Tuesday, November 3, 2009 - Page 2
Gadgets

Barnes & Noble’s Nook Violates Spring Design’s Alex Reader IP

Spring Design’s Alex reader seemed very similar to Barnes & Noble’s Nook. I thought that Spring Design was the copycat, but based on the lawsuit they filed for violation of intellectual property, it may be the other way around.

Gadgets

Remainders: Stuff We Didn’t Post (and Why)

Case-Mate Designs Kindle Case, Proves They Don’t Understand Kindle…Famous Watchmaker Teams With Famous Carmaker To Launch Least Famous Phone Ever…Designer Discovers Way To Make Bike Seats More Uncomfortable…Wind Turbines Go Stealth to Quit Screwing Up Radar

Gaming

Matchboxes And Beans Make A Noughts-And-Crosses Opponent

It’s tough to find a partner who’s always ready and willing to play, so James Bridle attempted to build one. Several bags of beans and 304 matchboxes later he had MENACE, a noughts-and-crosses playing machine capable of learning and improving.

Cars

Fully Autonomous Audi TTS To Rally Race At Pikes Peak

Forget the Darpa’s urban challenge. This fully automated Audi TTS — equipped with GPS, sensors and guidance systems — is set to race on the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, a crazy 20km rally race circuit with 156 turns.

Cameras

Coke Zero Has Zero Calories And Sugar, But Is High In Spy Cameras

This realistic-looking can of Coke Zero isn’t filled with a refreshing, low calorie liquid — it’s actually a 4GB spy cam DVR that can capture footage in VGA (640×480) resolution.

Mobile

Dutch Hacker Holds Jailbroken iPhones Hostage For Ransom

Many of us have jailbroken our iPhones, but did everyone remember to change the default root password? Those guilty of that oversight are vulnerable to the simple intrusion method this guy used to hold iPhones hostage in the Netherlands.

Cars

Idiot Plane Passenger Steadies Himself With An Ejection Handle

My guess is that when the rockets under his seat fired and he suddenly found himself over 90m away from the PC-7 Mk II he was riding in, he probably realised the error of his ways.

Gadgets

Sonic Fabric Neckties Are Actually Playable

The music may be horrible, but if you rub a tape head over these ties you can actually hear jumbled sound collages recorded from the NYC metro system. This is possible because the ties are 50 per cent audio cassette tape.

Computing

Please, Don’t Make A Whiskey PC With A Good Whiskey Bottle

Yesterday I spent the evening at Tuthilltown Spirits, New York’s first distillery after the Prohibition and makers of some of the most delicious whiskey I’ve ever had. I would never use their bottles to make a PC. It’d be sacrilege.

Gadgets

ScribbleBot Makes You Feel Like You Know How To Draw

So you can’t draw. No problem — ScribbleBot can help. I mean, you still won’t have any talent, but you can at least feel like you do for a short period of time.

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