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Now I am sure that you are aware that there is no real way to improve vision with the information here. BUT this will help maintain a healthy vision, and should ...

By: Dr. Cool
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(Nope, it's not a glimpse of an alternate reality where LEDs never came to be.) The "Stonehenge" clock-bot is more art than appliance - it uses a single robotic arm with a set of numbered cards to convey the time -

Stonehenge uses a CrustCrawler Smart Arm and a Parallax Propeller chip to display the current time. All the digits needed to display the time are located on cards positioned in a semi-circle around the left and right sides of the arm. The time itself is displayed in front of the arm. This gives the clock a "Stonehenge" like appearance. There are a total of 14 cards. Each card has two digits with one on each side. The software planner determines which card and which side is needed to display the time and then sends the necessary movement commands to the arm.

I imagine displaying the time by holding up the appropriate amount of robotic fingers may be next.
- Stonehenge - A Robotic Digital Clock [via Hacked Gadgets]

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Rig an onboard camera like the cops and NASCAR, for 15 bucks. Inspiration for this project from Make Volume 13. Mine adds a swivel mount that makes it much more useful. Enjoy!





What You Need...

1. 3/4" Square Aluminum stock tubing. About 2 Feet long
2. (2) Eyebolts with matching wing nuts
...

By: Kipkay
Post Source: Instructables: exploring

Rig an onboard camera like the cops and NASCAR, for 15 bucks. Inspiration for this project from Make Volume 13. Mine adds a swivel mount that makes it much more useful. Enjoy!





What You Need...

1. 3/4" Square Aluminum stock tubing. About 2 Feet long
2. (2) "U" bolts with matching...

By: Kipkay
Post Source: Instructables: exploring

Not sure if this is a good idea or not. This guy added Velcro to the bottom of his notebook PC and the edge of the power supply unit to create a simple stand. There are obvious issues with the high heat of many power bricks and the shortening of the power cord by half. But I guess under some circumstances this would be a quick and dirty way of creating a stand.

Notebook/laptop stand from psu/power brick

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Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Free, cross-platform note-taking application Evernote offers a handful of tools for clipping content into your Evernote account, including the newly released Web Clipper Firefox extension. Aside from a Clip to Evernote entry in the right-click menu and a new toolbar button, the extension works just like the Clip to Evernote bookmarklet (perfect in its own right if you don't want to install another extension). The inline dialog autocompletes tags and adds the item to your Evernote account without interrupting anything you're doing. A Web Clipper keyboard shortcut would be nice, too, but the extension or bookmarklet are a must-have for anyone getting started with one of the best note-taking tools available.

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Not sure if this is a good idea or not. This guy added Velcro to the bottom of his notebook PC and the edge of the power supply unit to create a simple stand. There are obvious issues with the high heat of many power bricks and the shortening of the power cord by half. But I guess under some circumstances this would be a quick and dirty way of creating a stand.

Notebook/laptop stand from psu/power brick

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On RoboCommunity, Grandlarseny37 has done a preliminary take-apart on the new WowWee Alive Cub robo-critter.

Inside the WowWee Alive Cubs: Part 1 [Thanks, Robert!]

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The above video interview with Sean Montgomery was recorded at the recent Last HOPE conference where Mr. Montgomery exhibited his line of 'Vital Threads' projects.

These wearable devices display realtime biological sensor data as visible (and boldly fashionable) adornment. Included in the collection - the Heart-on Shirt which pulses light in sync with Electrocardiogram readings, the Truth Wristband - displaying galvanic skin response as light/color (literally illuminating the "Truth"), and the Thinking Cap which conveys the wearer's brainwave spectrum via an RGB LED brain shaped dome-hat.

There is likely no more direct way to express the 'inner self' via clothing - Vital Threads

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Windows only: Free application Minimem reduces the memory usage of individual running applications on demand. Similar applications which promise to make your computer run faster by freeing up RAM are a dime a dozen, and many of them aren't all they're cracked up to be. After giving Minimen a try on my PC and reading FreewareGenius's detailed review (along with the author's comments on that post), Minimem appears to be the real deal under the right circumstances. Minimem removes unnecessary memory pages from running processes you tell it to optimize. The program isn't the most useful for applications that already have great memory management of their own, but it seems to work well on many applications—both small and large—that have a larger footprint than they should.

I tested it with Microsoft Outlook and Firefox 3 and saw good results, and the FreewareGenius review also saw positive results with Digsby, Internet Explorer, and VolumeTouch. Minimem is freeware, Windows only, requires .NET 3.5. If you give it a try, let's hear how it worked out for you in the comments.

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