This is Sand

All of us who were once kids (which is all of us) have made those sand art bottles, where you fill a bottle with layers of colored sand. Well, this is the digital version and equally as addictive. Bring your inner 8-year-old artist back to life and play in this sandbox. Oh, and don't forget to check out my piece in the gallery. :)

thisissand.com

Laptop 2600

In my search for printable contact paper for designing my own laptop cover (which I never found... If you know where to find some PLEASE COMMENT!) I ran into this dude who used Con-Tact's Wood Grains contact paper to Atari-ize his laptop. Neat idea (and the controller is a nice touch, too!)

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NES Controller Car Engine Mod

Not exactly tech, but definitely geek; This guy made his engine cover look like an NES controller. MAKE Blog notes, "Playing a game with this controller might be difficult if you are driving, although you'll be the popular one at the tailgate party."

Mods: NES Controller Car Engine Mod

DIY Cheap Wireless for Your XBox 360

While we're on the subject of XBox 360's, here's a way to hack together a homemade wireless adapter for your XBox 360. This is great since the one M$ forces you to buy is about $60 overpriced.

HOW TO: Cheap Wireless For Your Xbox 360

DIY Heat Blocking Curtains

Quite simply, just find whatever reflective material you can and hang it as a curtain.

"Summer is nearing/here, and it's getting hotter in my house. To save electricity with our super expensive A/C, I constructed reflective curtains to block sunlight from warming our house. Think auto windshield. This is super simple and kind of obvious, but it works well."

Heat blocking curtains - Instructables

60 Incredible PC Mods

While researching my "How to Get and Keep Windows XP After June 30" post I ran into this site. There are some really unique mods here (most of which you've probably seen before) but still - really good stuff, kids!


60 of the Best Computer Mods | Computer Plus

BestTimeMachineEver.com

From the inventor's blog:

"If you are like me, then you enjoy traveling into the future from time to time. The biggest problem that I faced is when I was away from my time machine but I needed to go to the future. In order to help facilitate my time traveling I created a web-based time machine. Now I can travel into the future from any place that has an internet connection."

BestTimeMachineEver.com

How to Make Digital 3D Movies

The latest issue of MAKE Magazine brings us an overview of how to construct our own "stereo video camera" and 3D viewer. Now we just need 3D YouTUBE so we can all enjoy dogs humping things in 3D... Or we could just buy a dog that humps things.

Even if you don't subscribe to MAKE (which you should) you can check out the article in the free digital edition of the 'zine.

HOW TO - Make homebrew digital 3D movies

Daily Link Roundup of Philly Wi-Fi and Gestures

EarthLink Pulls the Plug on Philly Wi-Fi FontStruct: Font Making Made Easy Wait A Minute… Somewhere They Hold Demolition Derbies With Combines? And I Wasn’t Told About It? Gallery of Grand Theft Auto 4 / New York City comparison shots ‘Special Edition’ Cellphone Watch - I’m Still Not Sold Improve Your Listening by Mirroring Gestures Adjustable Hot Sauce: Dial N For Napalm Keep Your Laptop Close With This Neoprene Backpack Song made from Call of Duty gun-sounds Share Your Consumerism at How I Spent My Stimulus Squirt files between iPods with miShare DVD + Video Game Sun Visor Runs Out Of Things To Include

Daily Link Roundup of E-Inks and Moons

Japanese Vending Machines Now Require A Tobacco Passport To Buy Cigarettes Emergency Exit USB hub Bike Mount For iPhone, iPod & Other Portable Devices Cost of hops crops hits tops: Won't someone please think of the beer? Eye-Fi Announces New SD Cards, Services Laptop thieves nabbed with help from Mac software New E-Ink cells offer curved pixels, any-shape displays Giant working NES controller/coffee table Netflix Watch Now: Missing too much popular content Duck Hunt lamp - Boing Boing Gadgets The Original Illustrated Catalog Of ACME Products Send your name to the Moon!

