Archive for August, 2007

A day in Hong Kong

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Cool. :)
This makes me excited for June 2008!

Block Posters - the wallpaper alternative

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Block Posters offers a simple and quick way for you to enlarge your photos so that you can print them out and make posters out of them.
It’s very similar to my long-standing favorite Rasterbator, except that Block Posters keeps your image in fairly good shape by not converting it to a halftone image.
Looks like its [...]

Graffiti for the blind

Friday, August 31st, 2007

A niche graffiti art movement is brewing out of Portland, Oregon and it involves stickers and braille.
Began in August 2007, Braille Graffiti is set on a mission to bring graffiti to the masses — that is, to those who can’t experience it by sight. Since graffiti is primarily been a visual medium, this this leaves [...]

NuVinci gear hub

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

It’s all about spheres, not gears.
Fallbrook Technologies brings us a new development in drivetrain research. It is called the NuVinci hub and it is basically everything in a mechanical gear box — without the gears!

It’s a revolution in drivetrain technology. A new way of transmitting mechanical power based on spheres instead of gears. The NuVinci [...]

I personally believe…that…

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

Miss South Carolina Teen USA, Lauren Caitlin Upton, is totally milking her way to fame.
How? By partnering up with People Magazine to create this video geography quiz! Way to go! I want more of Miss South Carolina Teen USA because she is funny. I think she alone has managed to fit 3 month’s worth of [...]

IR remote for Canon, Nikon, Pentax, & Konica Minolta cameras

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

There are some things that I would never buy 3rd-party devices of. Infrared camera remotes are not one of these things.
That is why I am seriously thinking about buying this very cheap infrared remote that works for all major brand cameras. This one remote basically covers all middle to lower end digital cameras that support [...]

The tunnels behind Niagara Falls

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

Did you know that there were abandoned tunnels behind Niagara Falls? No, not the ones that you go through when you pay for the trip on the Journey Behind The Falls attraction. The tunnels I’m talking about are even more mysterious, completely hidden from the naked eye, and very cool.
According to Sleepy City, the tunnels [...]