The sleep mask is a clever idea, it’s nothing complicated as it’s name would sound. It features an electronic display that scrolls your destination so other passengers know when you need to get off the train. The idea is that you can sleep comfortably, while knowing someone will alert you when you’ve arrived at your destination, but does it actually work?
However, during a test run, no one alerted Pyocotan when he had arrived at his jumping off point. So the test failed. But he strongly believes the devices will be effective once more people start to use them.
Check out the new Cinematograph HD by the user Stealth over at the Modders-Inc.com forum , this computer comes complete with two 22-inch LCDs, lots (and lots) of diamond plate! Scroll down to the blockquote to see some of its specs!
The name Cinemagraph comes from the 1890′s device made famous by the Lumière Brothers that led to the birth of the world’s first motion picture. It was a device that not only was the camera, but also processed the film, and projected the work. Likewise, the CinematographHD is equipped to be taken on location and direct capture, edit, and then output full HD video.
Here is yet more evidence that Lego can really be used to build just about anything you can imagine, you just got to be creative enough! This Lego V8 engine has 32 valves and took the designer about 4-5 months to build!
Hey everyone, remember our post about the PC which was built from 1,238 pieces of Lego? Here is another one, except the only difference is that this is a Mac, but still just as cool though – Lego really can build anything! The Lego built Mac Pro featured here was built by RP Cuento, out of 2,588 Lego bricks (twice as much as the PC one), hardware wise, a 2.4 Ghz Core 2 Duo Hackintosh and a 1.66 Ghz Core 2 Duo Mac Mini!
Watch this video which compresses the entire 14+ hours of building into 2-3 minutes, pretty amazing stuff, I have to say, you got to admire his patience and perseverance, this is not easy at all! Continue reading »
Here’s a picture of Ben Heck’s latest creation, currently still in progress. If you remember Ben, he featured an article for Engadget not very long ago on How-To: Make an Xbox 360 laptop and that was already his second masterpiece, this one which he is currently working on will be his fourth if we’re correct. It’s based on a 60GB Xbox 360 and is slightly larger than the previous laptops. It can accommodate a standard 360 hard drive without modification. An Xbox Live camera is included as well!
Having just read this, something just sprung up from my mind and I want to share a quick story with you about something I saw while on holiday not long ago. You will probably know what piracy means and I had the opportunity to visit some of the ‘pirated markets’ in Asia once while on holiday. There I remember seeing people using their PCs (which were equipped with multiple cd/dvd burners) and simultaneously burning and obvious creating multiple copies of whatever it is they were burning and selling (seemed like film dvds as well as Microsoft softwares and Windows!) them as soon as they were complete, and as you will have guessed, they were dead cheap!
Having sad that this robot designed by Aaron Shephard, has been created for the purpose of doing system backups, you have to realise though, it wouldn’t take very long for the guys I’ve see to do a minor tweak and turn this robot into an automatic, money making, piracy machine! However I can imagine how handy and useful it would be to have this robot at home or in an office, etc…
You might wonder how this works, so here’s the technical bit…
EPIA M10000 Mini-ITX motherboard and scavenged parts. A Perl script interacts with stepper motors, LEDs, and sensors through the parallel port on the motherboard. The robot inserts DVDs for burning, flips them for labeling, and stacks completed discs in a pile. Coasters are rejected to a ‘penalty box’ for easy disposal.
