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Falkirk Wheel, Falkirk

Ash — Sun, 23 May 2010 12:06:53 +0000

Falkirk Wheel workings

Falkirk Wheel, Falkirk

Bloom Box

Ash — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:54:42 +0000

The Bloom box is a small power plant (or large fuel cell) that can run on Natural gas & BioGas please have a look at the video from Engadget below:

Bumptop 3D Desktop

Ash — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:47:26 +0000

I got my hands on a beta of this a while back when I had a touch screen to test it on but they have a full release now:

Bumptop 3D desktop

You can make piles of files and arrange by keyword in to piles, you can put photos and notes on the walls, simply throw a picture at the Facebook icon to upload. (full feature list)

Video:

You can download Bumptop here: http://bumptop.com/ (There is a free feature limited version, Pro is about £18)

I hope they release a linux version of Bumptop as it would be a good addition to conpiz.

What is the Beebotron?

Ash — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:11:30 +0000

Again another site I found while searching around!

This site provides, amongst other things, rtsp RealAudio .ra and .rm streaming links for BBC Listen Again programs that the you may prefer to listen to (or Listen Again to) from here rather than using the BBC iPlayer. It will let you listen to BBC radio broadcasts on smartphones, Pocket PCs, PDAs, and other mobile devices. It also works on PCs, Macs and pretty much anything else that supports RealAudio, WMA, or Flash.

Very useful

Click here to have a look

Life without Walls?

Ash — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:04:25 +0000

Are they serious? I know this advert has been out sometime now but I have seen 1 comedian on Youtube laying in to Microsoft but no one in the mainstream.

Walls sound useful to an operating system as insecure as Wind0ws:

used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.

So does life without walls seem like a good idea to you? and further more how did the marketing dept not manage to spot this?

Initial reports about windows 7 have been very positive but we will see.

And what is this advert?

Micro Drones flying around your head?

Ash — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:44:22 +0000

This company have made a 4 rotor flying drone which can be programmed to fly to a specific GPS location and hover at a specific height and fly back before its batteries run out.

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Just thought I would mention it..

Wikipedia for your mobile

Ash — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:33:54 +0000

Came across this a few weeks ago, its a portal for Wikipedia that works on small devices and reformats the articles for WAP its called WAPedia

Awww, cute little Wap-Wikipedia

^searching for WAP gave this^

Low Cost – Petabyte Storage

Ash — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:11:12 +0000

Meet the Backblaze:

Insane Sotrage!

A Backblaze Storage Pod is a self-contained unit that puts storage online. It’s made up of a custom metal case with commodity hardware inside. Specifically, one pod contains one Intel Motherboard with four SATA cards plugged into it. The nine SATA cables run from the cards to nine port multiplier backplanes that each have five hard drives plugged directly into them (45 hard drives in total).

Have a look at the Blog post here for more information.

Locking your computer with a bluetooth device?

Ash — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:27:44 +0000

Check out Blue Proximity for Ubuntu/Debian and Blue Lock for windows:

The linux version has locking and unlocking scripts to pause / play music and display screen saver.

Post from Ubuntu forums:
Blue Proximity

The windows version only supports screen locking:

Website for Blue Lock:
Blue Lock

Windows 7 problems? – Nuff said.

Ash — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:22:37 +0000

Keep hearing about people having problems with Pre-releases of Windows 7

Are you sure you want to continue?

Computer hardware Poster from sonic84.com

Ash — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:40:49 +0000

I found this poster and decided it needed the Zoom treatment

Zoomable image:

Click to Expand

I got the image from here: sonic84.com

The RepRap Robot

Ash — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:05:45 +0000

Another project I have been keeping an eye on – here:

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This is a project to make a robotic 3D plastic extrusion printer that is capable of making the parts to make another robot to make parts to make another robot…. in other words it is a self replicating robot
But thats not all – it can make lots of other items

Open Pandora

Ash — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:51:17 +0000

I have been keeping an eye on this site for quite sometime now: Open Pandora

and now the reason I am keeping an eye on this site (quote from the site):

The Pandora is a unique machine. It was designed based on the input of thousands of forum users with one goal in mind – to make the ultimate open source handheld device.

Thats right, a project involving thousands of people all over the world working on a an actual product.