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Egg Ocarina
There has been no shortage of food-based instruments around here, however I particularly like this one that Youtube user heita3 made from an egg shell. It's a good reminder that pretty much any old thing can be made into a fun project! [Thanks, Nancy!] More:How-to: Clay sweet potato ocarinaOcar...
 
Dazzle camouflage
Dazzle camouflage
Interesting article over on TwistedSifter about the use of so-called "dazzle" or "razzle-dazzle" camouflage beginning during WWI. (The Wikipedia article is pretty good, too.) It's a kind of pra...
 
25 chips that made history
25 chips that made history
IEEE Spectrum's 25 Microchips That Shook the World presents a list of most groundbreaking IC's, including familiar classics like the 555 timer, 741 operational amplifier, and a link roundup to relev...
 
Arduino package for Eagle
Arduino package for Eagle
Arduino package for Eagle, I know ya'll are going to like this... now you can make shields and custom projects with ease (site and on github). Read more | Permalink | Comments ...
 
"Why I believe in maker culture"
My friend, Willow Bay, has a brief piece on The Steampunk Workshop called "Why I believe in maker culture." Snip: All the things I do in life (which, admittedly, is a lot) are about Doing. I'm up t...
 
Quantum-logic clock is the new hotness in accuracy
Quantum-logic clock is the new hotness in accuracy
The quantum-logic clock, which detects the energy state of a single aluminum ion, keeps time to within a second every 3.7 billion years. The new timekeeper could one day improve GPS or detect the sl...
 
Survival Bracelet
Survival Bracelet
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Low-Power Wireless Charging
Low-Power Wireless Charging
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Eye Glasses Case Tutorial
Eye Glasses Case Tutorial
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How to make: Norbert the Cuddly Squid
How to make: Norbert the Cuddly Squid
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Giant Fn Computer Key Stool/Chair
Giant Fn Computer Key Stool/Chair
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Play kitchen from Benno TV unit
Play kitchen from Benno TV unit
Nadine made a play kitchen for her daughter, Katharina, over Christmas. Here it is. "We wanted to make a kitchen for our daughter. The basic is a Benno TV. We used many things from Ikea - I do not k...
 
Toshiba's Viamo is the tablet your doctor has been dreaming of
Toshiba's Viamo is the tablet your doctor has been dreaming of
Convertible tablets are a dime a dozen in the laptop space, but very, very few of them can save your life. Toshiba's Viamo is the one that could -- when used by someone who knows how to control it, t...
 
Hori Real Arcade Pro Premium VLX has a name to match its size, price
Hori Real Arcade Pro Premium VLX has a name to match its size, price
Shoulder buttons? Never heard of 'em. Give us all our buttons in a nice rainbow-shaped array and a big stick for our southpaw and leave us well enough alone. Hori, the company behind the most righteo...
 
USB Electronic Key Impressioner could help you be gone in 60 milliseconds
USB Electronic Key Impressioner could help you be gone in 60 milliseconds
If you're stealing a car these days, there's a good chance you're not bothering to actually pick the locks, but if you are, your job is about to get a little easier. A device called the Electronic Ke...
 
ASUS Eee PC 1008P (Seashell) review
ASUS Eee PC 1008P (Seashell) review
What do you do if your netbooks are starting to look so last season? Well if you're ASUS, you hire a leading industrial designer like Karim Rashid to revamp it, of course. The Eee PC 1008P's snazzy n...
 
HDMI 1.4's 3D spec publicly released
HDMI 1.4's 3D spec publicly released
3D's happening whether you like it or not -- but the good news is that there won't be any format war to go with the adoption of the new tech. At least that's the sense we've been getting, as most ma...
 
Fujitsu's Lifebook MH380 hits retail for $449
Fujitsu's Lifebook MH380 hits retail for $449
Fujitsu's stylish little Lifebook MH380's just popped up over on the company's site for sale. The 10.1-inch, Pine Trail Atom N450-boasting netbook's specs include 2GB of RAM, a 250GB HDD, built-in B...
 
