Kallow Launched to Revolutionize Technology Products Shopping – Unusual but Promising Idea (1)
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Today there is a new site named Kallow launched to demonstrate a totally different approach to technology shopping that is supposed to be absolutely user-friendly and open to anyone, no matter how low the level of technology proficiency is. The idea for the site was born when the guys from Kallow thought about how often they were asked for advice in purchasing a complicated technology product from their friends and family members and realized that ...
Samsung: Hey Circuit City, Where the Hell Is Our $74 Million? [Circuit City Is Toast] (2)
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Sony isn't the only company that tried to rips its gear out of Circuit City's broke, zombie clutches. Samsung has been asking for the bankrupt company to return $74 million of merch from September. In a bankruptcy court filing, Samsung said it believes "that Circuit City Stores was insolvent at the time it received the goods," and has requested twice that it return $74 million worth of merch shipped between Sept. 21 and Nov. 4. ...
"New" Technology Detects and Kills Vampire Power Suckers (2)
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Smart power strips have been around for a good long time. But a technology has been developed to automatically detect when plugged-in devices are sipping power in stand by and turn them off...with a twist. Spanish inventors have worked out a way to detect when devices are in stand by, shut them off completely, and - here's the new-ish part - allow them to start again without going through their boot-up sequence. However, we're not ...
Alden Hart's LED "lessons and gotchas" (3)
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At the most recent Dorkbot DC, we had a wonderful, extremely informative presentation given by Alden Hart. By day, Alden is an electrical engineer and the CTO of a technical consulting firm, by night, he messes around with LEDs and microcontrollers, especially for elaborate holiday light displays he does at his home in Northern Virginia. Alden's talk was entitled "Practical Microcontroller LED Designs - lessons and gotchas from prototype to production." It was a very ...
Free Shipping Today At Thinkgeek [ThinkGeek] (3)
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Free shipping at Think Geek with coupon code CYBERMONDAY. Gawd, is "Cyber Monday" an obnoxious/perverted-sounding name or what? [ThinkGeek] (Thanks to Geoffrey!)
Nokia Entering Smart Home Scene with Mobile Phone Project (1)
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Photo via Ubergizmo The iPhone isn’t the only cell phone that will allow you to adjust your home’s power consumption. Nokia has entered the smart home scene and is working on providing a new option for controlling your smart home via your mobile phone. Nokia’s Home Control Center is a Linux-based platform that will be compatable with Zigbee, Z-Wave and other smart home t...
End Of Month Is Best Time For Gadget Haggling [Insiders] (2)
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A salesman at a major electronics retailer told FreeMoneyFinance a bevy of tips you can use to bargain down the prices in-store on big-ticket items, like: The best time to negotiate is end of the month. I don't mean like two weeks before. I mean like the 30th or 31st. Sales managers are usually willing to take a lower amount because they have to "get stuff out the door" to make their bonus. Get 'em ...
Electronics Trash for Cash and It's Good for the Environment (1)
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How can we responsibly get rid of our old electronics and gadgets without harming the environment and still be able to afford all the new electronics we are hoping to purchase? As the holidays approach many of us are looking at our used electronics and thinking of updating or upgrading for our own use, friends, and family. Maybe your wife would like a GPS system, your son a new MP3 player, and you would like ...
Suzuki Omnichord (1)
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Just a Casiotone-style trifle? Au contraire, mon frere (that's French!) According to wikipedia, everybody has rocked an Omnichord from Daniel Lanois to Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.Check out Matt Mahaffey bringing the sack of grain...Wikipedia on OmnichordRetrothing on Omnichord
ASUS Gets First Ever EU Eco Flower Award (1)
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Photo via ASUS ASUS, in addition to getting its N series notebooks ranked EPEAT Gold, has earned the first ever EU Flower Eco Award for computers for that very same notebook series. While the name is rather, well, flowery, the award is not. It’s a really big deal they achieved it and makes a big green-hued statement to the rest of the computing world. ...
