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Tag: lost
2009-01-06 01:39:59| Young Entrepreneur Forums
Forum: General Business Posted By: FlY_LiKe__ Post Time: 01-05-2009 at 07:04 PM
2008-12-31 23:56:07| ScriptLance Projects
2008-12-30 22:03:00| Engadget
ZigBee and other home automation technologies may be all well and good if you want to keep things practical and whatnot, but if you're the more adventuresome type, you may want to take after Instructables member leevonk, who's pieced together this slightly unwieldy contraption. At the heart of the system is a webcam, a flashlight, and some photoresistors that detect changes in brightness on the screen they're so elegantly affixed to. To change that brightness, you simply shine the flashlight at the area the webcam is pointed to, which relays the image back to the aforementioned PC via Yahoo Messenger which, in turn, activates a series of motors that can be used to perform a variety of tasks. Practical? Not exactly. But it is inexpensive, and it sure is more fun than a couple of mouse clicks. Head on past the break to check it out in action.[Via Hacked Gadgets] Continue reading DIY home automation system brings back the lost art of flashlight controlFiled under: Misc. GadgetsDIY home automation system brings back the lost art of flashlight control originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
2008-12-28 18:46:23| The Economic Times
Clients of Switzerland's second biggest bank Credit Suisse have lost up to a billion Swiss francs in the alleged pyramid scheme of Wall Street titan Bernard Madoff, according to a Sunday media report.
2008-12-28 00:20:01| digg
Humorist John Hodgman rambles through a new story about aliens, physics, time, space and the way all of these somehow contribute to a sweet, perfect memory of falling in love.