This marble machine that Matthias made is a great example of a nice complex wood working project. I love the hard drive platter that is used as a bell. 🙂 “I started experimenting by cutting a circular piece of plywood, and drilling 4 holes into it at a slight angle. This I temporarily jigged up with some blocks of wood, and started turning it to see how well it would
Seeing this huge 5MB hard drive being loaded into a plane in 1956 on TechEBlog puts modern technology into perspective. We think nothing of installing and using hundreds of gigabytes in our new computers. Or expect them to be small enough to fit onto our MP3 players. Will we look back 50 years from now and laugh at our “modern” miniature drives?
Christopher Conte has created some wild pieces of art. I think the Robotic Needle Injection Machine is my favorite though. This would be great blown nice and big and hung in the lobby of my doctors office! What is your favorite? “Christopher Conte was born in Bergen, Norway where he began drawing at age 3. At age 6, shortly after moving to New York, he started taking college art classes
Looks like there might be a breakthrough in x-ray technology very soon. This article is from the free Electronic Products magazine that is one of the Hacked Gadgets engineering magazines offered. “Removing a major obstacle in the quest to build a tabletop x-ray laser that could be used for biological and medical imaging, a team of researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder has developed a technique to generate
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,
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
Mattias sent in his high end coffee brewing method!
