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I came across this PC build on the interwebs the other day and it really caught my eye. Built by a modder known as “Geno” for a contest, it’s meant to honor the game Half-Life 2 in case that wasn’t completely obvious. Let’s take a closer look! One of the most amazing things about this […]
10 Gifts Under $10 for the SF Geek With the economy in a downward spiral and Christmas just eight days away, the gang at GeekDad headquarters are there to help you decide on what gifts to get every member of your geekly gang. Christmas Camouflage Christmas Camouflage, not as cruel tricks to fool and deceive […]
Atif Shamin, a student at Carleton University in Canada has figured out a way of reducing a mobile device’s power consumption by replacing all of the internal wires and PCBs of a device with an antenna. This enables a wireless connection between a micro-antenna embedded within the circuits of the chip. Pretty cool, now my […]
This iPhone app lets you run the ARToolKit v.4.4 on the device at 10fps with realtime tracking and more features to come! Check out the video to see it in action, pretty limitless things you will be able to do with this like augmented reality mapping onto physical landscapes as you walk down the street.
Scientists Hack Cellphone to Analyze Blood, Detect Disease, Help Developing Nations @ Wired… A new MacGyver-esque cellphone hack could bring cheap, on-the-spot disease detection to even the most remote villages on the planet. Using only an LED, plastic light filter and some wires, scientists at UCLA have modded a cellphone into a portable blood tester […]
This awesome mod was built by Peter Dickison and is of course meant to look like a nuclear bomb from your average action movie. The metal working is great, let’s take a look at it in more detail, shall we? Here’s one of the many plans shown on the site used in the making of […]
I was on GOOD’s video show today, a more positive spin on all the “depression talk”…. So, we’re in a recession: now what? Consumer spending is down and the common (wo)man has been forced to cut back. But there’s no reason to go without. Phillip Torone, senior editor at Make, visits the GOOD News studio […]
