Real-time 13″ MacBook Pro teardown
Ifixit got ahold of a new MacBook Pro 13″ and are posting the teardown as they take it apart and explore what’s inside. MacBook Pro 13″ Unibody Teardown
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Android Scripting Environment
Google recently released the Android Scripting Environment, which allows an Android user the ability to access the myriad of APIs available directly from the device itself.
Mega-Minty Boost?
Think of it as a Minty Big-Boost. Micah and a buddy are leaving on a cross-country trip and they don’t want their handheld gaming systems to run out of juice along the way, so he put together this battery powerpack using 12 Volt 7 AH Lead-calcium battery. They’re hoping to get some 30 hours of […]
Android/XP Frankenbook hybrid device
The Institute for Information Industry in Taiwan have cobbled together from existing parts a truly unique device. It’s part netbook, part tablet.
Multi-flash camera makes automatic line drawings
Here’s an oldie-but-goodie from 2004: Kar-Han Tan, James Kobler, Rogerio S. Feris, Paul Dietz, and Ramesh Raskar, then of the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (MERL), produced a custom digital camera and software that derives line drawings of a scene, or an object, by analyzing the shadows in four otherwise-identical pictures that are illuminated from different […]
Teaching mirrors new tricks
Andrew Hicks, a mathemagician at Philadelphia’s Drexel University, has lately made headlines with one of those head-slappingly simple, brilliant, OMG-why-didn’t-I-think-of-that sort of projects: He makes mirrors. Not the run-of-the-mill flat mirrors most of us use every day for identifying vampires, but totally unorthodox, heretical, downright blasphemous mirrors with convoluted surfaces that do tricks I didn’t […]
ThinkSafe: A Magnetic Power Connector for Thinkpads
Got a ThinkPad and have a tendency to trip over the power cord all the time? Well, you’re in luck. This Instructable will show you how to assemble your very own ThinkSafe magnetic power connector.