With Halloween looming ever closer I think this Leg Lamp would be the perfect item to light your end table to get you in the spooky spirit of Halloween. Pete must have felt quite brave when he purchased the woman’s leg, some stockings and a pair of high heels. I guess you could just say you are going as a woman to a Halloween party? The inspiration for the lamp
Have a look at this crazy University of Pennsylvania Quadrotor, just think about the issues getting stable flight not to mention the flight recovery this Quadrotor is capable of. Via: Make and Engadget
Our good friend Bob Davis has been doing some more high voltage tinkering. He has been working on another High Voltage Washer Launcher, this is a new and improved version of some of his past high voltage projects. If you are just looking for some explosive fun have a look at 4:35 and 5:45. I love the use of the safety broom. 🙂 “My old 8 capacitor power supply is
Ever wanted to have a alarm system that could fit into your pocket? Well have a look at this Zippo Burglar Alarm, it’s pocket sized since all the electronics are stuffed into a Zippo lighter. It is based around a Picaxe microcontroller which controls a few IR LEDs and monitors an IR Receiver module. The alarm is a piezo buzzer which is also mounted in the tiny case. “It works
We have seen KUKA Robot Arms turned into DJ music machines and ice cream machines but this F1 Ferrari Simulator is something else! Paolo Robuffo Giordano and colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany are the ones behind this cool idea. Via: PopSci “The CyberMotion Simulator is basically a full motion simulator adapted to a racing car game. Players (or subjects, the researchers prefer to
Just stick the barrel of the gun in your ear and pull the trigger. That is how you answer this Bluetooth headset. Not sure you could use this in many places though. We recently had a law pass where I live that made talking on a cell phone and driving illegal. It is legal to use a bluetooth device to talk though. I am thinking that this device would still
Barnaby Jack of IOActive demonstrated how to hack into an ATM machine without needing physical access to the machine. Turns out the manufacturer used their own home made encryption scheme that obviously wasn’t very secure. Once the system was comprised a new customized version of the firmware was uploaded to give the machine a jackpot mode. You might remember about 4 years ago when these same ATM manufacturers were caught
