Andy McCaskey of Slashdot Review took a look at a very interesting device at CES. Slap it onto a table (or almost any surface) and you have an instant speaker. Reminds me of the magneplanar technology. “This was the most fascinating device that we saw today – Inductive Dynamics Inc makes devices that attach to walls or surfaces and turn them into speakers for home theater applications. In this photo,
This plane must be a rush to fly. The music is a great match for the video.
We have all seen the new Apple iPhone that was just released at CES. Now have a look at the new OpenMoko open source phone that has some similar sexy lines. The specifications sound impressive, what do you think? Have a look at the presentation (PDF). “Until now, mobile platforms have been proprietary and scattered. With the release of OpenMoko, which is based on the latest Linux open source efforts,
If you are tired of using your hands to control you mouse why not make yourself a foot mouse! Yes there are commercial models available, but what fun it buying something if you can make it… “A footmouse made by myself. My right foot controls directly the position of the cursor (not the speed), and my left foot controls 4 mousebuttons. The mechanism for both pedals consist of a
Are people buying the PS3 for gaming? They may be purchasing them for the processing power of the cell processors. IBM has now made it easy to install Linux on the PS3. You are even able to purchase a system with Linux already installed. I wonder how this fits into the Sony marketing strategy? “IBM has released a guide for the installation of Yellow Dog Linux on the PS3. The
The Bawls Blue Crystal LED Light project that reminds me of my Bawls project. "I have seen a lot of creative projects which utilize the popular Bawls bottles. Other projects had two features which I wanted to improve on; 1: The common use of batteries instead of a more permanent power source 2: The intensely bright spots which LEDs often produce I based some of my design off of other
Here is a 10MHz function generator with full details on how to build it. “An extremely simple and low cost Sine/Square wave generator based on the Analog Devices AD9835 Direct Digital Synthesis (DDS) Generator chip. The frequency can be set for any frequency from 1Hz to 10MHz in 1Hz resolution steps! All this with three push buttons and a novel “sliding window” LED display. The controller chip is a Microchip
