…here I come! I know I’m well overdue for a meaningful update but this is more fun. A few weeks ago I entered in the #glassexplorers program via Twitter and a few days ago Project Glass contacted me letting me know that I would be one of the early beta testers. Sweet! That left me [...]

I found an old Omnichrome Helium Cadmium laser on eBay a few months ago and had to have a look at it. HeCd lasers are used to produce UV light and generally output only a few mW of power. Sadly, this laser was broken and never fired. I don’t have the tools to properly investigate the cause [...]

I’m a gadget guy – I hope that isn’t a shock to anyone. When I saw that Philips (or Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. as no one calls them) was releasing iPhone controlled LED lights I knew I had to have them. There was just one non-obvious problem; I live in the middle of nowhere. You [...]

I just finished another review for TubeClockDB.com. The video is below and the full review is here: http://www.tubeclockdb.com/nixie-clocks/340-video-review-laura.html

I just finished another view review for TubeClockDB.com  This time I take a look at a modular VFD clock that supports multiple shields for different tube types.  The firmware is open source and hacker friendly.  Read the full review here.

I was playing around with my camera last night and I was taking photos of random objects and one of the things I grabbed was a 2GB SODIMM module.  I’ve never really looked at one closely before but I noticed that on the center of the board, on both the front and the back, were these serpentine [...]

Well, the title alone shouldn’t surprise you.  I love startups.  I love open source, and I really love clocks.  So, when I found the ClockOS project on Kickstarter, I had to take a look.  It is a clock made out of 180 surface mount LED’s.  It may not be as practical as the designers say it is [...]

Let’s start with a story.  The Four Letter Word machine was invented in 1973 by Raymond Weisling.  The device was simple – it used 4x B7971 tubes to display random for letter words.  Of course, the draw to a device like this is that occasionally, one of the results would appeal to the prurient interests [...]

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I always though that Nike targeted athletes.  Apparently, they are now targeting nerds.  I’m not sure if these are one-off designs or if they will really be sold.  Apparently the glases are called “It’s About Time.”  I’m not 100% convinced that the shoes video isn’t CG but I am hoping that they are real.  But seriously, [...]