Gadgets

A very interesting product. I’m curious if it’s on the market anywhere.

Asus set to debut volume shipments of the $199 EEE PC
Asus has announced it intends to begin shipping the ultra low-cost EEE PC in September. According to Asus, the E’s in the title stand for “Easy to learn”, “Excellent Internet”, and “Excellent mobile computing experience.” Asus reportedly plans to ship up to 500,000 of [...]

The Blog of James Foreman, Fiction Writer and Pittsburgh Blogger
Your shiny new iPhone doesn’t have GPS, and therefore you must actually push buttons in order to advance to the next leg of your journey. Fear not, dear readers, for I have a solution: The Hipster GPS.Inspired by 43Folders’s Hipster PDA, the Hipster GPS takes [...]

Neatorama » Blog Archive » Cooking on the edge.
Some people (myself included) think the edge of the brownie is the best part. You can have more edge with the Baker’s Edge, a pan that gives all your brownies an edge! I believe it should reduce baking time, also. Link

This would go great with one [...]

Battlestar Galactica-Inspired USB Snowbot
Inspired by the Centurian model rather than Number Six (damn!), this USB Snowbot has a speed-variable LED eye, adjustable arms, red or blue eyeball glow, and an evil sound to make you say “what the frak was that?”

Demo: Cloning a Verichip Yourself
This device can read and replay a Verichip’s ID. If you can get the antenna close to your victim’s shoulder, then your circuit board is electrically indistinguishable from their implanted chip forever after. Full schematics and documentation are given below.

Naneu Pro Echo Messenger/Camera Bag Hands-On – Gizmodo
Naneu’s pretty good at making bags for all occasions as seen by their huge selection on their website. Their Naneu Pro u120 bag was pretty great, and we can say their Echo bag is definitely good as well.
Nice review of one Naneu camera bag. I’ve been eyeing [...]

Tour of Ken’s HP Museum
This is a view of my collection of vintage HP oscillators, meters and related equipment from the 1940s and 1950s. This is the first phase of the museum to be mostly completed. The rack was assembled during the week of Nov. 21, 2005. Some adjustment of the location [...]

Lego Mindstorms NXT : Page 1
Steve Hassenplug is sitting in a van with seven other people on the way to a Lego convention in Washington, DC, explaining the limitations of Lego’s previous robot-building kit, called Mindstorms. “It was always difficult to build a robot that could drive straight,” he says.
The confession prompts others—infrared communication on [...]

soap homepage
Interesting.
Soap is a pointing device based on hardware found in a mouse, yet works in mid-air. Soap consists of an optical sensor device moving freely inside a hull made of fabric. As the user applies pressure from the outside, the optical sensor moves independent from the hull. The optical sensor perceives this relative motion [...]