Brick Brites: LEGO with LEDs

April 12th, 2012by: Lambert Varias Make your LEGO ambulance, LEGO police car and LEGO techno club more realistic with Brick Brites, transparent bricks embedded with LEDs that are compatible with your “favorite construction blocks”, as long as your favorite construction blocks are LEGO.

Bicycle Upgraded with Train Horns Sure to Clear the Way

April 12th, 2012by: Technabob Ever find yourself on your bike, only to be cut off by some jerk who doesn’t think bikes belong on the road?

The Chadster outfitted his bike with a large dual-trumpet horn from a train, connected up to a tank filled with compressed air.

Ardbeg’s ISS Whiskey Experiments

Automated cargo vessels head to the ISS regularly to take astronauts new supplies and pick up trash.

A few months back, Ardbeg Distillery sent some vials of key ingredients to the ISS aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket.

When the vials come back from orbit, the researchers at the distillery intend to do experiments to see if zero gravity had any effect on terpenes in the ingredients.

Photographic Moon Globe is out of This World

The Sky & Telescope Moon Globe is 12-inches in diameter, and has 850 labeled locations.

For $99.95 you get both the globe and Sky & Telescope’s detailed Moon Guide.

LEGO Dock for Nokia Lumia 900 Lets You Safely Brick Your Phone

Check out this LEGO beauty which was constructed by Baris Eris.

He also provides instructions and detailed close-up shots, which should be enough for anyone with some LEGO bricks to build their LEGO charging dock for their smartphone, not just the Nokia Lumia 900.

TJ* Animatronic Puppet Puts a Robot Head on Your Desk

Designed by Jeff Kessler, TJ* is an animatronic puppet you can easily control.

The mechanical puppet is controlled using a programmable Arduino circuit, so you can make it do whatever you want.

Pricing for TJ* starts at just $50(USD) if you already have an Arduino, and at $120 for a complete system with the Arduino Uno controller and puppeteer’s joystick.

BrewCave Walk-in Cooler & Kegerator: The Beer Lover’s Happy Place

The BrewCave is made of metal-skinned panels with 4″ insulation cores.

It can fit up to 30 cases of beer along with 4 kegs of more beer.

R2-D2 Turntable Perfect for R2-DJ2 or C-3PDisco

Why not geek it up and give it a new look like these guys did with their awesome R2-D2 inspired turntable mod.

R2′s technical components were done by Tex Nasty from Remix Turntable Lab and the paint and art was done by Ed Hubbs of Full Blown Kustoms using a classic Technics 1200 turntable as a starting point

Unique Gadgets & Accessories for Your Ride

Featuring EL car panel, car sticker, car cellphone holder, tire value light, solar bobblehead toys for car and a lot more; car accessories can truly make an impressive difference to your car.

Bluetooth Car Accessories Bluetooth are becoming a popular option for drivers.

Some of the popular Bluetooth Car Accessories are adapter, Bluetooth headsets and Bluetooth speakers and microphones, etc.

Bluetooth Car Accessories Car Cellphone Holder Smartphones nowadays are usually designed to be used as a GPS navigator, for it can help you to direct the way or find your location when you’re driving.

Cellphone Holder Auto Stickers & Car eyelashes Want to make your car's logo and body unique and eye-catching?

Auto Stickers & Car eyelashes EL Car Panel The EL car panel is made up of a cable, and a control box and a layer of ultrathin and soft sheet.

The EL car panel is one of the top sells of GnG.

offers a vast selection of EL car panels.

EL Car Panel Solar Bobblehead Car Toys Powered by sun energy, not required for any batteries, the solar bobblehead car toys will nod their heads when under the sunshine.

Solar Bobblehead Car Toys Now get some gadgets and accessories for you car and enjoy your ride!

Gizmos & Gadgets

Super Solvers: Gizmos & Gadgets is an educational science computer game designed by The Learning Company.

A popular game through 1997, The Learning Company, then incorporated with Brøderbund, discontinued Gizmos & Gadgets in 1998.

This is done by moving the Super Solver (Who has no facial features) around a series of warehouses to collect vehicle parts by solving puzzles involving principles of physics.

In solving the puzzles, players learn about science and mathematical principles, including: In building vehicles, players learn about good, better and best principles.

Microsoft Gadgets

Microsoft Gadgets are lightweight single-purpose applications, or software widgets, that can sit on a Microsoft Windows user's computer desktop, or are hosted on a web page.

Web gadgets run on Web sites such as Live.com and Windows Live Spaces Live.com lets users add RSS feeds in order to view news at a glance.

A panel, or sidebar, is found on either the right side (default) or the left side of the Windows desktop in the Windows Vista operating system.

In Windows 7, the sidebar is removed, although gadgets can somewhat similarly be aligned on any side of the screen.
Gadgets are toggled between the two sizes via a button in Windows 7. Windows SideShow is a new technology that lets Windows Vista drive auxiliary, small displays of various form-factors where ready-access to bite-size bits of information could be represented.

Sideshow is coupled to the Windows Vista Sidebar capability – that is, Sidebar Gadgets are easily ported to be compatible with Sideshow secondary display applications.

Gadget

A gadget is a small tool such as a machine that has a particular function, but is often thought of as a novelty.

Gadgets are sometimes referred to as gizmos.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, there is anecdotal evidence for the use of "gadget" as a placeholder name for a technical item whose precise name one can't remember since the 1850s; with Robert Brown's 1886 book Spunyarn and Spindrift, A sailor boy’s log of a voyage out and home in a China tea-clipper containing the earliest known usage in print.

The October 1918 issue of Notes and Queries contains a multi-article entry on the word "gadget" (12 S. iv.

The 'jigger' or short-rest used in billiards is also often called a 'gadget'; and the name has been applied by local platelayers to the 'gauge' used to test the accuracy of their work.
In fact, to borrow from present-day Army slang, 'gadget' is applied to 'any old thing.'

In the software industry, "Gadget" refers to computer programs that provide services without needing an independent application to be launched for each one, but instead run in an environment that manages multiple gadgets.

The earliest documented use of the term gadget in context of software engineering was in 1985 by the developers of AmigaOS, the operating system of the Amiga computers (intuition.library and also later gadtools.library).