Geek Weekend: Columbus, Ohio
Have a custom stylus fabricated! Monogrammed, Zelda-ed, whatever
Fox is recasting Futurama!
DIY: Make your own glowing glass jar
Walter Cronkite, news icon of the 60s and 70s, dies at age 92
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Unfortunately, like most good design, it’s either a concept or incredibly exclusive, I’m not sure which. Even if they had it at your local furnishings boutique, it’d probably cost you a couple hundred bucks. Le sigh. [via The Daily What]
The little light-switch enclosure contains a camera flash battery, some circuit hackery, and the few parts necessary to accelerate a BB to paper-penetrating speed. Want to make your own? Assuming you know how to make a basic coil gun, here are parts used. Go forth and coil. [via Make]
It’s no jaw-dropper spec-wise: a Core2 Duo E5200 at 2.5GHz, 3GB of RAM, and integrated graphics. For $799 you can’t expect too much, especially considering it comes with a 22″ display and slot loading DVD-R drive. It’s got wireless built-in, so you can just plug it in and you’re good to go. Honestly, for a quick-access PC in the living room or whatever, this would probably be a great choice. Nobody will ever tell you it’s ugly, and it’ll do anything you need to to do besides play games. I question its HD video capability, but it’s hard to say one way or the other.
Microsoft is spending big bucks for too little return in far too many markets.
Microsoft is spending big bucks for too little return in far too many markets.
Feel free to read up on the man and his history. A strange coincidence that he has passed away on the 40th anniversary and revisitation of one of his biggest stories.
Not a lot to say about this little hack but it’s basically a Game Boy Advance attached to an Arduino device running a touchscreen. The stylus sends data back to the Arduino which connects to the GBA via a patch cable.
Eltima released a new version of its SyncMate synchronization tool this week. The latest release, SyncMate 2.0, gives Mac users the ability sync their computers...
Pick up the pack here. Start at the beginning, there’s a story. And play it at night with headphones, it’s that kind of game. If you’re not sure, check out the trailer: Come on, that’s worth the price of a gin and tonic.
Buying something in the digital realm apparently isn't the same as the physical realm, after all.
Whip out the bong, kids, and start in on that Afghan Kush because Palm has a new commercial. Put it on repeat if you’re on LSD.
You can go to bat against a service provider and win, but you've got to be ready to go to the brink, as this real chat session demonstrates.
Remember the Radio Shack Battery Club? Back in the old days you'd go into Radio Shack with a card and they'd give you free battery once a month. It was heaven. I used to go in and grab a 9-volt - the best battery to have, by a long shot.
Well, Radio Shack and Peek just teamed up with us to offer you the Peek/Radio Shack Free Gadget Club. For the next three weeks we're giving away one Peek device - your choice - and another gadget (anything you want up to $500 in value) from Radio Shack. Sure as heck beats a D-cell, right?
They sometimes call national security the third rail of politics. Touch it and, politically, you're dead.
No it doesn't. But the bigger it is, the more you can potentially display on it. News posted on the h+magazine website explores the idea of wearing the internet. The very clever students at the MIT research labs have been doing some very clever things again. This time they have devised a way for a user to surf the web on a piece of paper, a shirt sleeve, or even skin. The Media Lab at MIT have been exploring the idea of wearable computing for some time, and other companies have entered their offerings into this market also.
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Verizon has agreed to loosen its grip on its exclusive rights to sell popular handsets. Well, sort of. Here's one argument for why the carriers should be doing more.
Verizon has agreed to loosen its grip on its exclusive rights to sell popular handsets. Well, sort of. Here's one argument for why the carriers should be doing more.
This thing has 4GB of storage and the top part flips off to reveal the USB port. Carry it to your next drug deal!
Popular for its massive website which originally provided the world with literature, and now just about everything, Amazon has hit news again today regarding its ebook reader the 'Kindle'. Sadly, not in such a good light. In an act of bizarre irony Amazon has remotely deleted copies of the George Orwell novels, Animal farm and Nineteen Eighty Four off of an abundance of Kindles last night. This news came with little explanation from Amazon, instead simply refunding the purchase price of the piece of literature.
