Cosmic Spectators Train Their Sights on South Africa [World Cup] Humans and the occasional antelope aren’t the only beings training their eyes on South Africa for that World Cup thing. Indeed, there are a few artificial spectators as well, hovering above, hundreds of miles in orbit.
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Cosmic Spectators Train Their Sights on South Africa [World Cup]
If you’re running or managing a business and after it to be around for a dream of prematurely, you essential to invest a good allotment of your duration innovating. That’s because, in a fast-moving circle, where people reckon on things to come down with safer and sport, and cheaper and cheaper, novelty is your course to getting ahead of your competition
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Novelty: The Life Blood Of Your Business
Here’s the second episode of our favorite new show, Sylvia’s Super-Awesome Maker Show . In this installment, the super-awesome Sylvia explores this year’s Maker Faire Bay Area (and does projects she learned at the Faire!)
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Sylvia’s Super-Awesome Maker Show – Maker Faire edition
This week Ray passes along the latest photographic news for Nikonians: Nikon savings for Fathers Day Let’s get your input Image Doctors interview Shuttle Commander Capt. Alan Poindexter More Academy instructors needed for European Nikonians Nikonians Anotate 1.30 available for download Adobe’s Lightroom 3 release Bibble Labs releases version 5.1 Phase One updates Capture 5 New F-mount from Carl Zeiss Download Nikonians News Flash #155 (NPC-NF-2010-06-13.mp3; 4:13; 3.86MB; MP3 format)
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Nikonians News Flash #155
The Entangled Light Emitting Diode Wasn’t Created by Dr. Frankenstein [Computing] I don’t know when optical quantum computers are going to arrive, but I sure hope they look like this crazy Toshiba visualization of an Entangled Light Emitting Diode
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The Entangled Light Emitting Diode Wasn’t Created by Dr. Frankenstein [Computing]
Found in the MAKE Flickr Pool : This sweet whip by Peter Wagner of Davis, CA, packs an unaltered unicycle for the back wheel and seat, with a bolt-on front wheel if you need two. Famous Davis mayor, conservationist, artist and all-around thoughtful person, dear Julie Partansky (a twin like Myself!) gave me her old unicycle. Which in 2000 I adapted into being able to convert back and forth from unicycle to mini Hi Wheel Safety Bicycle! 2 bolts and a quick release will do it! 2 minutes, tops..
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Uni/bicycle converts from one wheel to two
Al Linke’s DIY Magic Mirror first appeared on our radar back in 2008, when Al posted a classic Instructable describing the project, which went on to win the Tech Grand Prize in our 2008 DIY Halloween Contest . Al’s Magic Mirror features a Sleeping-Beauty style floating, talking face in a gilt-framed mirror with an amazingly wide variety of integrated and integrable functions–breathalyzer, weather forecast, stock tracking, X-10 lighting control, doorbell input with camera feed, Picasa-based slideshow, various themed personalities, etc., etc.
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DIY Magic Mirror kits
Kent Barnes made this wonderfully clever and elegant iPad stand using the suction attachment of a Garmin GPS, then molded Sugru around it to make it compatible with the base from a Panavise. That plus a bluetooth keyboard makes for a cute little desktop! Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in hacks | Digg this!
Khidr Suleman, V3.co.uk , Saturday 12 June 2010 at 00:36:00 Web-connected printers can print anything from any smart device HP has announced a line-up of e-All-in-One printers, which it claims will allow documents to be printed from any email device to any ePrint-enabled printer from anywhere in the world….
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HP announces e-All-in-One printer range
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Saturday 12 June 2010 at 00:35:00 Company hopes to bolster small business backup and recovery Trend Micro has announced plans to acquire Humyo, a UK provider of online storage and synchronisation services. Terms of the deal were not disclosed….
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Trend Micro acquires storage specialist Humyo
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Saturday 12 June 2010 at 00:34:00 Vendor shells out $12m for HyperSpace platform HP has agreed to acquire a Linux operating system from software developer Phoenix Technologies for $12m (£8.2m). The HyperSpace purchase includes a quick-boot operating system and a number of virtualisation..
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HP buys Linux OS from Phoenix Technologies
Great for learning electronics and circuit design! The Gakken EX System is a series of educational electronics kits produced in the late 1970s. The kits use “denshi blocks” (also known as electronic blocks) to allow electronics experiments to be performed easily and safely
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In the Maker Shed: EX-150 Electronic Experiment kit
The folks at Kolb Technology put together this series of tutorial videos (second part here ) to show what goes into making models using their modeling clay. Spoiler: it’s a lot of tedious molding and scraping, followed by more molding and scraping. [via core77 ] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arts | Digg this!
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How to do 3D-sketching using modeling clay
Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool : Michael Colombo has been experimenting with recycling plastic bags , and forming them into children’s blocks. The process, as documented in this Instructable , is to to melt the plastic in an oil bath at low heat, which causes the bags to disintegrate into goo.
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Recycling plastic bags into plastic blocks?
What is it with Gawker and legal scruples involving Apple? After going through that whole issue of unofficially launching the latest Apple iPhone — through Gizmodo, one of its weblogs — before Apple itself was ready to do an unveiling, it is now part of an FBI investigation regarding a security breach, this time with the Apple iPad, as shared in a previous post
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iPad Security Breach: Gawker Media in Another Apple Issue!
Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk , Saturday 12 June 2010 at 13:31:00 V3.co.uk rounds up the hottest security stories of the week The week has been dominated by a batch of security fixes from Microsoft, Google and Adobe covering several key products, as well as growing concerns over the security of the…
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A week in security: Feds investigate iPad breach
Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk , Saturday 12 June 2010 at 13:23:00 Legal battle takes another twist The US International Trade Commission (ITC) is to investigate allegations by Taiwanese handset manufacturer HTC that Apple’s iPhone technology infringes on some of its patents….
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ITC to investigate Apple after HTC claims
Phil Muncaster, V3.co.uk , Saturday 12 June 2010 at 13:17:00 ITV.com and TVCatchup suffer temporary glitches ITV’s web site crashed yesterday as millions went online to watch Mexico play South Africa in the first World Cup match of the 2010 tournament, highlighting the need for companies…
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Web sites crash under World Cup strain
We don’t usually cover much in the way of gaming news here, but my brother Kyle sent this item my way, noting the potential DIY aspect – Thanks to Rock Band 3′s new Pro mode for guitar, drums and, yes, keyboard, every single note on the game’s song list will be tracked. The good news for actual musicians? If you already have a MIDI keyboard or MIDI drum set, you can opt for the Rock Band 3 MIDI Pro Adapter Box
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Rock Band 3 to offer MIDI input – custom controllers anyone?
This month’s Technique Junkie Newsletter has the Patchwork Technique in it, and right away I thought that a photo of the quilt that Sue Gatza made for me would be perfect for this technique. This quilt gave me comfort as I had it on my bed for my five week hospital stay. I’m happy to say I’m now home
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The Patchwork of the Red Hat Salsas