Archive for October, 2005

Robot Arms for Art

Monday, October 31st, 2005

I'm forever astounded at what people will try and make. Over at robot clothes blog they're making DIY robotic arms! All it seems in the name of Art (shrug). I dunno about an artistic arm, but I can think of a few uses I could use a robotic arm for every ...

PDAs in the iPod era

Sunday, October 30th, 2005

There's been an interesting discussion going on over at Slashdot titled "Why Have PDAs Failed In The iPod Era?" As you can imagine, opinions abound. As I've got a personl interest in why my PDA won't do things I need it to the way I need it to that would make ...

Wrist Wearable PC/PDA

Friday, October 28th, 2005

Okay, here's a spin on the 'traditional' PDA. This is a PDA you wear on your wrist. It has impressive specs including GPS, IrDA, Bluetooth and Wireless connectivity. Has 32 MB system ROM-Flash, 64 MB system SDRAM, and expands up to 1 GB through the built-in SD memory slot. Now, this ...

There’s a Kludgemagazine

Thursday, October 27th, 2005

I just found out there is a kludge magazine. It's a music related website and has nothing whatsoever to do with what lifekludger kludges. However, it did have an interesting quote on its front page that caught my attention. "If you could be told by what you can see or read then it ...

RSS to lyrics

Thursday, October 27th, 2005

I've been sitting on this post for a while. I spotted this article on converting a RSS feed into a Lyrics file and thought there's something in this but din't really know what. Surely the idea that RSS can be read on a portable device, especially some low-cost mp3 player ...