Daily Link Roundup of Blogging and Poker Chips

Customer service via Twitter works for unpopular people too Top 10 Tools to Get Blogging Done Study: Developer activity on Facebook's platform is slowing Poker Chip USB Sticks - What’s Stored On Your Flash Drive, Stays On Your Flash Drive Laser Target Alarm Clock For Heavy Sleepers Or Star Trek Fans Work while working out with the TrekDesk Worst Bluetooth Gadget Yet: PDA Stylus Handset Scented Fruit Speaker Pillows Record-Breaking Lego Tower Stands 100 Feet Tall StopForwarding.us Teaches E-mail Etiquette

Daily Link Roundup of Beer and Microsoft

Google Maps Facelift Scoble Sellout Part Three? - Twitter Adverts R/C Cooler Brings The Beer To You LED cape Yahoo’s Tumbling House Of Cards LinkedIn vs. Facebook 6 Months Later How to Thief-Proof Your Laptop Swiss Company Selling America in Late May Microsoft donates special 360 kiosks to children's hospitals Shape-Shifting Robots Robot Laser Deathmatch Is Just Practice For World Takeover

Daily Link Roundup of Ironman and Spy Sunglasses

Electro-occular implants transform blind grandmas into NBA stars Rotating screw becomes DIY clock Raytheon Sarcos is the Real Ironman A swarm of tiny robot vacuums for your apartment Spy sunglasses not likely to be in Bond's arsenal Radio shows what your friends are listening to Wear Your Battery Backup As A ‘Fashion’ Statement The Real Losers in the Failed Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Creative Ways to Reuse "Disposable" Items Robotic Giraffe Really Likes to Be Pet

Daily Link Roundup of Gamers and Non-gamers

Lighting for LEGO Sanyo Xacti DMX-CA8 water-proof to 10 feet Knife Hooks Keep Up The Trend Of Dangerous Household Items 7-Inch LCD Monitor Tries To Make Your Wii Portable Weekend Project: Kitchen Floor Vacuum Former Home Made Moped Runs On Fresh Air RIAA's lawsuit against homeless man not going entirely smoothly Gamers More Social than Non-Gamers -- Study Wii Fit to be in short Supply Super Mario Theme Played On Wine Bottles By RC Car

Daily Link Roundup of Six Packs and Blockbuster

WeRobot Shirt Features 51 Robots, More Or Less Make a wearable pixel Chill Stick Disguises A Six Pack AT&T launches its own browser, Pogo. Surprise: It doesn't suck. Energy Saver Bar Turns Off Your Gadgets With A Tap Of Your Foot Rocketboom creator pulls plug on auction of Twitter account German Company Resurrects Self-Destructing DVDs Clothing designed to fight back against intentionally uncomfortable furniture Blockbuster sued over role in Facebook's Beacon ad program Hide Cords with the CD Spindle Cable Organizer 2.0 Target Speed Racer Gift Card Flash Drive

Daily Link Roundup of Cyberdyne and Comcast

'Bed Fan' keeps you cool under the sheets Tiny 'Tweezers' Can Pick Up, Move Individual Cells How-To: Make A Sawn-Off USB Thumbdrive Cheap Calls! Truphone Raises £16.5 million In Series B Cyberdyne Building Factory To Construct Consumer Power Exoskeletons The Decline and Fall of Tech on Digg Smooshy stylus for the iPhone / iPod Touch A new reason to hate Comcast Oklahoma Leaks Tens of Thousands of Social Security Numbers, Other Sensitive Data Psystar’s Mac clones: The pics - But is the company even real?

Daily Link Roundup of Body Suits and Egyptians

Nissan Body Suit Makes You Feel Old - I'm old. I need to go feed my cats. Tungle launches meeting time broker USB hub spider Test: Fring Brings VoIP To iPhone With Mixed Results Twitter Saves Man From Egyptian Justice USB Mouse Hubs - This will eat your USb hub spider. Chumby hackers go to town Monster Cable Threatens Blue Jeans Cable, Gets Ass Handed Back

Daily Link Roundup of Bawls and Mobile Webs

The arms race escalates between spammers and CAPTCHA Forte Fully Automatic CD & DVD Duplicator Shopping cart with robot legs and tendrils of flame Turn Your iPod Touch into an iPhone Potty Training Brick Makes Your Pooch Want To Pee Comic Panel Comments on the Sad and True Evolution of Man and TV Is the Mobile Web Dead? Some Mobile Entrepreneurs Say Yes The Wireless Child Tracker A long evening with Bawls' high-caffeine G33k B33r 'Remember Ring' Sears Important Dates Into Flesh Fantastic light-emitting wallpaper by designer Jonas Samson Wanna Go To Chotchkies, Get Some Coffee? Vehicle Communications System In Your Pocket

