DIY: Bike Powered USB Charger
Here’s a perfect project for the upcoming summer; a bike powered USB charger to keep all of your gadgets charged while you ride. The USB bike generator works by placing a rotating wheel against the rim of the rear wheel with a heavy spring. The attached wheel turns a stepper motor to generate an AC [...]
Arduino Powered RC Lawnmower
As a male who owns a home with a lot of grass there is nothing more I hate then cutting the grass on a hot sweltering day. Since my son is only three and he can barely reach the mowers handle I’m SOL with getting him to do it. Maybe I should build this awesome [...]
Windows Phone 7 In Action
Earlier this week at the World Mobile Conference Microsoft announced the Windows Phone 7. Microsoft, the once high and mighty in the smartphone market looks like it’s getting serious about taking back their smartphone crown. I have never been a Microsoft fan but I must admit I was a heavy user of the Windows Mobile [...]
10.6.2 Kills Off Atom CPU Support
Looks like Apple is taking another step to put a nail in the coffin of the hackintosh community. Looks like the developer build of Mac OS 10.6.2 lacks support for Intel’s Atom processor which every netbook around uses and is very popular in the hackintosh community. If this is a conscious move on Apple’s part [...]
Install 59 Apps Quickly And Easily
With the recent release of Windows 7, many people have to slug their way through installing their applications. This can easily be a tedious and time consuming adventure. Thankfully Ninite does a lot of the heavy lifting for you. Ninite allows you to install up to 59 different pieces of software for you, with little [...]
Photoshop For The iPhone
Photoshop has come to the iPhone, not quite the full version but really cool never-the-less. As a heavy user of the desktop version of Photoshop I was quite disapointed to find the iPhone version was, let’s just say, thin. No layers, no brushes and no levels. Just a whole crap load of filters. You can [...]
Navy’s Batman Boat
Imagine being chased on the high seas by this menacing looking boat . A bunch of drug runners in Florida recently experienced just that. They tried to elude the Navy’s 80-foot $6 million “Stiletto” by sailing near reefs and sandbars at 42 knots and skimming over water that was less than 5 feet deep. The [...]
RoboStool
I’m so glad to see that engineers are out there working on solving the worlds problems like pollution instead of building robotic furnature, oh wait, some of them do work on building robotic furniture. … In its ‘resting’ state, RoboStool looks like your average vinyl-covered foot stool, but it can also transform revealing a set of heavy duty wheels and sensors which allow it to autonomously follow you throughout your home.
10 Megajoule Railgun
Now this is what I call firepower. The Navy just tested a 10 megajoule railgun, yes I did not make a typo, I said 10 megajoules worth of ass kicking. What makes a railgun special is that it uses magnetic fields, which means it’s not as messy. You can dump tons of juice on it [...]
New Exciting Features For The Blackberry
RIM (you know that tiny company in Canada) announced some highly anticipated features today for their flagship product, the Blackberry. Many of these new features make it easier to work and collaborate with your coworkers. I’m a heavy blackberry user so I’m excited to see all of these new features. Now if RIM would only [...]
Google gPhone set to launch in 15 days
A popular Indian newspaper is reporting that google’s entry into the cell phone market, the gPhone, will launch within the next 15 days. The search engine heavy weight has already started talks with various service providers in India for an exclusive launch on one of their networks. A simultaneous launch across North America and Europe [...]
Why StumbleUpon is better than Digg
Before I go on my observations between digg and stumbleupon let me just say that I am happy with digg and stumbleupon equally, as a user. This is just a numbers crunch that explains on paper why traffic referrals from stumbleupon are better for your site than numbers from digg, in the long run. Back, [...]
Big names sign up to iTunes rival
Some of the heavy weights in the record industry including Universal and SonyBMG have begun selling music through a new download based service, challenging Apple’s iTunes store. gBox will allow music fans to download tracks directly from the gBox site or from online retailer Amazon. However, only US customers can currently make use of the [...]
Change Can Be Good
By Frank on Sep 1, 2008 · 1 Comment
Someone somewhere once said that change can be both scary and good, well we have undergone some small changes that have instilled both those feeling in us here at tech.nocr.at. Syndication Some of you might have already noticed the new syndication images off to the right sidebar. Since I have received many emails asking if [...]
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