Tag: electronics
Counterfeit Electronics Components – This Is How You Spot Them
It's a simple question, is there a way to spot counterfeit electronics components? The short answer is a definite yes. As with anything, people with nefarious intentions will always find a way to try to counterfeit products in an effort to trick people into buying them. Electronics components are no ...
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Smart Homes: Better Lifestyle Or Invitation For Hackers? [Infographic]
There's a paradox in the way we live today. We want to live 'smart lives' in our 'smart homes,' yet we also want to do whatever we have to do to keep hackers out of our lives. Is that a contradiction, or does it just seem like one? Our homes are becoming smarter everyday since most appliances (even ...
Better E-Waste Disposal: Gadgets Dissolve In Water When You Upgrade
As our world becomes more technology infused, it means there is an increasing number of old gadgets that eventually end up in landfills when they can no longer be useful anymore. Even if we give or sell our old smartphones to people who need them when we upgrade, and even if someone uses them after ...
Smart Ice Cubes Dance To Music & Keep You From Drinking Too Much
Have you ever been at a party and lost track of how many drinks you had? Did you wake up the next day with a pounding head and a dry mouth, wishing you had someone or something that would have stopped you before you accidentally overdid it? If you had these very smart ice cubes, you would have had t ...
Pixar Lamp Has Finally Been Brought To Life In Reality
One of the most memorable moments in any Pixar movie is of course their introductory logo animation. Few of us can even comprehend how that jumping lamp with a personality was even "invented" in the first place. Pixar defined a whole new era of movie making, and once again, it was Steve Jobs that le ...
Creating Simple Electronics Through 3D Printing Is Now Possible
3D printing technology is moving forward at an almost lightning fast pace. Just a few years ago, 3D printing was considered a science fiction type of technology, and one that humans were not thought to master for decades to come. But thanks to some very dedicated innovators and the growing interest ...
Electrifying Miniature Cityscapes Created From Old Computer Parts
What do you do with your old computer parts? If you like to mess around with your hardware, you probably have a drawer full of old circuit boards, springs, screws and other doodads from the guts of your old computers. The stunning tables you see below are created with recycled (or reused) old comput ...
Life-Size LEGO Go-Kart Is The Epicenter Of Epic
When we were young, pretty much all of us dreamed at some point about building something epic out of LEGO. The thing is, usually people don't have that many blocks. This ultimately results in smaller and less epic builds with less possibilities, but for some people, the dream never goes away. It sta ...
The World’s First Elastic Data & USB Cables
Have you ever wondered how data cables might be easier to work with if they were made out of a stretchy elastic material? I never thought about that until I saw this today, and now I can think of a million different applications.
Asahi Kasei Fibers recently released the world's first elastic elec ...
Mind Numbing Retro Gadgets Made Out Of Paper
I wonder how long it will be until we completely ditch the paper we keep printing on every day. I mean, with all these new gadgets and devices being released, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a new kind of gadget that really came close to paper yet didn't have to be thrown away or recycled once ...
How To: Turn Your Sneakers Into Stylin Speakers
Have you ever heard of a sneaker customizer? Me either, until today. Alex Nash, otherwise known as NashMoney, calls himself a sneaker customizer. We've written a lot of articles about sneakers; however, what Alex did is very different. We normally see artists experiment with different sneaker de ...
This Invisible Chair Only Appears When You Do
This chair is like a bundle of geeky magic. It makes every chair in my house look completely boring. Not only is it invisible, but it also creates a black hole and it thumps like it has a heartbeat. It's like a fantasy piece of furniture that doesn't take up any space at all, or at least that's t ...
The Ultimate Gadget Table – No Other Table Needed
I think I have just found what I've always been looking for. It's the one thing that has been missing in my life office and home. Being a gadget geek sure doesn't help the electric bill and with the upcoming flood of new life changing gadgets, that is unlikely to change anytime soon. I have long ...
The DIY Doggy Geek Lamp – Let Your Dog Shine
I have long been a fan of home electronics hobby stuff. This doesn't mean; however, that I am anywhere near being able to build anything other than software stuff on my computer. When it comes to hardware, I know everything in and out on a computer, but that pretty much it. To me, everything else ...
1-Bit Symphony – World’s Smallest Orchestra!
I recently discovered the pleasant and inspiring music of the 8-bit as well as 16-bit instruments. They can easily and best be described as the music that we all know from the era of the Nintendo NES. It's that funky yet cool "ploinking" of razor waves generated by the legendary 8-bit sound chip f ...