Of all Maxwell Smart’s ridiculous gadgets, the shoe phone has always been my favorite. Paul Gardner-Stephen decided to make this fantastic piece of spy tech a reality, with an Instructable that shows you how to make your own with a pair of wooden-heeled shoes, a Bluetooth headset, and a Motorolla V620. This shoe phone works […]
Johnny Baillargeaux sent in a fun mashup that allows the Nabaztag programmable wireless rabbit to communicate with a Pandorabots AI bot service. With his software, you can write an AI script using AIML, publish it on Pandorabots, and then the output of the bot will be sent through the rabbit. Neat stuff. Nabaztag/Ubiquity/Pandorabots integration Pandorabots […]
It’s happened to me more than once that I’ve needed to configure something on a managed Mac laptop at work for which I have no admin access. Normally you can just track down your network administrator, but if it’s after hours or you are traveling, there’s another option: escalate your own account privileges by adding […]
Sometimes you need a handy mobile storage device to move files around between locations. You could use a flash drive or an external disk, but why not make use of that 16GB phone that you carry with you all the time? iPhoneDisk is a MacFUSE based filesystem for the iPhone. Simply install MacFUSE, then install […]
This clever fellow suspended his Wacom pen above his Wacom tablet and made a cool drawing pendulum with it.
Homebuilt gas powered ice cutter to make ice for non-electric icebox. Kevin Kelly wrote an essay about the Amish’s relationship with technology, which is really quite different and much more interesting than many people think. The Amish have the undeserved reputation of being luddites, of people who refuse to employ new technology. It’s well know […]
Last August, Marc wrote about Albert Hwang’s Wiremap display. It’s a 3D display technology which uses a standard projector to illuminate an array of vertical strings. The strings are carefully spaced so that a vertical row of pixels on the projector can illuminate a single string. This allows objects to be rendered in a three […]
