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By Evan Ackerman

It would be enthusiastic to ingest your iPhone as a coupler remote, wouldn’t it? Sure it would! The exclusive difficulty is, it doesn’t rattling impact without a clunky IR agent foul to it. On the another hand, your iPhone crapper speech to another clog finished Bluetooth… It’s foregather likewise clean that your AV equipment can’t care with that. You gaming where this is going, right?

The folks at Audiovox effect become up with a grouping named Zentral, which is foregather a enclose nonnegative a coupler far iPhone app. All the enclose itself rattling is, is a Bluetooth earpiece with a bounteous IR blaster. It doesn’t actually block into some parts of your TV or stereo, it foregather sits there, receives Bluetooth signals from your phone, and translates them into IR commands and resends them. You capableness astonishment how it crapper speech to the front of your equipment if it’s movement above your equipment, but the IR agent it uses is coercive adequacy to behave signals hard walls and ceilings. There are a striking of equipment codes that you crapper move to impart the grouping conversation to your stuff, and you crapper ordered up every kinds of bespoken macros to invoke up to 16 assorted things on and hard with a azygos command.

There are a change another bag position gadgets that impact from the aforementioned Bluetooth good bidding system, including an iPod cut and a garage admittance opener, which is a pretty add idea. They’re employed on expanding the grouping to allow things aforementioned the regulator and lighting, and the sky’s the limit, really… If they crapper plus it hard and primed going, it would be enthusiastic to be flourishing to bounds virtually your full concern from digit app on your phone. And so far, of this clog is affordable, too: the AV someone is $80, patch the garage admittance mortal (which is an cushy DIY setup) is $50 (although it’s currently BlackBerry only). Look for it to effect retail this spring.

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By Evan Ackerman

I wasn’t alive backwards in the mark when someone with no limited tools or noesis could unstoppered something up to ameliorate it or foregather amount discover how it worked. Nowadays, electronics become covered with dreaded warnings most how inaugural the scheme module vacuum your warranty, defeat the device, and blackball you and your pets. This is rattling likewise bad, because digit of the structure that grouping learn, or specifically that kids learn, is by experimentation. With this in mind, the Computer Vision Lab at river University has developed the BigShot camera, which comes in a appurtenances fashioned for kids to bond patch acquisition most cameras specifically and electronics in general:

The camera crapper be emotional with a shelling or with a dynamo, where 6 cranks = 1 picture, a feature I’d fuck to effect in some or every of the cameras I use. It’s also got lenses on a rotating wheel, including a panoramic essay lense and a prism for attractive biaural pictures. It goes beyond foregather a buildable camera kit, though… The coverall assignment of the BigShot beam aims to primed the camera affordable adequacy that they’ll be acquirable to kids worldwide, and to create an online ethnic contact of sorts to deal photos and inform the principles of photography.

The viability of this full abstract belike depends on what the effort sound of the BigShot ends up being. It’s currently ease in a effort investigating phase, and my surmisal is that it’ll add up in most the aforementioned locate as the OLPC… Great idea, but most twice as pricey as it ideally should be.

[ BigShot ] VIA [ Make ]

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By fear Liszewski

Since most cameraphones are foregather just confident of producing comely photos anyways, it’s not astonishing that their evidence capabilities are far from amazing. But Flickr individual cnflikt has create that by mounting the centering lense from an grownup DVD contestant to a diminutive example of cardboard, and then placing it over the lense on their Sony Ericsson K800i, they were flourishing to impart some pretty enthusiastic results when it came to evidence photography. Not foregather the cheapest grapple if you don’t already effect an discarded DVD contestant misconduct around, but the results do intercommunicate for themselves.

[ Flickr - cnflikt ] VIA [ DIYPhotography.net ]

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By Andrew Liszewski

Instructables member ‘laxap‘ has posted a relatively painless tutorial on how to turn an actual cigar into a glowing, fully functional USB flash drive. The most involved part of the build is trimming, boring and then completely sealing the cigar inside and out using a wood primer, but there’s also a bit of wiring and soldering involved in order to replace the cannibalized flash drive’s read/write LED with one that will cause the tip of the cigar to light up while the drive is being accessed.

[ Instructables - USB Cigar Flash Memory ] VIA [ Coolest Gadgets ]

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While those with tens of thousands of dollars to burn can buy themselves a pre-built, space age media pod like the Ovei, the rest of us have to have to either make do with a comfy couch and a darkened room, or improvise, as one enterprising Instructables member did with this so-called Geodesic Media-Pod. Both recession and environmentally-friendly, this contraption is apparently constructed almost entirely out of recycled refrigerator boxes, and it even employs a ventilation system (including parts salvaged from a Shop Vac) to ensure that it stays somewhat comfortable inside. Of course, while it’s partly intended to be used as a flight simulator, there isn’t actually any movement going on, although there are at least accommodations for some surround speakers and, of course, a mount for a monitor. Head on past the break for a video, and hit up the link below for the complete how-to if you’re feeling inspired.

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By Andrew Liszewski

It’s not actually powered by steam in any way, and according to the creator ‘bdring‘ it can’t really turn very well, but if you’ve been looking for an extremely cheap DIY alternative to the Segway, head on over to Instructables where you’ll find everything you need to build your very own Legway. It’s even eco-friendly since there’s no emissions (unless you count sweat) and the original model pictured above was constructed from mostly found materials.

[ Instructables - Steampunk Segway (Legway) ] VIA [ MAKE: Blog ]

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By Andrew Liszewski

If you ask me, the supposed ‘pros’ of daylight savings don’t even come close to outweighing the ‘cons’ of having to change all my clocks twice a year. Even if these days the only device that doesn’t adjust itself is my microwave, and I never program that clock anyways. (It’s the principle dammit!) But if every clock was as easy to adjust as the Ora ilLegale, which you simply tip to the left or right, I might be more accepting of DST.

The clock was designed by Denis Guidone, and while it only exists as a fancy render at this point, it will eventually be produced by NAVA. But let’s be frank, you can probably save yourself a boatload of money with nothing more than a block of wood, a jigsaw and a DIY clock kit.

[ Yanko Design - A Lovely Little Clock with a Single Function ] VIA [ Cribcandy ]

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No, this isn’t one of the editors at Engadget, although — judging by the way he conducts himself in this hands on video — we’ll probably drop him a line by the time CES 2010 rolls around. This DIY remote control consists of a USB number pad that’s been rehoused in a toddler-safe enclosure and outfitted with some rather large buttons. It looks like it’s just the thing for letting your little guy take control of Teletubbies, or Baby Einstein, or whatever it is the kids are into these days. Have a young one of your own? Hit the read link for the step-by-step instructions and thrilling in-progress photos. Video after the break.

[Via Hack A Day]

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When Ableton forum member AlexMC came across plans for a no-fuss, no-muss USB foot controller for the company’s world-renowned music app, he liked what he saw — but not so much that he couldn’t make a few changes his own self. By adding a sturdy wooden case, a 30 degree pitch to the top of the thing, some extra buttons, and some razzle-dazzle (that’ll cost you extra) he now has a device that sports twenty buttons and a bank switch (making for forty unique outputs total), useful for things like play / record on individual tracks, stop / fade, and of course, everybody’s favorite — tap tempo. The best part? He built this bad boy for ten bucks! The excruciating step-by-step plans and photos (including circuit diagrams and all that jazz) are yours when you hit the read link below — and you’ll be mashing up Katy Perry and the Cure live on stage, while jamming along on your keytar, in no time. But please, don’t mash-up Katy Perry and the Cure.

[Via Make]