It’s a good thing that these stainless steel insects can’t move or procreate… otherwise we’ve have an unstoppable metal epidemic on our hands. Instead the bugs come completely flat, cut from a metal card. You need to remove them from the card and carefully bend them into shape, creating mini metallic works of art in the process
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BUGS Stainless Steel Insects
Fifty Dangerous Things (you should let your children do) is the first book from the people who created Tinkering School. With projects, activities, experiences, and skills ranging from “Superglue Your Fingers Together” to “Play with Fire,” along with 48 other great ideas, the book is a manifesto for kids and parents alike to reclaim childhood. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Maker Shed Store | Digg this!
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New in the Maker Shed: Fifty Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do)
This tiny web camera, measuring only 6 x 2.7 x 2.2 cm, doubles as a spy camera and it is capable of recording color video in a 640 x 480 pixel resolution at 25 frames per second, or shooting stills with an 1600 x 1200 pixel image resolution. Fast changes switch between Photo and Video recording. It comes with a flexible 360-degree stand, perfect match using in different environment. Features: Camera, Camcorder and Web Camera Strong Clip at the back of device Multi-function Flexible 360-degree Stand Dimensions: 6.0 x 2.7 x 2.2 cm Pinhole Lens Image Resolution: 1600 x 1200 pixel Color Video Resolution: 640 x 480 pixel FPS: 25 frames per second Image file format: JPEG Video file format: AVI (MJPG) Color Video and Audio Rechargeable Li-ion battery Memory Card: Support Micro SD/SDHC Card/TF Card The Mini Spy Camera Camcorder is available from the Gadget Brando website for $39.
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Tiny Webcam Doubles as Spycam
Remember the supposedly dead (well at least unconscious) guy on display through Google Street View ? As a comment to that post, reader Peter Condes shares the following (thanks man!): Steetviewing ’round the streets of Philadelphia, I found this guy: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=39.966793,-75.16202&spn=0.04289,0.073986&z=14&layer=c&cbll=39.953406,-75.160307&cbp=1,345.5305466237942,,1,5 Looks pretty.. tired? Yes Peter, most likely tired of being hopeless and with no hope
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More Badness Revealed by Google Street View
QStarz just announced another kick ass GPS data logger called BT-Q1000eX. What makes this GPS data logger so special is that it has update frequency of 5Hz. That means GPS updates 5 times every second! Some other features/specs of the BT-Q1000eX GPS Lap Timer include MTK II GPS chipset, 42 hour battery life, ability to store 400000 waypoints, 15 second satellite fix time, vibration sensor, and even a beeper. Software? They included two
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QStarz BT-Q1000eX GPS Lap Timer
Chris Anderson is on a mission… In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits @ Wired . This is it folks! Open source, custom-fabricated, DIY product design – it’s now the lead story in Wired! A garage renaissance is spilling over into such phenomena as the booming Maker Faires and local “hackerspaces.” Peer production, open source, crowdsourcing, user-generated content — all these digital trends have begun to play out in the world of atoms, too. The Web was just the proof of concept
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Open source hardware – feature story in Wired – In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits
I recently wrote about how I’m excited to see what Apple will unveil this week. At the time I thought it was merely the technologists and early adopters who were eagerly anticipating the arrival of the Apple tablet. However, I have since learned that the average consumer wants one, too. To be clear, I’ve been doing
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Apple tablet: The consumer wants one
Nokia announced on Thursday that they will be offering free navigation capabilities on their smart phones too after the same announcement rocked the GPS standalone world when Google offered their innovative navigation App on Android phones. “So, What?” you ask. Nokia isn’t in the US, Navigation on smart phones stink anyway? this might just be the tipping point for the mobile phone and stand alone GPS world. Big Share Player Goes to Free Navigation – Nokia has a huge share of the mobile phone market globally, especially in Europe, maybe someone can dig that up and post it below
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Nokia Free Navigation on Mobile Too – So What?
While I was buzzing about over on the FCC website today, I came across this mysterious new device from France’s Thomson and Technicolor called the PoMMeS. The funny thing is that the word “pomme” is the French word for “apple”, so in a way, you are looking at the first pics of an apple tablet. The gadget is a wireless multimedia playback device, and according to the PoMMeS user manual , it’s designed to proved access to TV programs, VOIP video calling, as well as web browsing and other online services. The 8-inch, 800 x 480 LCD touchscreen includes a stylus, so I’m not sure if you can use your fingertips to control it or not
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thomson technicolor pommes: mystery iptv tablet has nothing to do with apple
Are you all about an ergonomic workspace? Me, I’m a slouching, crossleg sitting, traditional mouse and keyboard using geek. That doesn’t mean that I don’t ‘think’ about trying alternative input devices though. I happened to run across the Emotion Trackbar Ergonomic Mouse and it seems more unusual than most. It has two 1000 dpi optical sensors.
