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Whiskey PC Mod, what to do with an old Wild Turkey bottle.

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Portable Director Cell Phone Jammer.

The CX 200 Portable Director II Cell Phone Jammer. Take a good look, because you may see a lot more of these little babies arriving here in the West once laws get changed, and people reach the end of tethers with loud mouths. The strange translation from Japanese says something like – ‘secretly switch on – so it’s clearly covert. Uh-huh. Anyhoo, two modes, one gives 70 seconds jamming (i.e. peace) around you, the other fades out the call ‘with natural atmosphere’ presumably to help you end calls you’d rather not continue. Around $71.00.

* Effective area: Approximately 3 m * Correspondence: NTT_DOCOMO (800MHz), FOMA (2gHz), VodaFone (1. 5gHz), au (Cdmaone) * Use power source: Single 4 alkaline ×2 books * Electric battery life: With timer mode approximately 150 times, approximately with continual ON 4 hour

50 Best Firefox Extensions for Power Surfing

*Constantly* updated list of most powerful extensions for Firefox. All of them grouped into categories: Firefox Tabs, Website Links, File Downloads, Web-page Behavior & Navigation, Privacy / Security, Web Searches, Your Music / Video, Your Email, Your Bookmarks, Other Popular Services.

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Thirteen Reasons To Dump Internet Explorer.

500KB Hard Drive Circa 1975

The picture is of a fixed-head disk, very similar to a Borroughs unit I had the pleasure of disassembling (in 1975) after a catastrophic head crash (I got authorization from Gordon Bell himself to do it). It took me 3 days to whittle it down to nuts and bolts, and the platter weighed 18 pounds. The hub upon which the platter was mounted was phosphor bronze, and weighed an additional 17 pounds... LINK

iPod Nano cases with horns and devil-faces

I'm ordering a couple of these right away!

Old VCR turned cat feeder.

Writing for Make magazine, Larsson described how an old VCR--assuming its timer was still operational--could be turned into a "programmabowl VCR" designed to ensure that pets be fed on time in their owners' absence.

"The crux of it is that when a VCR becomes redundant or becomes faulty, it's usually the case that the system that runs timing and motor control are the last to die," Larsson said. "Mostly, people junk their VCRs because the picture is becoming a bit weird, but there's usually a lot of life left in a junked VCR, and I wanted to take advantage of that." READ MORE

Faucet shows water temp through color.

Remove the top of a spigot, create a small-scale canyon, add backlighting and you've got ambient water fittings. That's what Germany's Hansa is doing with Hansacanyon, by adding LEDs that change color as a function of water temperature so you can see when it's hot or cold. Also included; precise temperature control, for sinks, baths and showers.

First laptop

First ever laptop

• Introduced:    April 1981
• Price:           US $1,795
• Weight:        24.5 pounds
• CPU:           Zilog Z80 @ 4.0 MHz
• RAM:          64K RAM
• Display:      built-in 5" monitor 53 X 24 text
• Ports:         parallel / IEEE-488 modem / serial port
• Storage:     dual 5-1/4 inch, 91K drives
• OS:           CP/M

World's largest Wi-Fi cloud is right here in Oregon

       HERMISTON, Ore. - Parked alongside his onion fields, Bob Hale can prop open a laptop and read his e-mail or, with just a keystroke, check the moisture of his crops.

       As the jack rabbits run by, he can watch CNN online, play a video game or turn his irrigation sprinklers on and off, all from the air conditioned comfort of his truck. READ MORE...