Processor makers go after no-power sleep states A number of chip manufacturers and European research institutions have banded together to figure out how to redesign microprocessors so that they consume less energy when in use, and leak less energy when in stand-by mode.
See more here:
IBM and Infineon designing chips for zero-watt PCs
Team Habitable: Young Makers Janavi, Pearl, and Hana, together with their mentor Yoshi, created this mod of an Ikea table that doubles as a reconfigurable hamster habitat. The Young Makers Program is a collaboration between MAKE, The Exploratorium , and Pixar . The purpose of the program is to inspire and develop the next generation of makers, creators, and innovators.
Go here to read the rest:
Announcing the Young Makers Program for 2011
We wrote about Ray Villafane’s pumpkin carving tutorial several years ago, but it’s worth linking to again. We were reminded of Ray’s astounding squash-sculpting mojo when our most-awesome Director of Marketing and PR for Maker Faire, Bridgette Vanderlaan, sent around a gallery of Ray’s work through internal email
See the article here:
How-To: Carve astounding art-pumpkins
Illustrator Christoph Niemann made a not-quite-scientific series of illustrations titled Unpopular Science , which purport to explain how the laws of physics affect our daily life. My favorite is the explanation for why fridges full of food seem so attractive- obviously it is because they have a lot of mass! How many of these ‘forces’ do you experience on a daily basis
More:
Unpopular science
One of the constants of the past few years is that the number of portable devices per person is on the rise. The per-user ratio will become even greater as tablets grow in popularity , since they will at least initially be additive to the total amount
View original post here:
Confronting the Wireless Charger Problem
The Make: Electronics Components Pack 1 is finally back in stock and shipping! The first companion pack to our wildly popular Make: Electronics book covers all of the experiments (1-11) from the first two sections of the book. We’ve spent (many!) hours sourcing all these parts, so you don’t have to. This pack will get you right into it experimenting, and most of the parts are re-used throughout the book, so it’s a great starting point
Read more:
Back in stock! Make: Electronics Components Pack 1
Our friends at the New York Hall of Science are going to be launching pumpkins this weekend with their in-house trebuchet “Chuck”: See NYSCI’s 20-foot-tall outdoor catapult in action! Learn about the history and science of catapults, and then watch it hurl pumpkins across the field. The demonstration will show how adjustments on the catapult affect the distance traveled and/or height of the projectile. Click here for more information about the event.
Continued here:
This weekend: Catapult a pumpkin at NYSCI
Hardware ninja and engineer Amanda “w0z” Wozniak gave a talk at Toorcon called ” Hardware Will Cut You ,” all about the electronics design process: The hardware design process is fraught with pitfalls, from library component sketchiness, parts availability, erroneous data sheets, underestimates of complexity and long lead times.
More:
"Hardware Will Cut You" presentation by Amanda Wozniak
For our fourth week in the Make It Last Build Series, we’re looking at how to turn our electronic thermometer into a data logger by adding storage capability. You’ll probably want to check out the most recent newsletter for background data, before continuing with this post. Also, before we forget, we’re getting to the end of our first build
Read more from the original source:
Make It Last Build Series: Building the data logger
I like this concept design from German product designer Konstantin Slawinski that integrates the pieces of the classic three-piece “wooden knot” puzzle into a knife, a fork, and a spoon to make an interlocking set of cutlery. I don’t think there’s a deliberate nod to Bill Cutler (WOTD: “metagrobologist”) going on here, but I kinda wish there were. [via Core77 ] More: Puzzle table bases Math Monday: Giant burr puzzles Traditional Japanese wood puzzles Precision puzzlemaking (or something like that) @ Maker Faire Read the Full Story
Put on your conspiracy tin foil hats boys and girls, this ones a doozy! A woman is seen in a 1928 Charlie Chaplin film “The Circus” appearing to hold a a cell phone to her ear. Of course, there are no cell phone towers back in 1928, so this must be a futuristic Star Trek communicator or some kind that doesn’t need any stinkin’ towers. 5 bars of signal everywhere you go! Woohoo! Can’t wait for the future to get here
See the original post:
Cell Phone Time Traveller Caught on 1928 Film?
