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hundreds of box fans as interactive art

filed under: design | interactive

Flow 5.0 by Daan Roosegaarde

This unusual art installation took hundreds and hundreds of individual cooling fans, and tied them together with sensors that detect the movements of passersby to produce an amazing visual and sensory experience.

Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde worked with a team of technical wizards to create this mammoth interactive work entitled Flow 5.0…

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December 14th, 2007 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

dumbest person ever

filed under: just plain fun | video games

PS3 Stupid Human Tricks

I’m really hoping this forum post over on Blu-ray.com is fake…

According to the poster of the thread, his friend was wondering why his shiny new Playstation 3 had stopped working, when he discovered the unthinkable. His buddy decided to duct tape over the vents in order to keep dust OUT of the console. Yeah, that’ll keep it nice and clean…

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July 3rd, 2007 3 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

the real puffy shirt

filed under: Uncategorized

USB Air Conditioned Shirt

Here’s a fun one that must have slipped past my radar screen when it hit the circuit last year. This USB-powered clothing is designed to keep you cool on those warm Summer days.

As long as you don’t mind looking like a complete fool, the air conditioned shirt plugs into your computer and blows air onto your sweaty body, keeping you cool all day long…

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July 2nd, 2007 3 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

cool your hot console with a radiator

filed under: video games

Console Heat Radiator

For certain current-gen consoles (espectially those that start with an “X” and end with a “360″), overheating has been a recurring problem for many of us. I’ve seen all sorts of cooling fans that claim to help with the problem, and sometimes they do. That said, there doesn’t appear to be a perfect solution, other than a redesign of the console’s innards…

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June 27th, 2007 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

xbox 360 fan adds more outputs than you’ll ever need

filed under: video games

Xbox 360 Fan Attachment w/ Ports

This new fan attachment for the back of the Xbox 360 gives you much more than just supplemental cooling. It actually adds a variety of direct-access connectors to the back of the console, eliminating the need for special adapter cables.

Along with two cooling fans, the add-on gives you easy access to VGA, Component, Composite and S-Video outputs…

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June 23rd, 2007 3 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

ps3 intercooler revealed: why?

filed under: video games

Nyko Intercooler for PS3

Nyko revealed their new cooling system for the Sony PlayStation 3 console this week, and all I can say is: does anyone really need this?
The $25 Intercooler for PlayStation 3 features a whopping FIVE additional fans, and wraps around the back, bottom and side of your PS3, making the mammoth console just that much larger, and ruining the console’s virtually silent operation…

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March 1st, 2007 14 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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