You need to watch this video, amazing (on Google Video). [digg]
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Many of you may know about the new UK comedy show called “The IT Crowd”. It is a hilarious TV show airing here in the UK on Channel 4 which is about 2 IT guys in a company and a new girl who claims she can use computers on her CV (resume) but can’t and when she gets the job she cannot do anything. It is typical British humour. Either you like it or you don’t. But what is special about is that you can download it for free before it airs through the Channel 4 website. But for now Channel 4 have removed the first 2 episodes, so you can download it here. I have watched the first 2 episodes and I think it is fantastic. It is sort of like ‘Little Britain’.
I was bored this afternoon, so I had a look around to see if there was anything interesting I could mod in my room.
I had an old RC Airplane that was pretty useless. The ‘arms’ were made out of foam and when it crashed it broke. So I took out the parts from the inside and put it all together. So now I have my own portable fan which I can control via a remote, and the thing is pretty powerfull!
I found this video that shows you what a balloon looks like when it is popped (by a knife in the video) in slow motion. It is really interesting to see that the water keeps its shape after the plastic has gone!
This is a limited (only one made) edition Xbox 360 wireless controller made by Microsoft, out of yummy chocolate. Mmm, I wonder who will be the lucky person to eat it?
These webcams were found automatically through a variety of clever search techniques. Their owners might or might not have intended for them to be public. But they obviously are. Many of them are security cameras in companies or semi-public places. If you hover over the picture you’ll see what location information is available. If you click on it, a window will open and you can see a live video feed, plus comments and ratings and other information.
1343 webcams are available as of last scan.
This is really cool collection of photos that are taken by a Nikon D100 digital camera. They must have used an incredibly high shutter speed to capture something like this. There are other photos as well, such as a small wood pole. They are really amazing!
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About 2 weeks ago, I wrote an article about hard disk recovery that was quite popular (I received approximately 20000 hits for it). The article covered a couple of solutions to help you in the case where your hard drive would stop working. While I was doing some research for this article, I ended up on a few stories about people who were putting their HD in the freezer to help fix it long enough to be able to recover their data. I guess that by doing this, some metal parts in the HD could contract, putting back in place defective parts, and making everything work again for a few minutes.
Lightbulb uses a special bulb, inside which magnets and circuitry are hidden. Using a magnetic hall effect sensor, an electromagnet, and a [modified] PD feedback system, it floats a lightbulb stably in the air, while power is transmitted wirelessly from the base of the sculpture into the bulb. LEDs in the bulb rectify this AC power and convert it to light. The power transfer functions very similarly to how radio station tuning works and requires a well tuned matched pair of resonant windings, but allows power transmission over through the air.
Since I buy burnable media in bulk I usally have lots of unprotected discs lying around. One of my housemates suggested using an origami CD Case. The first thing I found on Google was a set of instructions made by a guy named Tom Hull. I have mirrored these instructions HERE.