Daily Link Roundup of Woz and Legos

Shuttle Releases HD DVD/Blu-ray Compatible Mini-PC The Woz talks about creating the computer of his dreams DIY Tile Phone Concept Excites People Who Love Stray Parts Cheap and Easy Velcro Ties Bowl with spoon-rest Rocketboom Founder Puts His Twitter Account On Sale God Uses Firefox? Logo Forms In Space! Weekend Project: Transistorize Your iPod GrandCentral Offline: If You Wanna Be A Phone Company, You Can’t Go Dead The Lego People Must Be Stopped: MP3 Player G-Dog Robot Kit Is Robosapien’s Best Friend

Daily Link Roundup of Robots and Robot Poop

KUKA WiiBot Plays Tennis, Will Stab You Doomi Helps You Get Things Done Wireless Paintball Turret Offers Home Perimeter Defense, Peace of Mind Find the Perfect Cell Phone Plan at BillShrink TiVo Execs Hack American Idol Results Do Business Like a Mafioso Every Robot Poops Use Jott to Keep a Medical Diary Digitized Post-It Notes for Alzheimer's Patients Nix noisey hard drives with elastic

Daily Link Roundup of Staches and Paros

Identity thieves slash prices Pneumatic exoskeleton makes lifting a breeze I Saw The Future Of Social Networking The Other Day BumpTop 3D Desktop Yahoo Goes Scorched Earth Fly without booking a flight Just What the Heck is Twitter, Anyway? A Necklace Comb For Your Stache Imagine A Writer For The Onion Doing Greeting Cards. Now Read Below. Paro therapeutic service robot coming to the USA and Canada

Daily Link Roundup of Tail Communicators and Wheelchairs

Amazon Gives $50 Credit to HD DVD Player Purchasers Your Dog Wants An LED Tail Communicator Getting Yourself Fired, the Easy Way Pedal Powered Wheelchair Seems So Wrong A word of caution Man repeatedly calls late wife's voicemail Zac Browser for Autistic Children Functional Dollhouse Television Luxury Gas Masks USB Smart Cable Cellphone Strap Not Inaptly Named

Daily Link Roundup of Braille SMS and Gold Keyboards

Braille Cellphone Could Allow SMS For The Blind Isolé IDP-3050 Power Strip Automatically Shuts Off When You’re Not Around CCTV cameras move crime a few feet down the sidewalk -- study Zip-Ang Handmade Gold Keyboard Cyborg Insects Off The Drawing Board, Into The Air Custom Super Mario underwear New Flash Drives From Super Talent Are Super Tiny The Nerdcycle : Exercise while surfing the net Foreclosures Shown On Scary, Encroaching Heat Maps Biometric Authentication: Thumbprints Out, Vein Scanning In?

Daily Link Roundup of accodians and Street Views

Make Your Own Temporary Tattoos from Your Printer - Great way to test out an idea before it becomes permanent. Accordian retracting USB flash drive - GENIUS! No cap to lose. Who Says Print is Dead? Local Blog Finds Success Offline DIY etching tank Capturx Digital Pen Turns Jotted Notes to Text Snakes, Rovers and Googly Eyes: New Robot Masters Take Many Forms Pittsburgh couple sues Google over Street View Buy a 'Surface' Computer, but Not From Microsoft! FIRST robotics competition Pizza.com domain name fetches millions - One of the few who got lucky with a domain purchase years ago.

Daily Link Roundup of powerXtenders and Car Phones

Weekend Project: Telekinetic Pen - I found this on 4 different sites. Guess that means its cool. Roombas Supposedly Effective At Exterminating Ants Fishtank Friday: Glowing USB Fishhub - Not real fish OhGizmo Review: iGo powerXtender - We have an iGo charger in the car, saves a lot of space. As expected, MySpace unveils new music service Motorola Reintroduces "Car Phones" Barcode art Craigslist Launches Official Blog Selfy The Self-Making Bed - For the truely lazy. Mini Tritium Glowing Keychain Is Good For 10 Years The Only Valid Measurement of Code Quality - Click to find out.

