David writes – “Radio Shack sells a $19 TV game called “Hummer offroad Racing” which has a full Commodore 64 inside that can be turned into a full computer.” – Link. Related: Hacking the C64 DTV. Retro-gaming joystick easily converts into full Commodore computer emulator. MAKE 02 – Page 149.
Fred Hunt from Bit-tech.net has a great review of the Alphacool watercooling starter kit – “Take a PC full of expensive, complicated, electricity-driven parts, add about half a litre of water in aquarium tubing and plug it into the mains electricity supply. Up until a few years ago many would have laughed at such thoughtless […]
Gallery of stacked can art – He hates these cans! Stay away from the cans! [via] – Link.
Coolhunting points to two places you can buy a Rubik’s Sudoku – Link. I’ve been playing this on the Nintendo DS (Brain age) and I’m pretty addicted to it. From Wikipedia: What is Sudoku? Also known as Number Place, is a logic-based placement puzzle. The aim of the puzzle is to enter a numerical digit […]
Sony killed off the Aibo, but if you’re really hard up for some (headless) robot pet action, the TomCat looks pretty interesting – “TomCat is a research quality, quadruped robot that is moves at a speed of two body lengths per second.” [via] – Link. Related: QRIO and AIBO, the memories (huge photo gallery) – […]
This rules – “The problem with water rockets is that you need acres of space to launch them without risk of losing them. It’s hard to restrain yourself when friends come over and do “just a little launch” in front of your house to show them how it works. Inevitably you launch again, increasing the […]
Rick writes – “Boiling eggs that have been wrapped snugly in onion skins, produces beautifully patterned Easter eggs. I never really cared for the usual colourful Easter eggs most people make. They’re too gaudy for my taste. I don’t like the mess involved with making them and I don’t like using all that food colouring. […]
