A Japanese inventor has found a way to convert plastic grocery bags, bottles and caps into usable petroleum. Plastic bags are, of course, made from petroleum to begin with, but it is not the same kind of petroleum that is used in fuel. In order to turn home waste into home power the machine heats Read more about Turn your plastic bags into crude oil[…]
inPulse is the perfect hacker accessory – a fully programmable Bluetooth SmartWatch. inPulse is totally customizable. Our SDK can get you saying ‘Hello, Watch!’ in 5 minutes! Dive deeper and create your own app running right on top of our embedded OS. Code in C and get control over the OLED display, Bluetooth connection, vibrating Read more about Get inPulse and Hack Your Watch[…]
My current jawbone has a worse speaker than the Jabra and the earpiece holder doesn’t work so well for me. Now they have a new system to hold it in your ear which hopefully works better, but they’ve addressed all the other niggles I had AND added an accellerometer! oh, and you can see the Read more about Jawbone Era – with 10mm HD speaker, uUSB charger and accellerometer[…]
Waterproof, windproof matches burn in heavy rain and even while wet! Match will not go out until chemical has burned out, then stick can be doused in water to completely extinguish the fire Match sticks are 2 3/4 inches long for added safety to keep from burning fingertips via REI Storm Proof Matches at REI.com.
FPV = first person viewer. These guys put on a headset and fly their UAV’s or drive their cars whilst looking from the vantage of the vehicle. This page tells you about the planes and aircraft and other equipment it recommends. Getting Started in FPV.
13 functions, you can program it by pressing your old remote whilst holding it to your wand. ThinkGeek :: Magic Wand – Programmable TV Remote.
Only $14.99 ThinkGeek :: Star Wars Lightsaber Laser Pointer.
Kiwi Wifi is a plug and play wireless device measuring only 2.75 x 1.25 x 0.6 inches. Kiwi Wifi comes attached with a 6 ft OBDII cable for easy installation. It also comes included with a power switch built-in to prevent the need for having to constantly disconnect your unit from the OBDII port. It Read more about PLX Kiwi Wifi – Connect your iPhone / iPod Touch to your car’s OBD2 OBDII Port.[…]
$99,- of awesome Razer | For Gamers. By Gamers.™ | Online Store – TRON® Gaming Mouse Designed by Razer™.
This plugs into the ODBC port of your car and feeds information to your mobile / desktop device through the cloud as well as sending information (such as GPS location) and making automated phone calls after events, such as your airbags going off. Hopefully they’ll make it an open architecture so we can see cool Read more about Mavizon Technologies – Autobot[…]
These things are ruggedised and for the price they aren’t expensive at all… GoPro Official Store: Wearable Digital Cameras for Sports.
Israeli researchers have created the tiniest-ever optical gyroscopes, as small as a grain of sand, but still maintaining the keen accuracy of their counterparts hundreds of times larger. Optical gyroscopes are generally used for navigation in airplanes, ships and satellites, in which they track movement without reference to external navigation points, by measuring the vehicle’s Read more about Nano-Gyroscopes Will Let Cell Phones Navigate Indoors, Underground[…]
Well, this is Google’s take on TV. You buy either a Logitech box or a Sony TV and it’ll let you browse the web, watch youtube, use some apps and do some other stuff on it. You can control it using your iPhone or Android. Looks like it could be interesting. Quick Tour – Google Read more about Google TV[…]
A good list of what’s available or will be and how much it costs as well as links to reviews. What does the iPad have to face? iPadversaries! 32 Tablets, Slates, Pads, and More.
This system uses a laser and a webcam to scan an item, which can then be printed with the cheap Markerbot 3D printer, or other printers. MakerScanner – open source 3d scanning.
India unveils prototype of $35 tablet computer – Yahoo! News.
In a growning and disconcerting trend among hardware manufacturers, TI has released a new version of it’s OS for the TI-Nspire series, that blocks off a whole load of its’ user base from using the machine the way they want to. I guess Apple, Android, TI, et al are afraid that the community will program Read more about Texas Instruments doesn’t want you to own your hardware either[…]
Android users all seem to throw about that it’s an open architecture, but it quite simply isn’t. In order to do everything on an Android phone you have to root it, which is the same as jailbreaking it. Motorola has taken the extreme measure of making sure that if it gets rooted, it’ll completely fuck Read more about Droid X bricks on jailbreak / root[…]
Unexpected deviations in gravity are indicative of differences in density. If you point your detector (a gravity gradiometer) in that direction, you can tell what kind of structure is underground. Lockheed Martin is calling this the GATE (Gravity Anomaly for Tunnel Exposure) programme. Using Gravity to Detect Underground Threats | Lockheed Martin.
Terahertz Detectors Could See Through Your Clothes From a Mile Away.
Looks very easy to build too a little brown egg in Maine: terra cotta smoker.
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It turns out that the metal band around the casing of the iphone 4 is part of the antenna. If you hold it like you would hold a phone, you hamper reception. Steve Jobs doesn’t think it’s a problem though: his response? Steve Jobs on iPhone 4 “Just don t hold it that way”.
This is a $60,- addition you can put onto a table saw. It detects electrical conductivity and stops the saw as soon as it gets into range – from 5000 RPM to 0 in a millisecond. This means you can shove your finger into the spinning saw without it being harmed at all. Of course, Read more about Sawstop keeps your fingers whole[…]
Fully charged it provides 4 hours of light. You hang it in the sun by day and use it (duh) at night. Cost? $15,- per piece and it will last between 5 – 10 years. Solar light bulb to shine on developing world | Crave – CNET.