This week:
Kirigami by Kanako Yaguchi, The Web Server is Running, Controlling a Model Train with Acceleromoters, an iPod Touch and Gainer, Denkuri Master - Completed, Controlling the Gakken SX-150 with MIDI via USB, Making a Bug Trapped in Amber (Candy), High-Temp Superconductor Coaster, Rabbit-kun garbage bag + friends.
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Original post by Mike Dixon
This week:
Todai LEGO Club, Infrared MIDI Accelerometer, “The Way Sensing Go” Installation by 4nchor5 La6, Trick Wall Paintings, Screen Painting, Visualizing the Length of the Large and Small Intestines, Snake-Like Disaster Camera, Summer Papercraft Mania, Stretchable Circuitry, Modding a Recorder to be 4 Meters Long.
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Original post by Mike Dixon
This week:
Transformer Art Gallery, Making Characters from Individual Components, Asagaya’s Tanabata Festival: The Papier-mache Float Parade, Make a Cheap Digital Camera More Holga-Like, The Welding Detective Manga, Making Bags out of Shotengai Flags.
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Original post by Mike Dixon
This week:
The Gossamer 1 Art Machine, Making Tombodama, Digital Camera Goggles, The Reduino, Styrofoam Dome Homes, The Ferrofluid Sculptures of Sachiko Kodama, DIY 3-color Projections, iPhone from Beads, Mosquito Repellant iPhone App.
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Original post by Mike Dixon
This week:
Clothespin Toys: IQlip = Descendant of Basamingar? Power Mac G3-style iPod Nano Cover, Scopedog Mecha, Original Gakken Bird Organ Compositions, Dorkbot Tokyo, The Effects of LED Eyes, Japanese Middle-Aged Men Fuel The Plastic Model Revival?
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Original post by Mike Dixon
This week:
The Pocket Art Studio, The Portative Organ, Robot Fish, Eye Glasses: Always Keep Your Eyes Open, The Air-Conditioned Shirt, Automatic Dessert Making Machine, Otona no Kagaku Synth, USB-Powered CD Fan, Always Make the Shot - Wastebasket Three-Pointer Hack, Gakken Announces 8mm Movie Camera, and Bamboo-Copter Slow-Mo.
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Original post by Mike Dixon
This week:
Time-lapse Video of Rice Paddy Art, Making Shocked Skeleton Photos,
Self-Standing Gyro Crawler, Creative+Ecological Packaging in Japan, Giant Newspaper Gag, Akibarduino - The Akihabara-centric Arduino-compatible, “Pimped” Fixed-gears in Japan, Papercraft Houses of the World - Asia Edition, and a Cheap Earbud Amplifier.
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Original post by Mike Dixon
Here’s an interesting little gadget from Swann - its FlashlightDVR is a run of the mill torch with a digital video camera built in. The heavy duty design certainly isn’t pocket sized but is particularly hard wearing and aimed at everyone from security guards to happy campers who want to document late night exploits/grab video footage of the Blair Witch. It features a weatherproof aluminium construction and takes microSD cards to expand the 128MB of built in memory. Video footage is recorded to MPEG4 format, you can snap photos as well and there are three levels of brightness to change the intensity of the bulb. Best of all, infrared sensors provide night vision up to 13ft! Faz Colhbie, Swann Security’s UK Channel Manager says “This device will appeal to a wide range of users who need a discreet system that will allow them to record video and photos during the day or night such as security guards, club “bouncers”, and night watchman. It is also ideal for leisure activities such as camping, fishing or even dog walkers where a flashlight and camera are both needed.” Our first thought is to wonder how well images will appear in this sort of lighting, what with the bulb being so close to the camera. Provided they’ve done enough R&D though we can see this being extremely handy in some quarters, particularly if the footage is admissible as evidence against perps out on late-night crime sprees. It retails for a rather pricey £199.99 and should be available any day now from the link below. - Paul Lester [SwannSecurity] security torch video camera
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Original post by nafiz
Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
The popular DVR / DVD combo trend continues with Sharp’s new, just-released Aquos players. The three new combo machines — updates from last fall’s models — pack Blu-Ray playback with DVRs of various sizes ranging from the 250GB BD-HDW22, to the 500GB BD-HDW25, to the 1TB BD-HDW30 big daddy of TV-recording doom. The Blu-Ray section looks pretty standard, but the DVR records in MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 at three different bitrates - 4.8, 8, and 12Mbps. If you’re thinking these will record from BD to HDD or the other way around, think again. The movie studios will have none of that.
