WiFi routing on the go
How to make the stompbox – it uses GSM boxen to stay connected, is powered by your car battery and plugs in to google maps etc… nice!
Day: May 25, 2005
Fake your fingerprints
Easy to do and takes, what, 5 hours on a free sunday afternoon?
Read and retransmit proximity cards
DIY way to go do it
Leadership Decision Making
This document on decision making is generating a lot of buzz. Give it read. http://home.ubalt.edu/ntsbarsh/opre640/partXIII.htm
80s Radio Mixes
This guy has taped some old school stuff from radio shows in the 80s and put it all up online for your audial pleasure – breakdance, rap, etc, it’s all there.
IRobot Scooba!
That Roomba thing is so… last year! Coming up: not only does it hoover for you, it now cleans for you too! Thank you IRobot, I’m waiting before I buy – I NEEEEEEEED this!
Webcam thought mice
Cybernet has released what looks like a free competitor (Navigaze) to Naturalpoint’s trackIR device. This uses a webcam to monitor you, instead of a silly silver dot on your forehead with an IR device that doesn’t like it when you smoke.
Fingerprint door handle
Yup, secure your room and enter it by using your fingerprint. Make sure finger doesn’t get cut off though.
Nostalgia galore
In the Summer of 2001, Jason Scott, a computer historian (and proprietor of the textfiles.com history site) wondered if anyone had made a film about these BBSes. They hadn’t, so he decided he would. Four years, thousands of miles of travelling, and over 200 interviews later, “BBS: The Documentary”, a mini-series of 8 episodes about Read more about Nostalgia galore[…]