An archive of our old posts.
As a minor follow up to my post on the ‘thing’ I bought … look at this - looks similar. To be fair, it was a post on this site that inspired me to buy the thing in the first place (look for the Sunday, April 09, 2006 post). That beautiful bit of vintage kit has been gutted to make a midi controller built for Thomas Dolby. Sweet.
SteamSHIFT out.
I first heard about Plaxo many moons ago from my friend Mike; at that time however, it was PC only so I forgot all about it. It is now available for Mac and it's works really pretty well. You sign up, install the plaxo agent and away you go - it connects neatly into the Address Book application and makes sure that the details of any of your contacts who also use Plaxo are up to date. Easy and useful.
SteamSHIFT out.
It was listed as ‘PRECISION SERIES E-400 SWEEP GENERATOR F.M - TELEVISION-A.M’; which is basically gobbledegook to me, but may mean something to someone. Wikipedia has this to say:
Sophisticated tone generators will also include sweep generators (a function which varies the output frequency over a range, in order to make frequency-domain measurements)
But to be fair that's not much better! So anybody care to explain it in layman's terms?
On the other hand, I bought it because it looks so great! There's something about vintage technology ….
SteamSHIFT out.
For those few of you who have been with me for any length of time, you will know that I have been intrigued by the possibilities of concrete for some time now. I have blogged about staining concrete, heating concrete and see through concrete and bendable concrete.
You will probably also know that concrete is really bad environmentally and I have blogged about alternatives like papercrete (concrete made using paper) and Earthskin, a mix of 80% earth and concrete.
So in the vein of the former, if not currently the latter of these possibly incompatible interests, I present: Color Changing Concrete. This is a new innovation that uses heat conduction to enable the display of patterns in the concrete.
SteamSHIFT out.
(Via Gizmodo.)
You may remember from my blog entry about being in Harajuku earlier this year, that I was talking about having been in a designer goods store. Well, I have stumbled across it. The site is in Japanese, with the requisite amount of English words to make it cool, but the best thing is that I also found this site - I Bee, Inc. I Bee, K.K./Robot Labs. Check out the awesome videos of Pirkus R Type-01. This is the robot we saw in KDDI; it's even cooler in real life.
Contact me if you want any of these and we can work out a deal.
SteamSHIFT out.
Wow. How did that happen?!
I thought that I would do a post, rather belatedly, in honour of my first anniversary as a proper blogger. Hopefully, this will give you a flavour of the kind of things that I tend to post about. Here are links to 12 not entirely random articles from the archives (one from each month from March ‘05 to February ’06):
I am sat here working away on my laptop, with a fully functioning screen; it doesn't even need a bulldog clip at the side to make it work! And it cost me (apart from time) a grad total of … £130 to fix (actually it cost work that - it's their laptop!!).
So shortly on eBay, I will have for sale (for a Aluminium / Aluminum Powerbook with 15 inch screen, 1.5Ghz): 2 screen cables (that connect the motherboard to the lcd) and a front bezel (including hinges and the little pcb that connects to the bluetooth and airport aerials). The cables should fix problems with flickering or colour shifted screens. I guess the bezel is useful for physical damage! Email me (or post a comment saying you‘re interested) if any of this is useful to you and we can work out a price. I’ll post links to the autions later.
SteamSHIFT out.
A super Green Sandwich Bio Panel uses a core made of biomass like rice straw and can be covered in Earthskin, a mix of 80% earth and concrete
Both environmentally friendly and extremely durable? Surely not! Just imagine the environmental benefits if even 1% of new houses in the developed world used this instead of bricks and mortar…
Via TreeHugger
