Technabob » spy tech http://technabob.com/blog Cool Gadgets, Gizmos, Games and Weird Science Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:30:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Guerrilla Gardening Just Went Spy Tech http://technabob.com/blog/2009/12/17/guerrilla-gardening-just-went-spy-tech/ http://technabob.com/blog/2009/12/17/guerrilla-gardening-just-went-spy-tech/#comments Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:16:41 +0000 P. Blandino http://technabob.com/blog/?p=24713 Guerrilla gardening is a form of activism where a gardener plants seeds or crop in abandoned land they do not own, or even public property (which I’m gonna guess is illegal). Most of these actions are done in the cover of night so they’re not caught in action. Designer Vanessa Harden has invented a few spy gadgets for these gardeners to do their work in the sun. The Precision Bombing Device I is made to look like an standard SLR camera but actually it shoots out sugar glass covered seeds like a BB gun.

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Check out the demo video below to see The Precision Bombing Device I in action.

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I would have never imagined gardening would look so cool when using spy inspired tools. You can check out more tools on Vanessa’s design website. Honestly, I’m about to buy some sugar coated seeds so I can load up my BB gun and plant my new yard from my window.

]]> http://technabob.com/blog/2009/12/17/guerrilla-gardening-just-went-spy-tech/feed/ 1 NES Controller Flash Drive is Like Spy Tech for Geeks http://technabob.com/blog/2009/10/12/nes-controller-flash-drive/ http://technabob.com/blog/2009/10/12/nes-controller-flash-drive/#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:36:29 +0000 chris h. http://technabob.com/blog/?p=21353 There’s something unique about this unassuming looking NES controller – and no, it’s not that it’s a flash drive. Gaming peripherals turned storage devices are a dime a dozen, but this flash drive requires a secret activation code. Okay, maybe not so secret. I doubt Sydney Bristow would have much trouble cracking this particular code.

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This latest NES hack/mod comes to us from Joe over at ProtoDojo. While rummaging through his uncle’s garage, Joe came upon his old Nintendo system. And like any good modder, he decided to see what he could make out of the gear instead of just tossing it or selling it.

Not surprisingly, his first instinct was to turn the controller into a flash drive. But this struck him as too obvious, so he decided to program the controller/flash drive in such a way that it would require the famous Konami Code be input before a computer recognizes it.

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Man, I’m not doing the “Retro GamerDrive” any justice, so stop listening to me prattle on about Joe’s project and learn about it from the man himself:

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On an unrelated note, anyone who didn’t appreciate my ALIAS reference can’t be friends with me. Just sayin’.

[via Kotaku]

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