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USB ports built right into the outlet...it's about time!

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:14:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I would imagine these will be very expensive but when you figure most name brand adapters are no less than $20 these probably won't be overly priced at $40. Obviously you couldn't retrofit your entire house with them (unless money isn't an object) but if you replaced the commonly used ones with them it would probably be worth it.

Clip Source: blog.makezine.com

You can pre-order yours now at Fastmac. Supposedly they will ship "in early 2010." Or you could just make your own. If you try it, remember Louie the Lightning Bug: "You gotta play it safe around electricity." [via Slippery Brick]

Tags: home, make, technology

Is this what Black Friday has come to?

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:31:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is ridiculous! How did someone not stop this person before they got so much piled up above that poor kid? I really hate Black Friday! It truly brings out the worst in everyone and the retail industry has tried to make it out to be such a great time when in fact it's complete and total madness. Sure most people don't put there children in danger like this but how many put themselves in danger just to get to the hot item of the year? Has there been a single Black Friday in the past several years that we have not heard about someone getting trampled or a major fight breaking out? The sad part is that we only hear about the worst one! My wife goes every year at 4:30AM and I always get to hear the stories about the insane people... It's a non stop fight for the right to say you got the best deal. Seriously, you don't need that one "hot" item that bad. Go buy 3 other things instead for less money that are on sale as well and save yourself the hassle and I bet the person that

Clip Source: www.peopleofwalmart.com

This is absolutely ridiculous. How stupid and reckless could someone possibly be? There really needs to be some sort of parenting test that you have to pass.

Tags: black friday, parenting, walmart

A clock with no hands makes a pretty awesome clock!

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:48:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Some of the things people come up with these days is just amazing and this is definitely one of those things. It's so simple yet so genius!

In case you can't see them, the hands are projected using LED's around the perimeter of the face of the clock.

Clip Source: blog.makezine.com

The folks at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories are at it again, this time (get it?) with a kit version of the Bulbdial clock. We first saw the concept for this device over a year ago, when it was proposed by David Friedman of Ironic Sans. EMSL decided to take on the challenge of constructing it, and built a prototype. Now, just in time for the holidays, they have released it as an open source kit.

Tags: clock, make, technology

Why hide your cables when they could be artwork?

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:28:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I have to admit that no matter how hard I tried, I could probably never make something that I would want anyone to see but I still love the idea...

Clip Source: blog.makezine.com

Not sure what to do about those unsightly cables that are strung about your abode? Well, instead of hiding them, why not feature them prominently on the wall? That's what Maisie Maud Broadhead decided to do with her cable drawings project. Just be sure you really want to keep your appliance in place, because nailing the cord to the wall in a hundred places is going to make it difficult to move. [via curbly]

Tags: art, cables, make

Add flair to your lego projects with a Lego hole punch!

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:01:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is really cool, I can't wait to get one! Actually, I'm amazed nobody has thought of this sooner!

Clip Source: blog.makezine.com

Paper craft meets LEGO with MUJI's quad hole punch and kits, available November 27th at MUJI Japan. [via CRAFT]

A computer with the processing power of our brain would use 10 megawatts of power!

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:41:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: That is absolutely insane! Obviously this is just an estimate since there are no computers that even compare, but it's still pretty crazy to think about. That's as much power as what a small hydroelectric plant produces.

Clip Source: hackedgadgets.com

It is nice to think that what we have in our head, and take for granted is a fantastic machine. Data centers across the country are using power like it is going out of style however when you put it into perspective that a computer with our brain power would use 10 megawatts of power we still have the data centers beat hands down.

Shrinky Dinks used to create microchips!?

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:03:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It's absolutely amazing some of the things people think up these days! What an ingenious way to solve a problem!

Clip Source: www.elektor.com

She was experimenting with tiny liquid-filled channels in hopes of devising chip-based diagnostic tests, a discipline called microfluidics. The trouble was, the specialized equipment that she previously used to make microfluidic chips cost more than $100,000 -- money that wasn't immediately available.

