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By artist Michel de Broin, the Dead Star is a sculpture formed from batteries at the end of their functional life. He explains, “Left to itself, the sculpture will slowly cool down since there is no longer electronic activity taking place in it.” On exhibit at the Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology in New…
Click to view“Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite ’em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.” Alright…so these are just 30,000 dominoes stacked up in blocks to look a bit like giant dominoes, and tipped over to create a fab tumbling dominoes-made-from-giant-dominoes video, but you get my point.…
The mystery of Nikon’s Black Gold D60 might have just been solved, and man, it is not pretty. No really, it’s a downright repulsive study in tackiness, if these pictures are to be believed (sadly, it looks like they should be). Nikon has liberally slathered the D60 with cheap gold paint aaaaaaand… that’s it. And…
Samsung’s Nabee system is a way of adding Wi-Fi sync-up capabilities to simpler digital cameras that lack them. It uses the Alereon AL5000 wireless USB chipset that operates at 3.1 to 10.6 GHz over a 30-foot range and has two parts: a small dongle that goes into the camera’s USB socket and one that goes…
From an alleged leaked shot of iPhone firmware 2.2, we see that Apple has tweaked the browser ever so slightly (old version left, new version right). The Google search magnifying glass icon is gone in favor of a separate Google search bar (similar to Safari desktop). Technically it won’t save any button presses over the…
I don’t expect you mere wingless mortals to truly appreciate the accomplishment of a pilot who just crossed the 22-mile English Channel with a jetpack—that’d be like someone who can’t read claiming to love the study of Cuneiform—but from one rocket man to another, I salute you, Yves Rossy. Actually, what’s that I see? A…
I’ve seen some crappy arcades in my day, mostly tucked into some crummy corner of whatever cheap hotel my mom had stashed us at, populated with well-worn Galaga and Street Fighter II machines. They had a certain kind of charm, though, and still do, considering the fact that the arcade is an endangered species in…
Hackaday’s running a cute little electronics project at the mo (well, if you think electronics can be cute) which shows you how to build a fully working web server on a circuit board no bigger than a business card, in plan at least. It’s capable of serving up web pages and files and instead of…
Click to view Oh, what’s that? I didn’t here what you said. Hey check this out (3:30)… [Colbert Nation]
Here’s a video displaying all commercial air traffic in the world during a 24-hour period. Seriously, I’m moving to New York City tomorrow and seeing the flight density in this computer simulation scares me a bit. Thankfully, it’s a big planet with plenty of space to fly. But then, pilot friends tell me that sometimes…
This is a giant exterior light assembly that looks as angular as a stealth fighter, and bit like a Star Trek shuttlepod. By designer Jeroen Molenaar, it’s got some artistic merit and sure, it lights up outside places really nicely… but who cares? It’s a giant light fitting that looks like a spaceship, and that’s…
To those who’d like to support a real world cause while defending the princess from Bowser’s latest kidnapping, this limited edition Pink Ribbon DS Lite raises money for the cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure. For every unit sold, Nintendo passes $5 to the organization. $5!!! Whoa. That’s big money!I know, how can…
If Android sputters out and fades away, Google might have another plan to shake up the phone industry. In a patent filed and 2007 and published this week, Google details plans for an “Instant Bid” system for dealing with wireless connections. The concept is pretty straightforward: devices broadcast their request for service, and available networks…
The new XM25 Individual Air Burst Weapon is now undergoing final testing on the field. According to the US Army, this carbine belongs to the Marines’ gun locker in Aliens. In fact, it can take out an Alien if they actually existed because it is capable of killing anyone behind walls, beyond hills or even…
For those of you who were skeptical of the Griffin AirCurve wire-free iPhone amplifier/dock thingy comes this USB dock that is a genuine neato solution. Dubbed “Simplifi,” for once it’s a product name that tallies with the product’s purpose: it’s a combined iPod/iPhone dock that has a CF card slot, a Memory Stick/SD/xD card slot…
The 2008 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge has just concluded with some pretty astonishing imagery in the winning slots. This picture, dubbed “Glass Forest,” is a scanning electron micrograph of diatoms (weird unicellular algae) clinging to a marine worm, and won the photography category: to my eyes it looks half like a palm tree…
Reader Mike Chung sent us these pictures of his MacBook Pro battery, which has almost failed for the second time? Why do I say almost? I mean, it’s clear that the battery has ballooned into some sort of slimy, Alien-like monstrosity. Well, apparently this battery is still alive and working. Mike says that this is…
Reuters is claiming that the long, long-awaited Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Touchscreen “Tube” will be launched in London on October 2nd, according to their sources. This confirms the rumor that we floated Wednesday, when the first actual picture of the device surfaced. (It’s mostly screen. Surprise!). As with most of the glut of new touchscreen phones…
This is Samsung’s promo video for the upcoming M8800 cellphone (aka Pixon) with 8-megapixel camera. In fact it looks very much like a compact camera from the rear, and its 3.2-inch screen bears the same TouchWiz interface as the Omnia. That screen is a 400 x 240 pixel touchscreen with touch keyboard and handwriting recognition,…
Alps Electronics has decided to take the occasionally annoying sensitivity of some capacitive trackpads to a new extreme, demoing a technology that can accurately sense fingers without coming in direct contact with them. The system is able to sense movements at an admittedly modest range of 3cm, from which distance users can control applications with…