Daily Link Roundup of Picollators and Beeblebroxs

Picollator - Find related images be looking at the actual image not keywords. Use a digital photo-frame as a second display - Awesome idea but not an easy project. Zaphod Beeblebrox-inspired teddy bears from Douglas Adams fan-club - We want for our dog, one more head and one more arm for her to trip off. Cook Better with Your Microwave than Your Stove - For you bachelors out there. Microsoft busted by Indian government for avoiding royalty tax by saying that it sells -- not licenses -- its software - HA HA! Bluetooth Sunglasses Keep You Hands-Free While Looking Cool - Very nice shades. Jabra Headset Screens Your Calls - LCD screen helps you know whats going on in there. AT&T Buys "Surface" -- Won't Advertise iPhones Beam your name on your neighbor's house - This could be great for that neighbor you hate. I am talking about you Jimmy :). Phonofone II iPod Passive Amplification Speaker - Look like your kickin old school. PowerCube makes going green easy, but weighs too much

Tech History Made on April 3, 1973

On this day 35 years ago the first cellular phone call was made. In those day if you wanted a mobile phone you would of needed a radiophone in your car. The radiophone was cumbersome and its supporting equipment weighed 30 pounds. Martin Cooper of Motorala first call with the cellular phone was to Bell labs research chief Joel Engel. Bell labs had the idea of cell phones in the late 40's and competed through the 60's and 70's with Motorola to make the idea real.
The first cellphone, DynaTAC (for DYNamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage), was 2 1/2 pounds, 9 inches long and contained 30 circuit boards. After a 10 hour charge you could have 35 minutes of talk time. By 1983 Motorola developed a marketable cell phone. The 1 pound DynaTac set you back a cool $3500. By 1990 there were 1 million American cell phone subscribers. Today you would be hard pressed to find someone who doesn't have a cell. Many people have abandoned land lines all together. Which is easy to see considering the lightest phone is only 1.41 ounces and every carrier has a free phone with 2 year contract.

Daily Link Roundup of firebal shooters and manure launchers

Porta-Jump: Tiny Cube Jump Starts Your Car - You don't have to get out of the car to use it. Weekend Project: Make a fireball shooter Check eBay Auctions for Sneaky Stuff with Auction Inquisitor 1.20: Retention Plan Robot Vacuum Cleans Your Floors, Maps Your Rooms, Sleeps With Your Wife - True Manure launching security system Breaking: Sony Won't Charge $50 To Remove Bloatware Tell Starbucks What You Want: More Free WiFi, Plugs For Laptops, Better Coffee... Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader Locked Up: Why Your Books Are No Longer Yours - You are better off by the real thing, so you can do whatever you want with it.

Daily Link Roundup of DangerBombs and suicide robots

Banpresto DangerBomb Alarm Clock Makes Each Morning Your Last Chill Out With The Swiss Peace Knife Has Digg Already Picked the President? HOW TO - LED foldie Sharpcast (Finally) Releases SugarSync for Synchronization of Data Across Devices How NOT to Promote Your Site Man kills self with suicide robot Handmade mechanical dragonfly Five Methodologies to Deal with Email Overload

Daily Link Roundup of RFIDs and Stashes

How To Hack A RFID Credit Card For $8 MediaCart Does Everything But Carry Home The Shopping Tetris Mirror Is Useful Gaming Art 1.19: More Surfing - XML= Extra, Medium, Large KidZui: The Kid Safe Browser - Great idea that can really help all parents. Arthur C. Clarke Passes On Stash Stuff Inside Your Notebook with Stash Card - This would be perfect for keeping business cards with you. Best Buy Awards Over $20 Million in gift Cards to HD DVD buyers Wireless Spectrum Auction Raises $19.6 Billion. We Still Don’t Know Who Won.

How to Make Your Own CD/DVD Cases & Sleeves

How many times have you burned a CD or DVD only to find you don’t have an empty case to put it in? Well we have it happen all the time, so we set out to find an easy to make CD case that uses only a sheet of 8 ½ by 11 piece of paper. We diligently searched Instructables.com and now bring you our top five. You can click on the image of each case to view how to make it.

This one topped our list because it requires no tracing, no scissors and no glue. The resulting case is sturdy enough to be used more than once and is portable. It completely encases the disk and closes securely. Also, once you have made one you won’t forget how to make it.

This CD sleeve is very similar to our #1 pick, but requires some cutting/ripping. It does however have an optional template posted to help with adding artwork. Like number one it is easy to remember, reusable and portable.

This one lands at three because it requires scissors and a pencil. Also, the directions are in video form which seems like a good idea, but in the end only makes it harder to follow. The directions present 2 ways to secure the case and even though the case is not easy to remember, it is reusable, portable and results in a nicely finished product. This might be a good pick if you're producing the case to give to someone else as a gift.

Although the end result was worth the work, tracing and scissors do not make for an easy build. This CD sleeve is portable but you might have trouble making it again without the instructions. This instructable features both a video and the usual step-by-step instructions which are a big help. Like #3, this one looks nice but requires quite a bit of effort to produce.

Tip: Fold with the tracing to the outside. It makes a nice pattern on back of the case!

This case lands at #5 because it is not exactly portable. Really, it's more of a sleeve than a case. The directions are quite simple and easy to remember though, and the sleeve would be great for in-office storage.

Honorable Mention

These next two cases didn't quite make the cut because they were just too hard to make. Still, we just had to mention them because the results are really cool!

While a template is available, this case is difficult. The intricacies of this case would make it great for giving a CD as a gift. Since our search began as a need for a quick CD case, this simply didn't meet our requirements. Also, it does not seem to last for too many unwrappings and wrappings.

(Confession: We found this case so complicated that we never actually finished constructing it. Darn A.D.D.)

This case has a template you can fill in with your own text and artwork then print. It requires a heavier grade paper than the rest, so it didn't quite meet our requirements. This case would be great when making CD’s for a garage band or a Christmas gift and even includes instructions for doing a double-CD case.

Daily Link Roundup of Faxes and Big Dogs

Hakia Licenses its Semantic Search Technology TiVo adds Web video--but there's a catch - You need a Series 3 box to use it. What Happens When WiFi Goes Away? Fax for Free - You can send 2, 3 page faxes a day for free. BB Gadgets: Big Dog robotic pack mule on ice and snow- Watch the video so you can see the height of this robot. Measuring cup with unusual units of measure- Add half a human brains worth of flour and then mix in...... Worst USB Gadget Yet: Engagement Ring Self watering recycled plant pot for growing herbs and flowers IPhone Hack Brings Multi Touch To PC and Mac

Daily Link Roundup of SMS Spams and VoIP Phones

Chinese Firm Sends 230 Million SMS Spams Daily - Everything really is made in China. Check Web Site Availability with Down For Everyone Or Just Me? - We will use this for those clients who can't understand why their site is not coming up when they are at some random establishment. 1.18: Quitting is a Disease - This is so true. Thomson's Beautiful "Symbio" VoIP Phone - We want one. Toy Records Audio Onto a Coffee Cup Robot On A Swing Video Coming To Flickr Soon. Really. A Very Special Google Docs Feature (Potential Spoiler) BLUETOUCH Bluetooth Car Kit Is Not So Hands Free

Daily Link Roundup of Space Stations and Flatwires

UK Man Builds Amazing High Tech Shed - It is the ultimate man shed. Space Station Puts 12GB In Your Pocket Wireless Nunchuck for Nintendo Wii by Nyko FriendFeed Is This Years Twitter, But Why? Hide Cords in Plain Sight with FlatWire Fix Desynchronized Video and Audio with VLC Toktumi Opens its PC-based Phone Beta to Public - Get it...Talk To Me

Daily Link Roundup of Password Checkers and Pacemakers

Belkin USB Hub That Fills Your Desk Grommet Hole. Verdict: Ingenious Design! Check Your Passwords' Strength at Microsoft's Password Checker Bore Your Friends With Vacation Photos Converted To Viewmaster Slides! Bringing OpenID To The Masses: Clickpass Belkin Powerstrip Lets You Recharge USB Gadgets Wal-Mart: Linux Not Ready For Our Shoppers Why broadcast TV sucks, AKA the rise of web video World's Smallest Pacemaker Hits REPLY on Your Heart Dropbox: Easy real-time folder sync, rollback Facebook Pays $25 For User Testing; We’ll Double That For Leaks

Daily Link Roundup of TV Stands and Hulus

Ex-Googler Launches Search Engine Community, Topicle Automatic Etch-A-Sketch Clock The Idea Behind "Can Google Hear Me" Thanko Motorized TV Stand For Getting Your Wii On - There are lots of Wii gadgets popping up. Oil paintings inspired by Internet memes If It Doesn't Rot, Don't Eat It - I guess that means no more Mountain Dew. Asus MS71 - USB Flash Drive and Mouse - Good combo. CSS Minifier : A simplified and performant version Bringing down an ASP.NET Application for updates Hulu to offer lulu of a video selection

