A little while ago my kids were playing in the minivan. They were having so much fun – it was great to watch. And then we got in the minivan and tried to turn on the CD player. No dice. I guess the youngest one decided to put some coins into the CD player slot. [...]
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Micromechanical Robotic Insects
February 12th, 2007 
admin When I first starting looking into military drones, I was amazed to find a segment of miniature ones. Then I looked a little harder and started finding very small ones. These super small spy insects utilized realistic wings, antennas, etc. But they are only a segment of a whole area of research around biomimetic micromechanics. [...]
Internet Access Provider
February 11th, 2007 admin This is another way to say, what is your Internet Service Provider, or ISP. An internet access provider is a company that allows you access to the internet network. Maybe you still don’t understand the role of an internet access provider. As usual, the best way to describe an abstract concept is through the use [...]
FIC Neo1973 Linux Smartphone
February 9th, 2007 admin People went bananas when the iPhone was announced. And for good reason. The iPhone is going to push the boundaries on mobile devices. Apple can use their muscle to change the way that cell phones are developed and implemented – and that’s a good thing. So I went searching to see if there were any [...]
Frostwire Free Open Source P2P
February 8th, 2007 admin There is a continuing battle going on in the peer to peer landscape. That battle is over control. As media is becoming ever more easy to transcode, share, and copy; the battle is only going to get worse. Which makes me wonder. Isn’t there a win win type business proposition in media sharing? Someone needs [...]
Burn Iso Images Free
February 7th, 2007 admin Most people get confused when it comes to iso images. These are files that have this kind of filename – winxp.iso. The first part is the name of the file and the ending is the extension. This is similar to reports.doc, where reports is the name of the Word document, and .doc is the file [...]
Crystal Space Free 3D Graphic Software
February 6th, 2007 admin Have you ever wanted to play around with generating 3D still shots, movies, or games? Crystal Space is an incredible project that puts that type of technology into your hands. Let’s take a closer look.
Aerogel Solid Smoke
February 5th, 2007 admin Do you remember when NASA did the StarDust program? I think it was in 1999. Anyway, the StarDust program sent a satellite into the coma of a comet. This is the ball of gas surrounding the nucleus of a comet. They were trying to catch debris off of the comet in an attempt to study [...]
UberTech Carnival
February 2nd, 2007 admin Welcome to the February 2, 2007 edition of uber tech carnival. It’s time for a whole lot of great posts from around blogdom. I was overwhelmed with the amount and variety of this month’s submissions. Good stuff bloggers! Enjoy:
