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Here’s a fun comparison on Gizmodo of Palm’s new Foleo (a smartphone “companion”) and a DIY version from MAKE, a Palm Pilot Notebook! – Link. From the pages of MAKE: Palm Pilot Notebook. Modified hardback book contains extra-powered PDA and travel keyboard. MAKE 07 – Page 138. Subscribers–read this article now in your digital edition […]
Microsoft is showing off their multi-touch table “Surface” complete with RFID, wireless, sensors and a whole lot of other things (watch the Popular Mechanics video on how it works)… You can’t buy one, but they will be appearing in a couple casinos and some stores to demo… Link. More: Surface computing – Link. Surface @ […]
Jason @ Hackszine writes – Google launched the Street View feature in Google Maps today at the Where 2.0 conference. For select cities, you can now view street-level panoramic photography as you browse around a map location. It’s like being able to take a virtual driving tour of a city, right from your desk. There […]
Once upon a time, there was no distinction between memory and display.
Puget Custom Computers made a nice mineral oil submerged computer – Over the years, we have seen many projects on the web that cooled a computer using common vegetable oil, including a very popular video by Tom’s Hardware. We felt that by building a computer in an aquarium using clear mineral oil, that we would […]
Here’s a fun looking programming language for kids – Efforts to make computer programming accessible to young people began in the late 1970s with the advent of the personal PC, when another programming language with roots at MIT — Logo — allowed young people to draw shapes by steering a turtle around a screen by […]
Due to complete – Summer of ’07 — Browsing the web could be like visiting a hip art gallery with this Firefox extension – AddArt is a Firefox extension which replaces advertising images on web pages with art images from a curated database. For many, replacing ads with blank space would be enough. AddArt attempts […]
