Month: June 2006

Tringo – quick review

Tringo – quick review

Last year we posted about virtual world resident Kermitt Quick and a game he made game called “Tringo” in Second Life (an online multiplayer world) – Tringo is like Bingo and Tetris all in one. In the virtual world it was a huge hit, and the game was licensed by a gameboy game publisher, from […]

Excessive Belkin router cooling

Excessive Belkin router cooling

Glynne writes – “A few months ago I purchase a nice shiny Belkin F5D72304 Router so I could play my MP3’s (loudly/wirelessly) in the backyard to compete with the square waved distortion emenating from next door. Anyway… The router had a nasty habit of not routing (This is a bad thing) after about an hour […]

Portable *Everything* player

Portable *Everything* player

FastMhz.com has a rad “Portable *Everything* player” – “They make portable DVD players, yes, but do they play SACD, Ogg Vorbis and Divx? Nope…but this one does, and more! This is the world’s first ever portable player capable of SACD playback. It’s deceptively simple – start with a Pioneer 578a, find a way to power […]

Time lapse scroll series

Time lapse scroll series

Woodblock printer David Bull has time lapse video (and images) of his latest scroll print, he writes – “This is a three hour sequence of images captured from the Woodblock Webcam, showing the process of carving one of the blocks for the scroll print I am making this year. As the webcam was set to […]

Homemade air conditioner

Homemade air conditioner

Here’s a cheap homemade air conditioner made from an insulated polystyrene box, icewater, aquarium pump, copper tubing and a fan. [via] – Link. Hot? Other other homebrew air conditioners: Air conditioner make out of LEGOs – Link. Poor Man’s Air Conditioning… – Link. DIY cheapest air conditioner in the world – Link. Teens invent economical […]