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USB Stick

Home made usb stick, could have fooled me.

Finished 1

http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/usbkey

Walk-in coffee machine

Get your own personal coffee (with personal taste) within 30 seconds without the involvement of any humans?

The walk-in coffee machine
http://www.gizmag.com/the-walk-in-coffee-machine/9177/

Tube amplifier for iPod

As we all know a tube amplifier is a lousy solution to amplify sound and should not be used. However, tube amplifiers look cool. Dvice put together a nice list of amplifiers for your iPod.

ipodfatmanitube.jpg

http://dvice.com/archives/2008/04/top_ten_ways_to.php

AJAX mosaic builder

Using a JavaScript binary reader you can create web based mosaic images:

Mosaic picture of Hillary Duff built with 23 images

http://nagoon97.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/ajax-mosaic-builder/

Stardestroyerproject

Let's go and build a full fledged star destroyer (on scale and having tons of details) in the garden shed.

http://stardestroyerproject.com/Update.aspx

Psychologists can't do the math

The famous Monty Hall "problem" has popped up and flawed one of the most famous experiments of psychology (dating back from 1956).

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/science/08tier.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Blockbuster streaming to TV

Next I would really like blockbuster to expand to Europe.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i4ea1e9f...

Convert Betamax tapes to HD-DVD

Let's go and convert one obsolete format to another obsolete format.

BetaMax to HD-DVD Converter from ThinkGeek

http://technabob.com/blog/2008/04/08/betamax-to-hd-dvd-converter/

Embedded computing

Embedding computing is fun but the article also notes the user interface is improving from text and numbers to images, animations and "feel-good" messages.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/09/technology/techspecial/09embed.html?pa...

Turn of the lights please (nationwide)

How to hack a power company within a few hours:

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/040908-rsa-hack-power-grid.html?pa...

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