May 2008
robot beggars – that’s all we need now.
May 31, 2008 by technabob · Leave a Comment
Now I’m sympathetic to those who have fallen on hard times, many of us still find people who beg for money to be irritating. So why someone would go through the trouble of building a robot that begs for spare change is anyone’s guess…
modder crams g4 cube mac into mac plus
May 31, 2008 by technabob · Leave a Comment
Got an old Macintosh or Mac Plus lying around? There’s got to be something better to do with it than turn it into an aquarium, right?..
egg speaker wobbles but won’t fall down
May 31, 2008 by technabob · Leave a Comment
These tipsy egg-shaped speakers let you wobble them like a Weeble while you listen to your tunes.
Unlike real eggs (and those colorful Weebles), these only come in black and red, and they don’t crack open to produce omelets. They do, however, twist open to produce enhanced bass output. I wonder if they can only play The Egg Song?..
cisco unveils star wars-esque hologram communication
May 30, 2008 by Syndicated · Leave a Comment
Cisco has unveiled and demonstrated their new On-Stage TelePresence Holographic Video Conferencing. In layman’s terms, it means that now you can actually do that thing they do in Star Wars when they talk to a Princess Leia hologram, and I have to say, it looks quite convincing…
egyptian pc casemod: funky tut’s computer
May 30, 2008 by technabob · Leave a Comment
If King Tutankhamen could have been buried with his computer, this would have been the one – without a doubt.
Conceived and constructed by Chris Kramer (a.k.a “Jadragon”), his EgyptMod PC is detailed with intricate hieroglyphics and encrusted with jewels…
8-bit nintendo does music videos
May 30, 2008 by technabob · Leave a Comment
While these brief musical interludes won’t win any prizes for their sweeping cinematography, they do win a place in my heart for being put together using some good old fashioned 8-bit gaming technology…
ipong: multi-player pong on the iphone
May 30, 2008 by technabob · Leave a Comment
This nifty proof-of-concept demo shows off just one of the many gameplay possibilities for multi-player video games on Apple’s wonderphone.
iPong is a variant of Atari’s classic paddle ball game, with a multi-device, multi-player twist…
star wars belt: the force is with you. and around you.
May 29, 2008 by Syndicated · Leave a Comment
If you’re the kind of person who rolls out his Chewbacca impression at parties, this “Empire Strikes Back”-themed belt might be the piece de resistance to round out your existing collection of Boba Fett bobbleheads and ceramic Stormtrooper figurines…
wooden nixie clock: where nature meets technology
May 29, 2008 by technabob · Leave a Comment
I don’t know what it is, but I’m a real sucker for Nixie tube clocks. There’s something about the soothing orange glow tubes that offer a simple, yet elegant way to display any numeric information. I hadn’t seen a design that really caught my eye in a while, when I stumbled onto this wooden beauty…
giant keyboard requires massive fingers (or toes)
May 28, 2008 by technabob · Leave a Comment
If you’ve ever complained that the keys on your computer are too small for your fingers, have I got a keyboard for you. This ginormous keyboard is so big – How big is it, Bob? – It’s so big that in order to type on it, you need to walk almost 20 feet to get from one end of the keyboard to the other…
