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Here's a story that caught Gadget Freak's ever-roving eye - Potato Power - "Potato Batteries for Use in the Developing World"Continue reading "Potato power for organic electric batteries" »
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sugru has been created by a small British company operating in the East End of London. It's taken seven years to develop and bring to market, all thanks to the unwavering vision of artist, founder and inventor, Jane ní Dhulchaointigh. Jane studied at London's Royal College of Art and came up with the concept for sugru. The university is good at supporting invention (alumni include James Dyson) and they connected her with an investor. Years of work went into developing sugru, but Jane struggled to find a major consumer products company willing to take on her invention.
It's time for a new Gadget Freak competition, presenting another chance for you to win a
nice technology prize, courtesy of Digi-Key who sponsor the Gadget
Freak blog. Here's the July/August compo!
(HD 1080p video with built-in image stabilisation and Smartface tracking technology). It would cost you £104 on Amazon.
A year ago we featured a round-up of music-related posts, but the music played on, and kept coming...so it is time for another!
Yes, we have a winner for the June / July Gadget Freak compo, featuring
a Sumvision
SATA Hard Drive Docking Station with Built In Card Reader & USB Hub as the prize...
Continue reading "Last chance to step up to Circuit Challenge #12" »
June, she'll change her tune. In restless walks she'll prowl the night.
July, she will fly. And give no warning to her flight...
Electronics Weekly reported in June on the SRzero electric sportscar, from the Energy Futures Lab at Imperial College in London - they completed two orbits of the M25 motorway on a single charge, breaking the one lap record set by the folk at FHM magazine driving a Tesla. Continue reading "Racing Green Endurance head for Pan American Highway" »
In our Gadget of the Week roundup we'll waste no time to skip past the camera straps with solar panels, ignore the World Cup Trophy USB dongle, pass by the 18-button "war" mouse, and cross the road to avoid the Hoody with headphones built into the strings.
Fancy building your own Diddley Bow electric slide guitar (or "monochord zither" as my ethnomusicologist father would call it)?Continue reading "Build your own Diddley Bow electric slide guitar" »
Continue reading "Build your own Linux tablet with OLED touch display" »
Continue reading "Spinning up time on an LED hard drive clock" »
It's not all about the (Atmel AVR-based) Arduino here on Gadget Freak, check out the latest (TI OMAP3530-based) BeagleBoard offering, the xM.Continue reading "Watch out, there's a new BeagleBoard about" »
Would you ever consider building your own submarine? And then take the homemade vehicle for a spin in a lake? Amateur inventor Tao, 34, made a fully functional submarine, which has a periscope, depth control tanks, electric motors, manometer, and two propellers, from old oil barrels and tools which he bought at a second-hand market. He took 2 years to invent and test the submarine which costs 30,000 yuan (US$4,385).Full photos are on the site >>
Continue reading "Gadget Freak takes his own submarine for a swim" »
Continue reading "iPhone 4? Just another glowing rectangle!" »
A new month, a new Gadget Freak competition, and another chance to win a nice technology prize, courtesy of Digi-Key who sponsor the Gadget Freak blog. Yes, it's time for the June/July compo!
, to be precise.
Yes, we have a winner for the Apr / May Gadget Freak compo, featuring
a Seagate 1TB External Desktop USB 2.0 Hard Drive as the prize...
The darling buds of May have done their business and it is time once more for the monthly roundup, looking at the
most popular posts on
Gadget Freak. See what your peers have been mostly reading in May.
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