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PowerGlove Project – The Famicom Connector
Posted on Tuesday, February 1, 2011 | No CommentsSo, I bought a PAX PowerGlove - so good it's bad - with a view to connecting it to my PC for use as a neato peripheral. The PAX PowerGlove, hailing from Japan and predating the Mattel-manufactured US release, comes with a DB-15 Famicom ... -
aRSSduino
Posted on Monday, August 30, 2010 | 2 CommentsThe aRSSduino is a simple project for the Arduino microcontroller, designed to display RSS feed entries on a 16x2 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 ... -
Toshiba launches dual-screen notebook
Posted on Monday, June 21, 2010 | No CommentsToshiba 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 ... -
Fujitsu and Shinoda demo curved displays
Posted on Monday, May 17, 2010 | No CommentsFujitsu'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 ... -
Long Spike: Sony HD camcorder
Posted on Tuesday, May 11, 2010 | No CommentsNot content with shaking up the bridge camera market with its new EVIL NEX 3 and NEX 5 mirrorless cameras, Sony has snuck out a sneak preview of an up-coming camcorder using the same APS C-size CMOS high-definition sensor. Described as still ... -
Seiko ‘FutureNow’ watch
Posted on Monday, April 5, 2010 | 1 CommentWhile TokyoFlash's impressive curved E-Ink watch wins the style stakes, I have to admit a soft spot for Seiko's latest invention - the FutureNow watch. Looking like an oversized digital watch from the mid-nineties, the FutureNow has an electrophoretic E-Ink - actually a Vizplex, if ... -
The WePad slate
Posted on Monday, April 5, 2010 | No CommentsAll this talk in the media about the iPad - and there's plenty of it, with an estimated 80% of the articles in my RSS feeds over the last few days being iPad related in one way or another - has whet my appetite ... -
Long Spike: LG LED 3D TV
Posted on Sunday, March 28, 2010 | No CommentsAnother article saved from the bit-bin, this time about LG Electronics' latest LED-backlit 3D TV: LG Electronics has made good on its recent promises and announced the impending launch of its first LED-backlit 3D TV, the LX9500. Launching first in Korea - to be followed by ... -
The E-Paper Watch
Posted on Sunday, March 7, 2010 | No CommentsNeat-o watch manufacturer Tokyoflash has unveiled an awesome new concept watch which uses an e-ink screen to create a wraparound inverse display. As seen over on the company's blog, the e-Paper Timing watch uses a curved e-ink screen to "show the time digitally in the ... -
SoundBridge network issues
Posted on Friday, October 2, 2009 | No CommentsEver since switching to WPA2-AES security on my wireless network I've been having some problems with my Pinnacle-branded Roku SoundBridge wireless MP3 player. Problems like "strange, this used to be connected to the network." It seems that after a few days of working perfectly ...