Nokia's mid-tier 'Mystic' to be dubbed C6, will hit stores in May or June?
Nokia's mid-tier 'Mystic' to be dubbed C6, will hit stores in May or June?
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Sling says it didn't change iPhone SlingPlayer for AT&T (Updated)
Sling says it didn't change iPhone SlingPlayer for AT&T (Updated)
AT&T certainly made a few of us happy yesterday when it announced that the iPhone SlingPlayer app would now be allowed to run over its 3G network, but the carrier apparently embellished the facts...
 
New lithium-ion battery could last 20 years, long after you've broken the devices they once powered
New lithium-ion battery could last 20 years, long after you've broken the devices they once powered
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AAXA intros L1 laser pico projector / media player
AAXA intros L1 laser pico projector / media player
It's claim on the title of "world's first laser pico projector" might be a tad dubious, but AAXA Technologies' new L1 projector may just be the first to hit the market, with it set to start shipping ...
 
Motorola Milestone looks set for February 18 launch on Telus; AT&Ters, get your unlocking pants on
Motorola Milestone looks set for February 18 launch on Telus; AT&Ters, get your unlocking pants on
Telus hasn't yet committed to a date for the release of its mighty Milestone, but no sweat -- Best Buy's happy to commit on their behalf, pegging February 18 as the date that Canadians will have acce...
 
Hachette Book Group also pulls away from Amazon
Hachette Book Group also pulls away from Amazon
It looks like the tide is starting to turn decisively against Amazon's $9.99 e-book publishing model -- first MacMillan fought back and won, then HarperCollins dragged...
 
Dell Precision M6500 gets upgraded with USB 3.0, Core i5 options
Dell Precision M6500 gets upgraded with USB 3.0, Core i5 options
Back in the beginning of December, when Dell outed its business-oriented, 17-inch Precision M6500 laptop, it boasted some pretty meaty specs: Core i7 CPU, up to 16GB of DDR3 memory, a choice of ATI F...
 
Motorola Droid gets official multitouch support -- in Google Maps, anyway
Motorola Droid gets official multitouch support -- in Google Maps, anyway
When it rains, it pours, huh, Google? Not even a week after announcing the big multitouch update for its own Nexus One, Google has turned loose a new version of Google Maps that enables pinch-to-zoom...
 
Researchers say new material could let cars be powered by their bodywork
Researchers say new material could let cars be powered by their bodywork
It likely won't be ready for your next vehicle purchase, but some researchers from Imperial College London say that this rather modest-looking piece of material could eventually do nothing short of c...
 
X2 brings the Amtek iTablet back from the abyss, forgets that no one cared the first time
X2 brings the Amtek iTablet back from the abyss, forgets that no one cared the first time
Apple might have surprised everyone -- including us -- by naming its tablet the "iPad," but the UK's X2 isn't letting this opportunity pass it by: it's managed to drum up some cheap attention today ...
 
Kratos casemod can bring 'God of War' to your desktop... if you really want that
Kratos casemod can bring 'God of War' to your desktop... if you really want that
Well, this is disturbingly creative. Seriously, is there much more to say about this Kratos casemod? Well, Greek mythology and video game fanatics alike should be pleased yet horrified with this one....
 
HTC HD2 extended battery gets its close-up, lower price
HTC HD2 extended battery gets its close-up, lower price
We've already seen a render of the kickstand-equipped HTC HD2 extended battery, but renders don't power cellphones, so we're particuarly glad that CoolSmartPhone has now come through and provided som...
 
Logitech Squeezebox Touch delayed, again
Logitech Squeezebox Touch delayed, again
Logitech's Squeezebox Touch has had a somewhat troubled launch since being announced back in September alongside the Squeezebox Radio, and it looks like the road to availability just got a bit bumpie...
 
Hutchison Austria to offer discounted iPad with 2-year contract for i-Mo 3G modem
Hutchison Austria to offer discounted iPad with 2-year contract for i-Mo 3G modem
Coveting an iPad, but not willing to pay full price? If you happen to live in Austria and don't mind committing to a two-year data contract, Hutchison's got you covered. The carrier's offering a 333 ...
 
