Extremely simple one image how to on repairing defective keys of a remote control. Just glue small pieces of aluminium foil onto the graphite contacts of the keys. Use a hole puncher to cut the small pieces out of the aluminium foil. Link.
Nick writes – “As part of a university final year games module we created a new kind of arcade table. We used our knowledge of existing hit arcade games, and added our own new technology to enable interfacing with Bluetooth enabled camera phones in order to enhance playability. Here’s the step-by-step documentation of how we […]
Lower the drawbridge! Build your own chicken moat. Surround your veggie garden with a moat full of hungry chickens ready to eat bad bugs and protect your garden [via] Link.
Hal writes – “I’ve written an article about how to make the continents on a big metal globe. I suppose the interesting part is getting data imported from NOAA and then turning it into vectors so you can cut it out.” Link.
I store most of my important stuff in a series of text files, always have, and likely always will – on my Windows machine I’ve been trying this out – “Steganos LockNote will change the way you work with confidential notes. Application and document in one: the mechanism to encrypt and decrypt a note is […]
Sony has more information and pricing for their E-ink reader on SonyStyle – it’s going to cost $349 and “should” ship spring of 2006. [via] Link & info sheet. If you want to read ebooks now on a Sony reader, you can pick up the discontinued Japanese version (called the Librie), change the firmware and […]
$900 is crazy expensive, but this is a really neat idea – “The FeaturePhone 175 can be used as an ordinary recorder at any time. It can be used as a dictating device and to record meetings by using the internal microphone, but it can also be connected to a special conference microphone, available as […]
