If you had a pair of Google Goggles, would you rather wear them or take them to pieces? Well, I’d be quite happy with the latter and Sparkfun Electronics have done a dandy detailed job of disassembling the Google Glass augmented reality device.
You can see closeups of the…
“iPad mini is every inch an iPad. With its gorgeous 7.9-inch display, iPad mini features the same number of pixels as the original iPad and iPad 2, so you can run more than 275,000 apps designed specifically for iPad.” this is what Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior…
Earlier this month Amazon announced the Kindle Fire HD tablet, and it hasn’t taken the team at iFixit long to take it apart. Check out the repair-specialists’ teardown of the latest Amazon device, revealing a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor with Imagination PowerVR 3D graphics core and…
“Applications could include monitoring pets to ensure they don’t stray too far away from home by adding GPS functionality to the standard Find Me profile, or developing an assistance alarm that sends a signal to a smartphone to alert someone that the user is in need of help,” said…
I like the look of this one. Liquidware has an interesting piece of kit they’ve dubbed Amber. The kit is described as “80 percent of the way to a tablet”, reports Engadget – it’s a tablet development framework “designed to accelerate time-to-market at all stages of product…
David Mellis, a PhD student at MIT has published the circuit and case designs and the source code for a working mobile phone that he built using parts worth $1 50 (£93). The body is laser-cut from veneered plywood, and it has a 160x128pixel TFT screen…
World of Mindstorms is one of the blogs of Leon Overweel, a fourteen-year-old New Yorker who includes robotics in his extensive list of interests. A recent post particularly caught my eye: PriNXT – Mindstorms NXT Printer…
Ikea has been working on a digital camera largely made from cardboard. Called KNÄPPA, the folk over at PetaPixel have a witty video about it, and details. The whole thing is neat – even the USB connector…