If the treadmill bike wasn't enough, check out the Rowbike
At last: an exercise machine that provides total body conditioning with the experience of being outdoors. Imagine gliding your way to a fitter, slimmer body, lower blood pressure, higher metabolism, -- with the revolutionary exercise tool that is virtually stress-free on the body! Customers choose the Rowbike over home gyms, rowing machines, ellipticals and treadmills. Busy professionals can sail away from workday stress with a high intensity, low impact workout!
By Scott Olson (RowBike & Rollerblade Inventor )
ClustrMaps is a neat free service that lets you see where your blog readers are in the world:
See at a glance where your site's visitors are located: instantaneously, even when the numbers are enormous! Visitors don't need to click on anything: just viewing your page is sufficient.
One thumbnail map on your site shows it all: We provide (free) the HTML that gives you a thumbnail map, like the one on the left. When it loads, it increments a counter and shows the locations of all the visitors to your page, cumulatively (even for huge numbers). Clicking on it zooms in to a big world map, and (optionally) lets you zoom in to the continents, as in the example below.
Almost Coolissimo (seen in France):
Thanks cuzzle
Playing with Lego with the kids is great fun. A shame they’re growing so fast I'm left playing by myself:-) Serious fans make “brick films“ (Spite Your Face and BrickFilms)
We are a community dedicated to the art of stop motion animation. Our main focus is the animation of plastic building toys, or bricks (LEGO, Mega Bloks, Best-Lock etc), which we call "brickfilms" (these films are also commonly called "LEGO Movies"). We also encourage other forms of animation, including 3D and Flash. On this site you will find a searchable directory of hundreds of films, contests, a busy forum, and great resources to help animators of any level in the creation ...
Try before you paint with these step by step instructions for digitally painting your house
Changing the color of your house is a big decision, and painting it the wrong color is a mistake that’s not easily fixed. Thanks to digital photo-editing programs like Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006, you can change the color of your house on your computer before you ever touch a brush to your house. This technique will help you in the color selection process, but it can also be fun just to see what your house might look like in a different color.
The Mensa Densa test lets you check if you are;12 Genius 10-11 Above Normal 7-9 Normal 4-6 Slow 1-3 Idiot 0 Brain dead
The batteries last longer with MP3 than DRM formats
Those who belong to subscription services such as Napster or Rhapsody have it worse. Music rented from these services arrive in the WMA DRM 10 format, and it takes extra processing power to ensure that the licenses making the tracks work are still valid and match up to the device itself. Heavy DRM not only slows down an MP3 player but also sucks the very life out of them. Take, for instance, the critically acclaimed Creative Zen Vision:M, with a rated battery life of up to 14 hours for audio and 4 hours for video. CNET tested it at nearly 16 hours, with MP3s--impressive indeed. Upon playing back only WMA subscription ...
Seen On Slash has the best comments from slashdot. Some of my favorites:
It's always a long day... 86400 doesn't fit into a short.
I was in the park, wondering why frisbees get bigger and bigger as they get closer. Then it hit me.
Via James Manning
Why run or bike when you can do them both at the same time with the treadmill bike
Via JAUB!
The perfect tool when the boss gets too close
The USB Powered Air Darts cost ~$30. With a web cam you can even defend your cubicle when you are out of office.
Make the kitty purr (rub the belly with your cursor)
Now this is one twisted bike:
Nabaztag wifi bunny
Some of the free services that your Nabaztag could give you.
Talking Clock: Like a cuckoo clock, Nabaztag will speak the time on the top of every hour.
Wake up rabbit : Just select your favourite MP3 and Nabaztag will sing it to wake you up. You can ask Nabaztag to send you to bed, too!
Weather forecast: Want the weather forecast for where you live... or for the antipodes? Nabaztag can tell you all day, in colour. Or with his nice little voice, whenever you ask.
Stock market: Your Nabaztag keeps an eye on market indices for you. It provides financial information with light signals, or speak them whenever you choose.
Email alerts: Sitting ...
Desktop Earth is a wallpaper generator for Windows. It runs whenever you're logged on and updates your wallpaper with an accurate representation of the Earth as it would be seen from space at that precise moment.
There is an image for every month to accurately depict snow and foliage changes, and the night view is simply stunning. You can even get (almost) real time updates of cloud images via the internet.
Blog audio & video on the go with a Nokia phone and LiveBlog 2.0
Mobile bloggers using a new version of Nokia's Lifeblog software can automatically attach location, time, and relevant calendar information to photos, videos, and audio clips, Nokia said Wednesday. The new software, Lifeblog 2.0, will also allow users to attach audio clips to their blogs.
Via InfoWorld
The Splash Back rules are simple but the game is challenging. Add one drop to a blob by clicking the blob with the mouse. When the blob is full it "explodes", spreading drops in all directions. Create combos to earn more drops.
I lost my dog once. We found it later but I would have given anything for a PetsCell at the moment:
The ability to track a lost pet has most dog lovers excited. The PetsCell has a "call owner" button in case Rover strays. It also includes assisted GPS, or A-GPS, which works indoors, allowing dog owners to map their pup's coordinates from any web-enabled device or by dialing a voice-enabled call center.
Measuring approximately 5 cm's wide, 2.5 cm's thick and 9.4 cm's long, the PetsCellTM sets the standard for GPS tracking devices for pets. Incorporating industry leading GPS technology, the 2-way communication ability of the PetsCellTM will deliver a consistency ...
GMail Drive lets you use GMail as an external disk.
GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google Gmail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your Gmail account directly from inside Windows Explorer. GMail Drive literally adds a new drive to your computer under the My Computer folder, where you can create new folders, copy and drag'n'drop files to.
Via JAUB!
