Sheer brilliance – a bus powered drive goes inside, and you plug it into a computer on the outside and use it. In the event of a fire, your computer melts, but not the drive. Would be a ton more useful with half a dozen USB connectors or some facility for moving power inside too, [...]
Read more →Skype for Interviews View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: podcast interviews) via Josef
Read more →Sterling has an excellent bit about “information munitions” – little cameras with cryptographic signatures and GPS to verify time and place an image was created at, and audit trails on image modification. It’s interesting that, even without all that, a camera phone can still rock the world. I left this comment on Worldchanging years ago, [...]
Read more →Here’s the trick: record in quad. In Audacity, invert either the front or the rear track. What happens is that the ambient noise which hits all four mics about equally is significantly subtracted out, leaving the voices (which are significantly different between front and rear mics) synchronize out. Works really well, I was amazed.
Read more →NGO-in-a-box offers a set of peer reviewed and selected Free and Open Source software (F/OSS), tailored to the needs of NGO’s. It provides them not only with software, but also with implementation scenarios and relevant materials to support this. http://ngoinabox.org/
Read more →http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000BRPHQ4/ref=nosim/kkorg-20 Just add water via Cool Tools
Read more →http://toolmonger.com/2008/05/08/climb-chain-link-fences-the-easy-way/ – for climbing chain link fences
Read more →This is a bit more complex to describe. Here’s how it works. Take two disks of glass, one black, one clear. Let us say they are 4″ in diameter, of indeterminate thickness. Now take a ring, say 1″ thick, 4″ in diameter, made from a strong insulator. Separate the two disks with this ring, enclosing [...]
Read more →Simple: a solar panel, 2.5W, output 5V and 500 mA, with a USB jack attached. In sun, you plug your USB device (ipod, phone etc) into the solar-powered USB jack, and it charges. Pure, simple. Who’s got it? http://www.rei.com/product/770230 – $115 == $40 a watt, that’s Not Right. http://www.modernoutpost.com/gear/details/sf_solar_uno_slim.php – another candidate, fifty dollars, much [...]
Read more →ER•20 High Fidelity Earplugs So, what we have here is ear plugs that have three soft rubber flanges and an engineered plastic stick. Somehow what this produces is a funny thing – ear plugs you can’t hear. Things are quieter, but sound just the same otherwise. Soon, you forget that they’re there. Apart from the [...]
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