Monthly Archives: October 2009

TouchCube: $150 Touchscreen Rubik’s Cube Can Solve Itself

The original Rubik’s Cube is an iconic mechanical puzzle game that dates back to 1974, with production and retail distribution starting in 1980. By some reports, it’s the most popular selling puzzle game of all time, with over 350 million cubes sold.
If you’re anything like us, you’ve tried your hand repeatedly at solving the classic [...]

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GE shows off 1TB holographic discs but Wolf Blitzer remains skeptical

We’re confused as to how technology that was supposed to be available in 2006 can still be featured at an Emerging Tech conference in 2009, but so it is for General Electric’s attempt at holographic storage. Predicting drives for archival purposes in two or three years with consumer products around two years after that, manager [...]

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Use TinEye to Find Source Images for Desktop Wallpaper [Image Search]

It turns out that TinEye, the image search engine, is good for more than simply finding carbon-copy matches of pictures. You can also use it to go from a screenshot of a desktop to the source image.
While reviewing the TinEye Firefox extension last week, we noted that results were rather precise in nature and that [...]

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DIY Batman-Style Secret Bookcase Passageway

Getting his inspiration directly from the Wayne Manor, this DIYer created his own secret “William Shakespeare sculpture” button to access a hidden passageway.  It’s a dirt simple circuit, basically the button activates a motor and presto, we have access.  Personally, I’d use a giant red button, but that’s just me.  For more details on the [...]

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