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Schwinn Sting-Ray has Gone Electric

Schwinn Sting-Ray has Gone Electric

4054 210505124643 The new Sting-Ray Electric shares the original design characteristics of the Street Series Sting-Ray, but adds an electric motor and a battery pack in the form of a motorcycle engine casing so it looks even more like the chopper it originally emulated when it took the world by storm way back in the early sixties. The new Sting-Ray Electric will reach 14 mph and the battery will last up to two hours for a price of US$399. Those specs are distinctly commuter machine territory. Link.

Systm New Web only Tech Show

Systm New Web only Tech Show

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Kevin Rose of G4Tech TV fame is moving on to do his own web only technology show (and homegrown network) called Systm. All episodes will be released free of charge, in a variety of formats (Theora, Xvid, WMV, H.264, PSP), wrapped in RSS (for vidcasting) and licensed under the Creative Commons. Link. I think we’re going to see a lot of great shows come out this year!

MAKE on a PSP

MAKE on a PSP

15003337 Fb29Ab39E2 T Make reader Ross from the UK writes “I took the preview pdf of the “Lets Rumble” article from the front page and experimented with trying to fit it into the PSP photo size. Well it worked really well so i finished off the article and put it on my PSP. It looks great so i thought i would share it you” Here are the photos. And here is a ZIP file with the images sized for the PSP, just place them in the PSP/PHOTOS directory on your memory stick.

The New England Wireless and Steam Museum

The New England Wireless and Steam Museum

04-Models-3 The New England Wireless and Steam Museum in East Greenwich, RI looks pretty neat. The red building houses the wireless collection. The next building is the Massie Wireless System station, “PJ”, built in 1907. It is the oldest surviving working wireless station in the world. The building in the center houses the stationary steam engine collection. This collection includes the only surviving George H. Corliss engine running under steam today. The Mayes building houses the Mechanical Engineering library and the collection of steam engine models. Link. Thanks Brian!

Killing time in Line- Audio!

Killing time in Line- Audio!

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This week we released 3 audio shows to help pass the time waiting in line for Episode III and as DIY noise cancelation. Today while in line the fellow in front of us had seen it already and was convinced it was a good idea to tell everyone around him all the details. Don’t let this happen to you, get these audio shows. Yahoo! Music interview with Ian Rogers, DIY Robotics with Thomas Burick from White Box Robotics and DIY Droid/R2-D2 builders with Tom Jozwiak & Kelly Krider.

MAKE on RocketBoom

MAKE on RocketBoom

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I watch the daily news vlog (video blog) called RocketBoom with Amanda Congdon and today MAKE appeared on there! I had shot a video about our 2nd issue for a friend about our podcast article and it was automatically downloaded via ANT, then played. More about ANT here. And go check out the RocketBoom video here.