Lenovo ThinkPad X201T convertible tablet hits the FCC, Australia
Lenovo ThinkPad X201T convertible tablet hits the FCC, Australia
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The Engadget Podcast, live... now!
The Engadget Podcast, live... now!
Hey, it's been a killer week, and we're about to podcast live -- won't you join us? Update: It's all over -- but don't worry, our regular podcast post will be up tomorrow!The Engadget Podcast, live...
 
RIM's BIS 3.0 email features apparently leaked, finally does Gmail justice
RIM's BIS 3.0 email features apparently leaked, finally does Gmail justice
For a platform billing itself as the business user's best friend, BlackBerry's list of unsupported protocols that have achieved ubiquity is actually astonishing: you can't do two-way read status sync...
 
Dell Mini 5 earns FCC approval, AT&T 3G coverage assured
Dell Mini 5 earns FCC approval, AT&T 3G coverage assured
Remember those rumors back in the day that Dell's Android-powered Streak MID -- the device that would later be revealed as the Mini 5 -- would be manufactured by Qisda? Well, we've got some pretty so...
 
PlayStation 3 still a loss leader, 'six cents for every dollar' of hardware sold
PlayStation 3 still a loss leader, 'six cents for every dollar' of hardware sold
Though Sony's overall bottom line is back in black, what held it back from an even bigger celebration cake was its core electronics brand, and no stranger to that sector is the PlayStation group. Bot...
 
Science of gun duels
Science of gun duels
In the gun duels of Hollywood Westerns, the one who draws first (usually the bad guy) always tends to lose. Why? Decades ago, Nobel laureate Niels Bohr claimed that would likely be the case in a real ...
 
Shanghai's Crackdown on... Pajamas
Shanghai's Crackdown on... Pajamas
With the 2010 World Expo just three months away, Shanghai officials have launched a public etiquette clampdown targeting pajama-wearing in public. Read Full Article ...
 
Hello Chainsaw
Hello Chainsaw
Sent in by "Shelly" to Kitty Hell, spotted via Neatorama via Makezine via Wonderland.... Read Full Article ...
 
Lootkit
Lootkit
Sony, 'significantly exceeding expectations,' announces a profitable Q4. The gadgets division is leading the way. [NYT]... Read Full Article ...
 
Hypermusician Tod Machover on music and the mind
Hypermusician Tod Machover on music and the mind
MIT Media Lab musician/inventor Tod Machover talks about the neuroscience of the musical experience, and using technology to close the loop between brain activity and what we're hearing in real time. ...
 
Size matters in international diplomacy
Size matters in international diplomacy
A respected Pakistani diplomat keeps getting rejected as ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Why? Because his full name translates into Arabic as "Biggest dick." (Thanks, Samuel Rubenfeld!)... Read Full Art...
 
Twitpics In Space
Twitpics In Space
That's an image of the Moon and Earth sent via Twitter on February 3rd by International Space Station astronaut Jose Hernandez. I've seen plenty of official space photos were equally breathtaking, but...
 
Pardon Me? becomes infinitely recursive internet karaoke meme, with bunnies
Pardon Me? becomes infinitely recursive internet karaoke meme, with bunnies
Thank you, Robert Popper. Previously:Pardon me?... Read Full Article ...
 
Latvia will auction off former Soviet radar base ghost town
Latvia will auction off former Soviet radar base ghost town
Via HuffPo, news that the Baltic nation of Latvia will auction off a Soviet ghost town abandoned after the Russian military departed. The town, Skrunda-1 (map), centered around a now-abandoned radar b...
 
Customized vans as ephemeral art: photos by Joe Stevens
Customized vans as ephemeral art: photos by Joe Stevens
Vans and the Places they Were, by Joe Stevens, via Todd Lappin. Above (photo by Joe Stevens): "Tradesman with Candy Paint Stripes," Hollywood, California, Winter 2009. Let there be a large-format book...
 
