Clips Of Windows 7 In Action

Yesterday we gave you a tiny glimpse of what Windows 7 will look like based on the latest M3 build.. Today we bring you two tiny videos demonstrating Windows 7′s updated Start button animation and it’s new powerful integrated calculator. Don’t knock the calculator, with history lists and date-to-date measurements it looks like a calculator [...]

DVD::RIP – Rippin Linux Style

There is a ton of software available for both Windows and OS X that allow you to rip and encode DVD’s, but what about Linux? A few months back I did a segment on the Lab with Leo Laporte TV show on just that, DVD rippers for Linux. (Video after the break) DVD::RIP is a [...]

Water Powered Calculator

This is one of the craftiest gadgets I have seen in a long time, a calculator that is power by a few drops of water, 3 drops for 3 months of power to be exact. Just think of the 10′s of millions of calculators sold or given away each year. Now imagine the batteries that [...]

How To: Make A Metal Detector

Most kids are absolutely fascinated with electronic projects of some sort, take me for example, when I was a kids all I wanted to do was build radio receivers and play with my metal detector. That being said, I really wished that I knew about building this many years ago. This just seem to be [...]

Dev Kit For Your HP 20b Calculator

Yes, you heard me, a dev kit for a calculator. I’m sure that only financial nerd have the HP 20b calculator in their arsenal of financial tools, but until know all you could do with it was, uhmm, calculate. Now that HP has released a dev kit that the say is “designed for developers who [...]

3G, GPS, MobileMe, Oh My

After all of the rumours (what else is new) the 3G iPhone is finally here. Hits the shelves on July 11th (in Canada too!) $199 for 8GB, $299 for 16GB Black, with a white 16GB model GPS In a clear action of trying to play catch up to Google, Apple also announced a suite of [...]