Sylvain Ferrand from France has made a Web server that you could build and stuff in your pocket. No hard drive, monitor, CD-Rom drive etc. Just a handful of components and some code. Take a look at his site for the schematic and components you need. “The ENC28J60 is a single chip 10mb Ethernet controller easy to drive by a microcontroller with SPI bus. It’s a cheap low pin-out (28
Hacked Gadget reader Sara sent in a tip for this cool looking clothing line. “Check out “the interactive clothing concept,” brought to you by Uranium Jeans, a French company that has started making jeans and clothing with embedded thin flexible micro screens. “Luminous and communicative,” and “the very latest thing,” says the company on its website.” Via: PopGadget
David Ponce of OhGizmo posted a robot that I can only hope is available is I am ever trapped in a collapsed building and need to be rescued. “Being trapped beneath a pile of rubble is a bad way to spend your weekend. And while people in earthquake prone areas are more likely to benefit from the Hibiscus rescue bot (a design of Chiba Institute of Technology), rescue agencies worldwide
TechEBlog has a cool top 10 list of strange clocks. The Giovannoni Timesphere looks neat, and seems to be a bargain at the price. “Priced at $150, the Giovannoni Timesphere is a nifty alarm clock that is capable of projecting the time onto any surface via a wireless orb.”
This is a cool dance floor. Seems like there types of products are going to become more common. “This followup to the Humanlocator Table builds upon that technology, giving a new dimension to dancing.” Via: TechEBlog
This worm robot is freaky, I am not sure I want this thing squirming around inside me… “A robot designed to crawl through the human gut by mimicking the wriggling motion of an undersea worm has been developed by European scientists. It could one day help doctors diagnose disease by carrying tiny cameras through patients’ bodies.” Via: Slashdot
Imagine watching a scary movie in here! The Bat Home Theater Room is one fantastic home theater. “The client in the case of the Batcave was a retired naturalist who had an interesting house that DCAVS vice president Nick Mark thought would lend itself well to a themed home theater. Before she retired, the client did a lot of work and research that involved visiting caves in upstate New York