Hackers swipe millions of dollars worth of carbon credit swaps
Hackers swipe millions of dollars worth of carbon credit swaps
Via Wired: Der Spiegel reports that hackers obtained unauthorized access to online accounts where companies maintain carbon credits, and stole around $4 million worth of carbon credits. "At least seve...
 
TechCrunch fires writer who abused position
TechCrunch fires writer who abused position
Kudos to Mike Arrington for immediately disclosing his discovery that a young TechCrunch writer solicited expensive gifts from the startups on his beat. Unfortunately, the sacked 17-year old doesn't s...
 
Stewart annihilates Boing Boing!
Stewart annihilates Boing Boing!
You so do not want to know what Jon Stewart did to us last night. [Current.com, NSFW]... Read Full Article ...
 
Touch Noir: Tribal Games & Mighty Boosh release The Mighty Decider for iPhone
Touch Noir: Tribal Games & Mighty Boosh release The Mighty Decider for iPhone
Though Xeni and I still have yet to hold our crimp-off for local number one fan status, it's safe to say that pretty much everyone around these parts is a fan of cult TV/radio/theater supergroup The M...
 
Check out the sunglasses in this curious Danish sci-fi B-movie
Check out the sunglasses in this curious Danish sci-fi B-movie
Look at those sunglasses, just look at them. Here's some background on the über-outré 1992 cult cinema specimen from which the video clip above was snipped: A Blog Post Referencing The Title Which I C...
 
Font fussbudgets fume over use of Papyrus in Avatar subtitles
Font fussbudgets fume over use of Papyrus in Avatar subtitles
Allan Haley at the Fonts.com blog, on Avatar: "[W]hy are the sub titles for the Na'vi people, the alien protagonists of the film, set in Papyrus?" (via @shellen)... Read Full Article ...
 
Start your weekend off right with dancing hexapod robots
Start your weekend off right with dancing hexapod robots
They've got better moves than some people I know. (Via ScienceHack, one of my favorite sources for science videos of all types.)... Read Full Article ...
 
Could China's antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" threaten global health?
Could China's antibiotic-resistant
Beware the coming onslaught of Chinese superbugs: "Studies in China show a 'frightening' increase in antibiotic-resistant bacteria such as staphylococcus aureus bacteria, also know as MRSA . There are...
 
Wait, you can buy USB Rootkits in SkyMall?
Wait, you can buy USB Rootkits in SkyMall?
The hell? Who knew SkyMall sold USB rootkits? From the ad copy: "Easy To Use & Undetectable Total Computer Spying Tool Covertly Monitors Passwords, Chatting, Photos, Websites & More! Insert In USB, An...
 
An open letter to James Cameron from Papyrus
An open letter to James Cameron from Papyrus
Following up on an earlier BB post about graphic designers mocking James Cameron's choice of typeface for the blue hippies' subtitles in Avatar: An Open Letter To James Cameron from Papyrus. (prttysht...
 
Sony Ericsson Bluetooth HBH-PV720 Headset & MBW-150 Watch Winners
Congratulations to: Lana B. of Sterling Heights, Missouri for winning the Sony Ericsson MBW-150 Bluetooth Watch and Crystal O. of Columbus, Ohio for winning the Sony Ericsson HBH-PV720 Bluetooth Head...
 
Valentine’s Day Gift Guide 2010
Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to shower your loved one with gifts. Probably not because you want to, but because you know you have to. An upgrade from your standard flowers, candy, and jew...
 
Facebook Turns Its Photo Uploader into a Plug-in (Mashable)
Facebook has just started rolling out a new photo uploader, one that the company promises will be faster, easier and more stable than the current one. In an announcement on Facebook’s blog , the compa...
 
INFOGRAPHIC: If Obama Used Foursquare (ReadWriteWeb)
Today has been the Day of Location-Based Reporting at ReadWriteWeb, and what better way to help you end your tedious work week than by showing you this entirely speculative infographic that's recently...
 
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