Just some stuff I thought you would like to check out:
- Ubuntu vs. Vista! Who will win? Read this review to find out.
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Tired of blowing out your old cartridges and don’t want to shell out your hard earned cash for a wii? Here is a step by step guide to build a Nintendo NES with PC components inside. Enjoy all those old favorites and have all the functionality of a PC in the coolest case on your block. Click here for the full tutorial.
Check out this guide for getting the original gamepads to work.
Categories: Games, Hardware, How To:, Nintendo Tags: Gadgets, Games, Geeky Links, Hack, Hacking, hacks, Hardware, How To:, NES, Nintendo
Can you build a decent gaming PC for just a couple hundred dollars more than the latest game consoles? Sure you can! We give you our recipe for a seriously sub-$1000 PC.
Click here to find out how.
Now this is something I would really like. It combines two of my favorite things. Remote controlled toys and the quest for the perfect lawn (I’m a lawn Nazi) . It’s the remote controlled Lawn Mower. This would really work for me. I could be sitting on my patio, drinking a beer, and cutting my grass at the same time. Although, I always thought a Roomba hack might work better. I need the straight lines of a perfectly cut lawn.
What’s a home media server? A central place to put all that data you have, from e-mail to music to movies. With multiple PCs becoming commonplace in the home, the need to push data through every room in the house via Ethernet or WiFi combined with the proliferation of digital-only content mean the storage demands of home users are rising quickly.
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TechEBlog has 5 cool home built projects. Looks like you would need some serious free time to do this (or lack of a life). Check out the  projects here.
“Spacepaintings†shows us how to make a simple tattoo gun using a toothbrush and other household supplies. According to this video, it will take you 10-minutes or less to build this gadget.
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Researchers in the US and Britain have unveiled their blueprints for building a cloaking device.
So far, cloaking has been confined to science fiction; in Star Trek it is used to render spacecraft invisible.
Professor Sir John Pendry says a simple demonstration model that could work for radar might be possible within 18 months’ time.
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Plan for cloaking device unveiled
Researchers in the US and Britain have unveiled their blueprints for building a cloaking device.So far, cloaking has been confined to science fiction; in Star Trek it is used to render spacecraft invisible.
Professor Sir John Pendry says a simple demonstration model that could work for radar might be possible within 18 months’ time.