Congratulations to the University of New South Wales Sunswift Solar Car team. They have broken the record for fastest solar powered vehicle with a speed of 88 km/h. Via: Eco Friend and Gizmag “UNSW’s Sunswift team has broken a long-standing land speed record for solar vehicles, with a Guinness-verified top speed of 88 km/h. Project manager Daniel Friedman takes us through the record attempt, which involved a team of UNSW
Jeffrey Gough from Warranty Void if Removed wanted to develop a method of printing circuit boards which was better than the current ways that a home hobbyist has available to them. He mentions the various current methods that are commonly used which are permanent marker, toner transfer, photolithography, isolation milling, UV photoplotting, laser engraving and inkjet. For his method he reverse engineered how an inkjet printer cartridge worked and made
We have seen the AR Drone here before. This is the quadcopter that can be flown around using the WiFi from your iPhone, iPad or an iPod Touch. The accelerometers in the Apple product are used to fly the device around, you simply tip it in the direction you would like the AR Drone to fly. The quadcopter has a sophisticated onboard processor which allows the AR Drone to maintain
There were lots of ordinary cables at CES but I met some of the most friendly people at the HJ Cable booth in the Las Vegas Hilton Convention Center part of CES. They had one cable on display that was anything but ordinary! This thing is a monster, just imagine the cable bling you would have if you used this stuff for all of your interconnect needs. If I had
Plugging your iPod into the wall to charge is so last year. These days all the cool kids are using Hydrogen fuel cells to keep their beats pumping or their cell phones texting. Where do you get the hydrogen to power your gadgets you ask? Simple, it’s already around us, you may know it better as water! Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies has developed a desktop system for extracting the hydrogen
At CES I think the motto is go big or go home. LG, Samsung and Sony really took that to heart when they designed their booth design. I was wondering why there was a shortage of big screen TVs about 6 months ago, now I know what happened, all available screens were stuck on the walls at CES. 🙂 I think LG won the battle. Have a look at the
There is so much stuff here at CES that doesn’t fit into what I am looking to cover but here is some of the electronic porn that I just had to have a second glance at. Check out the massive subs, amps and the DVD duplicators that are so tall it would knock you out it it fell on you. The 4th tower beside the duplicators is a USB thumb
