Pinnacle PCTV HD Pro Stick
As chips, boards, and other components get smaller, so do the products that they make up. The Pinnacle PCTV HD Pro Stick is a good example of this. It’s a USB stick that allows you to view HD OTA (over the air) programming from any USB capable device. So now you can […]
Mars Rover Tribute
The Mars rovers have been a complete success. The fact that they set down on January 3 and January 24 PST, 2004 and are still rolling is pretty unbelievable! And one of the mission’s primary goals, that of finding evidence of water on the Martian surface, seems to have yielded very fruitful results. […]
PaulTech P.S.A.: Build Your Own Machine
Please excuse me if I am a bit giddy for the next few posts. It just that, yesterday, all of the pieces for my new computer arrived and they are now in one piece sitting under my desk; in fact, I’m writing this post on it (you can see the boxes of parts to the […]
PHaSR Laser Weapon
When I found this picture from a factsheet for non-lethal weapon systems for the Air Force Research Laboratory, I half expected to see a white storm trooper holding the thing. I don’t care if that thing works - I just love the look of it. This would bring a laser tag game to […]
PaulTech in Space: The Final Frontier
To be honest, it’s always been a kid dream of mine to be on the space shuttle or even the first interstellar ship; not one that lands on the planet, but one that’s stuck up there, mind you. It would give me the biggest rush, looking down at Earth or some other planet, knowing this […]
Laser Stars in Your Home
My kids have some of those glow stars on their ceiling. They love them. They love to point out the shooting star and the various constellations that we have put together. Move over stinkin plastic glow stars there’s something cooler. I wonder how my kids would react if I put up […]
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