Daily Link Roundup of Bloxes and Codes

Padded Lamposts Cause Fuss in London - For GPS using people who never look up from their cell. May Day Boycott Looming, EBay Revises Impact of 'Bug' - DO NOT USE EBAY ON MAY 1ST! British Security Camera Can See Through Clothes - Brits rights are quickly disapearring. 1.15: Code Security - This is how crappy code started. How to save money running a startup (17 really good tips) - Good tips for any business really. Bloxes Cardboard Modular Building Blocks - These would be awesome to use in a loft. Gmail Assistant: Keep Tabs on Your Gmail Accounts - Does what it says. Porcupine Flashlight Weaponized For Your Pleasure - Blind and mame your foes. Elgan: Making the phone-PC connection - We all want a cell that works seamlessly with our PC. Savvy Circle Monitors Your Wishlist for Price Drops - Yet another way to get the best price. Review: Ultimate Ears iPhone Earbuds Let You Talk Pretty, Today - Because earbuds suck.

Daily Link Roundup of Snakes and Pricepinx

Gliding Slider Turns Your Keybard into a Mousepad Open Your Beer Like A True Geek Robot Snakes Crawl Up Your Pants - Robot snakes are taking over the world. Copy and Paste Text for Later Use with Textsnip Zicasso: Have Someone Else Plan That Perfect Trip Pricepinx intelligently watches for price drops online - We are using this to catch a Wii on sale. What are the laws in each US state on driving while cellphoning? Neclace Monitors Medicine As You Swallow It - Yes they spelled necklace wrong. Make Site-Specific Searches Within Google Search Results Inside the Shady World of Consumer Spy Gadgets

Daily Link Roundup of Dual Sync Outlook and GCal

Tactile Wand For The Visually Impaired Cheapo Keyboard Has a Hidden Secret -The new junk drawer. Flexii Vista Compatible Portable USB Paperless Digital Fax Machine-Plug and Play! Haptic Maglev Controller May Be Coming To Unaffordable Market Underground 'SneakerNet' Growing In Cuba - Think about how mad you get when your internet kicks the bucket. Imagine not having any access ever, not at all. Peephole Video Camera Sync Your GCal to Outlook and Back Automatically - Here we go guys. We have been waiting on this for a long time. Passively Cooled PC Uses Giant Heat Sink for a Case Internet Explorer 8 Has Arrived Top 10 Ways to Get Cables Under Control AOL Releases Open AIM 2.0 Foiled by the Dictionary - We have all had clients like this.

Daily Link Roundup of Mints and Soaps

1.13: Bad News - Comic strip poking fun at Wikipedia. Google Cleans Up With Gmail Soap - So fresh and so clean, clean. Take Your iMac Anywhere In This Indestructible iMcruzer Case - And everyone will think you are transferring a weapon of mass destruction. Portable Clip On Printer For Notebooks - Could come in handy but most hotels have printers you can use. Mint Gets A Mint Toast Appliances Are Either Best Or Worst Thing Ever Lynxmotion DIY Hexapod Kit - We want one now. Bronze PSP in Japan - AKA Brown. ClipFinder searches, streams, and downloads - Search all video. Microsoft LucidTouch Gives Touch Technology the 'Reach Around' - Very neat screen senses your fingers on the back of the device.

Daily Link Roundup of Anti-Sharks and Pidgins

Worst USB Gadget Yet: Dog-Doing-Situps Drive Watch All Network TV from One Place Which Programming Language Would Presidential Candidates Use? Hawking USB Dish Antenna Picks Up WiFi, Protects Death Star - Always have internet access. Microsoft goes public with Office Live Workspace beta iRobot to Develop "LANdroid" Mechanized Network Hotspots Jurassic Programmers Shark Eats Anti-Shark Device In Test (Oops) - This is too funny. How Many Hours Do You Sleep at Night? - Six here. Asus Ares CG6150: Devours children, plays games Poll: Will Your Mom & Dad Ever Use Twitter? - Ours probably will. We already got them using ooVoo. Chat Across IM Platforms with Pidgin 2.4 Plug-'n'-Play USB Virus Makes MacBooks Fall to Pieces homage to the light bulb So You Hacked Our Site!?

