Charatter Bear Regurgitates Your Tweets

It can be a chore to keep up with your twitter feeds, countless hours of following people’s daily minutia can quickly chew up your day. This is where the Charatter bear comes in – it synchs with your Twitter account and reads back to you all of your incoming tweets and not on a small [...]

Eric Schmidt Stepping Down As Google CEO

In a bit of a shocker, Eric Schmidt announced today that he would be stepping down from his CEO role at Google. Why would someone at the helm of such a super power decide to step down? Simple, Larry and Sergei have grown up and are ready to lead Google. The company is as strong [...]

DIY: Quiz-O-Tron 3000

Instructables modder RoysterBot has a dilemma over the holidays, build a quiz system for a party he was headed to. He needed the buzz-in buttons to be sturdy and responsive so his obvious choice were Staple’s “Easy Button’s”. Super easy to hack, all he needed to do was add an Arduino and some custom software [...]

CO2 Powered Nerf Gun

Instructables hacker Philysteak527 modified a Nerf gun, making it semi-automatic thanks to the modern marvel of compressed air. This mod isn’t for the faint of heart since it involves the design and manufacture of a bolt-action the fit’s the specific gun you are using. Philysteak527 used some polyoxymethylene plastic and a CNC lathe to create [...]

DIY: Snail Mail Notifier

How did we ever live without push notifications? Email, SMS, IM; we get notified each time one of them is updated. What about our old analog world? Make Magazine show’s us just how we can get push notifications for an older form of mail, snail mail. This awesome project uses an Arduino to trigger a [...]

Carbon Fiber Toilet Seat

I’ve alway heard that adding fiber to your diet helps to regulate you, but i don’t think this is what the doctor ordered. Carbon fiber is one of the great inventions of the 20th century. It’s light, strong and very durable. All things that you would look for in a toilet seat, no? Well maybe [...]

Yikes: Build A Fusion Reactor

I’ve tried a few thing to cut our electricity cost. I’ve priced out both a solar and wind powered system to power all of the computers we have in the house that run around the clock. I’ve also added timers everywhere to help with the soaring cost of electricity in our neck of the woods. [...]

Happy Holidays

Here is to wishing all our readers a happy and safe holiday season. May Santa stuff all the tech you have ever wanted in your stocking. As the new year approaches the tech.nocr.at team wishes you all the best in 2011. We are revamping tech.nocr.at in the new year to bring you a fresh new [...]

Boost USB Port Voltage

Most larger gadgets that recharge via USB require at least 10 watts of power like Apple’s iPad. The iXP1-500 dongle claims it will allow devices to recharge from underpowered USB ports. I’m not quite sure how they accomplish this for $5, but I assume it must have some sort of capacitor inside that stores juice [...]

Transforming Thomas

As a father of a small child I know all to well who Thomas the Train is. My little guy has a really cool train table with 100′s of trains (I step on the stupid things all the time). Although I do enjoy the morals that the show teaches my child, I often wonder what [...]

DIY RJ-45 Cable Tester

Cable testers can be super expensive, but if your trying to trouble shoot a cable drop or run then you know how valuable one can be. Our favorite kids over at Instructables have a great how to on building your own on the super cheap. A quick trip to your local big box home improvement [...]

Build An Annoying Beeping Thing

I’m always up for a good practical joke, especially the kind that involves electronics and can drive people mad. Get your soldering guns out kids, this is a good one. The Annoying Beeping Thing is a simple circuit board that is powered by a single 9-volt battery and outputs a high-pitched whining sound through a [...]

In Case You Missed It: Week 43 Round Up

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 [...]

Electronic Guitar Shirt

When only wear a shirt with a picture of your favorite instrument when you can actually play it? The Electronic Rock Guitar Shirt from the clothing masters at ThinkGeek isn’t just a picture of a guitar, it’s actually a real instrument that allows you to play your favorite tunes right on the shirt. The shirt [...]

3D Video With One Camera

3D video has really started to make a strong comeback. I remember being a kid when the paper glasses with red and blue lenses were all the rage. Technology has changed a lot since then. The cost of creating 3D videos is so expensive that it prohibits the aspiring film maker from considering the option, [...]

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