This month Hacked Gadgets will be giving a lucky commenter a $50 gift certificate to ThinkGeek. If you haven’t checked out ThinkGeek before, do so only when you have a spare 1/2 hour of surfing time. It is an addictive site with lots of cool stuff. To enter all you need to do is comment on an article between now and April 30, 2007. The more comments you leave the
Floor Cleaning Robot / DVD Projection System We have all seen strange combination products in the past but I would have never thought I would ever see a robot that will clean your floor then play your favorite DVD movie. If you have $85,000 dollars to spare this robot could be yours. “Floor-cleaning DVD player Yoichi Takamoto, president of Japanese robot manufacturer Tmsuk, unveils a new guide and floor-cleaning robot,
This is an interesting LEGO rubber band gun, all it needs now is to be mounted onto the USB Rocket Launcher base and let the fun begin! Link removed at request of creator. “540 rubberbands per minute! An awesome motorized chaingun! The best rubber-band lego gun after the buddyskate’s mini-gun. This chaingun uses a different shooting style. No wheel needed!”
Check out the latest Microsoft technology, it is Gesture Controlled Computer using a Webcam. “Using a $30 dollar camera and this piece of Podtech software that’s still in development, you can play with computers just like Tom Cruise did in Minority Report, by grabbing files by the nipples and dragging them around the screen. Using topological depth technology, it figures out what’s the static background, and differentiates it between
You may remember an RFID project that was featured here last year by The Digital Dawg Pound. Nick has come up with a new and improved RFID Door Entry System. Video after the jump. “I decided to try and improve the reliability and responsiveness of my previous RFID front door project (based around a client / server design), by re-implementing it using the Parallax BASIC Stamp 2e, and the 13.5MHz
There has been quite a few temperature devices featured here in the past. This temperature logger is nice since it uses one of my favorite temperature sensing chips, the DS18B20. This sensor is digital and does not need any calibration. When I make my next batch of home brew beer there will definitely be a DS18B20 floating in it. Or if I have some extra DS1822 devices from the fish
Thanks to everyone who left comments for the latest Hacked Gadgets contest, there were some very interesting discussions and thoughts expressed. This small contest was lots of fun, stay tuned for more contests in the near future. Also thanks to everyone for all of the emails and posted comments regarding future prize ideas and new contest ideas, keep the ideas coming. And the winner is… Drum roll please…… The