Our friends at Sparkle Labs are having a retrospective show to present “products and experiments from their first 6 years.” Opening November 4th, the Sparkle Labs retrospective at gallery hanahou will feature a landscape of hi-tech, hi-touch products and tools for inventors. The enlightened team behind Sparkle Labs will present interactive exhibits of some of their most exciting projects to awaken your creativity and inventor spirit. Sparkle Labs retrospective November 5 – December 2, 2010 gallery hanahou 611 Broadway, Suite 730, NYC galleryhanahou.com Opening reception: Thursday, November 4, 7-9 pm RSVP info@galleryhanahou.com Electronics workshop: Saturday, November 13, 2:30 – 4:30 pm Cost: $59.99 (includes Discover Electronics kit ($49.99 value) + $10 workshop fee) Sign up at info@galleryhanahou.com In the Maker Shed: DIY Design Electronics Kit Read the Full Story
Advanced charging techs to top $34 billion in 2015 Markets for advanced charging technologies (including solar-powered handsets, solar chargers, wireless power units, fuel-cell battery charging products and public charging kiosks), worth about $1.5 billion in 2010, are forecast to grow at a robust Compound Annual Growth Rate of more than 86 percent to exceed $34 billion in 2015.
This harrowing t-shirt cannon was built by Team 254 Robotics of Bellarmine College Prepatory of San Jose, California with the help of NASA Ames Robotics. It weighs 160 pounds, can shoot over 200 t-shirts per tank, has a range of upwards of 150 yards, and packs a rate of fire of 3 shirts a second. Check out the build notes if you want to learn more.
Read more from the original source:
10-shot gatling t-shirt cannon
Printer News: The Last of the Konica Minolta Bizhub 423 Series Laser Printers Delivers Plenty of Features For Less The Konica Minolta bizhub 223 is the last monochrome, multifunction laser printer in the bizhub 423 series, but not the least. The printer shares many of the choice features of the more expensive bizhubs 423, 363, and 283: a 8.5-inch color touch-screen, two 500-sheet paper trays and the ability to print directly from a USB device. But the 223 has the lowest MSRP of the bunch while still offering speedy output up to 22 pages per minute.
Go here to see the original:
Konica Minolta Bizhub 223: Big Features, Low Cost
Elastic powered airplane and Elastic crossbow by Sublime . Nathan Patterson, aka Thingiverse user pattywac , has organized a pair of user-funded design contests and is soliciting entries and prize donations for each. The first , with a current prize pool of $100US, is to design the cleverest MakerBot-able object that incorporates a rubber band.
News Corp is considering denying coverage of films starring artists who refuse to give interviews to its outlets as part of an effort to fight back against the power of publicists, the Sydney Morning Herald reported .
See the original post:
News Corp to deny coverage of films if actors won’t give interviews?
Service assisted copyright infringement ‘on a massive scale’ Peer-to-peer file-sharing program LimeWire has been permanently shut down after a US judge found it guilty of assisting users in committing copyright infringement “on a massive scale”.
See the rest here:
LimeWire shut down permanently
Rick was able to try out Nikon’s new FX lenses, the 28-300 AFS VR and the 24-120 f/4 AFS VR. Jason is leading a photo workshop to the Everglades in 2011. Download The Image Doctors #128 (MP4 format)
See the article here:
The Image Doctors #128
He’s sold over 150 million records, but Sir Tom Jones has confessed that he dreads the day that he can no longer sing. The 70-year-old veteran — whose latest album ‘Praise and Blame’ is a meditative collection of gospel and blues songs dealing with spirituality and mortality — was speaking to CBS News when he revealed his fear. “I dread the day
Read this article:
Tom Jones at 70: "I will sing as long as I possibly can. My enemy is time"