A pocket knife that you can configure yourself with just the turn of a quarter? That’s a clever bit of engineering. The “Switch” is on presale at Quirky for $US68 with 13 tools, including a memory stick. [Quirky]
This Blaze Game Selector for the Nintendo DS Lite attaches to the DS’s back and allows you to toggle between 3 games with the flip of a switch. We’re not sure the marginal effort saved is worth the aesthetic sacrifice. More »
At last week’s International Design Awards, Victorian student Robert Dumaresq walked away with the James Dyson award for his Switch folding bike design. And it is awesome. More »
A recent Apple patent for an iSight camera located behind the screen instead of above it sounds like a cool idea–too bad a system just like it has already been invented.
Fuck Windows, and fuck the Mac, too. Maximum PC shows you how to make the jump to Linux from start to finish, and shows you how to stay there once you’ve abandoned all those other PC and Mac sheep to go your own open-source way.
Let’s all get the hell out of these mainstream operating systems and get into the real stuff. How about we dig into that latest Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, easy as pie to use, and let’s slather on a heaping helping of the 3D Beryl desktop compositing engine on top to keep things all prettied up?
But, but …
The ATEN guys are a KVM crew at heart, but these days that kind of expertise makes for a lucrative new market for switching sources in the living room. Here they have a simple little HDMI switcher, the VS481. 3 in at the back, 1 in at the front, and 1 out. You can hit the buttons or use the remote to do your switching, and you get some nice little lights so you know what’s what.
More info and a price after the jump… and the price is pretty sweet.
