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EurekaFest photos

EurekaFest photos

Here are some photos from Saturday’s EurekaFest activities. More than 200 high school inventors were blown away during the finale of EurekaFest, a multi-day celebration of the inventive spirit presented by the Lemelson-MIT Program. In teams, the students competed in a “heavy metal” lift-off at the Museum of Science, Boston, to build a wind turbine […]

Balance boarding!

The Balance board blog has a lot of resources and links about Nintendo’s new Balance Board for the Wii, and of course there are some interesting hacks already… like this one, controlling a robot. Wii Fit and We Ski might be the only two official uses for the Wii Balance Board, but clever tech-heads are […]

Super Foam-erator for Kids

Betz White has a tutorial on how to make a Super Foam-erator from a recycled plastic water bottle. Betz writes: In my quest for summer activities to entertain the boys I started reminiscing about a foam making toy I had as a kid. It was sort of shaped like a big plastic lolly pop with […]

Hacking videos from past Shmoocons

Hacking videos from past Shmoocons

Jason writes– You may have dug the videos of past DEFCON conferences that we posted back in May, but there’s a whole other infosec conference, Shmoocon, which is held in D.C. every February. It’s a while until the next conference comes up, but there have been some great presentations at past conferences, most of which […]