OTR has a huge library of radio shows archived and free to download on their website. It’s mainly American, but seems to be growing quite fast. A lot of content! Hancocks Half Hour is way good from memory… Oh the times before TV!
This is the title of a totally unauthorised film that takes place between the last Star Wars movie to come out (Part III) and the first one to come out (part IV). The story covers some interesting background we hear about but never see of our favorite characters. Good luck guys!
We’re going to have more planets in our solar system. It depends on the findings of the IAU (International Astronomers Union) who are for the first time going to define what a planet actually is. The word should be out soon.
In order to put a PC into your car, you need to power your computer from the car itself. You also need software and they reccomend a 7″ touch screen LCD. Full instructions to be found.
Orb is a freely downloadable slingbox type software alternative – allowing you to record TV, stream TV, videos, pictures and mp3s over teh internets to any device you might pwn at any location.
The Treehouse Company goes about building luxury houses in trees, ranging from GBP 15,000 to GBP 55,000 (and higher). These are total beauties, but I couldn’t really tell if you could actually live in one. Note – site homepage does, but other pages don’t work in Firefox
Finally a new 3D VR display – it’s taken its time! This unit stops ambient light from coming in entirely, sports a lightweight design and a tracker that works as a mouse, comes with a gun, allowing you to use it seamlessly in most FPS games. I think it’ll look great in the Flight Sim Read more about Trimersion 3D Display[…]
It’s a pistol. And a mouse. Nuff said.
Another design for a modular space station / hotel for astronauts and tourists, using 7×4 m. capsules. Looking for funding – give it to them, but for heavens sake, use a different launch vehicle than that obsolete shuttle!
We’ve seen lights on buildings and games on buildings using the roomlights etc as pixels. This installation has it’s own interface made out of the the same layout of the lights on the building, you can step on, turning the LCDs on the interface on and off, and silmutaneously turning the lights on the building Read more about Enteractive[…]
This time fountain uses strobe lighting to show water droplets falling. You can interact with the drops and because you can alter the strobing frequency, you can seem to slow down time and even make time go backwards. The video makes things clearer 🙂 you can find that here Instructions on how to make the Read more about Time fountain and other creations[…]
Strange people and even stranger that they became celebrities
In the 2 – 4GB there seems to be alternatives for iPod’s rule – these tiny units play video, FM, and of course the music and playlists. This review takes the Meizu M6 and Oracom UB-890 and puts them through the paces. They both look good, with the M6 coming out as favorite.
Ketamine, a recreational drug and anaesthetic, has been shown to relieve heavy depression sufferers within a period of hours, where other drugs take weeks or months to show effect. They will have to isolate the part of the drug that relieves the depression, as ketamine in its current form is too strong to sell commercially.
Apparently this method is easier than picking or using a picking gun. You take keys and file them down to the minimum, hit them on the back after insertion and turn the lock. With a bit of practice this allows you to open locks within 30 seconds. (pdf link)
The Observer / Guardian has published a top 100 books of all time list. Allthough I don’t entirely agree with the list, and it’s missing a whole load of good ones, it’s well worth browsing through if you can’t think of anything to read and you need a new book.
This scanner scans 3D objects and gives you that 3D object back on your PC. It’s handheld.
Well done, Tammie Marson fought the giants and won! She claims that allthough there were illegal files on her computer that had been downloaded over her internet connection, there was simply no way that they could prove it was her who had downloaded the stuff. Anyone else of the hundreds of cheerleaders that came into Read more about No, RIAA, you CAN’T prove it was me![…]
Everything has to be extreme nowadays, even ironing. The idea is simple – take your shirt and ironing board to extreme locations and… press your shirt. These people are ironing whilst skydiving, whilst scubadiving, in gondola’s, and any place you can think of. There’s a huge gallery of submitted pictures, proving that there are actually Read more about Extreme Ironing[…]
These structures are built with fully recycled materials and make you almost totally independant from the city in that you don’t need heating, sewage or other facilities. The walls are made of filled tyres creating the brickwork. As each area where the earthship is placed is unique, so is the design and as the materials Read more about Earthship[…]
Dimensions are weird things. There are a whole load more of them than the 3 (length, height and depth) most people are used to, such as dimension number 4 (time) and 0 (the dot infinity). This page shows in an easy manner how we can understand 10 dimensions. It does however end with the contention Read more about Dimensions[…]