Here’s an interesting HOW TO on making a padlock shim to open up padlocks – it’s based on a retail version, but made from a beer can. I have a couple old locks that I don’t seem to have the combination for any longer, handy! Link.
This might be a good podcast recording tool – PowerGramo is a powerful recording solution for skype. You can record and replay any call in an easy and smart fashion. Best of all, all records are encrypted. You are the only one to review them after you login Skype. Also it’s very simple to share them with your friends. PowerGramo provides popular small audio format instead of large wav file… Link.
Homemade clothing, for your robot dog – An art competition at the Marunouchi shopping district, named “the Tokyo Competition 2005”. Some 40 robot dogs accompanied the would-be artists during the performance. Link.
A little while ago I posted about some clever Metrocard art projects – and now here’s a lot more – Noah’s Metro card art collection. Purses, belt buckles and more… Link.
Hand cranked phone charger, radio, torch and “exercise in physics” all in one, as AAS (All About Symbian) look at the latest ‘really pratical’ gadget. Link.
This week, O’Reilly’s audio magazine program Distributing the Future takes a look at the Data for Web 2.0. Tim O’Reilly explains “What is Web 2.0,” Marc Hedlund thinks about the browsers of the future that might mash up the private data on your hard drive with data that lives on the Web, NAVTEQ’s Robert Denaro explains why NAVTEQ drives so many miles each day to gather the geographic information you use in your favorite online mapping applications, Phil Torrone is already hacking the iPod nano, and our “FOO Cast” is more of Richard Giles’ Gadget show interview with John Batelle. Link and MP3.
Brian has a nice write up of GameTap, you can of course always roll your own too… “GameTap is Turner Broadcasting’s subscription-based gaming on demand service. The list of games is pretty impressive, but what really jumps out at me is the platforms represented: Dreamcast, Sega Master System, Intellivision, Genesis, Atari 2600, Arcade games, and more. It looks like they’ll have a decent selection of modern games, but retro games currently dominate the list”... Link.
