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Make any gloves work with a touch screen

Posted: November 25th, 2009, 3:06pm MST by Phil Burgess

The chill of autumn is upon us, and with it comes the awkward sport of trying to work touch-sensitive phones and gadgets with gloved fingers. One can try toughing it out with fingerless gloves, or we’ve seen some costly solutions in the forms of specialized gloves and capacitive-compatible styluses, but sometimes simple is best: all it [...]
Recover borked HDD after Xbox 360 ban

Posted: November 25th, 2009, 1:20pm MST by Mike Szczys

[Incudie] tipped us off about a method to fix a borked HDD in your Xbox 360. Many of the one million consoles banned earlier in the month also had the hard disks scrambled making off-line gaming impossible as well. It turns out that this is caused by having a ban flag in the NAND chip [...]
Turkey fryer; awful, bad, and worse

Posted: November 25th, 2009, 12:30pm MST by Mike Szczys

Tomorrow’s turkey day here in the United States. Do you fully expect your trashy neighbor to burn down his house while trying to cook a holiday feast? To see what’s in store for your neighborhood we’ve rounded up a great collection of idiots deep frying turkeys. Let’s set up the fryer on our wooden deck… now [...]
Voice controlled lock? Almost…

Posted: November 25th, 2009, 11:13am MST by Jakob Griffith

If you watched the video before reading the article (like we did) and started shaking in your boots at a voice controlled lock system, prepare to be disappointed. His spoken commands are actually to his son to press the appropriate keys on a keypad off screen, the lock is not actually voice controlled. But still, [Michael [...]
TI sports watch for hacking

Posted: November 25th, 2009, 9:55am MST by Mike Szczys

How would you like to have a 3-axis accelerometer, pressure sensor, temperature sensor, RF wireless, and an LCD screen in a development package? What if we told you that you can have it in the form factor of a wristwatch offering from Texas Instruments? How much would you pay for such a device? Quit guessing, [...]
Digital BMXing through San Francisco

Posted: November 25th, 2009, 7:14am MST by Caleb Kraft

[Alpay] sent in this project he did recently. He was hired to produce a kiosk that would stand out to the kids at the event. He chose to make a bike riding game utilizing open source hardware and software. There was some thought put into what interface to use to make it easiest for people [...]