Just a brief post to alert RSS subscribers that my how-to Arduino article is now live over on bit-tech.net. Anyone who has ever hacked around in their PC will have been hit with an urge to take their tinkering to the next level and create a custom-built device, but few actually try – believing such [...]
Rooting your Android smartphone can offer some pretty amazing benefits, from simple things like the ability to take screenshots to the option to use your handset as a Wi-Fi hotspot. Perhaps the most impressive, however, is the option to change the apps that are pre-installed on your ‘phone, and replace them with your own. In [...]
The aRSSduino is a simple project for the Arduino microcontroller, designed to display RSS feed entries on a 16×2 LCD. It’s still in the early stages, with the following outstanding: To Do: Support for larger LCDs To Improve: Better UTF-8 character handling To Do: Multiple RSS feed support For now, however, it’s a pretty neat [...]
I’ve written an – in my not-so-humble opinion – interesting post on the cost of e-books for the recently-released Amazon Kindle and other eReader devices, which I’ve published over on my Freelance Site. This week culminates in the launch of Amazon’s latest Kindle eReader,which means that thousands of gadget fanciers and avid readers alike will [...]
Toshiba has confirmed its plans to offer a dual-screen notebook similar to Microsoft’s Courier concept, to be added to its Libretto ultra-mobile range. The Toshiba Libretto W100 was launched as part of the company’s 25th anniversary celebrations – its first laptop, the Toshiba T1100 was launched back in 1985 – with the company’s Phil Osaki [...]
Fujitsu’s display division has teamed up with Shinoda Plasma to create impressive curved displays which the companies believe could be used to turn building support pillars into information boards without taking up any extra floorspace. Demonstrated over on Tech-On, the displays are based around Shinodo’s Plasma Tube Array technology, which allows the display to be [...]
Okay, so the title is a misnomer – it’s more of a kitbox. Still, it’s my new toy and I’ll love it and hug it and never let it go. The kitbag – designed as a one-grab container for everything I’m likely to need if I have to cover a story, excluding pen and paper [...]
For a while now I’ve been experimenting with a little karma boosting project based around Amazon’s Wish List service – and now I’d like to get more people involved. The idea is both simple and more or less selfless, and revolves around a single core concept: getting things for free is awesome. While I have [...]
