Ok, if you combine the news reported in this post, about artifical muscles, and this post about robots guiding museum visitors, you get something that’s absolutely scary!
other robots will be programmed to guard archeological sites from grave robbers and guys like Indy and his nemesis, Beloq.
Thats taken from the last line of the museum post. [...]
Google launched Google Finance yesterday. Nice service allows you to search the stock market. However, this was possible on normal google, by just searching a ticker, now, that is no longer necessary. Searching disney on http://finance.google.com brings you up a page with a chart showing the progress of The Walt Disney Company, [...]
Want to fly around in a mini model of the earth? or a gigantic baseball?
21st Centurl Airships can do that for you!
What’s the point in having a huge selection of mp3s to choose from, but not having any of the album covers for them?
This little script from UNEASYsilence gives you that option
step by step instructions
the script itself
I’ve been using it to update all my album art since they first had it up, it works.
Doom, Star Wars, The Martix, Aliens, all those movies that sucked, well, here’s what could/should have happened.
This is a very good list, i agree with most of the ones on here too.
read the list
So today we made huge progress on the projector.
We stripped the LCD, we made a frame for the box, and ultimately decided to build the box too.
stripping the lcd base with the light and bars
base with no light [...]
Kensington has introduced a new flash drive…hardly news, although the 4 GB size is nice….
The 4GB flash drive encrypts all data with 128-bit AES, and then adds an extra layer of security: a self destruct feature. If anyone tries to use a brute-force attack to guess your password, the drive will automatically erase itself after [...]
Here is the first part of the projector project:
The Fans….
those are some massive fans, they take 24 volts though, we can figure out how to come up with that anyway.
So, remember the contest for The Buzz from that wounderful site UNEASYsilence
Out entry
Well, we won. It was offical two weeks ago, but, i felt it was unnecessary to post until we got some pictures of the prize.
Our prize, a nice shiny new 5g 30 gb Black iPod Video!
It’s pretty sweet, i havent loaded it [...]
I gotta say, this is really cool!
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