Archive for February 2011
Team BlackSheep Ritewing Zephyr FPV UAV Flies High, Shoots Amazing Videos
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If you’ve ever dreamed of capturing high-altitude flight videos, you probably thought that would be something you could only do with an expensive UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) like the $30,000+ Draganflyer X8. Well, thanks to the guys at Team BlackSheep, you could be flying high for as little as $2000… |
February 24th, 2011
New MacBook Pro Laptops: Prices, Specs, Release Date Revealed
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Apple today released their new MacBook Pro laptops, and the new models further refine an already great series of personal computers. Highlights of the new models include an upgrade of the 15-inch and 17-inch models to speedy quad-core Intel Core i7 CPUs. The 13-inch models can be ordered in dual-core… |
February 24th, 2011
French Bread Vending Machine: That’s All We Knead Now
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Here in the States, the oddest vending machines we get tend to be the sort in Airports that sell things like cameras and MP3 players. We don’t really get any of the truly disgusting ones like the Chinese vending machine that sells live crab. A strange vending machine has now… |
February 24th, 2011
Quirky Mantis LED Task Light Shines On
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I am a fan of the purveyor of oddities known as Quirky. The company has some of the coolest and strangest things you never really need, but want nonetheless. The latest offering from the company is the Mantis.… |
February 24th, 2011
Mini Cooper Racing Chair Rocks!
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I am a big fan of racing games on the PS3, and I have a racing seat that has a platform for my Logitech racing wheel and its pedals. That chair has a seat on it that looks like a racing seat out of a real race car. It’s sweet,… |
February 24th, 2011
LEGO iMac May Send LEGO-Loving Apple Fans to Their Graves
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If you ask me, LEGO has a lot in common with apps for the iPhone. Anything you want to build can probably be made out of LEGO, and anything you want to do on a phone; there’s an app for it. If you are a geeky fan that loves both… |
February 24th, 2011
Game Boy + Oscilloscope = NintendOscope
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Even though it was obviously not it’s primary function, the oscilloscope is considered to be one of the first video game systems. Flashing LEDs pays tribute to that appropriately geeky root of gaming with this clever hack. By using a microcontroller to… you know what, honestly I don’t know what… |
February 24th, 2011
Intel Demos Light Peak, Has Cable Manufacturers Drooling
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If you’ve been browsing tech blogs anytime during the past week, then you’ve heard the rumors that Apple will soon unveil upgrades to their MacBook Pro lineup, with one of the upgrades being Light Peak, an fiber optic interface that’s being pitted against USB 3.0. A couple of pictures have… |
February 24th, 2011
Computer So Tiny, It Could Fit in Your Eye!
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The University of Michigan has announced that it has developed a computer that’s so small that it could potentially be implanted into the eyes of glaucoma patients in order to monitor the overall eye pressure.… |
February 24th, 2011
OWI Robotics All Terrain Robot Looks Like Wall-E’s Dumb Kid Brother
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The 3-1 All-Terrain Robot (ATR) from OWI Robotics is a vehicular robot ekit that you can assemble yourself. The level of this assembly is easy, and there’s no soldering required, so this means even that kids can put it together.… |
February 24th, 2011
