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Mimique Cellphone Concept

If anyone ever brings out a phone that looks like this, I'll have 10 of them, thangyewverymuch. A proposal of Californian design studio RKS, the Mimique is all about skins and downloads—a customizable phone with bells on, basically—using, as it does, open source software. I just love that old-school antenna bump and the analog clock. See another picture of it after the jump. More »

8:50 AM on Fri May 16 2008
By Addy Dugdale
3,228 views, 18 comments

open-source

Build Your Own Multitouch Table With the Cubit

Engineers at Eyebeam, a New York arts and technology center, are drastically reducing the cost of ownership for multitouch tables by taking them open-source. Schematics for the Cubit, a multitouch tabletop display, are available online for people who want to make a scaled-down Microsoft Surface for one tenth the Surface's price. More »

2:30 PM on Sun May 4 2008
By Elaine Chow
17,878 views, 25 comments

Latest by crimsonred: Multitouch building and opensource multitouch software has been around for more than a year on [www.nuigroup.com] It's great that cubit is making kits, but the whole concept of cheap and easy multitouch along with opensource software is nothing new. I would encourage more »

make

Home-Made Daisy MP3 Player Takes Us (London) Underground

Using a $115 Daisy open-source player, and a tin with a London tube map on it, Mchaceortiz made himself an MP3 player with a difference. The six way-retro switches on the tin control the volume, track selection and play and pause, and you can see another shot of it opened up after the jump. More »

7:40 AM on Thu Apr 3 2008
By Addy Dugdale
5,406 views, 17 comments

turing alarm clock

Home-Made Alarm Clock Beeps Until You Solve a Mathematical Problem

I tend to have a cup of tea and some cereal before I do anything in the morning, but Nicholas Paul Johnson swears by his Turing alarm clock. Powered by an PIC16 microcontroller, Johnson used a four-buck LCD display and has, very sweetly, made the whole thing free and open-source. [cheaphack via MAKE]

10:20 AM on Thu Feb 21 2008
By Addy Dugdale
5,724 views, 27 comments

iphone gps

Open Source locoGPS Module Coming to iPhone

Part Foundry is currently working on a dongle that will bring the long-desired GPS feature to the iPhone. Branded as locoGPS, the device promises true GPS backed by open source software, but if the teaser video is any indication, it may not be the GPS experience you're expecting. More »

11:30 PM on Sun Dec 16 2007
By Adrian Covert
11,673 views, 16 comments

Latest by RachelRayIsTheDevil: Needless to say that JT is the man. I don't want to see him go. Maybe they'll trade him later on when someone needs an end to make a run. I can't keep the different leagues trading rules straight. Is more »

software

Open-Source Democracy Video Player Updated: Tastes Great, Less Filling

If you're fed up with Windows Media Player, the QuickTime player or any of those other pretenders to greatness, there's a new version of the open-source Democracy Player just released that's reportedly faster and more stable than its predecessors. More »

10:53 AM on Tue Nov 28 2006
By Charlie White
667 views, 15 comments

gadgets

TileToy - Electronic, Open-Source Fun

Are you a geek with a cubicle who needs a little something to keep your mind off work since you've been coding in C# for the past six-hours? Of course you are, and you demand your toys be open-source like your code. That's why the TileToy is here. TileToy is an open-source game consisting of blocks with LEDs embedded inside of them. What makes it open source? The code, for one thing. And you pretty much have to make the game up too. From the press release:
"The re-programmable and constantly updated graphical information on each tile is displayed with a LED matrix system. The screen displaying the information is an endlessly versatile surface for updated visual communication"
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2:00 PM on Mon Nov 7 2005
By gizmodo.com
42 views, 3 comments

Latest by Nick: Open Source funds terrorism! more »

announcements

Dell Opens Up

Well, Dell, who woulda' thunk we'd get an open-source computer from you so soon? Sounds crazy, but it's true. Mundane, PCs-of-the-people Dell have introduced its Dimension E510n PC that comes with a blank hard drive and copy of FreeDOS OS, which you'll have to install yourself. Gor $849, you get a Pentium 4 processor, 512MB of advanced DDR computer memory, 128MB ATI Radeon video card, 80GB hard drive and, drumroll please, a one-year limited warranty. Probably aimed at small businesses, this computer lets companies that have pre-purchased Windows through licensing programs to not have to worry about erasing the software on factory-shipped PCs to install their own OS. This saves them a step. Nicely done Mike. More »

2:35 PM on Tue Oct 4 2005
By tgrumet
188 views, 4 comments

Latest by eufreka: Ahem. Yes, what better way to create the perception of value in their Windows PCs than to sell the same hardware without an OS (or a Monitor) for the same price. Compare the $649 Dimension 5150n (FreeDOS) to the $679 Dimension more »