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Posted by: Geekfury on May 1, 2008
From the Interwebs..., General Technology, Humor
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 treated to [...]
Posted by: GeekFury on June 12, 2005
General Technology
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 [...]
Posted by: GeekFury on May 23, 2005
General Technology, It's just cool...
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 have,” [...]
Posted by: GeekFury on May 18, 2005
General Technology
I’ve heard of folks doing this before, here’s a pretty detailed article on how to do it.
Link to Article
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Posted by: GeekFury on April 20, 2005
General Technology
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. These [...]
