A Ball That Bounces On Water
Here’s an interesting and fun concept, why not make a ball that can bounce on water, that should be hours of fun, no? The Waboba ball, which is about the size of a golf ball, has taken off like a rocket around the world after videos of it made the rounds on youtube. The ball [...]
Build Your Own Tube Amplifier
Most guitarists will tell you that nothing sounds better that a tube based amplifier. The warm tones that a tube amp gives you has yet to be properly emulated with modern day mosfet amps. Gmoon over on Instructables wrote a 22-step how-to on constructing your very own sweet sounding tube based amplifier. Be warned, this [...]
Cheap DYI Laser Cutter
I’m been trying to source decent desktop laser cutter for the Lab with Leo TV show that I’m on. The biggest problem is finding anything that would be a reasonable cost for most consumers. Decent desktop laser solutions can easily run you into the thousands and they are big and ugly. Thanks to the wonderful [...]
Pedal Powered Tennis Ball Launcher
Here’s an awesome hack for all of those tennis lovers. The pedal powered tennis ball launcher is built from a couple bikes and can launch tennis balls with the best of them (video after the break). “Both cleanly powered and built from 2 recycled bicycles, scrap steel and wood, leaking 5 gallon water jug and [...]
Google Enabled TVs
Some more interesting evidence why Google will soon become the new world order. Google and Panasonic’s parent company Matsushita have just signed a deal that will see the company launch flat panel TV sets that allow users to access various Google services like YouTube and Picasa right from their TV. This isn’t the first time [...]
Neuros OSD – Hack Away
The Chicago based company Neuros Technology International has created a very unique product. The Neuros OSD (for open source device) is a versatile media recorder that, by using a memory card or a USB drive can record video from multiple sources that is then stored in MPEG-4 format. The OSD has not only open hardware, [...]
A Non Tech Video
Well this may have nothing to do with technology it is one of the funniest public access tv shows I have ever seen. The concept is the guy (John Kilduff) paints while on a treadmill while he blends fruit’s and Veggies. He also seems to get an large number of crank calls while doing so. [...]
Star Wars Characters Now Hassle You From the Dashboard of Your Car
In addition to all those saints and Jesuses you have on your dashboard protecting you from god-knows-what, now you can add Yoda, Darth Vader and C-3PO, blurting out an assortment of thirty Star Wars sayings with every bump and jostle. Take the jump for a video showing these characters nagging the driver, along with a [...]
AppleTV USB Hack
Two days after Apple TV Hacks published the much sought-after USB hard drive hack for the Apple TV, the site is making a call for help to polish the modification. For now, the hack isn’t for the faint of heart – it requires some mucking around at the command line, not to mention an Intel [...]
Dailymotion releases iPhone site
Those wily mobileers at Engadget Mobile send a pointer to Dailymotion‘s new iPhone-specific site. No matter how you feel about iPhone-specific websites, watching videos on the iPhone is always fun, and since Dailymotion has taken the time to encode the content in Quicktime, it’s actually possible here without a special player (unlike most other vid [...]
Google todo away with paid video
First we report that google is going to offer more storage on gmail for a cost an now google is doing away with their pay per video content. I guess it won’t be that big a deal if the content that people purchased was to remain payable, but this is a huge problem since any [...]
Image retargeting
Robert Clark submitted this story: One of the researchers behind this technique is Shai Avidan ( http://www.merl.com/people/avidan/ ) formerly of MERL, has been hired by Adobe, so it is likely that Photoshop and possibly Flash and AIR will be taking advantage of this and other forward looking techniques in the near future., When I checked [...]
Red Light Runners
I know this technically isn’t a tech story, but it’s just way too good to pass up. I can bet you after you watch this clip you will never run another red light again (Video after the jump). This traffic light is fixed with some sort of device that will hit you car if you [...]
Learn to Hack
Every blog about security needs to post an article like this, as sort of a RTFM reference. Without further ado: First and foremost, hacking is knowing how something operates inside and out, and then making it do something that it wasn’t intended on doing. Now, that could be anything from exploiting DCOM on an unpatched [...]
