• Entertainment & Gaming

    Unwire Your Xbox

    By Posted on 1.5.2009 22 Comments

    This 50-foot Ethernet cable snaking all the way through my apartment from the router in the bedroom to my Xbox 360 in the living room? That's how I used to play videogames online. The Xbox doesn't come with wireless capability built in, and I didn't want to shell out the extra $100 -- a third the price of the console itself -- for Microsoft's wireless adapter. Third-party wireless bridges cost a bit less but are still pricey. Finally, though, I found a way to ditch the giant wire with a solution that cost me only 40 bucks.

    5.7.2009 at 07:05pm - Comment by menexis

    They are looking at around a 0% containment with it comes to the xbox retention. This is pretty much the same figures http://menexis.com . Mostly due to the price that Microsoft has on the product which we think needs to be lowered.

  • DIY

    Homemade Titanium

    By Theodore Gray Posted on 4.9.2009 11 Comments

    An iron crowbar costs about $8; one made of titanium, $80. Solid-titanium scissors start at $700, and don't even ask about the titanium socket wrench. Titanium must be a rare and precious substance, right? Actually, as raw ore, titanium is 100 times as abundant as copper. Nearly all white paint is white because of the titanium dioxide found in the ore. Something like four million tons a year go into paint, sunscreen, toothpaste, even paper.

    5.7.2009 at 07:02pm - Comment by menexis

    If the question is weather it is worth it, many people would like to see it done in a big pot then I might be more impressed http://menexis.com as all of us are pretty impressed right now

  • DIY

    Running Against the Wind

    By Posted on 2.12.2009 13 Comments

    In summer 2007, Alexander Miller and Jan Lehmann, aerospace-engineering students at Stuttgart University in Germany, took on an unusual task: building a wind-powered vehicle that could race directly into the wind. A year later, their team unveiled its creation, the Ventomobile, which handily defeated the field at North Holland's Racing Aeolus, the first-ever track race between vehicles powered solely by wind.

    5.7.2009 at 06:59pm - Comment by menexis

    Nice article and nice try. This is certainly a great idea but is not at all original as people from http://menexis.com can attest to this. But I do like what you have come up with here. As mentioned earlier, Mr. Fletcher of Texa had the same idea

  • Technology

    Wingman

    By Eric Hagerman Posted on 1.14.2009 29 Comments

    The warm autumn sun has burned a hole in the morning haze and opened up the sky above the South Foreland Lighthouse, a historic beacon along the White Cliffs of Dover, England. It marks the narrowest point of the English Channel. You can't quite make out where the sea meets the coast of France, a tantalizing 22 miles distant, but a little surface gauze won't interfere with what's coming across the Channel today.

    5.7.2009 at 06:57pm - Comment by menexis

    I would love to fly around in this one here. Some of the same prototypes available at http://menexis.com are pretty nice as well. This is a brand new day as you can tell. The problem is landing this on the ground safly after taking off

  • The Environment

    Concepts and Prototypes: Ice Scout

    By Posted on 2.4.2009 11 Comments

    When you're driving a 4.7-ton truck filled with scientific equipment across a crevasse-strewn Antarctic wasteland, choosing the right path is critical. Deep cracks in the ice, invisible from a distance, can swallow a truck whole. An Antarctic expedition needs an ultra-light scout vehicle to run ahead and find a safe route before the heavy machinery rolls through. That's exactly what the Concept Ice Vehicle (CIV) is built to do.

    5.7.2009 at 06:50pm - Comment by menexis

    I would love to get my hands on this to drive around town. I can probably modify this to have brakes and such...who knows. This is the other website with the same http://menexis.com

  • The Environment

    Soot Happens

    By Rachel Durfee Posted on 1.13.2009 2 Comments

    The bright, pristine slopes are calling your name. You head up to the mountain at sunrise, strap on your skis, and hit the first run. Only, instead of the immaculate white snow you had been dreaming about, you find the snowpacks are not as bright white as they should be, and your run is accompanied by streams of melting snow following you down the side of the mountain. The culprit? Soot. This pollutant has been darkening and melting snow-covered mountains for awhile, but the first experiments to quantify how much soot contributes to snowpack melt were only carried out recently.

    5.6.2009 at 02:34pm - Comment by menexis

    Hey I love this article. I certainly agree with you that so much impure carbon particles resulting from the incomplete combustion of a hydrocarbon is all over the place creating more of a problem. I also believe many products that we use everyday are also the blame for such changes thx, James http://menexis.com witness the evolution



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