Doesn’t get more NEWS FROM THE FUTURE than this… – “The RI-MAN robot carries a life-sized doll at the Riken laboratory in Nagoya, central Japan. The RI-MAN is a seeing, hearing and smelling robot that can carry human beings and is aimed at helping care for the country’s growing number of elderly.” [via] Link. Related: […]
Over-the-air reception with an antenna can be a maddening affair. TV signal strength can vary dramatically, especially indoors, and it can take a lot of tinkering to get an antenna system set up right. Matthew Gast walks you through his process of setting up a antenna system for digital reception. Link.
Jeffery Warren of Vestal Design has created an ingenious way to use up old scrap paper. Jeffrey says, “Bind all your old scrap paper and doodles into a new sketchbook, where the facing pages are all blank and the verso pages are covered in interesting and varied image fragments.” Link.
Turn a NES gun into a mouse (good for Duck hunt MAME) – Link.
Beyond Utility writes, “Pod will eat itself! Despite being in existance for 5 months, the latest episode is hosted by a canadian guy who spoofs the format of the show. Pretty funny. Loved the light sabre noises for the ‘special’ knitting needles.” Link.
Peepsalot writes – “Here’s a homemade, computer controlled, automated, drink mixin’ machine. Very cool.” – Link.
I’m going to make this “answering machine” for my rotary cell phone – Popular Electronics 1958 Link.
