Sunday, August 21, 2011
Believe It Or Not, Eraser Pencil Revolutionizes Pencils
The problem is it’s still a concept and as concepts go, chance of success via ultimate production are slim. The person behind this ever so simple re-imagining of the humble pencil is Deuk Young Lee. The whole point is to completely remove the cedar covering part of the average pencil and replace it with the same material as an eraser instead. The result is a high-performance writing tool that maximizes the capacity for correction and improvement. (...)Original Story Believe It Or Not,
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Lego Comes To Life Through This 3D Milling Machine (Video)
Ah, Lego. A cultural icon, the building blocks of dreams, scattered inspiration awaiting the creative process. Lest we get too poetic, below is a mere glimpse of rare and excellent footage we unearthed from somewhere showing a 3D milling machine in action. The really impressive part is it’s made of Lego. The part that would make you slap your forehead is when the machine sculpts a face from a block of floral foam.
Hacker Build Hand-Mounted Tacit Sonar Device (Video)
So this real clever guy named Steve is being credited for making the Tacit. It’s quite an impressive gadget that’s actually a portable sonar device for the lind. The technology, however, isn’t new. What Steve really accomplished was make it more compact for wearing on the wrist. As the accompanying blog post put, “it’s like strapping a bat on your wrist.” Couldn’t have been any blunter.(...)Original Story Hacker Build Hand-Mounted Tacit Sonar Device
Thrustmaster Launches TH8 RS Shifter for T500 RS Racing Wheel
Last December Thrustmaster launched one of the coolest racing wheels in its line up for the PS3 called the T500 RS racing wheel. The one major thing that wheel lacked when it launched was a gear shifter, which the high-end Logitech wheels offer. Thrustmaster has now launched a shifter just for that racing wheel.(...)Original Story Thrustmaster Launches TH8 RS Shifter for T500 RS Racing Wheel© Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is
Friday, August 19, 2011
Parasound Zphono USB Preamplifier Helps Turn Old Vinyl and More into Digital Tracks
If you have a big collection of music on vinyl records, cassette tapes, or CDs that you want to get onto your digital audio player easily, but with great quality the Zphono USB is the product. This thing is a preamplifier that has been designed to connect to your PC via USB and allow for analog to digital music conversion. The device has an A-D converter and will work with Mac and PC computers.(...)Original Story Parasound Zphono USB Preamplifier Helps Turn Old Vinyl and More into Digital
How People In Science Graphic Is Incredibly Revealing
The graphic is titled ‘How people is science see each other’ and its goal is to humorously depict perception within the confines of academe. We never realized professor’s thought undergrounds were Megan Fox-sexy. Then again, we might be missing the point. The self-image of technicians are golden though. Hint: a timeless action hero sums up the glory of being an indestructible lab wizard.(...)Original Story How People In Science Graphic Is Incredibly Revealing© Geeky Gadgets,
Thursday, August 18, 2011
MSN And Hulu Caught Tracking Online Visitors With Supercookies
It has been discovered that both Hulu.com and MSN.com have been using powerful supercookies to track online visitors user data. The supercookies are almost impossible to detect and can recreate user profiles even after a normal cookie has been deleted and are capable of stealing a users complete browser history in some cases.The data can then be used to see a visitors financial and health status and provide advertisers with considerably more detailed information than a standard cookie would
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