When I shut down my computers in my workroom there is an strange silence. It’s nice but feels strange since there is usually the whir of computer fans in the background. I have often though it would be nice to locate the computers remotely and simply have a monitor, keyboard and mouse in the room for each system. This passive cooling idea is interesting but you will never see
Garygadget15 has a great idea that puts an old motor to use providing power by consuming waste cooling oil. "I have built a "off the Grid" home generator using a 1950’s Coventry Victor one cylinder diesel generator, I can run this on diesel or a diesel and used cooking oil mixture and have it attached to a large battery via a 40amp car alternator which supplies my garden lighting
This project is all about Measuring Gas Consumption using a Camera Phone. Who knew you could use the built in camera from a phone to watch for fire! Every second a determination is made if fire is present, when it is a database on the phone is updated with the fire activity which will later be retrieved using Bluetooth to calculate gas usage. "I wanted to measure the gas
This Dolmette Chinsaw Bike was built awhile ago but I never saw anything about the build. What a cool design! You got to love companies that have lots of money to throw around for fantastic projects like this. Video after the jump. "The combined power of 24 DOLMAR chainsaw engines is fed into to a 5-speed Harley-Davidson transmission by a series of twelve toothed belts. For use in the
I am not very impressed with the lack of security that is used in the Credit Card RFID. With the advance in technology and the easy of use for online purchases I would have thought that any new technology that was layered onto the existing credit card system would have been so robust that a hacker would not give it a second look. When RFID empnanted credit cards become
Adam and Jamie from Mythbusters built a huge paintball gun that can shoot 1100 paintballs in an blink of an eye. When the balls crash on the canvas you can see a picture of the Mona Lisa. This was an attraction at an Nvidia event, I wonder how much the unit cost! I guess when you have a huge budget your mind can do wild. Via: Hack a Day
A recent study by Kevin Fu, an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and director of the Medical Device Security Center, has uncovered a weakness in some pacemakers. It turns out that pacemakers communicate with a computer during initial configuration. This wireless communication channel is not encrypted and provides test functions that can turn off the device! The research team has developed a countermeasure which allows
