Here we find the Time Harp, a harp that makes music electronically by rubbing plastic disks against a set of strings. Here’s how they built it in case you want to agitate some hyenas on your own. N.B. This is just the thing for a hangover. via Make
Here we find the Time Harp, a harp that makes music electronically by rubbing plastic disks against a set of strings. Here’s how they built it in case you want to agitate some hyenas on your own.
Valve created, but never released, a set of trading cards for TF2. Now you can download them in full hi-res and make your own double-sided cards to trade with one or more of your friends, although the trading permutations are severely limited with only two items in the set. Why not make up your own […]
Valve created, but never released, a set of trading cards for TF2. Now you can download them in full hi-res and make your own double-sided cards to trade with one or more of your friends, although the trading permutations are severely limited with only two items in the set. Why not make up your own cards? Or drop in some J.R. Grossouts?
Blood! Hardware! Heavy metal! Add some sand paper to your old dead hard drive and turn it on to make an excellent grinder/sander for your next hard-core steampunk project. via Make
Blood! Hardware! Heavy metal! Add some sand paper to your old dead hard drive and turn it on to make an excellent grinder/sander for your next hard-core steampunk project.
At this point, writing a post bagging on Motorola is like writing a post about why punching babies is a bad thing. It’s just too easy, and no one really needs to be convinced. That said, all I see when I look at this phone is an odd attempt to strap a bunch of extraneous plastic onto a touchscreen and pretend the design is useful.
Boy Genius has dug up some details on Motorola’s newest stab at the touchscreen market, the Motorola Blaze. It’s coming to Verizon, with EV-DO Rev. A, Bluetooth, GPS, and a 2.0 megapixel camera. Word thus far isn’t too good: the browser is less than okay, and the on screen keyboard is even worse.
Going one better than the Jesus model (the original, not Giz’s resident LEGO freak and sexy boy Diaz) is the Konepan, a bread maker from japanese toy manufacturer Megahouse. The kitchen gizmo, aimed at kids and recently-retired Giz writers, can turn your dough into 14 different shapes, most of them crazy, all of them fabulous. Teddy bears, elephants, hemmorhoids a bunch of grapes, snails, and what looks like an angry squirrel, take just 13 minutes to cook once you’ve followed the instructions of how to make them. No clue as to how much the Komepan costs, however. [Megahouse via TOKYOMANGO]
The main problem with being tech savvy is that everyone looks to you to solve their gadget-related issues. I mean, I’m happy to help but sometimes I just want to state “go and Google it dammit!” This is especially true with anything computer related. You know what I’m talking about—that frantic call from a friend who says their personal isn’t working, so you go over there and find it unplugged. Seriously, I don’t know how IT people can stand it. So, my question is: are you one of those people that gets stuck fixing everyone’s gadget problems?
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The hacking and account stealing has gotten so bad on World of Warcraft that Blizzard has decided to release a hardware authenticator to make sure when you log in, you’re actually not some dude in China who looks like me. (Unless you’re.) The authenticator costs $6.50, and will spit out a six-digit code—much like the Paypal security key—that you enter into your account when you log in. You can use that one authenticator to any number of accounts, so if your whole family plays, you’ll only have to pay once. [Blizzard via Wow Insider - Pic of Consumerist’s Popken]
Japanese company sells male-only combat cookies to fight obesity Tokyo Virtual Reality Expo 2008: $80,000 high-end VR helmet presented KDDI develops the world’s first free viewpoint video technology for Web Television Pics of SOCOM Confrontation’s snazzy new headset Changes to World wide web approved: Anticipate lots of annoying URLs now