Make an Origami CD Case
Since I buy burnable media in bulk I usally have lots of unprotected discs lying around. One of my housemates suggested using an origami CD Case. The first thing I found on Google was a set of...
View ArticleLevitating wirelessly powered lightbulb
Lightbulb uses a special bulb, inside which magnets and circuitry are hidden. Using a magnetic hall effect sensor, an electromagnet, and a [modified] PD feedback system, it floats a lightbulb stably in...
View ArticleFreeze your hard drive to recover data: Does it work?
About 2 weeks ago, I wrote an article about hard disk recovery that was quite popular (I received approximately 20000 hits for it). The article covered a couple of solutions to help you in the case...
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Photos of cards getting shot by bullets
This is really cool collection of photos that are taken by a Nikon D100 digital camera. They must have used an incredibly high shutter speed to capture something like this. There are other photos as...
View ArticleRandom Live Webcams
These webcams were found automatically through a variety of clever search techniques. Their owners might or might not have intended for them to be public. But they obviously are. Many of them are...
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Chocolate Xbox 360 Controller!
This is a limited (only one made) edition Xbox 360 wireless controller made by Microsoft, out of yummy chocolate. Mmm, I wonder who will be the lucky person to eat it? read more
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Video of a balloon popping in slow motion
I found this video that shows you what a balloon looks like when it is popped (by a knife in the video) in slow motion. It is really interesting to see that the water keeps its shape after the plastic...
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RC Airplane Mod
I was bored this afternoon, so I had a look around to see if there was anything interesting I could mod in my room. I had an old RC Airplane that was pretty useless. The ‘arms’ were made out of foam...
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The IT Crowd
Many of you may know about the new UK comedy show called “The IT Crowd”. It is a hilarious TV show airing here in the UK on Channel 4 which is about 2 IT guys in a company and a new girl who claims...
View ArticleWatch a 500kV powerline being disconnected
You need to watch this video, amazing (on Google Video). [digg] read more
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LEGO Lie Detector
You can’t get more simple than the Galvanic Skin Response [GSR] sensor. It is just a cut 9V LEGO motor wire and some aluminum foil wrapped around your fingers with tape. I was inspired by talks by...
View ArticleYou Know You Go to a Tech School When…
I don’t know what a typical college campus is like. Everything I’ve experienced at Georgia Tech is apparently not normal for a university lacking “tech” in the title. I’ve compiled a few things I’ve...
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Links for June 29
The shorts for Thursday June 29, 2006. LAPD to trial GPS darts, like in the moves (above) [link] Apple replacing some MacBook’s with the colour defect [link] MacWorld’s 23 things we want in Leopard...
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The Ultimate TV-B-Gone
You know you can get those IR devices that turn of your TV sets? Well this is an awsome mod made to the most readily available one: the TV-B-Gone. This instructibles how-to details on how to mod that...
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Links for 13/09/2006
The shorts for today (and some from the past) are: Rotating Lego Chaingun that shoots elastic bands at 11 rounds per second – with video [link] Why Linux doesn’t need defragging (good article) [link]...
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Links for 24/09/2006
Shorts for 24 September 2006. Amazon UK attribute the Zune to “Apple Computer”, recently fixed it (above) [link] Xbox 360 add-on HD-DVD drive adds 1080p, for $170, to be released on November 22nd in...
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HOW-TO: Rechargeable LED Flashlight
I thought I’d mention this because it is really cool! An LED flashlight was built using an old tic-tac box and a few other components. You basically shake the tic-tac for 60 seconds which is enough to...
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The Geekiest Licence Plates
Geek24.com went geek licence plate spotting (on Flickr of course), and found some very good ones. There are quite a lot of them; The above few are just some of the ones that I found funny. If you look...
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Links for 12/10/2006
The shorts for Thursday 12th October: The EggCuber in action – above (video) [link] It’s been four years, but Windows XP SP1 support ended on Monday [link] Developers are from Mars, Programmers are...
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HOW-TO: Cleaning the Apple Keyboard
There comes a time, when your shiny white Apple keyboard gets so dirty that you can’t bear one second more. For me, that day was today. I love the Apple keyboard, it is nice, ergonomic and looks very...
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