware works around a triangular frame, which means it, has strength as well as agility, because it will fold down flat making the bike totally portable in just five seconds. Now you have a light, yet compact bike for storage.

via keetsa