Archive for March, 2006
Friday, March 31st, 2006
Make reports on a telephone that features a built-in PIR motion sensor. If an intruder is detected within a 30 ft. range, TeleSpy calls a preset telephone number and allows you to listen in to the premises.
Now, what a cool concept. If this phone was positioned in a certain way ...
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Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
Came across this transportable folding ramp on the excellent how-to site "Instructables".
The ramp looks a beauty...just glue a few strips of emery paper going across this and she'd be non-slip!
Great to see sharing like what's on the Instructables site. I hope Lifekludger blog will be able to share these similar ...
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Sunday, March 26th, 2006
Came across this tuff case for iPods called a TuffWrap.
It reminded me of the look of those laptops that are used in extreme environments, usually by military and industry.
I once heard these toughened laptops are good for kids with disabilities, who can often be very heavy on electronic equipment using ...
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Tuesday, March 21st, 2006
UPDATE: For my take on how this topic recently went balistic, see the post Truth and Traffic on my personal blog.
Back on 14th Feb I posted about a bottle cap that you could buy and turn any bottle into a camera tripod.
Today I got a comment on that post ...
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Tuesday, March 14th, 2006
This is my new blog "lifekludger".
I intend to make it my primary blog.
You can see my previous blog, called "blob" here.
Over time I hope to get some of those posts over here.
Related posts:Listen to Lifekludger
Blob and Lifekludger in Temple U roundup
Opensource meets the physical world
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Tuesday, March 14th, 2006
This post started as an email reply to Frank Arrigo. Frank was kindly answering another of my questions about Bluetooth and PDA interoperability. My response evolved however into something that really needs to be more widely heard, hence I'm posting it here.
> Unfortunately the news isn't good
>
> I haven't ...
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Monday, March 13th, 2006
The ultimate noise filter
Okay, so you want to get away from it all without going anywhere? Shut out all that information that bombards you every waking moment? Here's the untimate way of "filtering signal from noise".
Besides which, this is just ubergeek!
[Link] iTheater - Watch movies in the privacy of your ...
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Friday, March 10th, 2006
ETech 2006 (Monday)
Originally uploaded by Laughing Squid.
Okay, I love technology as much, if not moreso, than the next guy. These Segway Personal Transporters are cool and Dean Kamen did a great thing with the iBot. But, please, people, if you ...
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Thursday, March 9th, 2006
ETech Audience
Matt Cottam
Originally uploaded by x180.
Was looking through some Etech links and photos. I came across these."
Now I don't know what it is they're looking at exactly but it looks awfully like some kind of environmental control Lifekludge ...
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Thursday, March 9th, 2006
Came across this product called the iLap which as the site describes it:
iLap is a versatile stand that keeps your laptop cool, and at the same time, lets you work comfortably on your lap as well as your desk.
This could be very useful for stabilising the laptop in a ...
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Wednesday, March 8th, 2006
UPDATE: Snippet from the show.
I was invited by Cam as a guest on the Personal Productivity Show last night.
Des Paroz was away, which was a shame as I was looking forward to meeting him. So Cam, me and Hugo Ortega from the UberTablet blog had a chat about a ...
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Saturday, March 4th, 2006
The other day the e-HomeUpgrade blog had news and a review about some speech recognition software from OneVoice Technologies. The Media Center Communicator Version 2, is designed to let you talk to and control your Media Center PC.
For the future One Voice Communications is working with other partners on integrating ...
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