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Nokia N95 Light Sabre

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

I’ve never really suffered from jesus phone envy, especially considering the number of features that were missing on earlier iPhones. However, there was one application that could have made me change my mind, and that was the Light Sabre application.

So when i found a Nokia Light Sabre Application, I had to have it.

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Build Your Own D*I*Y Planner

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

You can walk into any Post Office or stationery store and buy a paper planner. There’s also heaps to choose from online.
But a do-it-yourself planner brings customization and scalability. Examples of this are when you don’t want to have to order a new set of custom-print pages from your store-bought planner’s manufacturer every time [...]

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New Skin for your Music Hardware

Monday, September 29th, 2008

At 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 [...]

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Lego CAD

Monday, July 7th, 2008

The 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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Custom Hardware Gadgets With BUG

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Bug 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 [...]

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newsflash – X-BOX DRM sucks

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

From CodingHorror

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Chicago – Indoor Drag Racing

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

So 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, 2008

Researchers 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 [...]

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NASA-BASED MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER ONLINE LEARNING GAME

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

NASA have released an RFI for the “development of a NASA-based massively multiplayer online learning game“.

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