It’s now possible to run Nintendo emulation without ‘classic’ emulator on Palm WebOS. In just ten easy steps, provided by the kind folks at pre web wiki, you, too, could be shooting up the baddies in the Central American jungles of Contra.
Steve Donnelly writes: Just a little something I whipped up to solve the age-old problem of separate hot and cold water taps in a rented apartment where you can’t start replacing the plumbing. Cheap and works well. [Posted on Facebook]
Not sure how well it works, but from the pictures on Inhabitat, it does appear to at least… float. It’s made from eight plastic water jugs. Wanes attached to the rear spokes provide power. The DIY Floating Water Bike
Here’re some instructions for tethering your Palm Pre. It works the same way as tetherbot for Android in that it’s an SSH tunnel to the phone running as a SOCKS proxy. It’ll only get you HTTP, but hey, it’s something! Via BBG. More: Tetherbot – browse on your laptop through the T-Mobile G1
Marco Rapino, a developer working at the Center for Knowledge and Innovation Research at HSE in Helsinki, has developed a prototype controller using the accelerometer in his Nokia N95 smartphone, some Python, and the Blender 3D content creation suite.
uke University students have developed a prototype smartphone app that reads characters drawn with accelerometer data and outputs text using OCR. Though a little impractical as a keyboard replacement, it would be great for gestural input.
Got a ThinkPad and have a tendency to trip over the power cord all the time? Well, you’re in luck. This Instructable will show you how to assemble your very own ThinkSafe magnetic power connector.
