Check out this cool supercharged airplane you can make in your free time!
The single-sheet paper airplanes you made when you were a kid (or perhaps last week in your cubicle) were, well, kid stuff compared to this beefed-up paper craft, which uses an electric motor from an old pager or toy powered by a big electrolytic capacitor. Known as a “Gold Cap” and made by Panasonic, the capacitor charges from a battery pack and then met
Erin joins our new Blog network site, Keetsa! Blog, which is a new blog about eco-friendly and green. Well, here’s a cool post she wrote about the sustainable skyscrapers, similar to previous post on the Rotating Towers to be built in Dubai. On the side note, can you believe it? I went from hacking gadgets
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJRDZE5xW2Y
Wow, check out these rotating towers that can power itself!
While the technical details of the wind-power system are sketchy at best, the architect, David Fisher, claims that the tower could power itself and ten other similar sized buildings. Frankly, the claim seems somewhat outlandish, but even if it produces just it’s own energy, it would be a significant achiev
Cool, ThinkGeek’s got their magic numbers going too! Very clever.
Hmm…. I wonder what comes after bf…c0???
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnuChpEHrGc
Wow, check out some of these really cool DIY Thumb Pianos!
Sometimes an instrument you know can become something else altogether. Bob Collier has been constructing his own thumb pianos, adding amplification, effects, self-sampling features, and novel cases involving recycled camera bodies and faux fur. As Bob says, “Sometimes the crudest and roughest looking kalimbas can sound surprisingly good especially with the right context of fx and amplification.”
I find kalimbas beautiful and delicate to begin with.
After work, instead of taking the usual elevator, stairs, or escalator, you can simply slide down the Funny Escalator and save some time too. If we ever get a chance to build our own building, this would definitely be one of the features. But you’d probably need to pay a lot of money for insuring it.
Here’s a cool USB disk drive hack that shows you how to bypass the password retries with 1 wire and tips to getting started with cracking the actual password. This shows how vulnerable those USB disk drives are in the hands of smart hackers.
The package seems to be made of black velvet, and there’s a nice keychain hidden in a compartment of the package which you can use to hang the stick around your neck. I’m not so fond of metal on my body, considering I work with electricity a lot,
Are you into Podcasting and iPod Nanos? Here’s a device that turns your iPod into a recording studio. (maybe we will get one…)
The MicroMemo clips onto your 2G Nano and turns it into a hi-fi recording device. It comes with a microphone, but also has line-in and a mic socket so you can rip CDs or mix down from a whole studio setup.
The audio is encoded as uncompressed WAV files sampled at 44.10 kHz and up to 1411 kb/s, so you hav
Do you need a cool grass chair? Check out this cool eco-friendly grass armchair you can get and grow grass on it.
TERRA by Nucleo. Grass armchair for outdoor use. Die cut cardboard pieces fit together to make the form of an armchair. Fill and cover with dirt, spinkle with grass seeds and water. Grass seeds not included. Assembly required
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