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Caption: Is this the future? A single IC, a battery, and some user interface components? Kyle and our pals over at iFixit.com got ahold of the 3rd gen iPod Shuffle and they just had to tear it apart. Amazingly, at least on our scale, both halves weighed 5 grams. That means the entire functional half […]
Love this finger-painter iPhone art by artist Jorge Colombo, done in the Brushes application. iPhone Sketches [Thanks, Tatia!]
Peter writes in the comments about Blender. He and his mates did an independent study to learn Blender, an open source software platform for 3D design and animation. The results of their work is a clever short film titled The Night of the Living Dead Pixels. Their video animation was awarded best short film at […]
This German hacker created a desktop VR rig with 6DOF (degrees of freedom) tracking, using two Wiimotes and a stereo monitor. I like when he put the glasses on and then says: “Don’t laugh. This is serious cutting-edge technology.” (I laughed anyway.) Three of the four LEDs are aligned in a line with only slightly […]
Turn your PC into an ambush multimedia presenter. Get the schematic here: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/02/weekend_project_usb_motion_detector.html
Dan Kaminsky, the computer consultant who found a fundamental vulnerability in the Web’s DNS, so fundamental, it could have given him theoretical control over every domain on the Web, will be giving a last-minute talk tonight at HacDC. He’ll be talking about this amazing story as well as talking about some current research, to be […]
This looks like it could be fun/dangerous. It might be fun to set them up in a big field and let the kids roll wild. Maybe get access to a dead mall and roll away. Kid hamster ball soccer anyone? Have you ever seen these things in the wild? Do you have pictures? What is […]