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Original post by Joshua Fruhlinger
Filed under: Wireless
It looks like Verizon isn’t taking those 700MHz spectrum open access rules very seriously, and a certain competing bidder isn’t real happy. In a petition filed with the FCC by Google, the company alleges that Verizon is willfully ignoring the “plain meaning of the [open access] rule” by suggesting it will allow one type of access for users who use Verizon-approved devices, and another for those using third-party units. According to the document, “Verizon’s position would completely reverse the meaning of the rule such that the open access condition would apply to none of Verizon’s customers, and thereby render the condition a nullity.” The search giant is calling for the FCC to block Verizon’s $4.7 billion bid on the spectrum unless the company agrees to comply with the previously-decided open access rules. Since this isn’t the first inkling we’ve had that Verizon wasn’t down with open access, we’re not surprised, but it looks like Google has a little more fight left in them — and that could make all the difference. [Warning: PDF read link]
[Via IP Democracy; Thanks, Bram]
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Original post by Joshua Topolsky
After some serious neglect, Sprint is finally giving the Nextel iDEN network some new devices, not the least of which is a WiFi BlackBerry, says Sprint CEO Dan Hesse. The phone will hit the network “later this year,” and will be accompanied by phones from Sanyo, Samsung, Motorola and LG that will rock the Sprint CDMA, but will use Nextel capabilities for push-to-talk. That old 7100i (pictured) doesn’t stand a chance.
[Via Boy Genius]
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Original post by Paul Miller
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Face it, nobody has time these days to learn a real instrument with “strings” and “sevenths” and these “quarternotes” we hear tell of. That’s why all music recorded from 2002 on has been 100% sampled: it’s just better that way. The next step in this natural evolution, of course, is instrument-less instruments. Silverlit provides just such a future with the VBeat Air Guitar and Air Drums. Building upon Tomy’s groundbreaking Air Guitar Pro, the VBeat instruments include “free style” and “easy go” modes, the latter of which allows for playing you fakestrument to pre-programmed rhythms — a synergy of layered samples and a metronome, simply stunning. There’s also a step-by-step learning mode called Pop Academy, but only losers need apply. These should sell for about £29.99 ($60 US) a piece, no word on availability. Action video is after the break.
[Via Coolest Gadgets]
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Original post by Paul Miller
Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless
If you’ll recall, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group already had plans laid out to speed up Bluetooth by teaming it up with UWB, but needless to say, that didn’t exactly pan out. Thankfully, it seems the crew is trying something else in an effort to speed up BT transfers, and judging by the ubiquity of WiFi, we reckon this endeavor has a much better chance at gaining traction. According to Michael Foley, director of the Bluetooth SIG, these so-called Bluetooth-WiFi (just a temporary name, folks) devices will “use the regular low-power Bluetooth radios to recognize each other and establish connections, and if they need to transfer a large file, they will be able to turn on their WiFi radios, then turn them off to save power after finishing the transfer.” For whatever reason, Foley also noted that it wouldn’t be letting the dream go with regard to Bluetooth-UWB — we’re sure consumers will adore the confusion.
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Original post by Darren Murph
Filed under: Digital Cameras
Basically just pre-PMA upgrades to existing models all around, Olympus just loosed nine new shooters. Almost all feature “HyperCrystal” or “HyperCrystal II” displays (not to be confused with hypercolor, dudes), facial recognition, OIS, high ISO modes, and a bunch of other stuff that every other camera company does now. Here’s the quick rundown.
FE series (February)
Mju / Stylus series (February)
SP series (March)
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Original post by Ryan Block
Filed under: Laptops
While we’re short on formal announcements, various retailers are displaying Lenovo ThinkPad X61 wares with Intel’s latest chips inside. A Penryn T8100-powered X61 is on MacMall with 1GB of RAM and a 120GB HDD for $1,550, while a T8300 version goes for $1,610. Specs are otherwise the same as existing ThinkPads, and no tablet version is offered. It’s starting to feel like laptop manufacturers are stringing us along here, instead of offering next-gen laptops to match Intel’s next-gen chips, but it’s still early in the game, and maybe we’re just paranoid. In other news, Lenovo has begun delivering SUSE Linux-based ThinkPad R61 and T61 laptops, with prices starting at $949 — quite the improvement on 2006’s “efforts.”
[Via Laptoping]
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