John Mahoney

Best Buy's Gift Card is a Tiny Audio Speaker

Who is the consultant that told all of the big boxers that it would be a good idea to turn this year's holiday gift cards into some sort of tangible object? They are raking it in right now. First Target made this year's gift...

Nvidia Quadro FX 5800 Claims Most Powerful Graphics Card Ever, Probably Handles Crysis OK

Nvidia has released what it describes as "the most powerful professional graphics card in graphics history"--the Quadro FX 5800, which packs up to 240 of Nvidia's CUDA independent graphics cores for shouldering some of the load...

Febot Concept Recharges AA Batteries With Wind Power

Even though I haven't bought AA batteries in quite some time now (USBCells still power my Wiimotes, the only things in the house that aren't Li-ion powered it seems), this concept for a quick and easy re-charger for AA cells is...

Limited Edition Wall-E Roomba From Japan Sucks in More Ways Than One

Limited-edition Wall-E Roomba: that brings to mind a certain image of an already-fairly-cute vacuum bot taking on two puppy dog eyes, an adorable electro-babble voice synth and maybe even an inclination to maintain a little...

How To: Max Out Apple TV's Potential With Boxee

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Local bowling, golf highlights

Following are the remainder of last week's city league bowling highlight sheet scores (last week's other scores appeared on Sunday's Bowling Page), as well as local golf highlights, according to information provided to the...

Reducing Fuel Costs and Increasing Fleet Productivity

There is a great expense, and often a lot of stress, involved in managing a fleet of vehicles. In this case, though, cutting corners does not involve neglect of a vehicle, it involves putting sophisticated GPS devices in each...

Traffic Loop Sensor Trigger For Bikes Gets You More Green Lights

Those traffic loop sensors embedded at stop lights to detect the presence of a car have always provided fodder for vehicular snake oil vendors: I've seen products promising to eliminate red lights ONCE AND FOR ALL by...

Mcor Matrix 3D Printer Replicates Objects on the Cheap With Simple Paper and Glue

3D printers are awesome. Feed them a computer model, and out comes a real object--often with complexity that is impossible to conjure into reality via any other means. Still blows my mind nearly every time I see one in action....

The Week in iPhone Apps: Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes!

07-Nov-2008

A lot of things changed this week. A lot. Personally I could not be happier (not one bit), but even if it's good, change can often be a bumpy process. But you know what never changes? The tidal of wave of new applications that...