Pleo “brain surgery” (video)
Creepy cool video of a Pleo’s “brain surgery” from Pleo Dreams.
Technology
New bots from WowWee
WowWee unleashed a whole slew of new robots which we’ll see hacked up and modded soon, here’s a round up of coverage/videos/images from Engadget and Gizmodo on the ground at CES now (Consumer Electronics Show). Bots: Alive White Tiger Cub, Alive Lion, Alive Panda Cub and Alive Polar Bear Cub – Link. Femisapien – Link. […]
5 dangerous things you should let your kids do (video)
Gever Tulley’s 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do (video) – Gever Tulley, founder of the Tinkering School, talks about our new wave of overprotected kids — and spells out 5 (and really, he’s got 6) dangerous things you should let your kids do. Allowing kids the freedom to explore, he says, will […]
VoIP on the iPod Touch
The Touchmods team recently released a working version of their iPod Touch VoIP app, making it possible for Touch owners to place outgoing calls on the device. The Touch doesn’t come with a built-in mic, so part of the hack involves either modifying a Walmart iVoice III mic, buying a Touchmods designed add-on, or building […]
VoIP on the iPod Touch
The Touchmods team recently released a working version of their iPod Touch VoIP app, making it possible for Touch owners to place outgoing calls on the device. The Touch doesn’t come with a built-in mic, so part of the hack involves either modifying a Walmart iVoice III mic, buying a Touchmods designed add-on, or building […]
Ladybuds- Earplug earrings
I think the design could be a little hipper, but these earplug earrings are a good idea and potentially a nice (re)make – Designed by a woman who loves NASCAR and rock n’ roll, Ladybuds provide women the opportunity to combat noise and hearing loss in an entirely new way. Through their fun and fearless […]
HOWTO run Arduino on the XO laptop
Brian writes… The XO Laptop comes with the drivers you need to talk to an Arduino board, but you need to do a few things before you can run the Arduino environment. Once you get it running, though, it works just fine. The first step is to install Java. To install Java on the XO […]