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Netflix WatchNow, but use IE

Posted by Void on 03/30/2007

Netflix Watch Now! Netflix started rolling out their WatchNow instant video feature in January. If it hasn’t shown up in your account yet, try the link above to activate it. Oh, but try it in Internet Exploder. It doesn’t work in Firefox. Netflix WatchNow tests your connection speed to choose what video quality to stream. […]

miniUSB for RCA Lyra RD2850

Posted by Void on 03/28/2007

Molex 54819-0572 USB On-The-Go (OTG) Mini-B Receptacle, Right Angle, SMT Solder Tails and Shell Tabs, with Cover Tape, Lead-free FYI, this is a drop-in replacement for the miniUSB connector in the RCA Lyra RD2850 MP3 player.

What NOT to Do With an Industrial Robot

Posted by Void on 03/23/2007

YouTube – Robot Ride Part of my engineering curriculum was a very fun hands-on robotics course. A robot like this one can move so fast that you don’t have time to get out of its way. Factories that use robotics will have black-and-yellow danger lines on the floor around around each workstation and flashing lights […]

Tricorder

Posted by Void on 03/17/2007

EE Times: Star Trek’s ‘tricorder’ realized The 20-pound, battery-powered unit combines a mass spectrometer with a desorption electrospray ionization (DESI) source. This device, which doesn’t have a cute name yet, is a general purpose sniffer that can take samples from the air and identify just about any substance known to man. The 300+ pound explosive […]

Treasure from Used Hard Drives

Posted by Void on 03/15/2007

MIT researchers uncover mountains of private data on discarded computers. The article above points out that it is not enough to format your harddrive before discarding it. A format only removes directory information, it doesn’t actually remove the data. In 2003, some MIT students obtained 158 used hard drives from eBay and other sources. Most […]

StressEraser

Posted by Void on 03/05/2007

The StressEraser is a handheld biofeedback unit. Unlike my favorite computer game, Journey to Wild Divine[

The Post-modern Closet

Posted by Void on 03/01/2007

I have been meditating – oops, first wrote “medicating” – on the word post-modern recently. Ken Wilber says (and I paraphrase), that in the context of Transpersonal Psychology, post-modern means that your personal evolution has carried the human race past the sterile pragmatism and/or atheism of the Computer Age into the next stage. My understanding […]

CVS $19.99 Video Camera

Posted by Void on 12/17/2006

The CVS one-time use video camera with modification for advanced preview capabilities.

My Cellphone ROCKS

Posted by Void on 06/22/2006

It’s a Siemens SX66. I reviewed it earlier this year. Read my review. I’m posting this from it via my home wireless network. Cingular has their own GPRS network, and I’ll use it in a pinch, but it’s really sssslllllooooowwww, not to mention expensive. I prefer other options. It is very important that you password-protect […]

The Big Time

Posted by Void on 05/20/2006

Well, I finally made it to the big time. Well, no, what I really mean is that the spambots found “Into The Void” this week and they are hammering my WordPress blog with comment spam. I’ve received 500-some requests in the last 48 hours. Would anyone in their right mind patronize a company that has […]

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