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Looking for a Christmas gift for a geeky friend? Then take a look at these clocks made from hard disk drives and their circuit boards. Made from old hard drives - a 2.5" laptop unit and 3.5" SCSI drive respectively, these are for sale on Etsy for $15. The vendor several other IT-themed clocks, so if you fancy a keyboard
Samsung announced the TicToc MP3 players back in July but they've only recently started shipping in UK. Aimed unashamedly at a young female audience, coming in blue, pink, black and Hello Kitty variants, this is a fashion accessory as much as an music player. I'll try to get in touch with my feminine side to give the TicToc a fair
Tor.com are hosting a Steampunk Fortnight over at tor.com, building on the success of last year's Steampunk Month. From 20th October through to 3rd November, there will be stream of articles, stories, desktop backgrounds and giveaways all on the steampunk theme. If you aren't familiar with steampunk, it's a sub-genre of sci-fi where scientific discovery stopped in the Victorian era
If you are look for a cool geeky gift for the holiday season, then you might want to check out this Giant Shift Key LED lamp. Yes, it's exactly what it says. Powered either via USB or three AA batteries, you simply press down on the key to turn it on and off. (Actually, what would be exceptional cool is
The most useful computer is the one in your pocket. What really makes any computer useful is the software that you are able to run on it. When I was a kid in the early 1960’s, one evening my Dad brought home a battery-operated AM transistor radio. I was immediately transfixed. That simple AM radio and I were inseparable. That
If you haven't seen how small Shuttle's XS35 series of ultra small PCs are, then you need to look more closely at the picture on the left. The PC is the unit stuck to the back of the monitor. The XS3510M is now available with a Blu-ray player making this a full hi-def media device. Powered by Intel's dual-core Atom
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