A German designer calling himself Seppoman has built a Midibox control system into a sofa. If two people are sitting down, they can output three control values – left and right buttock weight and how far the person is leaning back. Obviously, the possibilities are pretty much endless. Previously, Seppoman built an incredibly cool rackmounted Commodore 64 SID synth. [via] Link.
“A hardware engineer has managed to sucessfully connect a full sized PC keyboard to the Sony PSP handheld. It looks as if the hardware mofication has done with several different xlink cable connectors and modified to interlink with each other. Obviously, the software side of things are not complete but this is still a very interesting modification.” [via] Link.
Digg user enjayenel wrote “I love using iTunes as a PDF library tool. I have hundreds of PDF manuals that I need organized access to. I just add them into the iTunes Library, edit the ID3 tags, create a smart playlist to group them together, and turn on the Browse feature (command-b) to get quick navigation to the PDF I am looking for based on title, product name (artist tag), and version (album tag). Double clicking the PDF opens it in your default PDF viewer”. [via] Get a FREE MAKE PDF in iTunes here- Link.
This Mini sure does drive…no pun intended. It’s a USB Flash Drive built into a Hot Wheels model of a Mini Cooper. I saw some various mods using USB drives, such as a PEZ and Lego drives. I think I remember reading something about someone who made a drive fit into a Hot Wheels car, but I don’t remember where. I saw this Mini sitting on my shelf, and figured, hey, I’m never gonna use it for anything anyways, so I might as well put it to use. Link.
Here’s how you can get your Mac on the Internet using your GSM cell phone (T-Mobile, etc). If you have a CDMA cell phone (e.g. Verizon Wireless, Sprint PCS), see instead How To Use Your CDMA Cell Phone as a USB Modem in Mac OS X. The instructions on this page assume you’re using Bluetooth to connect your phone to your computer. Link.
Once we were in the air and received our username and passwords to access the Wi-Fi network on the plane, I quickly tested all the applications I could. Skype: called another Skype user, and called using Skype out to a real phone number. It worked perfectly. AIM/iChat: had two full-screen video conference sessions for 10 minutes or so each. IRC: logged in to irc.freenode.net #joiito. Email, SSH, telnet, web browse SSL (banking), also brought a card that does passive mode and sniffed a bit with KisMac. Streamed video from my home via ORB Networks. Plugged in an Airport Express too :-]
Here’s the video I shot with Tim Vinopal, Director, Service Delivery Engineering from Connexion, Boeing’s Wi-fi service for aircraft. I was on their experimental test plane, an interesting glimpse of the future of communications in-flight. The video is really noisy (we were in the engineering section, sorry about that) but you can hear some/most of it. CLICK HERE TO VIEW VIDEO (QuickTime .MOV). Also, photos here.