Make the days go faster on the beach with the Remote Controlled Robotic Shark
A full 2' long, this unique robotic shark has a full-range of motion to replicate the smooth, sleek swimming of one of nature's most efficient predators. It is able to gracefully maneuver up, down, left, right, and even backwards through water, in depths up to 9'. The shark can swim up to 40' from its handheld remote unit which is also submersible, allowing you to swim with your shark.
Via The Red Ferret Journal
Dog lips toy
Cool or not, it made me smile.
Features:
Giant rubber lips with toothy grin fetch toy.
Cylindrical mouthpiece attached to the comedy lips.
Made of non-toxic rubber.
Size: - Toy: 9.5 x 9 x 8cm (in its entirety)
Mouthpiece: 5 x 3 x 3cm.
Abbandonware at the underdogs is a great site for finding PC versions of "old" games that you cannot find anywhere like 1942 and 688 attack sub.
Old Version lets you find old versions of software because new is not always better.
Encyclopodia is a free software project that brings the Wikipedia, which is one of the largest encyclopedias in the world, to the Apple iPod. Encyclopodia can be installed on iPod genarations one to four, as well as on iPod Minis and Photo iPods.
Via Fosfor Gadgets
No, the USR9610 is not a UFO buut a USB Skype phone:
It is powered by the USB bus so there is no need for an external power supply.
Science Fiction writers have talked about force fields a long time. NASA looks into using force fields to block a astronaut killer: radiation
The most common way to deal with radiation is simply to physically block it, as the thick concrete around a nuclear reactor does. But making spaceships from concrete is not an option. (Interestingly, it might be possible to build a moonbase from a concrete mixture of moondust and water, if water can be found on the Moon, but that's another story.) NASA scientists are investigating many radiation-blocking materials such as aluminum, advanced plastics and liquid hydrogen. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages....Like charges ...
The Yamaha Divide is a neat concept electric scooter by Yamaha
The Divide uses CF die-cast technology to create a new art form. This electronic commuter is based on the Passol power unit with its motor-in-wheel design. With the push of a button the machine folds up and locks. Even folded up, electric assist makes it easy to move about. And because Divide uses no gasoline or oil, you can store it in the house where its artistic merits can be appreciated. Divide - Modern art you can ride
Chess 960
The rules of Chess960 are mostly the same as orthodox chess -- but the setup incorporates something once considered anathema to the game: chance. Pawns begin where they always do. However, the pieces behind them on the white side are arranged at random, with the proviso that bishops must end up on opposite colors, and the king dwell somewhere between the two rooks. The black pieces are lined up to mirror the white.
Fischer unveiled the new chess at a 1996 press conference in Buenos Aires. The idea was simple: With so many possible starting positions, Chess960 -- or "Fischer Random Chess" -- takes rote memorization off the board. Opening books are obsolete, ...
The Canon i70 mobile printer is small, portable and has a lot of great features:
Supports optional battery for fully portable operation
Up to 4,800 x 1,200 color dpi resolution
Up to 13 ppm black, 9 ppm color; true borderless photos
Direct printing from select Canon digital cameras
USB interface; PC and Mac compatible; wireless IrDA for Windows
Think Geek has a neat USB security lock. Just walk away and the PC is locked.
Each kit is composed of a USB receiver dongle connected to the computer, and a battery-powered access transmitter, which is to be carried by the authorized user. When the user moves more than 2 meters away from the computer, the security dongle will disable access to the computer until the user carrying the transmitter has returned within the vicinity of the computer.
Features:
Automatically locks PC when the user is physically away from the computer
PC resumes automatically when user is within range (2 meter range)
Grant access to authorized user within 2 meters of the protected ...
Microsoft researchers have come up with technology that can remove an image, say a person, from the foreground and then replicate the background that the no-longer-visible person was blocking. The technology, developed by Microsoft's China research lab, was on display at the expo hall at the Professional Developers Conference here.
Cool Or What?
The gallery includes some of his inventions
PaperNapkin
So here's the scenario: You're out at a bar, riding transit, or even just walking down the street, and some bozo who desperately wants into your pants starts up a conversation with you. Rather than make a scene or make them upset, you're polite and at least nod at the proper times. Then, of course, they ask you for your number. Except this is 2006, so maybe they ask for your email address instead. Paper NapkinThat's where Paper Napkin comes in. Give them anyname@papernapkin.net (or paamail.com, to be less suspicious), tell them it's your address, and when they write you, they'll automatically get a response telling them how badly they've been rejected. ...
Incredible sculptures built with pennies without glue
Via Boing Boing
Cool Star Wars Force FX Lightsabers from ThinkGeek
Features:
Glowing blades ignites with realistic power-up/down effects!
Authentic sound effects digitally recorded from the movie.
Features four motion sensor controlled sound effects, Power-up, idle hum, clash, and power-down
Durable metal hilt looks and feels like a real lightsaber.
Sturdy blade is permanently attached to the hilt
Comes with a custom-designed display stand when you need a break from dueling
Maxthon uses IE for its rendering but adds loads of useful features:
Tabbed Browsing Interface
Mouse Gestures
Super Drag&Drop
Privacy Protection
AD Hunter
RSS Reader
IE Extensions Support
External Utility Bar
Skinning
And Much More to Explore...
I particularly like the groups feature. It works like “sessions“ in Opera and it allows you to save the currently open windows as a group.
Google News for mobile phone users.
When Internet-enabled phone users visit google.com, they'll now see a news link that points to a page listing news headlines. Users can search for news stories from a variety of sources and browse based on subject. Only stories that are displayed on pages that have been optimized for mobile users are included, Google said Tuesday.
A line at the bottom of the page tells users when the information on the page was last updated.
Via Infoworld
The Moebius Syndrome Flash game is great fun if you're a fun of puzzles. Click the pieces to make a loop which will be removed.