Econa: Water Saving Device Wins EcoDesign Award (3)
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ECONA, not to be confused with the Econo or the ECO Showerdrop, is a water-saving device that could change the way you view (literally!) your water consumption at home. This gadget won the Concurso Nuevo Diseño 2008 (New Design Competition) in the ecodesign category. The logo for the Competition, which also has interior design, furniture, and urban environment categories can ...
Electronics companies cut Blu-Ray player prices to get some traction (1)
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Blu-Ray manufacturers have slashed prices in a big way in order to make this Christmas season a hockey stick movement for the adoption of the format. Prices have been cut by almost 50% or more, according to WSJ: Entry-level Blu-ray players have dropped to below $230 at major retailers including Target Corp.,Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Best Buy Co. Some experts predict that promotional prices may fall below $150 on Black Friday, the big shopping day ...
LEGO powered Bluetooth printer (10)
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This is a plotter-type printer that is powered by a LEGO NXT. The website has a bunch of pictures and some videos. There are even screen shots of the code, but that's about it. I hope there is more information posted soon. A little More about the LEGO powered Bluetooth printer [Let's Make Robots] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Electronics | Digg this!
HexPummer Lantern kits from Solarbotics (1)
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One of the new kit releases I got a big kick out of at Maker Faire Austin was the HexPummer Lantern from our compadres at Solarbotics. This is an add-on to their popular HexPummer, a kit version of a cool BEAM circuit that creates throbbing LED light that "PUMMs" when darkness falls and the circuit slowly dumps the power from the solar cell and rechargeable batteries that have been soaking up and storing the day's ...
Simple Hack Adds Power-Charge USB Slot to VGA Socket [Hack] (7)
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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 adapter, a spare USB socket and some accurate soldering: it's all in the Instructable. Neat. [Instructables]
Fuzebox - open source 8-bit game console (2)
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Ladyada released a new guide today which shows you how to make the Fusebox, an open source 8-bit console. It's based on the Uzebox project and provides you a fun Nintendo-like platform on which you can develop and play open source, homebrew games. Below is a video of the original Uzebox running the "AVR Megatris" Tertris clone: The Fuzebox is a fully open-source, DIY 8-bit game console. It is designed specifically for people who know ...
HOW TO - Make a "Net data meter" (2)
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Antique voltmeter displays current air quality from the web - By Tom Igoe... One thing that disappoints me about computers is how little character they possess. Antique instruments of information display, like Victorian pendulum clocks, barometers, and compasses, and Babbage’s calculating engines, have a presence that modern computers lack. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Electronics | Digg this!
Spaces and Roots: Manipulating Sound with Processing + Touch, Tangible Interfaces (5)
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Musical Applications for Multi-Touch Interfaces from BricK Table on Vimeo. Across series of colored bars, sounds warp and mutate. Vines entangle as organic threads of music. Fingers and objects traverse sonic landscapes in surprising, mysterious ways. Welcome to the worlds of BricK, the musical table interface by Jordan Hochenbaum and Owen Vallis, which, charged with software by Dimitri Diakopoulos, Jim Murphy, and Memo Akten, explores new musical frontiers. The tool uses a combination of open ...
How-to: Read a FedEx Kinko’s smart card (SLE4442) (11)
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Our wallets are filling up with SIM and RFID cards that contain hidden information. Using our latest project, the Bus Pirate universal serial interface, we can dump the memory from many common smart cards. In today’s How-to, we show you how to interface common smart cards, and walk you through the data stored on a FedEx Kinko’s prepaid value card. Background The FedEx Kinko’s prepaid card is actually a SLE4442 smart card. There’s nothing secret ...
Tiny Digital Torque (1)
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Incorrect torque on a small screw may not lead to a life-ending event on the highway, but on precision machines and carefully calibrated devices, small screws require careful handling. If you don’t care to keep up with the digital age, an “old-fashioned” torque driver will do — but if you’re interested in the tools of the new millennium, check out this digital torque driver. PB Swiss makes this digital torque driver in three ranges, starting ...
