September 2006

 Bluetooth headset modification

This is a cool DIY Bluetooth mod that looks like it gives you good results for a small investment in parts. “Why did I do it? Well, the original BT headset was kind of crappy. People were complaining that they can’t hear me properly, and the audio volume was not the best either. Plus, wearing it behind the ear is not very comfortable, at least not for me. Another reason

Toyota i-swing Wearable Car

  Move over Segway, here comes the i-swing… “Sadly, this is a concept car only — meaning you can’t go out and buy one at your local Toyota dealer. Designed by Hideo Miwa from yes, Toyota, it’s named the i-swing and looks like a chair on wheels, or a jetpac. The designer believes that cars will evolve into more of a wearable design. As you can see, it can travel

Drive your Roomba with your cell phone

  As we all know the Roomba was designed to clean floors, but it can do much more. Tod Kurt has created a phone controlled Roomba. “Ever since Bluetooth adapters for Roombas appeared, I’ve wanted to control my Roomba with a cell phone. All my recent phones have had Bluetooth. But getting a devkit for a phone was expensive and phone-specific. Trying to develop J2ME (aka “JavaME”) applications for cell

SPDIF RCA to (Optical + RCA) Adapter

This circuit might be of use if you have lots of audio gear, seems like a nice simple circuit that gets the job done. “I needed to connect one RCA digital SPDIF output to a TOSLINK optical input. As many times, a simple device with that functionality was again much more expensive that what I believed reasonable. I found some circuits on the net and I adapted those designs to

Stove and Chair Unit

This is what I call multi function furniture, forget the sofa that turns into a bed. Why not use your chair to cook you meals! “The DoubleSpace Kitchenette caters to those with a taste for unique, compact living. People living in crowded cities such as New York can appreciate the value of flexible, efficiently used living space. This roomy easy chair converts easily into a countertop with two electric burners.”

LEGO Rubberband Chaingun

  This Rubber Band Chaingun is one mean machine. It seems to work very well. “The motor driven barrels start winding up to speed at the flick of a switch on the handle. Pulling the trigger unleashes a stream of rubber bands, deluging the target. The fire rate is high enough that at least half a dozen bands are in the air at any one time – the gun appears

Upside Down Clock Hack

Ever want to flip a display, it may be easy to say but hard to do. That was the case with Steve’s clock. 🙂 “So, while i was setting up my stuff in my dorm room the other day, i faced a delima. We moved our dressers, and i no longer had a place to put my clock to put it on the same level as my bed (my bed