VowelSynth: Homemade Speech Synth
While this won’t fool your school principal a la Ferris Beuller’s Day Off, it’s still a cool project. This synth has a set of strings attached to DSP chips which “play” a certain sound when struck, or in this case, touched. The resulting music/cacaphony sounds pretty eerie. It works like this: When you lay your…
Blade Runner Gun on EBay
When you absolutely, positively have to kill every replicant in the room, you have Richard A. Coyle’s remarkable recreation of Deckard’s gun in Blade Runner. Most of the major pieces are made of metal and it even includes a fancy display stand for impressing skin jobs. What I have done is to take a hand…
LEGO Pinball Machine
LEGO-maniac Anders built this working pinball game out of LEGOs and pure iron will. It doesn’t just react to the ball hitting certain sensors—it even takes score and can keep a high-scorer’s list. We’re hunting up some more information this as Anders’ site is pretty aged. Functional LEGO Pinball Machine [TechEBlog]
Hollywood Studios Looking to Stop Network DVR in its Tracks
Remember the network DVR we mentioned a while back? It seems that those dinosaurs in Hollywood and on Madison Avenue want to shut it down before it’s even released by Cablevision, the New York-based cable company that had been planning to release it in the next few weeks. The studios claim that the network DVR’s…
Gear4 CruiseControl Universal iPod Remote Control
Maker of fine iPod accessories, Gear4 is jumping back into the fray with yet another entry into the completely unsaturated market of iPod accessories, the CruiseControl universal iPod remote control. The CruiseControl (gotta love marketers) works via RF and has a 164-foot range. Since it works via RF, the CruiseControl can work through walls, for…