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An interesting video a friend shared with me. It’s part train, part monorail.

I was puttering around various laptop site today specing out various systems today and got a nice surprise when I hit the HP website. There on the front page was Mike Rowe from quite possibly my favorite TV show: Dirty Jobs. I had to click on it to see more. The page loads and I’m [...]

Ah nothing like building your own magnetic linear accelerator. According to the article it’s easy to build: “This very simple toy uses a magnetic chain reaction to launch a steel marble at a target at high speed. The toy is very simple to build, going together in minutes, and is very simple to understand and [...]

From Yahoo News: “LIVERMORE, Calif. – Ed Moses talks of the “grand challenge” that has consumed him for the past five years, comparing it to trying to hit the strike zone with a baseball from 350 miles away or tossing a dime into a parking meter from 40 miles. “That’s the precision we have to [...]

I’ve heard of folks doing this before, here’s a pretty detailed article on how to do it. Link to Article

Here’s something I stumbled upon this morning. Everyone’s heard of LED (Light Emitting Diodes), but maybe not the organic versions. Here is a little background on this cool technology: From The Wikipedia: “An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) is a thin-film light-emitting diode (or light-emitting device) (LED) in which the emissive layer is an organic compound. [...]