Category Archives: Gadgets

Anything that could be considered a consumer gadget…

Water Cooling Computers With a Swimming Pool

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This is either really cool or really ridiculous but we give two thumbs up for the cool idea.

This rig has been running successfully since 8/06 (knock knock). Computers have been easily swapped out without the need to shut down the pump or any other computers on the line. There is no perceptible temperature difference in the water returned to the pool. However, every machine on the line happily ope

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DIY – RGB Color Controllable High Power LED Room & Spot Lighting

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Check out this cool high power LED Room and Spot Lighting! It’s incredible what you can make with some parts!

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Tux Droid – Robot programmble with Linux

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Here’s a cool Tux droid robot for all your Linux robotics pleasures!

Tux Droid is a first generation 2.4 GHz wireless robot specially built for Linux®.

Tux Droid will be your favorite smart companion. Connect him to your PC and make him flap his wings, dance around, talk, blink his eyes, and all the other stuff you can imagine…

• Let Tux Droid dance when you receive an e-mail • Program Tux Droid as a guard dog t

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Funny Video – What happens if you put a light bulb in a microwave oven

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Yes, this is what happens if you put a light bulb in a microwave oven. Hilarious!

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Cool touchscreens for home automation

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These guys have really cool touchscreens if you have the money and the time to build the ultimate home automation system.

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HACK – Nintendo DS Ipod MOD

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Check out Nintendo DS Ipod mod. Video after the jump.

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Homemade Pong watch!

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I have been searching for new watches lately and this would be the one I’d love to have.  Wow, this is an awesome project!  I couldn’t find any free source codes though…

After soldering all the parts together, it was time to make the watch finally come to life! The first thing I did is called, for lack of a better name, “Board Bringup”. It’s basically the smoke test to see if there

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DIY – Convert your PC to a 6-axis CNC controller for $159

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Here’s a cool CNC controller I stumbled upon today.

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DIY HACK – Howto Hack a Compact GPS!

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Here’s a cool GPS serial hack using a Compact GPS from older PDAs.

Below is a description of how to modify the compactGPS to work with a standard serial port. This mod will allow you to use the device using your PDA serial port, a PC serial port, and a PDA/GPS car kit.

This device is a compact flash adapter for GPS If you are a walker or hiker, you should look at this device. It is very accurate, and has a very low data acquisi

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DIY HACK – Wireless LAN Signal Extender using Mesh Wire Method

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Here’s a little simple hack for making a mesh wire wireless LAN extender. Check out the video they’ve got here.  It also includes elevator hack, which we thought was kinda cool.

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