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As soon as the new Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter sent back the first high-res photos of the moon a few days ago, I was eager to see the Apollo landing sites. It’s not that I didn’t believe that man walked on the moon 40 years ago, but rather out of simple nerd curiosity. Well, NASA made good on its promise and just released images showing the landing sites of Apollo 11, 14, 15, 16, and 17. I just wish that the pics could show a bit more. These are still impressive though considering the LRO is around 30 miles up and the descent stage module’s deck is only 12 feet in diameter. And yes, we know that these could have been photoshopped by a 10 year old, conspiracy nut. Move along.
Analysis: When it deployed guards to interrupt a SQL Server presentation, Redmond stepped over the line with its overzealous security.
Advanced Micro Devices is getting ready to put Neo chips in low-power desktop products like all-in-ones and nettops.
The release of iPhone 3.0 at last brought support for push notifications, the technology Apple first announced back at WWDC 2008, only to quietly stop talking...
The "revelations" from this non-event were as dull as dirt, and did nothing more than hype the TechCrunch and Twitter brands.
A high-profile hack of a Twitter employee's e-mail and Google Apps accounts tops our news this week, in part because the whole saga offers a reminder about the...
For just under $10, you can get a themed stylus in either metal or the white, slightly flexible plastic they use for some stuff over at Shapeways. I’d definitely get the shield, although the mushroom is pretty cute. I doubt these will fit in the DS’s little stylus slot, though.
The “kill switch” has been brought up in other circumstances — most prominently with the iPhone. While Apple already holds sovereignty over the App Store’s contents, they also reserve the right to deactivate programs (or, one may extrapolate, activate programs) on any or all phones if they feel it’s necessary (or expedient). I never wanted an iPhone because I didn’t want to have any devices under the control of anyone but myself — and now I’m never going to buy a Kindle. Clearly Amazon was in a tight spot or they wouldn’t do this, but they could have at least kind of done the right thing. Publishing rights are certainly complicated, but they put their head into that lion’s mouth and they’re going to have to make it right for their customers. Here’s their response so far:
Italics mine. Unless there is a reckoning here, this sets a truly frightening precedent for the cloud-based, streaming media world we are entering. What about a movie you bought at the store, and made an official licensed back-up copy of on your computer? Can they nab it? What about an app for your phone that you paid $2.99 for, which adds some functionality that you need but Apple doesn’t like? Can they block it, and if you acquire it elsewhere can they remove it remotely? Telescreens are real, pals, and you bought one with a two-year contract. It was an ugly, ugly thing Amazon did — and, I might add, extremely ironic considering the author they pulled was George goddamn Orwell. But we’d better get used to things like this if we don’t fight to keep what’s ours. This capability is the wet dream of every media lending (as I like to call them) company on the web, and if there’s one thing we teach them during this honeymoon period of beta tests and startups, it’s that this is not allowed. [via NYT]
A Utah company claims to have developed a DVD that will last 1,000 years under normal, everyday conditions. (You don’t have to be a professional archivist [PDF alert!], in other words.) And while that’s an impressive achievement, if it is indeed true, there’s one small problem: what are the odds that, 1,000 years from now, Future People will derive any value at all from said discs? I’d do a full-on rant, but this comment from Slashdot pretty much sums everything up:
And there you have it. My personal favorite is number seven, that Future People will give a rat’s ass about what we burned onto DVD in the year 2009. You can never judge a culture based entirely on its frivolities—Future People won’t necessarily condemn us for having more votes in American Idol than in a presidential election, though they’d have every right to—but there’s really not too much going on right now that would warrant 1,000 year long appreciation. Perhaps if scientists cured a pesky disease, but that’s about all I can think of. Will the iPhone be a big deal in the year 3009? (Will it be a big in the year 2010? Who knows.) Will Future People be impressed that your Chevy Cruze got a whopping 30 miles to the gallon? (Will Future People even know what a “gallon” is?) Will Twitter be seen as Man’s Salvation and the “pulse of the planet”? (Will Future People even speak English, or Spanish, or German, or Japanese, to be able to read your Tweets?) That’s provided we don’t all kill each other by then.
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In one of those rare collisions of good design and practicality, 
Be a super spy! Spy on your grandma! She’s old! She smells funny! It will be fun to watch her in the bathroom!
I know, there’s not a lot of room in the world for the stylus any more. Resistive touchscreens are on the way out, right? True, but tell that to the 
Commenter of the Week
Anonymous writes in reaction to the heated debate about an older Laptop Hunter ad featuring Sheila: