Have your Mac call you
Here’s a clever hack – Use Skype, Applescript, and iTunes to make phone calls and play audio files automatically. Link. Pictured here, the Skype payphone.
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Convert vinyl records to MP3s…
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Voxphoto writes – “Another view of the nifty phono-to-USB pod I reviewed in MAKE #05 (“Toolbox” section). The price is only $60 at B&H ….but every time they get some in stock, they sell out immediately.” Link.
Play Half Life on the iPod nano
Play Half Life on your iPod nano! You need to be running iPod Linux, here’s how to do it & video.
Airbrushed computers, laptops, gadgets…
Jim “Smooth” Saling’s company Smooth Creations does incredible airbrush art on laptops, mice, iPods, cases and pretty much anything else you plug in. [via] Link.
Wind-powered animal-like machines…
Charles writes – “Theo Jansen’s Strandbeest – Wind-powered, animal-like art machines constructed from recycled materials. The videos are poor quality, but the organic nature of how the constructs move is absolutely astonishing.” Link.
American Inventor – first look, the TV commercial
Inventor Underground (a place for inventors to go if they didn’t make the cut on ABC’s new American Inventor show) has a new podcast and the first TV ad from American Inventor. I’m about to hop on a plane and don’t have time to comment on this yet, so how about you check it out […]
See Google Maps – at night
Here’s a Google Map mashup that combines the huge NASA image of the earth at night (more about that here) and a Google maps interface so you can zoom in and out. [via] Link.