Archive for May, 2007
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Leatherman, get busy in the garden now! (for hunters too)
Leatherman (you know them, you love them!) have developed a new batch of tools.
The New Vista for hunters, with a pruning shear up front (rather than the pliers).
They’ve also got the new Hybrid, which has a sweet array of tools such as (ok, it’s exactly,,):
Bypass Pruners,Wire Cutters,Weed Remover, Grafting Knife, Bark Lifter, Phillips Screwdriver,Saw
Flat Screwdriver, Sprinkler Tool, Bottle Opener, Ruler, Nylon Sheath, Non-Slip Handle.
Quite frankly I was hoping there would be some sort of bulb planter/coring tool, (for sampling earth). Then again I guess that’d be the soil scientist’s Leatherman (are you listening Leatherman?) Continue reading » Leatherman, get busy in the garden now! (for hunters too)
The folding guitar
This is one clever piece of musical engineering, the DeVillain folding guitar.
The DeVillain works like any ordinary electric guitar but when you get moved on from your regular busking spot you can fold the guitar in half and put it in a normal, if somewhat oversized, bag. When you’re ready to strum your stuff again simply unfold the guitar back to normal and provided you haven’t touch the strings it should still be in tune and ready to play.
More information is available from the DeVillain site.
BT developing motion control for laptops
The UK’s telecom giant British Telecom, are working on a add on for laptops and tablet PC’s which will enable the user to control the cursor just by moving the laptop from side to side. This revolutionary piece of technology is in the development stages, but is already being tested by engineers who are trying to find situations where this sort of control would be invaluable, this would include engineers, etc.
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The PQI i810: a strong and wearable memory stick
Most of us are using USB flash drives. It’s become a replacement for floppies, CDRWs and even of the old ‘ritual’ of lugging around whole hard drives just to show off a ‘successful’ holiday photo or film shoot. We’ve seen small drives, rugged drives, but this one is small (another “smallest in the world” claim), rugged, decent-looking and also claims to be ‘intelligent’
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