Lighten your wallet – use a phone
Here’s a good a idea, scan in all those loyalty cards on to your phone!
Gadgets
DON’T PANIC – A Wikipedia in your pocket
Here’s a great way to carry around all of human knowledge, well – Wikipedia that is… use an old Psion 5mx, some linux and you’ve got your own Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy (towel not included) via Hack a day.
Making it Lovely’s Top Ten Tools List
Nicole from Making it Lovely provides a helpful list of her top ten must-have tools for DIY home improvement projects.
Mobile phone hacking in Africa
Interesting piece on AfriGadget about mobile phone hacking in rural Africa: One of the more interesting innovations is the development of a dual SIM card hack so that users can access multiple carriers. This product has two SIM card slots in a single phone – primarily to support price sensitive/prudent consumers who wish to optimise […]
Become a Jedi while cleaning your house
Here’s a cool project that shows you how to build a lightsaber like Luke Skywalker used out of a 1500 Hoover Vacuum Cleaner. Now if only you could use them in tandem and fight the “dark side” while cleaning up your living room carpet. How to build a Lightsaber 
from a vacuum cleaner
Sony XEL-1 OLED TV teardown
I saw one of the Sony XEL-1 OLED TVs in Tokyo and wanted to take one apart on the spot, luckily Bunnie just posted up some awesome photos! He writes – I was at the Embedded Systems Conference today in San Jose, and I saw a presentation where a Sony XEL-1 OLED TV was torn […]
Stanford Cool Products Expo
At first glance, Stanford’s Cool Products Expo looked like a regular college career fair. That is, until I saw the solar-powered car, tilting trike, Tesla car and BMW’s hydrogen car parked on the lawn. Inside the packed hall, instead of suits touting companies there were dozens of, well, cool products. They ranged from a design […]
