‘Technology’ Archives
Clothes shop to sell Tablet PC, whatever “NEXT”?
The world is slowly but surely going crazy. In the old days PCs were massive and clothes shops sold clothes. Well now it seems with the sudden rise in popularity of tablet PCs and the change in direction retailers are going with Supermarkets selling anything and everything and HMV selling clothes, it’s clothing giants NEXT who are well [...]
Sony Ericsson : LiveView Remote control
Sony is never one to disappoint when it comes to making new tech products and now it’s come up with the LiveVuew, a remote control for your Android powered phone. Now you may wonder why one would need a remote control for your phone, which at first baffled me, but after I read further on it makes a little bit of sense. The LiveView is a [...]
Berkeley Bionics introduces eLEGS exoskeleton
Amanda Boxtel's excitement is contagious. That's because she's been taking the recently unveiled Berkeley Bionics eLEGS exoskeleton for a walk in the park. Not the easiest thing to do if you've been in a wheelchair for the last 18 years. Based on their HULC military exoskeleton and going into medical trials soon, Berkeley Bionics eLEGS have set [...]
Open-source hardware statement of principles and draft definition 0.4
A new statement of principles and draft definition 0.4 is up for Open-source hardware - your feedback and participation is needed! After the Open-source Hardware summit one of the requests was for all of us to figure out an "overview" of what/why we do this. We think we have a good start based on what many people have helped outline - here's the [...]
Apple TV 2G teardown
Curious to find out what's inside the new Apple TV 2G? The folks over at iFixit performed a teardown recently and found what makes the little set-top box tick. Some highlights: Separate power supply board that can be replaced independently of the logic board. Simple design - there's 6 pieces! The ease of repairing this device, [...]
Plextor PX-B310U External Blu-ray Disc Combo Review
Plextor have been one of the leading brands for optical drives for many years so it is no surprise they are still churning out various drives to suit all needs. Today we have the Plextor PX-B310U External Blu-ray Combo Drive which unsurprisingly is a external Blu-Ray Reader and Super Multi Writer. The super multi writer means this can burn your [...]
Eri Gentry interviews Melanie Swan of DIYgenomics
We have surely entered the age of citizen science! Take, for example, my father's reaction thirty years ago to a family history of colon cancer. He wholly cut out red meat, began taking vitamins, and started exercising daily. Melanie Swan's reaction to the same issue, thirty years later, goes far beyond such standard health advice. She looked at [...]
ThinkGeek iPhone keyboard case
I was scouring the internet for something a little different to tell our readers about and now being an iPhone convert(although mine is just a 3GS) i found this little number a little interesting due to the fact I hate onscreen software keyboards. Although the iPhone’s software keyboard isn’t terrible i still make a lot of mistakes. Well [...]
Leica M9 & Panasonic Lumix GH2
Couple of new top spec cameras here to feast your eyes, and wallets on, one slightly ridiculously priced than the other, ie Premiership Footballer priced Leica M9 and the much more affordable Lumix GH2. Leica earlier this month announced the M9 a “retro” looking 18 megapixel camera which is also the worlds first digital rangefinder camera [...]
Power over ethernet? There’s a shield for that.
Like making ethernet-enabled Arduino sensors, but hate running wires to power them? Well, rather than building a complicated energy-harvesting system or relying on batteries, you might want to take a look at powering them using the same Ethernet cables that are used to transmit data to them. This can be a bit messy to implement, but luckily the [...]
