19th January 2007

Steiner Binoculars

A little commercial break on the blog, this time for a website that offers a huge amount of Steiner binoculars, stands and accessories. They seem to offer a broad range of brands, but they’re mainly focused at this German brand. The reason they supply is that it’d be the most tough, waterproof, rugged and shock-resistant [...]

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18th January 2007

Wii Kills

It was just a matter of time; after thousands of broken TV’s (if we can believe the popular bashing websites), the Wii made its first victim. Well, in fact the Wii didn’t do anything, besides getting the smart Americans who were trying to win this precious piece of hardware to drink multiple liters of water. [...]

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13th January 2007

Think big – buy a small server

Hardware keeps on growing bigger, TFT screens gain sizes of up to 100″ and cases such as the CoolerMaster Stacker are becoming more and more popular as server enclosures. But to get back to reality, what’s wrong withSmall PC’s?
ClearCube is clearly aiming it’s business at companies, but I must say their technology looks interesting, they [...]

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10th January 2007

Open Source 3d Printer

A cheap self-assembly device, with as goal fabricating 3D objects, has been developed by American researchers of the Cornell University. The new thing behind this machine is that it’s somewhat ‘opensource’, everyone can build it using a DIY-kit. The researches hope the machine could kick start a revolution in home fabrication just as early computer [...]

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6th January 2007

USB Dog

Once again, John Chow ‘inspired’ me with his blog. You can’t really consider this one useful, but it looks funny nonetheless. What it is? A USB-puppy that will keep humping your USB-port until you disconnect it, judging by the sound it makes you’ll do that pretty fast, too bad they costs $55 per 3…
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