Archives for the 'hardware' Category
is this war?
Sunday, March 6th, 2005
when leaving my flat earlier, i noticed a guy sitting in a plain van outside using an iBook. could he have been doing anything other than wardriving?
ipod milk money
Tuesday, February 15th, 2005
The Guardian reports that A survey of more than 300 teenagers showed that while two-thirds could give the exact price of an Apple iPod mini, three-quarters had no idea how much a pint of milk costs.
Apple are not NTL
Monday, January 10th, 2005
Today I received my outstanding cheque from NTL. When I spoke to them last week, I was told it was being sent as a matter of urgency, after they had sent the previous cheque to my old address (amazing, as the whole reason for closing my account was a house move..). It did indeed arrive [...]
overinflated wifi
Thursday, December 16th, 2004
Teresa Almeida has made a contraption which inflates in the presence of a wireless network. it would seem to look something like this. thanks to we make money not art.
it must be xmas
Tuesday, November 30th, 2004
i particularly like these 2 gadgets which have been brought to my attention: the USB flower pot speaker: (via engadget) the USB mince pie flash drive (128 and 256 meg versions available) (via boing boing)
we are very busy at the moment
Wednesday, November 10th, 2004
Last night at 23:50 my internet connection went down. I thought my Westell ADSL TA/router needed a reboot, as sometimes it does. I tried it, but after disconnecting from Virgin, it wouldn’t give me an option to reconnect. After 20 mins of fiddling, I realised it was unable to make any ADSL connections. Then I [...]
sweaty phone?
Tuesday, October 5th, 2004
Telecoms Korea have information about a new phone, called the IM-7400, which comes “coated with nanometer (1 billionth of a meter) — sized silver particles that are effective at attacking pathogens and deodorizing.” Sorry? Pathogens? Deodorizing a mobile phone? What?
bike-mounted-bluejacking-pollution-sensors
Friday, September 17th, 2004
equator, a collaborative project between a bunch of UK universities, are working on a project they call the ‘urban pollution project‘. essentially they’ve created pollution monitoring points around cities, which are signed as such. they record pollution levels, and when a user with a bluetooth device walks nearby, they get bluejacked, asking if they’d like [...]
text me home tent
Saturday, June 26th, 2004
Orange, being quite big on the old festival circuit (and especially Glastonbury) have designed a special ‘Text Me Home Tent‘, it lights up when you text it (it has a number) so you can find your way back to your tent easily. Nice idea, but what if everybody had one? And what if other people [...]
lego + gameboy = wireless robot
Sunday, June 20th, 2004
Charmed Labs, who brought us the Xport have now developed the Xport Robot Controller (XRC). with a mixture of this, some Lego and a Gameboy, you have a perfect robot development platform. which is quite exciting. not only that, but as well as being compatible with a number of sensors and cameras for percepts / [...]