The MJoy controller can be used to create your own programmable joystick, or convert your current analogue joystick to a digital, more accurate one.

Using air bubbles to create pixels.

fake legs and feet are now incredibly advanced – so much so, that for GBP 60,000 you can get one which is microprocessor controlled and will allow amputee soldiers back into combat.

By using a wireless 802 antenna from an old piece of kit stuck into the keyboard you can increase the range by about 400%

Ceelite creates flat lightbulbs on sheets of bendable plastic. Want it in my house, but no pricing on the site.

This huge scanner has a monitor built in to it, and scans the tabletop in less than a second. It also has animation and image editing functions in the software.

You attach some electrodes to your throat and mouth the word. The device says the word in the other language. Far from complete, with an 80% accuracy rate with a lexicon of 100 words, it’s very promising and the only system that doesn’t try to work with acoustic input.

Using a laser pointer and a mirror mounted to a motor you can make cool laser vortex effects cheaply.

For $34,- you can travel using your non-enclosed SATA HD and plug it into just about anything. This tiny gadget sits in between the cable and the USB port.

create your own LCD with interface to your PC and stick it on, create your own content.

This video sparked it off – a guy who’s mounted a camera onto an RC aircraft and fed the feed to a head mounted display (HMD). Now not much special in and of itself, I’ve seen that looong ago. But he’s also got a gyroscope attached to the HMD coupled to a motor on the Read more about Virtual Reality Remote Control Flying[…]

Pretty blinkenlights – the Kamameter has RPM gauge indicators for fan speed, volume and shows temperature. You can change the colours of the indicator and twist buttons and everything!

16×9 mm in size it will project the size of a regular projector on the wall. But not in green. Because green lasers are too frickin’ big man. It uses one vibrating mirror to spread the light – instead of the loads of mirrors other projectors need.

Because they’re planning to launch a new product, they’re selling refurbished units with one year’s garauntee for massively cut rates on the Apple Website. A video iPod 30GB for $179, a 2GB iPod nano for $99, for example… Uhm, that is… if you can get it posted to you somehow – the USA Apple store Read more about iPods cheapie cheapie[…]

The PicooZ micro helicopter is remote controlled, lasts around 10 minutes and is 17 cm long!

Someone made an android of Philip K Dick, and left his head on the airoplane, so now it’s missing. The software has been released as freeware and was fed with all the information available on Philip so that the android could talk and answer using the correct voice, posture etc. Guardian Article Software

A nice aticle on how to build a solar cell which yeilds around 0.43V / 1mA/cm2

By using cotton cloth and brasso you remove a layer of plastic (with the scratches) and it’ll work again long enough for you to copy the CD.

Homebuilt

I bought a Logitech digital pen once, and it turned out to be a total white elephant – you could only use it on special (and expensive) paper that seems to reflect the optical laser to itself. So you were stuck carrying around the pen, the noteblock and post-its because you couldn’t use it on Read more about Digital Tablet[…]

Is Plasma the new Betamax? With LCD becoming bigger and cheaper, and not having the problems it used to (ghosting) or the problems of Plasma (burn-in, black degradation and lifecycle) it’s starting to look that way.

This little gadget affixes to your windsheild and gives you data through GPS information about your drifting performance, accelleration, etc. At $750,- it’s the cheapest alternative – it’ll give value for money, but the display is a little small.

This camera allows for 3D live motion pictures through per pixel rendering. Looks very cool.

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.