Daily Link Roundup of Hangers and Vibrations

GROW - Leaf Like Solar Cells Inspired By Nature - Solar energy system that can be used on any building. Coat Hanger Beats Pricey Audio Cables - Are Monster cables worth the price? Serial-mouse-driven Etch-a-Sketch - Fun. Game Boy PocketPrinters Temporarily On Sale Again - Who buys these things? Dude, where's my cell phone? - Can't call your phone to find it? Here is your solution. Bluetooth Headset Swallows Deep Throat Vibrations - No, it just sounds dirty. All the Webware 100 finalists in one place Robot Snake Stands Up, Wiggles Around - Neat movement for a robot, unrealistic for a snake.

Daily Link Roundup of Robot Gymnasts and Safaris

Tiny, Slot-In Retro Media Center For IPod Nano - Very cool way to get some extra functionality out of your Nano. TokyoFlash Tibida LED watch -- with binary mode! Three being given away gratis - Ahhhhh binary. Robot Gymnast Is Nimbler Than Most Humans - This robot's moves are very humanlike. Solar Powered Laptop Would Be a Nice Idea If It Worked DORmino Mouse Mooches Off Your Hot Laptop - Sounds good to me. Sprint Offers "Simply Everything" For $100 BILL-Ant Wants To Carry Your Stuff Eos Wireless iPod Speakers Are Smart But Ugly At FOWA, WordPress' Mullenweg talks about scaling and spamming Paypal to Safari Users: Switch Browsers or You'll be a Victim of Fraud - PayPal has not apporved the Safari browser.

Biology History Made on February 28th, 1953

On this day 55 years ago Watson and Crick discovered the double helix structure of DNA. Their discovery was aided by crafts. Since Watson did not want to wait on a machine shop to develop his models he made his own with a straight edge, an Exacto knife, white cardboard and paste. This allowed him to manipulate the nucleotide base pairs until he found the best fit. Watson and Crick submitted their discovery to a journal, Nature, which published their findings on April 25, 1953. Then they won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1962.

Got a Gripe with Skype? Maybe ooVoo's for You

The other night I was talking to my brother in law, Dan, through Skype. He is helping me with some projects and it helps to talk to each other "face to face" (he lives in Ohio and I live in Georgia). After we finished our conversation his wife, my sister, called from my parents house in FL. We had a 3 way call going and were enjoying the family chat. We were disappointed in the fact that we could not video chat as a group. Dan saved the day when he found ooVoo. We all downloaded the program immediately and began our group video chat. You can have up to six people in a video chat. Another great feature is that you can expand the video to full screen. You can leave video messages for people and make free phone calls. You can record a video call for playback later(I don't know what you could use this for). I will continue to use Skype day to day as I am familiar with it and have all my business contacts stored there. ooVoo has become my default for keeping in touch with the family as it makes our silly conversations that much more fun.

Daily Link Roundup of Emoticons and Comcasts

Power Sellers Extend eBay Boycott - It is going to take a lot to get across to eBay. Download a Gmail Conversation PageOnce Organizes Your Online Life - Another site to help you keep track of all your sites. Easily Convert Your Vinyl To MP3s Some Expert: “Killer Robots Pose Latest Militant Threat” Realistic, Animatronic Lion Mask with stereo night vision and amplified hearing LEGO Block as USB Flash Drive - It's LEGOMANIA! Undocumented Emoticons in Gmail Chat - The crab is great. Mecha Cellphone, Because Why Not - It is a like a Transformer cell. Favorit fixes some of Google Reader's shortcomings, adds own Wireless home router with analogue utilisation meter - Keep an eye on your banwidth usage. FCC contemplating do-over Comcast hearing at Stanford - Comcast is gonna get it.

Daily Link Roundup of Buzzes and Flexi-Bendys

Gmail the size of your living room LINX B-Tube Wireless Speaker In A / Is A Can Youtube Outage: How Pakistan Broke the Internet Xdrive releases AIR-based file manager MyPunchbowl Has Its Own Buzz: News Feed for Parties Yahoo's Digg-like Buzz Easily Mount Up To Eight Monitors To Your Desk EBay Listing Numbers Drop Slightly During Boycott - Not a big impact. Google Heads Under The Sea With Cable Investment Why CompUSA Is Selling Broken Merchandise at High Prices - I don't see how this is so shocking. FCC chief grills Comcast on BitTorrent blocking Nokia Goes Nano for Flexy-Bendy Handsets - Will this be available in our lifetime? Manage Your Online Reputation Unofficial LEGO MP3 Player Plants that Twitter when they need to be watered - Still funny.