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Posted on 06.21.08 by John @ 9:59 pm
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Posted on 06.04.08 by John @ 7:40 pm
Now, if your like me you no matter what something does you think that it might be able to do just a bit more. Well, it looks like I’m not alone.
If you want to feel extra inspired go have a peek at what’s inside with these YouTube videos. Pick the book up at Amazon, help fund TeamDroid Filed under: Cool and DIY and Mods and To be used for Evil Comments: None |
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Posted on 06.04.08 by John @ 7:22 pm
I have seen these in shops while I was in Bangkok but never on the ‘Net.They have a nice assortment of tiny (5cm) ‘bears’ in various kinds of costumes. Darth Vader, Masked Rider, and of course mecha. The one I had was a key chain, from the pictures I think these are as well. Filed under: General and Japan and Robots and Uncategorized Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.20.08 by John @ 8:04 pm
This is a true labor of love (no pun intended). This guy, who obviously has quite the kick ass shop, is building a full sized Votom battle suit out of iron plate. What he intends to do with it once he is done I have not the faintest clue. Maybe it goes in a museum as a display, maybe it’s an artistic project, maybe he is just building it because he wants to. Whatever the reason is it is one hell of a project. Want one of your own? Go visit Amazon and pick up a somewhat smaller than life sized verson. Armored Trooper Votoms Scopedog Green 1/12 Scale Full Action Model Filed under: Artistic and Cool and Design and General and Japan and Robots Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.14.08 by John @ 9:23 pm
From Lonelocust. Worse, they, like some other species of ants, are attracted to electrical equipment, for reasons that are not well understood by scientists. They have ruined pumps at sewage pumping stations, fouled computers and at least one homeowner’s gas meter, and caused fire alarms to malfunction. They have been spotted at NASA’s Johnson Space Center and close to Hobby Airport, though they haven’t caused any major problems there yet. You can insert your own ant overlord Simpsons reference here is you would like. Filed under: Mad Science Comments: None |
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Posted on 05.14.08 by John @ 8:29 pm
Here’s an evolutionist’s dream: 10,000 planet Earths, starting from the same point at the same time, and left to their own devices for four and a half billion years. What would happen? Could you go on safari from one planet to the next seeing an endless procession of wildly different organisms? Or would many of the planets be home to life forms that are broadly similar? The Repeater - The Wild Side - Olivia Judson - Evolution - Opinion - New York Times Blog Filed under: Science and Technology Comments: None |
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Posted on 04.01.08 by John @ 7:37 pm
This incident is quite possibly the first computer attack to inflict physical harm on the victims: hackers uploaded a flashing computer animation to an epilepsy support forum to trigger epileptic attacks! Neatorama » Blog Archive » Hackers “Seize-rolled” Epilepsy Sufferers in a Support Forum Filed under: Computers and Cool and Hacked and To be used for Evil Comments: Comments Off |
Not that I think that doing this with the intent to harm people is very nice at all, I have to admit that figuring out what in essence causes a ‘|
Posted on 04.01.08 by John @ 4:26 pm
(from the PR page) "Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Virgin Group today announced the launch of Virgle Inc., a jointly owned and operated venture dedicated to the establishment of a human settlement on Mars. This is trurlly a banner day for the human race! Virgle: The Adventure of Many Lifetimes (I love days like these) Filed under: Hacked and Historic and Mad Science and Space Comments: Comments Off |
Looks like the mega corps of Virgin and Google have decided to reach higher than anyone has ever thought possible. They have she their goal on a journey to the red planet Mars 
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Posted on 03.31.08 by John @ 11:45 pm
Ever wish you could go back in time and send that crucial email that could have changed everything — if only it hadn’t slipped your mind? Gmail can now help you with those missed deadlines, missed birthdays and missed opportunities. Filed under: Dumb and Historic Comments: Comments Off |
Ah yes, it must be that time again…|
Posted on 03.11.08 by John @ 9:05 pm
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This is a bit old news but if you act soon you can snatch one of these up before they are gone. This is a cool little hack to repurpose the head mounted display from a remote controlled car for better purposes. The procedure is simple, get a power supply (some batteries) pop the back off the display and move a shunt from one pad to another (switch form PAL to NTSC video standards) and you are set.|
Posted on 03.11.08 by John @ 8:29 pm
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More robots on the moon. Well, only if they get funding and the thing works. Lets hope it does.|
Posted on 03.11.08 by John @ 7:57 pm
(page might be down, last I looked the server’s log files are filling up its hard drive!) Filed under: Cool and Robots and Technology Comments: Comments Off |
Looks like the sound of gnashing gears and grinding steel may once again grace the television sets of America. Noted sports cable network |
Posted on 03.02.08 by John @ 7:53 pm
Abengoa Solar Inc., a Spanish technology company that has several smaller solar-thermal projects in Spain, North Africa and the United States, will build and run the Solana Generating Station. Solana will use 2,700 "troughs" of mirrors lined up across former alfalfa farmland, focusing sunlight on tubes in the middle of the troughs. The tubes will be filled with a petroleum-based chemical that will heat up to 735 degrees, and transfer their heat to water, making steam and spinning turbines in two 140-megawatt generators. The petroleum liquid is reused in the tubes, not burned. The plant also will use molten salt to store heat and continue generating electricity for as long as six hours after the sun sets. That’s key in Arizona, where residents use the most electricity between 5 and 6 p.m., when the sun is low in the sky and common solar panels struggle to generate electricity. [via lonelocust] Filed under: Science and Technology Comments: Comments Off |
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Posted on 02.07.08 by John @ 7:48 pm
The new material is comprised of photorefractive polymers. These chemicals have photoelectric properties that make them well-suited to storing the optical interference patterns used to produce holograms. When a photorefractive polymer is exposed to a pattern of bright and dark areas, electrons are released from the areas exposed to high-intensity light and migrate to areas that are darker. Once in place, the electron-rich areas diffract light differently from the electron-poor ones, allowing the original interference pattern to be reproduced when the material is exposed to light Filed under: Cool and Design and Science and Technology Comments: None |
Advances in display technology are simply amazing. I hope to see holographic display units so common place that they are used in cheap kids toys like and LCD would be used today.|
Posted on 01.29.08 by John @ 8:45 pm
" This camera is a serious camera for the police, and not a toy. It is a pistol camera DORYU 2-16 famous as rare and valuable camera. The DORYU 2-16 has the same C mount as the 16mm movie camera. A Cine-Nikkor 25mm F1.4 lens was able to be mounted in the DORYU 2-16 pistol camera. You can find the small lens for GOLDECK 16 on the table." This is something I’d buy if I had that chance. Filed under: Cool and Historic and Japan and Photography and To be used for Evil Comments: None |
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