Do you need a little robot turtle friend to keep you happy at your desk? I sure do. Walkie Bits are from Japan (of course) and they are tiny little robot turtles that come in all different colors. They crawl around, chirp, and play music if you’d like them to. Link.
PalmInfocenter member twrock has posted images and details about his external headset mod for the Palm TX. He added a smaller 2.5 mm headphone/mic port to his TX in an external adapter that connects to the athena hotsync port. He intends to use it for voice recording and for future Palm OS VoIP applications. Link.
Owen writes – “I’ve got one of these [Siteplayer] and they’re great. A tiny webserver that plugs straight into your network and allows you to control real world devices. I’m sure other Makers could find plenty of uses for them.” Link.
PC Magazine has some details on a new product I plan to take apart – “WowWee’s next major robot innovation doesn’t walk, roll, make disgusting noises or dance, but SCOTY (for Smart Companion Operating Technology) will greet you, read your e-mail aloud, watch your home, and even play your music. All while moving little more […]
I’m fascinated by pet technology, this is pretty clever – it’s an automatic fetch machine for dogs – the machine hurls the ball out and the dog brings it back, drops it in the bucket, over and over again – Link.
$900 is crazy expensive, but this is a really neat idea – “The FeaturePhone 175 can be used as an ordinary recorder at any time. It can be used as a dictating device and to record meetings by using the internal microphone, but it can also be connected to a special conference microphone, available as […]
Tom writes – “A guy in Croatia is hand-building a water cooling system for a PC, starting with a mockup render, then building a huge copper radiator from scratch. He’s just finished polishing the blocks for cooling the various chips.” Link. The copper work is amazing!
