PC at Price of Textbook
There is growing interest surrounding the Raspberry Pi Foundation and their promise of a PC that will cost just $25. We have seen how the OLPC has struggled to deliver a $100 laptop for developing countries, and yet Raspberry Pi is confident in delivering the $25 PC by November 2011. Eben Upton, director of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, explained that the $25 price point was decided upon because it is the cost of a textbook so it made sense. The foundation has also realized that the $35 PC with more RAM and a network port is going to be the most popular device by a significant margin. Something we did not realize is that Raspberry Pi not only intend to make this PC work through a HDMI and DVI connection, they also want it plugged into old analog TVs just like kids managed with in the 80s. It also means you do not need an up-to-date display in order to start playing with this device.
http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/why-a-25-pc-because-its-the-price-of-a-textbook-2011091/
Revontulet
Revolights consist of two thin LED rings that mount directly to each wheel rim. Power comes via a wire to the hub where a USB rechargable lithium-ion battery is held in a special bracket. A small magnet is secured to the fork to provide speed and orientation information to the rings. Revolights detect how fast your tires spin and only activate the appropriate LEDs so that you are always only blowing out light behind and in front of you (and not in your own eyes). When you are slowing to a stop, the light pattern changes to a safety-cycle, going around in a circle.
http://kck.st/nRFdb4
Self-inflating bike tire
PumpTire is commercializing the first self-pressurizing bicycle tire. Imagine taking your bicycle out of the garage and never having to fill up the tires or even check the pressure. Or imagine yourself being able to change your tire pressure on-the-fly with a simple adjustment from the handlebars. PumpTire is developing both of these systems. The self-inflating, self-adjusting technology is incorporated directly into the tire and is compatible with current rims, making it a simple addition to any bicycle. PumpTire is promoting the project on Kickstarter.
http://pumptire.com/
Honey never goes bad
Honey is a miracle food; it never goes bad. It was reported that archaeologists found 2,000 year old jars of honey in Egyptian tombs and they still tasted delicious. Many people find it rather surprising that bacteria cannot grow in honey because all things being equal, bacteria loves sugar. The unique chemical composition of low water content and relatively high acidic level in honey creates a low pH (3.2-4.5) environment that makes it very unfavourable for bacteria or other micro-organism to grow. Thus, "Best Before Dates" on honey buckets do not seem to be very important.
http://www.benefits-of-honey.com/honey-facts.html
365 Days of Exercise
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John Stone takes an image of himself everyday to show the progress of his workouts in weight loss and muscle gain. We still have hope, guys!
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/video/365-days-of-exerciseBlërg is not sure
Blërg is a microblogging platform. Or maybe a miniblogging platform. Blërg is not sure. Blërg is a lot like Twitter, but aims to fix some of its idiosyncracies. Blërg's author finds it entertaining to anthropomorphize Blërg in the third person. Is this a joke? Yes. No. Maybe. Blërg is an exercise in constructive satire — a fully functional service created in a fit of hubris to poke fun at Twitter's engineering. It's just for fun, but no one is going to keep you from using it seriously. :]
http://blerg.dominionofawesome.com/
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