To test her idea, she whipped up a channel design in AutoCAD, printed it out on Shrinky Dink material using a laser printer, and stuck the result in a toaster oven. As the plastic shrank, the ink particles on its surface clumped together, forming tiny ridges. That was exactly the effect Khine wanted. When she poured a flexible polymer known as PDMS onto the surface of the cooled Shrinky Dink, the ink ridges created tiny channels in the surface of the polymer as it hardened. She pulled the PDMS away from the Shrinky Dink mould, and voil�: a finished microfluidic device that cost less than a fast-food meal.

Submarine turned into a home theater..

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:36:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Someday I'm going to have a home theater but I can only dream of ever having one this cool. It's nice to see an artistic touch put into one of these since most are designed to be perfect listening rooms which usually means very boring...

Clip Source: blog.makezine.com

Kiwi businessman Wayne Eyre dropped a pretty penny on this fantasy home theater build, but the results are impressive. Many have suggested that it's supposed to be Captain Nemo's Nautilus, but there's no mention of deliberate Verne overtones in the original article. The last photograph above, for instance, shows leaking "plutonium torpedoes" in part of the installation, but plutonium wasn't even discovered until 50 years after 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was published. [via Dude Craft]

Tags: art, home theater

Projection mapping is now interactive... Play pinball on a building!

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:30:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: These guys just took something that is already amazingly cool and made it even cooler.

Clip Source: blog.makezine.com

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Tags: projection mapping, pinball, interactive

Guitar hero played with soccer/foot balls...

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:32:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is awesome. The technology behind it is pretty simple, and the ability to hit the spots is quite simple for the people doing it (they are serious pro's) but the idea of it all together is really quite genius IMO.

Clip Source: hackedgadgets.com

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Cell phone orchestra... Absolutely Amazing!

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:43:53 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is an unbelievable feet of cell phone technology. They had to film it at off hours due to the insane text's per second throughput they were attempting. Please go to the source and check out the video on the making of the commercial. This is real and done with real text messages.

Clip Source: blog.makezine.com

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This ad for Vodafone New Zeland is an impressive technical feat. They loaded up 1000 cell phones with ringtones for single instruments, and then built a system to send text messages to them in the correct order, to get them to perform a portion of Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture. Considering the amount of delay that I usually notice when sending messages, I was pretty surprised that they claim to have performed this over their regular cell network. [via gizmodo]

Tags: cell phones, vodafone, symphony

Jameco managers take paycuts so they don't have to layoff anyone.

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:23:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If we had more company's like this, the whole country would be in better shape. Obviously we'd still have problems but even if it cut the rise in unemployment by a small amount, it would make a big difference.

Anyway, my hats off to these guys! I will definitely be buying my components from them in the future.

Clip Source: blog.makezine.com

"...We at Jameco understand these times of economic uncertainty. When you struggle, we struggle. At a time of high unemployment, the Jameco management team has taken salary cuts to ensure the continued full employment of the trained professionals you have come to depend on for the past 35 years"...

Tags: jameco, unemployment

This is what you get for selling a Wii on the Home Shopping Channel!

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:02:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is going to be a classic. I've seen so many of these faked that it's actually kind of nice to see a real one...

Clip Source: gizmodo.com

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Hand it to that guy, he does not deviate from the sales pitch after such a colossally embarrassing f—kup, even with his cohost laughing and, no doubt, a production crew trying to keep it together. And hats off to the director who switched over to the b-roll while they got the pitchman positioned perfectly in front of the TV to cover up the scar the Wiimote left.

Tags: wii, wiimote

Unbelievable projection mapping video!

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:50:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It's very long and slightly redundant in spots but well worth watching the whole thing. Few things amaze me quite like projection mapping and this is an amazing example it.

Clip Source: blog.makezine.com

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Tags: projection mapping

He pulled the table out from under the cloth!

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:33:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is so coool! I want one!

Clip Source: blog.makezine.com

Alex over at Neatorama spotted these awesome handmade tables from essey.com. Sheets of 3 or 4 mm acrylic, in several colors and finishes, are thermoformed over a table-sized blank, by a person, to create a ghostly transparent or translucent shell in one of two sizes.

Tags: art, table cloth