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« Previous EntriesNew Skin for your Music Hardware
Monday, September 29th, 2008At StyleFlip.com, you can design your own adhesive vinyl skin for a variety of music gear — turntables, CD players, DJ mixers, drum machines, keyboards and more. (The company says the skins are removable and leave no residue.) The site’s Flash-based interface is easy to suss out, and the previews look dramatic.
With so many [...]
Lego CAD
Monday, July 7th, 2008The LEGO Digital Designer site is a computer aided design tool for building LEGO kits. You can assemble virtual kits, or using a palette of over 700 different types of brick, create your own. And then (this is the best part), the program will take your parts list and let you order a custom kit [...]
Quick, Funky ways to modify images
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Befunky takes images from your computer, webcam or on the web and with some input from you, creates a cartoonish effect that you can share with others. You’re free to adjust the amount of sketching, color and pencil strokes applied to get the look you’re after. If you want to further customize your image [...]
Custom Hardware Gadgets With BUG
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008Bug Labs seems to have a very promising concept. The company allows you to order different hardware modules, like a camera, a screen, a touch sensitive device (some still in development) and so on. Then, you can stick these modules onto the base gadget, and via a Java-based programming environment, add your own functionality to [...]
newsflash - X-BOX DRM sucks
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008From CodingHorror
Chicago - Indoor Drag Racing
Thursday, January 24th, 2008So it gets cold in Chicago, Illinois. So cold, in fact,that “the asphalt strips of US30 and Union Grove and Byron are covered in five foot drifts” of snow. So what did the desperate street racers of early ’60s Chicago do ?
Head indoors for some Drag Racing. Photos as well.
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Origami spaceplane
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008Researchers from the University of Tokyo have teamed up with members of the Japan Origami Airplane Association to develop a paper aircraft capable of surviving the flight from the International Space Station to the Earth’s surface.
Testa of a prototype were scheduled to start on January 17. The Space Shuttle shaped origami glider will be [...]
NASA-BASED MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER ONLINE LEARNING GAME
Sunday, January 20th, 2008NASA have released an RFI for the “development of a NASA-based massively multiplayer online learning game“.
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Original SimCity source code released under GPL
Thursday, January 17th, 2008The original SimCity is nearly 20 years old. Now the SimCity source code has been released (under the GPL) for anyone who wants to port it run on other devices or operating systems, or wants to modify the game to create their own version.
Apparently, the decision to release the the SimCity source under a [...]
Australia - Myer loses exclusivity on eeePC
Monday, January 14th, 2008ASUS has announced that Myer has lost its exclusive position as the only retailer of the Eee PC in Australia. ASUS will now sell the bargain priced sub-notebook through Betta Electrical, David Jones, Good Guys, Harvey Norman, JB Hi-Fi, Myer, Officeworks, Retravision and WOW Sight & Sound.
Hacking the Eee PC
$499 Linux subnotebook to go mainstream
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