By Mike Haney
Posted 11.18.2005 at 3:00 am
Unfortunately, we have thus far received an answer to only one of the questions we posed to try out these sites. Some, such as Go Ask Alice, answer just two or three a week, so it can take a while to get around to your question, while Ask a Chef has a limited team of experts who are also working professionals. More-general sites such as Google Answers can present a different challenge: Your question may simply get lost among all the others.
Cross a Linux computer with a keg fridge, and you get a tap that knows when you´ve had enough
By Paul Wallich
Posted 11.14.2005 at 3:00 am
Dept.: You Built What?!
Tech.: Robotic Kegerator
Cost: Roughly $600
Time: 8 hours
Practical | | | | | Popcorn
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Never miss a game again now that you can tune in to your home channels on the road
By Steve Morgenstern
Posted 11.07.2005 at 3:00 am
You're sitting in your Tokyo hotel room on a business trip and the only English channel on TV is CNN. But you don't care, because you've got a direct line back to your living room. You open your laptop, and suddenly you're flipping through your TV channels and seeing live American TV just as though you were on your couch. You can even access your TiVo and all its recordings. When you get back home, you can tune in ESPN on the laptop while you're grilling in the backyard.
Q: Are there any cool hacks for SPOT watches?
By Phillip Torrone
Posted 10.19.2005 at 2:00 am
You bet. But first, a primer: Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT) is a service from Microsoft that uses FM radio waves to send personalized text feeds-including news, stock quotes, weather, movie listings, appointments and instant messages-to SPOT-enabled wristwatches. A number of models are available from Suunto, Swatch, Tissot and others (see spotstop.com for a full list).
I've had a SPOT watch (two, actually, plus one for my wife) since their debut in 2004, and I love it.
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Download a PDF of the complete article
Posted 10.18.2005 at 2:00 am
Build it! Find step-by-step instructions for this project in issue 3 of Make magazine, or download a PDF of the complete article.
In a chemical reaction straight out of Harry Potter, you can turn dirt into the building block of every computer
By Theodore Gray
Posted 10.17.2005 at 2:00 am
Dept.:Gray Matter
Element:Silicon
Project: Purifying it
Time: 4 hours
Cost: $40
Dabbler | | | | | Master
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See our test shots and download our high-res sample images.
By Mike Haney
Posted 10.11.2005 at 2:00 am
Click on the slideshow icon below to see our Test Shots.
Eat your heart out, Lance. This amateur-built recumbent may soon break its own record by hitting 82 mph
By Preston Lerner
Posted 10.11.2005 at 2:00 am
Dept.:You built what?! Tech.: World´s fastest human-powered vehicleTime: 200 hours Cost: $15,000Practical | | | | | Popcorn
The thinnest cellphone available has cool accessories that will also work on the phone you've got now
By Joe Brown
Posted 10.04.2005 at 2:00 am
Dept.: Maxed out
Tech.: Motorola Razr V3
Cost: $200 (less with rebates), plus a monthly service plan
Total Cost: $567
Steal | | | | | Splurge
Posted 08.04.2005 at 7:55 pm
Desktop Printers These masters of all trades are equally at home spitting out spreadsheets and snapshots.
Geek out your dog with these high-tech accessories, including a talking dish and a GPS-trackable collar
By Lee Harrington
Posted 08.04.2005 at 2:00 am
Dept.: Maxed Out
Tech: Pet Gadgets
Cost: $1,840 plus dog
Steal | | | | | Splurge
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Get to know your neighbors by giving them a way to connect to the Internet and to one another
By Ethan Todras-Whitehill
Posted 08.04.2005 at 2:00 am
Dept.: Tech Lesson
Tech.: Community Internet
Cost: $60 plus monthly cost of Internet access
Time: 1 hour
Practical | | | | | Popcorn
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Stream a few songs to friends or be the next shock jock—here's how to let loose your inner Johnny Fever
By Nigel Powell
Posted 06.27.2005 at 2:00 am
Dept.: Geek GuideTech: DIY Internet Radio Cost: Free-$2,850Time: 10 minutes and upDabbler | | | | | Master
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Turn a backpack into a portable, solar-powered Wi-Fi hotspot, and share a high-speed connection anywhere
By Mike Outmesguine
Posted 06.23.2005 at 5:55 pm
I love the fact that more and more devices are sporting built-in Wi-Fi—the Sony PSP, smartphones, even Kodak’s EasyShare-One digital camera. The lone hitch: Wi-Fi is useless without a hotspot. Sure, thousands of spots are available, but few are free, and coverage is far from ubiquitous. What if you could marry the short-range power of Wi-Fi with the huge coverage areas of high-speed cellular services such as EV-DO to create a portable hotspot? You could use any Wi-Fi-enabled gadget anywhere you’ve got a cell signal.
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With a battery and a can of soda, you can anodize the surface of titanium to create colors that will last forever
Posted 06.23.2005 at 4:00 pm
Dept.: Gray Matter
Element: Titanium
Project: Anodizing a titanium birdhouse
Cost: $75
Time: 2 hours
Dabbler | | | | | Master
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