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		<title>Selfic Cube 7100: Like a Tiny Black Box Recorder for Your Car</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Technabob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nobody wants to get in a car crash. But if you have the misfortune of ending up in a fender-bender &#8211; or worse, wouldn&#8217;t you like to have a video documenting the entire thing for insurance or legal purposes?

Well now you can, thanks to this little bit of modern&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nobody wants to get in a car crash. But if you have the misfortune of ending up in a fender-bender &#8211; or worse, wouldn&#8217;t you like to have a video documenting the entire thing for insurance or legal purposes?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-18154" title="selfic_cube_7100_camera" src="http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/selfic_cube_7100_camera.jpg" alt="selfic cube 7100 camera" width="600" height="663" /></p>
<p>Well now you can, thanks to this little bit of modern technology from Korea&#8217;s Selfic Technologies.The <a href="http://www.selfic.net/newkr/product/blackbox/cube7100.asp">Selfic Cube 7100</a> mounts on the windshield or dashboard of your car, and captures your every move on a built in digital video recorder.</p>
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<p>The tiny black box camera (appx. 1&#8243; x 1&#8243; x 2&#8243;) features a 360-degree swivel mount and can record each of your driving sessions, automatically tracking date and time stamps, as well as the speed of your vehicle, your exact GPS coordinates and any shock due to an impact. And it can also record audio, so if you decide to turn the camera on yourself and your passengers and shoot your own episode of <em>Taxicab Confessions</em>, you can do that too.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="size-full wp-image-18152  aligncenter" title="selfic_cube_black_box_recorder" src="http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/selfic_cube_black_box_recorder.jpg" alt="selfic cube black box recorder" width="600" height="674" /></p>
<p>The Selfic Cube can capture video at 640&#215;480 resolution at 30fps, and stores all of its images and data on either a micro SD (2GB) or micro SDHC card (up to 8GB). Here&#8217;s a little bit of sample video shot with the Selfic that I found over on YouTube. Not exactly thrilling footage, but it sure would come in handy if you got broad-sided by a moose.</p>
<p><a href="http://technabob.com/blog/2009/08/12/selfic-cube-7100-car-black-box-recorder/"><strong>Click to View Embedded Video Clip</strong></a></p>
<p>Of course if you get hit from behind, you&#8217;d better hope you bought a second one of these for the rear window. At this point the Selfic Cube 7100 is only available in Korea, but if you&#8217;re willing to deal with the translation and currency challenges you might be able to grab one over at the <a href="http://shop.earlyadopter.co.kr/front/productdetail.php?productcode=002005000000000067">Early Adopter Shop</a> for 207,000 South Korean Won (appx. $167 USD).</p>
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		<title>Black Box Server Casemod Should Survive a Plane Crash</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Technabob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure why nobody ever thought of this before, but I think it&#8217;s a cool idea. This clever casemod took the shell from an old flight data recorder (a.k.a. &#8220;Black Box&#8221;) and transformed it into a Linux server.

A modder going simply by the name of Brett got his&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m not sure why nobody ever thought of this before, but I think it&#8217;s a cool idea. This clever casemod took the shell from an old flight data recorder (a.k.a. &#8220;Black Box&#8221;) and transformed it into a Linux server.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2514" title="black_box_casemod_on" src="http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/black_box_casemod_on.jpg" alt="black box casemod on" width="520" height="412" /></p>
<p>A modder going simply by the name of Brett got his hands on an old Black Box (actually, it&#8217;s sorta reddish-orange) over on eBay, ripped out its guts, and mounted a fully-functional computer inside the compartment. For some reason, I think that the holes he had to cut for the PC ports and cooling fan might have compromised the integrity of its crashworthiness a little bit.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2515" title="black_box_casemod_asbestos" src="http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/black_box_casemod_asbestos.jpg" alt="black box casemod asbestos" width="520" height="399" /></p>
<p>Oh yeah, and when Brett first cracked open the case, he discovered a healthy dose of fiberglass and asbestos, so you probably won&#8217;t want to try this at home unless you want to contract a case of Mesothelioma.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2513" title="black_box_casemod_inside" src="http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/black_box_casemod_inside.jpg" alt="black box casemod inside" width="520" height="738" /></p>
<p>Surprisingly, the interior of the box is so cramped that he could only fit a Mini-ITX motherboard inside, so it&#8217;s only got an 800MHz Via C3 CPU under the hood. Still, that should be plenty to perform basic server tasks like serving files, web pages and the like. In keeping with the &#8220;Crashproof&#8221; theme of the mod, Brett installed a bare-bones install of Slackware Linux, which should stay online indefinitely, assuming the computer itself doesn&#8217;t overheat in the cramped quarters of the Black Box case.</p>
<p>You can check out the full build log over on <a href="http://brettsprojects.com/blackbox.html">Brettsprojects</a>.</p>
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