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With the newly-released PictureItPostage, Mac users can now more easily join the rabble who are intrigued by putting their own pictures on US postal stamps. While the officially-licensed PhotoStamps project from Stamps.com has been running for about a year, the interest in stamp personalization is just now starting to grow. With PictureItPostage you design your stamp, submit it to the company for review, and they print it and send it back to you. The whole process takes under two weeks. Before you submit anything, though, make sure you’ve read the detailed restrictions in the Terms of Service.
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Weather-predicting Clothespins Finally Become Reality
Posted by Alex Grahmann Categories: Misc. Tech,
For those who refuse to get caught up in the dryer-as-an-appliance craze, Oliver MacCarthy has invented the perfect gadget-ized helper - a set of mechanized clothespins that refuse to work in the rain. A central holder relays weather forecasts to the individual pins and latches them closed when wet weather is predicted. It’s always nice to see real science and engineering knowledge going into common products, and in this regard Oliver MacCarthy may now be crowned king.
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Audi Oh: For When You Really Want To Enjoy Your Music
Posted by Sparky Categories: Misc. Tech, Portable Audio / Video,
Grand Opening has launched quite possibly the most unique and personal MP3 player accessory on the market. The Audi Oh is a small vibrator that is designed to be plugged into a music player and will pulse in time to your music. So ladies (or gents if it suits your fancy) strap it where you please, and then plug in and really enjoy your favorite song in a way the original artist probably did not intend.
Read More | Audi Oh via GadgetryBlog
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Game Daily has a great article posted stating that Dance Dance Revolution may be used as an effective treatment for children diagnosed with ADHD. As a childhood sufferer of ADHD myself, I can imagine how a game that keeps the body active, yet requires intense concentration could help channel the excess energy. The article also points out some of the health benefits garnered from the game. If only DDR had been around when I was a kid perhaps I could have done some of the amazing things DDR people have done.
Read More | Game Daily
And I thought I had seen everything - then I stumbled across the worlds first Internet enabled coffee pot. Do note that an Internet-enabled hot pot has already been created. Beyond - makers of the IceBox in Kitchen PC and a number of innovative household entertainment products have created a coffee pot that you can schedule to make a pot of coffee for you on a each different day of the week. Perfect for a student or someone else with an irregular schedule. If you have the IceBox and the NIC attachment you can even program it over the web or integrate it with your calendar. This is the perfect gift for that truly geeky caffeine addict in your life!
Read More | Beyond via Red Ferret Journal
Thankfully creative people like Alyce Santoro are out there to do creative things with the millions of miles of old cassette tape floating around out there. She spends hours recording ambient sounds onto old tape, then knits it into fabric for use in creating clothing and other every-day objects. She is working on a specially designed tape head to “read” her fabric and play it back. Her fabric is available by the yard if you have your own creative ideas to use this recycling hack for.
Read More | Sonic Fabric via Popgadget
So there I was getting some headphone at my local pharmacy, which is a definite no-no for the audiophile in me - but i had no choice, when I spot something that intrigued me: a flashlight. Why is this flashlight different? Well, this flashlight can use 3 kinds of batteries: C, D, and AA. Not only that, but when one pair dies out you can easily just flip a switch and be using the next set. There’s no need to even fiddle around in your closet to find an old boom box that may contain 4 or 5 dead C batteries. Just awesomely practical.
Read More | Energizer
The wonderful people over at ReadyMade just posted one of the greatest bio-hacks I’ve seen yet - the RE-CLINE sofa. Check out these instructions detailing how to make a sofa out of sod for your backyard. Perfect for those lazy summer nights when you are out watching the stars. I can’t imagine how difficult it would be to keep your couch trimmed though!
Read More | Re-Cline
Scientists Create Emulated Society - May Generate Virtual Culture
Posted by Sparky Categories: Misc. Tech, Software,
Scientists have taken the concept of agent-based AI one step further and are creating a virtual world inhabited by agents capable of learning, changing, breeding and evolving. The virtual agents will need to learn to survive - make their own food, develop a form of communication, create a life for themselves - all on their own. The sistem will have a series of 1000 agents hosted on a server farm of about 50 computers and rendered for the real world using a modified version of the Counter Strike gaming engine. Hopefully the agents will develop a form of communication - to then be deciphered by human computer scientests and linguists - of their very own. A very interesting read and concept.
Read More | New Scientist
Gear Live Podcast: Gizmo, iPod Color, Opera, Netzero, Gender Detection
Posted by Edwin Soto Categories: Features, Misc. Tech, Podcasts,
Today, we invite you back to some of our staff babblings about:
- The iPod Color
- NetZero HiSpeed 3G
- Opera’s BitTorrent Support
- Baby Gender Dectection
- The Participatory Culture Foundation
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Voices: Andru Edwards, Edwin Soto, Sparky, Oscar Cantu.
Length: 58:39, 12.4 MB
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