How to build a Wooden Laptop

This guy builds a laptop case out of wood, and he beefs it up, this is a must see!

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Send your name to Pluto

NASA is preparing to send the New Horizons probe to Pluto. It will be the first earth device to get intimate with the icy planet. And you can be there too - or, at least, your name. NASA is asking everyone to send them their names, which will be attached in the space device.

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CVS camera in a rocket...

Get a load of this! Here's a directory of images and videos from a fellow who hacked a CVS cam and put it -in- a rocket. The launch video is amazing, from pad to sky to a lovely decent, until it lands in a tree- but it was later retrived. Excellent use of the CVS disposable digital video camera!

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Windows - Real Good Edition

this is so much like the real windows OS that it's scary..... Good for a laugh

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Mac OS Through the Ages

See what the different versions of Mac OS looked like, from the original release of Mac OS 0.0 all the way up to Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.

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Portable car pc

This project comes from reader Douglas J. Hickok. A practical, portable car computer design it is intended to be easy to use in the car, but also easily removable. Could have just bought a laptop, but this is an interesting project, so enjoy.....

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Laptop resurrection and upgrade

Hackaday.com has many useful articles, here's one such article where a guy [Seth} takes two i1400 Thinkpads, fixes the keyboard and trackpad, removes the floppy, adds USB ports and WiFi to end up with a ghoulish, but functional machine: "The Franken-laptop"


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Custom Podcast Themes by the guy who wrote the This Week in Tech Theme

The guy who wrote the theme for This Week in Tech has started up a service to make custom theme music for podcasts really cheap or even free. We all know how bad most podcasts sound, and good quality music is one way to help make podcasts sound more professional. The TWIT theme is great, and he has a bunch more available on the site.

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Rio Audio, RIP: 1998 - 2005

Today D&M announced that they would be shutting Rio's doors permanently, though the Rio brand and trademark will not change hands as of this time. We mourn the passing of Rio...loved so dearly but by so few. (From Engaget)

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Make your own "Family Guy" Retarded Chart

In the "Petarded" episode, Peter Griffin does well at Trivial Pursuit and claims he's a genius. But when taking an IQ test, the result indicates he is mentally challenged -putting him on the lower end of "retarded", right above "creationists". Make your own chart for someone you love.

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Summer is almost over

So yeah, this summer is almost over, almost time to head back to school. Not looking so much forward to that, but I guess I gotta do it. This summer has been fun, did many fun things including going to Florida. That's about all for now, will update me later :)