Fun Linux hack…Ever wonder what all the data in your hard drive sounds like? Or simply want to kill the silence in your server room? Simple, just direct devices into the audio device and listen to the sweet beatiful sound of your data (or other device). Reminds me of the good old days of 56k dialup. The more cluttered the data in your drive is, the more interesting the sound is. As root issue the following commands. Link.
Nissan is currently developing a system that will eliminate blind spots from around the vehicle with a bird’s-eye view of the surrounding area displayed on a central monitor. I think you could make a version yourself pretty easily (and cheap)- I’ll work out a spec soon. Link.
Excellent. Benini, a technology education teacher a rural Parish Hill High School in Chaplin, Conn., thought it sounded like the perfect project to challenge his students with. He found plans to build a standard hovercraft on the Internet and purchased them for his class. “We build our first craft in just over 10 weeks,” he said. “We were never completely sure it was going to work, but we decided we were going to give this our best shot and see what would happen.” Link.
This spring we asked the Princeton University community to submit imagery produced in the course of research or incorporating tools and concepts from science. The response was overwhelming: more than 200 entries from nearly 100 individuals in 15 departments. We selected 55 of these works to appear in the 2005 Art of Science Exhibition. Here are the winners. Link.
Our first issue had the now classic article on outfitting digital and disposable cameras to kites- if you’re looking for a place to share or just view some of the types of photos people are taking, here’s the place to go. The photos are stunning. Link.
These are Barbies modded to look like celebrities. Previous we covered the Barbie jewlery as well as the Lord of the Rings style D&D Barbie mods. I think these dolls are becoming great canvases as opposed to just being tossed. Link.
The Beatbox was designed and made by Andy Huntington. It is a physical programmable drum machine. It is on display as part of the RCA Interaction Design Show from the 23rd of June to the 3rd of July (excluding July 1st). They have a video of it on the site- Link.
