MiniPOV Kit: Build your own persistance of vision toy!

“Here’s a little Maker Faire preview – “This workshop is a great introduction to microcontroller electronics. In this workshop, you will learn to solder and a little bit about microcontrollers when you build a MiniPOV kit. This kit is a simple “persistance of vision” toy, similar in theory to the “fanatzien clocks” you’ve probably seen. When waved through the air, 8 red LEDs spell out a message! The kit comes preprogrammed with the messave “I *heart* Make!” but we will also show you how you can customize the message at home with only a PC and some free software. No soldering or electronics experience necessary.” – Link.

Related: POV kits – Link.

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Rube Goldberg – Incredible Machines (9 minute video)

Watch these crazy Rube Goldberg type machines. Besides those badass Nissan commercials in the early 90’s, by favorite one is in the cartoon series Family Guy, Peter Griffin uses a Rube Goldberg machine (one almost exactly like the breakfast machine in Pee Wee’s Big Adventure), that comically shoots Peter with a gun rather than make breakfast.

and the music is annoying as hell….

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Mac EVDO card in May

I happened by Om Malik’s blog today and saw, as CTIA winds down, he’s caught wind of an EVDO card from Novatel Wireless that’s due in May. The best news is, it’s going to be an Express card, and it’ll work in the MacBook Pro, no Windows partition needed. So what? Well I guess C.K. can finally get back to playing World of Warcraft in Central Park (and freaking out the squares). If you just can’t wait until next month, when they are rumored to appear, you can keep an eye on this MacBook Pro page on EVDOinfo.com. Wireless is great, especially if it’s everywhere. There is a USB EVDO device from Novatel that’ll be out “later this year.”

read more | The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

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Video of Israeli Made “Forcefield”

Developed by Israeli company Rafael, it creates a sort of protective bubble defending ground vehicles against RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades) and tank rounds. Video in swf form.

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Chax – features

Chax: Chax has recently added support for tabbed chats! Hell yes! I wish Apple would just incorporate these features into iChat by default, but until then this is the next best thing.

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iAlertU – Don’t Get Your Mac Jacked

iAlertU: Check out the demo of “iAlertU” an alarm system for your MacBook Pro. Heres the Video below but check out the site to see such future updates as capturing a picture with the included isight, etc…

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FlickrExport

FlickrExport:

FlickrExport is a plugin for iPhoto 4 and later which provides a direct export interface to Flickr.com

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NewsFire. Mac RSS with Style.

NewsFire. Mac RSS with Style.: Newsfire is by FAR the best RSS reader out there for Mac OS X. Packed with features, blindingly simple to use, and ground-breakingly elegant, NewsFire is the ultimate RSS experience for the Mac.

BurnCMPlugIn – Burn Disk Images Directly From the Finder

BurnCMPlugin

Pretty useful plug in for the finder to right click on .dmg/.iso files and burn them to disk.