Tiny Computer Looks More Like A Card Reader
This is one small computer, actually it looks more like a memory card reader than a computer. Don’t be fooled by it’s incredibly small size, this thing is more powerful that my netbook. CompuLab’s TrimSlice packs one hell-of-a punch for such a small unit. NVIDIA Tegra 2 Dual Core ARM Cortex A9 1GHz Integrated ultra-low [...]
Video Camera Hot Wheels Car
By Frank on Jan 8, 2011 · Leave a Comment
I’ve tried really hard to stay away from all the CES stuff that has been flying around the inter-webs but this story about Mattel cramming a camera into one of their 1:64 scale Hot Wheels car was too good to pass up. The idea is for people to get a first person view of what [...]
In Case You Missed It: Week 43 Round Up
By Frank on Nov 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment
In case you missed anything last week; we have everything from Metallica on your iPhone right through to a $1200 Mouse. Enjoy Gadgets Remote Controlled Tissue BoxElectronic Guitar ShirtSucker Alert: $1200 MouseSucker Alert: Wattgate 381 “Audio Grade” Socket Gaming Nokia Kills The N-Gage – Are You Shocked?Nintendo DSi Get’s BiggerQuickdev16: SNES Developers CartSoccer Hero Hacking [...]
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Tap Tap Revenge Metallica For The iPhone
By Frank on Oct 29, 2009 · Leave a Comment
So I went to the Metallica concert the other night here in Toronto (it’s my 15th time seeing them live. Yes, if you are asking, I am a fan!) and decided that maybe I was having an early mid-life crisis and wanted to walk down the path of my early life as a dedicated hardcore [...]
Second Gen Flip MinoHD
By Frank on Oct 17, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Flip is set to release an upgraded version of it’s MinoHD pocket camcorder just in time for the holiday season. The second gen MinoHD features a brushed metal body, double the internal memory (8GB vs 4GB), a 2-inch LCD and an HDMI connection (sorry, no cable included). The corners are now rounded giving it a [...]
Portable Data Center
By Frank on Oct 17, 2009 · Leave a Comment
A pioneering Dell employee has create a prototype portable data center. This won’t be replacing any of the big shipping container data centers that the likes of Google or Sun are building, but this is a great start to of things to come. This would be great in a disaster recovery plan to bring systems [...]
Bullets At 1,000,000 FPS
I’m not a big gun fan but watching a bullet is some metal at 1,000,000 frames per second slowed down to 30 frames per second is quite amazing. To put in perspective how fast the camera was that created this video lets do some math. Video is typically shot at 30 frames per second. This [...]
RAAL Coffee Can Sound
By Frank on Oct 4, 2009 · Leave a Comment
At first glance you might think that this is a small set of steel drums or maybe just two tin cans stuck together but in reality these metal cylinders will impress you with with the sound they put out. Each cylinder has midrange drivers mounted at each end with a ribbon tweeter mounted between the [...]
Rare Terminator Endoskeleton
By Frank on Sep 17, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Have you ever wanted to own your own Terminator? Well now you can, unless your name is John Connor that is. Sideshow Collectibles has produced 40 of these 6-foot Terminator endoskeletons. Made from Chromed metal and fiberglass and complete with futuristic blue LED lighting, this unit could be yours for a cool $20,000 via an [...]
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 [...]
Magnetic Levitation
By Frank on Aug 18, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Bill Beaty, the science hobbiest, has come up with a cool way to levitate magnets. I do want to mention one word of caution here, you have to be very careful when building this as neodymium magnets are incredibly powerful and you could easily injure yourself or lose you hand playing with them. While working [...]
Custom iPhone Light-Up Apple Logo
With Apple selling upwards of 3 million iPhones already I bet you are looking for that extra little way to stand out in a crowd. Why not light up the Apple logo on the back of your iPhone. iPhones.ru has a teaser of an iPhone hack that causes the Apple logo on the back to [...]
Parking Garage Hacking
By Frank on Aug 10, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Here’s a hack that’s not only simple and effective, it’s also illegal. This hack will let you get in or out of some parking garages when there isn’t an attendant around. By using something metal to trip the parking lot’s proximity sensor that is meant to let cars exit the garage you can park your [...]
Tesla Coil Guitar Amp
By Frank on Aug 5, 2008 · Leave a Comment
I’ve been to many concerts that featured some incredible light shows. I was even at a Metallica concert here in Toronto that has some wicked flames going on stage, so much so that you were smacked in the face with an intense heat wave, but having shooting arcs of electricity onstage by using a tesla [...]
Robot Easter Egg
By Frank on Jun 24, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Type “about:robots” in the address bar on Firefox 3.0 to see a little bit of wisdom form our metallic brethren. If you stumble upon any more Firefox easter eggs drop a comment so we can check them out. Remember, Robots are Your Plastic Pal who’s fun to be with.
