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Over at How It Works there's a short story about a father and his two children sending up a weather balloon to 19 miles with a video camera on-board. The camera records all of the ascent and all but 2 minutes of the descent - the battery runs out! It takes the Geissbuhler family eight months of planning and it's
Satoshi Yanagisawa is a sustainable designer based in Farnham in the south-east of England. He's developed "Cyclus", a concept for a wind-up USB charger that will give around 30 minutes juice for a couple of twists. Based on a spring and DC motor, this is simple technology in a great design and is a far more elegant solution than other
The first thing I did was to use the HDMI input and connect that to my TiVo Series 3 DVR. I had I connected my Apple TV to the DVI input using a HDMI to DVI adapter I have. This is just a temporary set up until I can pick up an HDMI switcher. Right now I am not sure which one will give me the best value for its price. The next thing I did was to connect the TiVo to a Kenwood receiver I had. The receiver is about eight years old, so the only video connection it has are S Video, and composite video, because of this I decided to use it for audio only. I connected the TiVo to the DVD optical audio input. I used composite cables to connect the Apple TV to the Tape input on the receiver. I plan to pick up another optical audio cable, but for now the composite cables work fine. I then connected the speakers, two rear, two front and one center, with no subwoofer. Obviously, this is not an optimal setup, but it works and it was cheap.
This last week has been a pretty good one for me, for I got to review more than just a computer, printer or network. I got to review a car. Well, mostly the computer in the car, but still a very tricked out Ford Taurus SHO. A $37,000 vehicle with the Microsoft SYNC system inside. Ford delivered the Taurus last
I've owned an Iphone since it first came out and have always used the earphones that came with it. If for some reason I can't find them I use a pair of cheap Sony headphones. I have also tried the Jawbone, but found it uncomfortable. Last week, my Iphone headphone broke, for the second time in less then a year the seal on the ear piece split. This left me with only the Sony headphones, which are ok for listening to music, but they have no mic. I decided it was time to get a good pair of headphones.
3.04 lbs 1.03 inches thick single-core CPU @ 1.2 GHz, with 800 MHz FSB & 512 KB L2 Cache 2 GB of DDR2 ATI Radeon X1270 graphics AMD RS690E chipset 250 GB hard drive 802.11b/g 11.6-inch high-def WXGA Ultrabrite LED-backlit display 3 x USB 2.0, multi-card reader, high-def audio support, a mic & audio out 0.3 mp webcam. Windows Vista
First a little background to the story. I have a first generation 4G Iphone, which I love. It is also the only phone for our house, since we have no land line so it is important that it is in working order. Therefore when ever there is an update, I always cross my fingers and hope it works. However this