Archive for May, 2008
Rock Band Drum Kit accessibility mod helps everybody rock harder
Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals
While we of course rock oh-so-very-hard on Rock Band’s drums, the pedal just never felt right under our weakling calves. The problem is naturally exacerbated for folks in wheelchairs, since there’s no way to avoid the kick drum or re-route it to another button — at …
Napa Valley winery flips on Flotovoltaic solar array
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Chalk another one up for Sharp. The company has landed yet another partner willing to utilize its solar panels in order to produce news, wow onlookers and give Mother Earth a modicum of a break. Napa Valley winery Far Niente has flipped on its self-coined Floatovoltaic ins…
FreeHand puts a pocket on your wrist, L on your forehead
Filed under: Wearables
that day and age, there’s really no excuse to have too little room in your average pair of cargo shorts for all the gadgets needed in a day. Convergence and shrinking PCBs have left us with do-it-all handhelds that can fit in the rear pockets of size 2 jeans on a size 4 gal, s…
Computer designed to read thoughts from brain scans
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Frighteningly sufficient, that isn’t the first (or second) moment that we’ve seen scientists pat themselves on the back for creating a mind-reading machine, but a committed team from Carnegie Mellon has just announced a computer that “has been trained to read people’s mind…
Giant bunny formed from GPS path
Filed under: GPS
First things first: considering the huge amount of press garnered by a recent position art scam, that here could indeed be just another spoof to get your hopes up. That being said, we’re pretty certain no one with any level of decency would do such a vile thing on Easter Sunday, whi…
StyleTap announces Palm OS emulator for iPhone
If you are one of the countless society that condemn the iPhone for its inability to emulate the Palm OS, next it may be instance for you to take another look at Apple’s wonder device. StyleTap has announced that they plan to bring that capability to the iPhone in the near future, whats more t…
Prototype iControlPad proves itself on video
Filed under: Cellphones
Hah, did you really have the nerve to doubt CraigIX? The iPhone gamepad add-on that we heard about just last week is already inching closer to reality, and there’s a video to prove it. In the somewhat unexciting clip posted up after the jump, you’ll see a PCB mockup of the de…
MSI Wind gets terse pre-release review
Filed under: LaptopsIt’s pretty mighty to wrap your melon around, but MSI’s Wind has not yet officially launched per se. That being said, it has still managed to end up in the hands of quite a few eager subnote lovers, and Laptop Mag is no exception. Shortly after the UK branch of CNET posted up the…















