SELL YOUR OLD GAMES, CDS AND DVDS
Posted on January 31st, 2016 by Joy Schwabach
EXPLORE AMERICA’S HISTORY WITH MAPS
Posted on January 30th, 2016 by Joy Schwabach
100 DANCING DRONES SET WORLD RECORD
Posted on January 29th, 2016 by Joy Schwabach
100 Dancing Drones Set World Record. Click on that phrase to find a YouTube video showing Intel breaking the Guiness Book of Records. They created a swarm of drones that could dance to Beethoven’s Fifth, spell out “Intel” and otherwise astonish us. The military possibilities struck us immediately. And no, we’re not kidding.
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FREE ART FROM THE NEW YORK LIBRARY
Posted on January 28th, 2016 by Joy Schwabach
Publicdomain.nypl.org/pd-visualization takes you to thousands of items you can download for free from the New York Public Library. These were all online before but are newly downloadable. You can group the collection by century (going as far back as the 11th century) or by color or genre. In the 20th century section, we saw a lot of commercial posters, and we like those, but there’s a little bit of everything.
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MINIATURE WONDERLAND FROM GOOGLE STREETVIEW
Posted on January 27th, 2016 by Joy Schwabach
“Google Shrunk its Streetview Cameras” includes a video that takes you close-up inside the world’s largest model railroad railway, part of Miniatur Wunderland, in Hamburg, Germany. According to Digital Trends, Google worked with Unilab to affix tiny cameras to the model trains, cars and boats to help you explore “Miniatur Wunderland.” Quite charming.
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FUN WITH PHOTOS
Posted on January 26th, 2016 by Joy Schwabach
COMPUTERIZED CARVERS ON THEIR WAY TO THE HOME WORKSHOP
Posted on January 25th, 2016 by Joy Schwabach
If you ever go to a manufacturing show, you’ll see lots of big, incredibly expensive machines cutting little pieces out of big blocks of metal and other materials. The machines are controlled by computers and can even work in the dark, with no human nearby. The system is called CNC, which stands for Computer Numeric Control. Now, you can get one of these for your home workshop.
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AN ALARMING SITUATION
Posted on January 23rd, 2016 by Joy Schwabach
Lots of security cameras around, but “Presence” from Netatmo won four innovation awards at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. This is future stuff, because it won’t be available till next Fall at the earliest. But it is the edge of the wedge, as they say, and shows how sophisticated surveillance cameras can be.
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HUNTING TECH
Posted on January 22nd, 2016 by Joy Schwabach
Instead of filming your skateboarding, surfing or ski adventure, you can use a mount from Bracketron for hunting expeditions. Using the mount, attach your smartphone or action camera to your hunting rifle, bow, fishing rod or paintball gun. Their most expensive model is the “ProX Sport Mount 3-in-1,” for $70. It has a quick release lever to make it easy to mount and dismount your smartphone or camera. The Mount spins your phone 360 degrees for quick repositioning from vertical to horizontal views. It works with any smart phone or GoPro and similar “action cameras.” If you don’t need a “3 in 1” mount, they also have a separate mount for your bow and arrow expeditions ($20) and one for […]
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DUMPING CABLE
Posted on January 20th, 2016 by Joy Schwabach
We keep hearing from readers who have dropped their expensive cable TV subscriptions. This is going to be an unstoppable trend. With plug-in adapters like Roku, Apple TV, or Google Chromecast, you get channels such as Netflix, Hulu, YouTube and Amazon Video. All of those except YouTube involve extra fees, like $7 a month price for Netflix. But that is very little compared to cable costs.