Category: Tech/Computers
My views on Chip and Pin
"The new secure way to pay by card" I think it was advertised as in the early days: The basic idea is that you have data stored on a simcard-like chip that probably holds around 64k of data. You can purchase readers for this type…
Bumptop 3D Desktop
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: You can make piles of files and arrange by keyword in to piles, you can put…
Micro Drones flying around your head?
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. Just thought I would mention it.. :-)
Wikipedia for your mobile
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
Low Cost - Petabyte Storage
Meet the Backblaze: 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…
Windows 7 problems? - Nuff said.
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
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
Another project I have been keeping an eye on - here : 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…