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Forget Trackballs, Get Ergonomic with a Trackbar
Section: Video , DVD/DVR/Blu-ray The BDP-80 is a Blu-ray disc player which supports BD-Live (BD Profile 2.0). What this means is that it comes with an ethernet port, allowing you to access internet-based content. A built-in 1GB internal storage allows you to do just that, along with access to Bonus View features. The player supports a vast array of formats including DVD-Video, DVD-Audio, Super Audio CD (SACD), HDCD, CD, AVCHD, MKV video files, digital photos and music. You can watch videos directly from your USB drives as it comes with not one, but two USB ports, one on the front panel and one on the back
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OPPO unveils new BDP-80 Blu-ray disc player, supports BD-Live
Vodafone has launched a promotion to purchase the Internet Key to 3.6Mbps or 7.2Mbps at a particular cost of 29 and 49 euros with the news that you no longer require to subscribe and become binding for a period of time. Together with the pen activates a gadgets modem subscription
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Vodafone Internet Key to 29 €
Today, Google released an updated version of its Chrome web browser for the Windows platform, adding a highly requested feature: extension and bookmark syncing. Linux fans, although currently able to install extensions, won’t have access to bookmark and extension syncing just yet. As for Mac users, Google had this to say, “hang tight — we’re working on bringing extensions, bookmark sync and more to the beta soon.” Firefox users who leverage the XMarks (formerly FoxMarks) extension know the value of bookmark syncing, and many FF users — present company included — lust for an easy way to keep extensions synchronized between multiple computers. Perhaps this latest move by the Chrome team will spark the likes of Apple and Mozilla to think about building more synchronization functionality into their respective browsers? Until that does happen, all interested parties can head over to google.com/chrome to check out the latest build.
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Google enables extension and bookmark syncing for Chrome on Windows
Oh, we knew the Apple tablet / iPad / iSlate would be good, but we didn’t think it’d be this good.
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First iPad Apple tablet review
T-Mobile has started out distributing the MyTouch 3G Fender Edition, an Android-powered smartphone with a guitar-inspired woodgrain finish, for $180 with a two-year contract bridge. Contrived in with Fender, the Bellevue, Wash.-based carrier wave said the new MyTouch characteristics a guitar sunburst-finish, and comes preloaded guitar application program and hit songs from Eric Clapton, Avril Lavigne, Brad Paisley and Wyclef Jean. It also has a inbuilt music instrumentalist that lets listeners create ringtones from songs being acted, and provides 3.5mm headset jack for earphones and DoubleTwist software system to sync and manage music, video recording and photos with a computing device. Extra accessories include a Fender-branded carrying case and shells, screen protector tools and a docking base furnished with speakers, sold individually
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Guitar-Insired Phone-159w
Have you ever heard of the phrase “Purse on the floor, always be poor”? Probably not… I propose a new version of this old adage: “Phone on the floor, always be poor” I can say from personal experience that nearly every time I have left my phone on the floor I have become slightly less wealthly
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Driinn Cell Phone Charging Ledge Review
As a new media aficionado with a fascination for the shift towards mobile technology, I was oddly amused by the Toronto Star report entitled *cue horror movie suspense music* Are apps stealing our minds? In the iPhone world alone, there are over a 100,000 apps with the a tag line “there’s an app for that.” Yes, this suggests that a simple piece of technology will offer you a blanket solution to all of life’s dilemmas, including boredom; so its no surprise we have a dependency on apps – they do everything for us. Dependent on a piece of technology? nothing new
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Smartphone Dependency: All Of Your Mind Are Belong To Apps
Apple reported its financial results for Q1 2010 which ended December 26, 2009 and the results were nothing short of impressive. Apple posted its all time highest quarterly revenue, its all time highest quarterly profit and when annualized, these numbers will push Apple into a $50+ billion per year company. Dollar figures that are so impressive they don’t require an explanation, so we will let the numbers speak for themselves: Revenue of $15.68 billion ($11.88 billion in Q1 2009) 58% of revenue derived from international sales Net quarterly profit of $3.38 billion or $3.67 per diluted share ($2.26 billion, or $2.50 per diluted share in Q1 2009) Gross margin of 40.9 percent (37.9 % in Q1 2009) $5.8 billion generated in cash Sales of Macintosh computers and iPhones went through the roof in Q1 2010 with Apple selling 3.36 million computers and 8.7 million iPhones, representing a 33% unit increase for Macintosh sales and 100% unit growth for the iPhone when compared to Q1 2009
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Apple reports record revenue and profits for Q1 2010
I bumbled across this on Lifehacker : Make Photo Necklaces, Earrings, Magnets and More Using Shrink able Plastic . Make your own zipper pulls, earrings, nose rings, key chain fobs, dog collar fobs, cell phone fobs, wine glass fobs, e-reader fob, blah blah blah. The technique involves the “Shrinky Dink” shrinkable plastic from waaaay back in the day, when you trace… out a picture on the shrinkable plastic with permanent markers (which were hard to find back then, too), bake in the oven (burn your fingers), and out comes a miniaturized hard-plastic alter id of the original. Not overly useful for kids, but for geeks? Holy bunny rabbit, the possibilities are endless.
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More Junk to Hang Off Your BackPack – But It’s YOUR Junk
Section: Computers , Laptops , Features , Contests Back in December we here at Gadgetell, along with HP ran a contest that was offering an HP Envy 15 notebook to one lucky (and deserving) person. That contest is long since over, but it seems that the winner was never properly announced here on the site. So, a little late, and without any further adieu, a big congrats goes out to Sergio Molina. You can see his winning entry above, and also feel free to check out his YouTube Channel for some more cool videos. And in addition I also wanted to send out a big thanks to everyone else that entered
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Gadgetell Announcement: Here was the winning entry for the “win an HP Envy 15 notebook” contest
Contrary to popular belief, there are more than a few girl gamers out there, serving up their own brand of pwnage with a smile. When it comes to game development, women continue to be an underrepresented segment of the industry. Sony Online Entertainment is doing their part to remedy the situation with the G.I.R.L. scholarship
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Sony Wants You! $10,000 Scholarship up for Grabs