Plustek is showing this $700 Book Reader V100 at CES 2009. It scans books directly into MP3 audio files using optical code recognition (OCR) and a tiny little man with a mellifluous baritone voice trapped inside. Or some kind of text-to-speech program. I’m not sure which. Given the choice between this and buying something that’s […]
Craving a toasted marshmallow but frustrated by lack of a proper campfire coupled with an annoying inability to rotate the marshmallow evenly? Henry has cooked up an Instructable for a lovely, single-serving Arduino automatic marshmallow roaster using a beeswax candle and a stepper motor from an old printer. Yum!
Palm introduced a new phone today called the Palm pre, it catches them up to what’s out there and looks like a solid phone – there is also a new WebOS for it, I’m going to take a close look at it – but what I think is more interesting is the colorful menagerie of […]
The Pharos Lens: one “green nutrition label” project Companies at CES may be starting to equate being green with making green: Consumers will soon look for more information on how a product was manufactured, what the packaging consists of, and what materials are used inside, according to research published as CES begins. The report, prepared […]
Use a cellphone camera for espionage that captures long-distance secret activities! Thanks go to Eric Rosenthal for the original article in Make: Volume 16 To download The Portable Spy Scope MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Portable Spy Scope article in MAKE: Volume 16 “Portable Spy Scope”
Use a cellphone camera for espionage that captures long-distance secret activities! Thanks go to Eric Rosenthal for the original article in Make: Volume 16 View the PDF
WowWee usually rolls out a number of new bots each CES and this year is no exception. I’ve been a little disappointed in the new bots coming out recently. I’m not seeing much beyond cosmetic changes — different characters or bot skins. New tech, that works, seems less forthcoming. I didn’t have high hopes for […]
