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David Copperfield makes Statue of Liberty Disappear!

Posted on April 9, 2007 by max

video://www.metacafe.com/watch/106318/statue_of_liberty/

This is very old but cool!

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Humanoid Robot Platforms

Posted on April 9, 2007 by max

Check out these funny lookin’ Humanoid Robot Platforms from Hubo Lab at Kaist(Korean Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, kinda like MIT of Korea).

HUBO-FX1 is the human-riding robot having 12 DOF. The development concept is that the robot can walk naturally with carrying a person or a load of 100kg, so the lower b

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LaptopTablet turns any laptop into a touchscreen!

Posted on April 8, 2007 by max

Wow, check out this cool gizmo that will turn your laptop into a touchscreen! (if it ain’t touchscreen already)

NAVIsis(www.navisis.com) presented its ‘Laptop Tablet’ that supports tablet functionality to a general laptop. Just attaching it on LCD monitor frame and connecting it to USB port, you can enjoy tablet on your laptop monitor. Suggested pric

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Use iPod as bullet-proof vest!

Posted on April 8, 2007 by max

Now, you can use the iPod to stop bullets!

Kevin Garrad (3rd Infantry Division) was on a street patrol in Iraq (Tikrit I believe) and as he rounded the corner of a building an armed (AK-47) insurgent came from the other side. The two of them were within just a few feet of each other when they opened fire. The insurgent was killed and Kevin was hit in the left chest where his IPod was in his jacket pocket. It slowed the bul

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Snow surfing with a Antartic Snowbot

Posted on April 7, 2007 by max

Check out some of the cool Antartic autonomous solar robots being developed here. Above is a picture of a guy (yes holding a laptop), snow-surfing at about 5mph…

Not too bad on solar power, we give thumbs up for that.

One morning, while taking walking behind the robot and dragging a sled of equipment for quantitatively measuring the strength and c

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200X USB Magnifier

Posted on April 7, 2007 by max

Check out this cool 200X USB Magnifier you can use to magnify stuff…

Cool…

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DIY HACK – Double the battery life

Posted on April 7, 2007 by max

Check out this howto on doubling your battery life by replacing a linear voltage regulator (the thing that converts DC voltage, e.g. from 12V to 5V) to a switching regulator. Switching regulators are way more efficient than your typical off-the-shelve crappy regulators such as 7805 which get too hot too fast. Get the Dimension Engineering regulators here. This howto could easily be appl

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Steel Mouse

Posted on April 7, 2007 by max

Check out this cool steel spider mouse from Japan!

Looks like it goes for around $100…

These mouse controls, like the Daruma mouse, are optical with motion sensors so you can control the cursor by tilting the mouse instead of sliding it over a pad. These also have directional button on the back of the ball if you want to manipulate the c

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Weightlifting Champion Robot

Posted on April 7, 2007 by max

Check out this robot that can lift patients in hospital beds. Wow!

In a public demonstration held in Tokyo on March 28, a human-sized android showed off its weightlifting skills by successfully picking up a 30-kilogram (66-pound) package from a desk and lifting a 66-kilogram (145-pound) humanoid doll out of bed.

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DIY – How to Collect Hydrogen and Oxygen!

Posted on April 7, 2007 by max

Here’s a cool instructable on how to collect some hydrogen and oxygen!

In this instructable I’ll give you a simple way to collect Hydrogen gas and if you want also, to collect Oxygen. Depending on the voltage and current that you use for the project this could be hazardous. I used a 14.4 volt power drill battery pack for the process but don’t recommend it, I only used it to achieve a noticeable effect in a short time period (about 20 minutes).

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