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Active Media Products unveils SaberTooth M1 Mini SATA SSD

, Aug 30th 2011 Discuss [0]

Active Media Products has a ton of SSDs for all sorts of products and uses that are in its SaberTooth line. The last of the products we talked about was the SaberTooth ZF SSD that was aimed at use in small notebooks and other devices. Active Media Products has rolled out another new SSD in the series called the SaberTooth M1. This storage drive is very small and made to slip into an mSATA port. Read The Full Story

R2D2 helmet protects your cranium in geek style

, Aug 24th 2011 Discuss [2]

I am a big fan of Star Wars as are most geeks. I think that it's really cool to see girls that are fans of Star Wars too. It's easy to think of Star Wars fans as a bunch of guys, but that isn't the case. Check out the is hottie named Jenn Hall that created her own Star Wars R2D2 theme helmet for riding her scooter. Hall is a pastry artist by day and geek by night. Read The Full Story

DIY kid camera can survive drops and bumps

, Aug 23rd 2011 Discuss [1]

My kids like to shoot their own photos of their friends and other stuff. My daughter has one of those Fisher-Price cameras that are designed to survive rough treatment she uses quite a bit. The catch is that the image quality is horrible and she often gets mad because the photos are so dark you can't make out what is going on. Read The Full Story

Ben Heck saves new parents sanity with modded car seat to simulate motion

, Aug 23rd 2011 Discuss [1]

When my son was an infant, he had the world's worst colic. The only time he would sleep when he was having a bad bout was in this little chair that vibrated when you wound it up. When the vibration would stop, he cried so we were up winding the seat a lot. Any new parent with a fussy baby knows that you will try anything to calm them down. Many parents find that a drive in the car gets them quieted down. Read The Full Story

Update: Geek builds homemade cathode ray tube

, Aug 23rd 2011 Discuss [1]

When I was a kid, all we had were the fat TVs that were stuffed with cathode ray tubes. I can recall my grandmother having a really old TV that you had to turn on and wait until the cathode tubes heated up before you could get the grainy black and white image. With TVs going flat there isn’t much use left for the old cathode ray tube, other than some awesome geekery like Xellers over on Instructables got up to. Read The Full Story

Geek hacks flare gun into wireless camera drone shooter

, Aug 9th 2011 Discuss [0]

If you need to get an idea what is on the other side of a wall or other obstacle you can’t see over in a situation where looking over the obstacle yourself could get you or someone else hurt you need a drone. The catch is that not all law enforcement agencies have access to drone of any sort. A geek named Joshua Marpet showed off a new drone device he made from a 37mm flare launcher at the Defcon convention recently. Read The Full Story

SlashGear Week in Review – Week 32 2011

, Aug 7th 2011 Discuss [0]

It's that time again; the SlashGear Week in Review is back. One of my favorite stories from last week was the LEGO DIY R2D2 robot. The robot was remote controlled and even the little dome turned making for a very cool project. The teen LulzSec hacker that was arrested in Britain recently was found to have details on hundreds of thousands of people on his computer. The exact number according to the police was 750,000 different personal records on people. Read The Full Story

OutRun arcade game actually drives on the road

, Aug 5th 2011 Discuss [2]

Way back in the day I was all about the driving arcade games. When the parents took me to Chuck E Cheese I waited in line and blew most of my tokens on OutRun and other driving games. I always thought it would be awesome if you could really drive like that video game and apparently, some other geeks did too. Some researchers at the University of California at Irvine used research as an excuse to live out their childhood driving game on the street fantasies. Read The Full Story

.NET Gadgeteer looks to draw tinkering geeks away from Arduino

, Aug 4th 2011 Discuss [3]

I have talked a bunch about some of the cool DIY stuff that I have seen around the web that geeks use Arduino to build. My favorite DIY stuff that people build using Arduino are robots like the Android mascot I mentioned a few weeks back. Microsoft Research has unveiled a new project that was created by the Sensors and Devices team called .NET Gadgeteer. The project was started after some of the folks inside the research area started looking for a faster way to come up with new products. Read The Full Story

LEGO R2D2 robot is remote controlled and packed with awesome

, Aug 1st 2011 Discuss [1]

LEGO + Star Wars + Remote control = Awesome. A dude going by the name Ickelpete has apparently been working on the bot of awesome you see here since last year. The dude has work in progress pictures on his flickr page that go back to last summer showing him at work on various parts of this little droid. The finished product appears to be life-size. Read The Full Story

Duct tape Princess Leia costume is cosplay on the cheap

, Aug 1st 2011 Discuss [1]

Lindsay Boo Barrasse may well be the ideal geek girlfriend me thinks. She's hot and she took it upon herself to construct a Princess Leia costume. Why did she make the costume you ask? Does it really matter? She's hot and dressed like Princess Leia. Granted I would have been more impressed had she created the gold bikini Jaba made Leia wear. Read The Full Story

Obama keyboard lets you be the speech puppet master

, Aug 1st 2011 Discuss [0]

We have a ton of DIY projects that are really interesting rolling around the geeky tech world this month. I have already looked at a few of them recently and another one has caught my eye. If you ever wished you could just take control of President Obama and make home say what you want to hear for a change a this Obama speech keyboard is for you. Read The Full Story
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