Power Your TV, Cell Phone, or Laptop by Pedaling (TreeHugger)
Whereas the video of him playing the video game isn’t that thrilling, the concept that he proves will work with is rather interesting.
The high speed start up is what keeps me from using an old stationary bike for this. Problem is the wheel is too small. Could use a smaller pulley on the alternator. May look and see if a knerled sleeve would fit over the alternator shaft where the pulley mounts and try for a spring loaded drive right off the wheel. That might get the speed up enough to self energize. Will have to do some math and see how close I can come that way.
Techdirt: Australian Internet Porn Filter Cracked By Kid; Politicians Get The Wrong Message
Things like this make me wonder if all politicians have their brains removed when going into office. Stupid, stupid, stupid…
Brass Goggles » Blog Archive » The Torch of St. Dismus – Steampunk Glory
More wondrous steampunk craftsmanship brought to us through Brass Goggles with this Hand of Glory lamp. Beautiful work!
TechEBlog » LEGO Pinball Machine Sports Medieval Theme
Somewhat old but still in my tabs so here’s the Hogwarts pinball machine built out of lego. Interesting and well built. Cool stuff!
Brass Goggles » Blog Archive » Mr Quentin’s Remington Keyboard Mod
And one final one (for today anyway) from Brass Goggles with the leather covered Remington Keyboard Mod. Cool concept.
Brass Goggles » Blog Archive » Steampunk Organs and Humors by Ms Williams
More steampunk bionics from Brass Goggles! Unlike the previous one these aren’t real. But they are certainly cool!
Lighter Footstep – Review: EarthLED’s Bright Idea
LED house lights are here and cost is starting to get, if not reasonable, then closer to it. The 3 watt units claims to output the same light as a 40 watt bulb and are under $30.00 us each. At 50,000 hours expected life thats cheap per hour. With the added benefit of not containing mercury like the compact fluorescents if these are on the shelves at the store they are gonna sell! Glad to see these on the market.
The 40 coolest free applications around – Seopher.com
Pretty good list. Several I had not seen before and want to know more about. Well worth the time to study.
blog gnist org – Synergy – two screens, two OSes
Have read about (and may have even posted about) synergy before but never tried it. Tis a good read and he does several things to ensure that no one snoops. Good pointers and code to go with them. When I get another monitor (ain’t giving my flat screen/iBook dual screen setup up) for the linux box and get it back up and running I’d like to try to set it up like this dude has done. Nice!
Brass Goggles » Blog Archive » The Vanderbilt Steam-Powered Arm
Neat! Love the tolerances they are dealing with! 50 millionths of an inch works whereas 100 doesn’t. Steam is some tenacious stuff!
Boing Boing: The IT Crowd — season two, episode one
Good stuff! So glad to see it back for a second season.
Note for those with Macs or at least those with older iBook G4s with 10.3.X on them – The name is cut off with a * at the end. Need to remove the last 4 or more characters and add a .avi and Quicktime will play it fine.
Opus Comics, by Bloom County’s Berkeley Breathed – Salon
For those whos papers aren’t running this sundays Opus, cause it MIGHT offend SOMEONE SOMEWHERE, it’s available at the above link.
Personally, I want to see her as the Amish Nudist… 🙂
So, what’s the velocity of a sheep in a vacuum? | The Register
Area
The standard unit of area shall be the nanoWales, defined as 1nWa, representing 0.0000207km2 or 20.78m2, 5.195 Thai talang wah or 28.99 Old Spanish square vara. The microWales, milliWales and Wales (Wa) are, naturally, accepted multiples of the base nanoWales.
* Football pitch = 194.89nWa
* Wales = 1,000,000,000nWa
* Belgium = 1.47Wa
* Democratic Republic of Congo = 113.3Wa
* Known universe (rolled out flat) = 19468502x1012x10256Wa
Steve alerted me to this one (Wish he would post them himself 🙂 ). Thanks dude! Funny as h e double toothpicks…
LEDs Grow on Trees: Nick Foley’s Pear Light (TreeHugger)
Quite nice work. Wish there was more info on how the Pears were done.
BOFH: New toys | The Register
And a new BOFH only a week late. [gripe] Really wish they would use RSS so the feedreader would watch for these for me. [/gripe]
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