Sometimes the simplest hacks are the most useful: If you’ve got a laptop with limited USB ports and you’re in the market for something small and handy to let you charge a device over USB, then this is for you. All it takes is a male-male VGA adaptor, a spare USB socket and some accurate soldering: it’s all in the Instructable. Neat. [Instructables]
The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s most complicated machine that was felled by a single faulty solder joint last month, won’t be back until summer 2009 now, at the earliest–a few months later than CERN last speculated. And at what cost? $US21 million in repairs. A drop in the bucket when the full $US10 billion budget is considered, yes, but let’s hope some of this dough is spent on a bit more magnet-meltdown-preventing solder redundancy. [AP]
