Archive for February, 2009
« Previous EntriesHang a Linux Server From Your Wall Outlet
Saturday, February 28th, 2009Small home servers are an increasingly big business. The most common use is as a central storage location for media like music, movies and photos, but home print servers and document shares are also popular.
Marvell has announced their Plug Computing initiative, the first stage of which centers around the SheevaPlug, a 1.2 GHz CPU with [...]
Kindle 2 Brings Some Nice Improvements to the Original
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009When the original Amazon Kindle appeared, most people who tried it loved the interface and connectivity with Amazon’s wireless e-book store, but expressed a common dissatisfaction with the design of the hardware. The sharp corners and beige plastic case gave an impression of “386 processor inside”, and huge edge buttons made it difficult to pick [...]
Plustek V100 – A Scanner That Reads to You
Monday, February 23rd, 2009As the first wave of Kindle 2 e-readers make their way to their new owners, one the the new features many are excited to try out is the text-to-speech ability. But Kindle isn’t the only piece of home gadgetry that’s rolling out this sort of functionality. The Plustek BookReader V100 is a flatbed scanner that [...]
I-Flyer Scanning Wand Makes Learning Birdsongs Techno-Fun
Friday, February 20th, 2009Some people love robots, some love lasers, recently I’ve taken a really liking to barcode scanners (which are laser-enabled, so maybe they get some cool points there). Obvious uses involve reading the barcodes on many products, but all kinds of data can be held within those ubiquitous little parallel lines.
An imaginative and fun device that [...]