it's tagged tech

Giovanni Caselli

The pantelegraph developed by Giovanni Caselli was a system of sending and receiving images over long distances by means of telegraph. The images transmitted by telegraph were reproduced using electrochemistry. This system was actually the first prototype of a fax machine.

http://web.archive.org/web/20060427151658/chem...

Lace card

More modern equivalents include the black fax and computer-based denial of service attacks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lace_card

Dork Talk: Stephen Fry on the AsusEEE

Meanwhile, for the rest of us, this is a wonderful little friend who does all we need straight out of the box. And it is only the beginning...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/...

oh, don't forget...

text messages queued up with ohdontforget.com will be delivered at the date & time specified,

http://www.ohdontforget.com/

Mini Reminder : Preferred Living

When you become separated from your belongings by 10 or 25 feet (you set the range), Mini Reminder alerts you with vibrations and beeps.

http://www.sportys.com/acb/showdetl.cfm?&DID=2...

Sudoku solver in three lines explained

In previous posts I produced a four line sudoku solver and then went on to explain it. After having watched a C programmer's approach to it I am down to under three lines. Here it is and how it works.

http://www.ecclestoad.co.uk/blog/2005/06/02/su...

monome

the monome 40h is a reconfigurable grid of sixty-four backlit buttons.

http://monome.org/

TiffanyScreens

Tiffany Screens is a presentation tool, able to capture the content of the presenter's screen and send it to multiple other computer screens at the same time

http://www.tiffanyscreens.com/

www.byoms.com

BYOMS are personalized instant messaging search you creat from information sources you trust and rely on. And someone else getting to watch your search history.

http://www.byoms.com/signin.php

Processing 1.0 (BETA)

Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and sound. It is used by students, artists, designers, architects, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production

http://www.processing.org/

Skype - The whole world can talk for free.

Calling people on Skype is totally free. It's also free to call landlines and mobiles within the US and Canada until the end of the year. (They really want you to ditch your phone)

http://www.skype.com/helloagain.html

silex technology : wifiUSB sharing hardware

The Hi-Speed Wireless USB Device Server SX-2000WG provides 802.11g/b wireless connectivity for USB 2.0 Hi-speed devices. It instantly converts the connected device(s) for access anywhere on your wireless LAN.

http://www.silexamerica.com/us/products/networ...

USB Emulator - USB@nywhere

The main goal is serial stream redirection over network and Internet. It means that the device, which has serial interface (COM, USB, IEEE 1394 FireWire) can be easily accessed from any network-connected node. Now we have redirection systems for COM and U

http://www.intellidriver.com/products.2.16_How...

USB over Network — Shared USB

All you have to do is to install USB over Network Server on the PC where USB devices are plugged in. USB over Network Client must be installed on the PCs you want to give access to that USB devices. That's all.

http://www.fabulatech.com/usb-over-network.html

PC Inspector Smart Recovery download

PC Inspector Smart Recovery is a data recovery program for Flash Card, Smart Media, SONY Memory Stick, IBM Micro Drive, Multimedia Card, Secure Digital Card(SD) or any other data device for digital cameras.

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/smartrecovery.html

Long-term backup [dive into mark]

how do you back up 100 GB of data per year for 50 years?

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2006/05/08/ba...

covertly recording telephone conversations

The federal law makes it unlawful to record telephone conversations except in one party consent cases which permit one party consent recording by state law. (a person can record their own telephone conversations without the knowledge or consent of the oth

http://www.pimall.com/nais/n.recordlaw.html

Kaya Special Optics - Infrared See-Through PF

The PF is a special optical device that helps to visually penetrate an object's surface in order to view whatever lies below. The PF makes it possible for you to see images that are normally invisible to the human eye

http://www.kaya-optics.com/products/overview.s...

My Electronics Hobby: Telephone FM Transmitter

With some modification, I create my own version of FM Telephone bug complete with stripboard layout. Theortically, the frequency range is from 88MHz to 94MHz but you may experiment with the coil structure to tune it

http://leoricksimon.blogspot.com/2006/04/telep...

Portable magnetic card reader

The HandySwipe provides a portable magnetic card reader interface and display. It collects card data from a "Type 2" card reader, and displays the data on a small character LCD screen. Type 2 stripes are by far the most common in use, such as on credit ca

http://camelspit.org/handyswipe/

John-Mike likes robots

John-Michael is/was that kid who took things apart. He is 23 and a resident of sunny Austin Texas where he uses his peripheral understanding of electrical engineering to make things that go whrrrr, beep and/or pop.

http://www.johnmikereed.com/

AutoHotkey

scripting/hotkey program for windows

http://www.autohotkey.com/

build a 1 terrabyte file server for <$500

and yet, i only have 50 megs of email space on the work email server....

http://www.personaltechpipeline.com/shared/art...

Steel Skies

from the source: This is a little Applescript droplet, designed to sit on your desktop. Drag & drop some files onto it, and it’ll magically transfer them to your FTP server in the background.

http://www.steelskies.com/osx/

LaCie - Brick Desktop Hard Drive

i wish you could pick color independent of drive size, but still...

http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=...