Technology

Circuit bending challenge winners

GetLoFi writes – Well everyone is a Winner in this competition because we all got to do something fun and walk away with an instrument! However 3 particular participants demonstrated not only excellent circuit bending skills, but also great production and entertainment values. And our top picks are… Circuit bending challenge winners – Link.

Annotate the web with ShiftSpace

ShiftSpace is an open source platform that uses Greasemonkey to place an API layer over the web. When you have the plugin installed, ShiftSpace connects back to a central server to locate “shifts” that other users have left behind for the URL you are viewing. By pressing shift+space on your keyboard, you get a list […]

The hackers in your neighborhood

Google recently added a collaboration feature to the “My Maps” area of Google Maps. Similar to the collaborative document editing in Google Docs, when you’ve made a map you can click the “Collaborate” link and share your map with specific people or the entire world. What’s cool is that when you do the latter, you’ve […]

Aleutia E1: 8-watt Linux box

After so many years of successively bigger, faster, hotter, less reliable, power hungry computer hardware, I’m really tickled to see that a lot of manufacturers are testing the waters with something altogether different. There’s the OLPC, the Asus EeePC, and now the Aleutia E1, a little mini desktop that sips 8 watts and is packaged […]