Gadgetopia

DISCLAIMER: I cannot be held responsible if your expensive projector takes up skydiving, and meets with negative results. I probably overbuilt it a tad, but since I'm hanging a pretty expensive piece of hardware pretty high in the air, I wanted to make sure everything was solid. Overall, it was ...

A projector slides off into the sunset: It's a travesty the slide projector is history. "Video killed the radio star, as the song goes, and now it has claimed another victim: the humble slide projector. [...] With zero fanfare, Eastman Kodak Co., the principal US manufacturer of slide projectors, ...

Here's an idea I came up with while on a walk tonight. There's a 50-percent chance it's already been invented if it has, tell me where to find it. The world needs a PC projector that will cache the displayed image. Say I'm tooling through my presentation in front ...

BOXLIGHT - Presentation Articles: I saw an ad for some of these in an in-flight magazine. Having a projector on the network lets you apparently connect to it and debug it remotely. But the really cool thing is -- Some [network-enabled projectors] also have the ability to access and deliver ...

Exploratorium: That article on the square wheels included a link to the Exploratorium Web site and that got me all nostalgic. Housed within the walls of San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts, the Exploratorium is a collage of over 650 science, art, and human perception exhibits. The Exploratorium is a ...

Boob Tubes Going Digital By 2007: First the slide projector, and now the analog TV it's been a bad week for old technology. "The transition to digital TV, which was designed to be mostly completed by 2007, has been slowed in part by high-priced equipment needed to receive the ...

Photo Gallery (Pensonal Computer): Snopes reports on something almost impossibly cool. It's a computer broken apart into pieces, each the size of a pen. The screen and keyboard are projected onto surfaces. P-ISM is a gadget package including five functions: a pen-style cellular phone with a handwriting data input function, ...

Making a video screen out of thin air: I've been waiting for someone to invent this for 20 years. "...in Hermosa Beach, California, a graduate student passes his hand through an image of a DNA strand produced apparently out of thin air by a modified video projector. 'This ...

[Link Removed -- see comments]: This guy dumped his girlfriend via a PowerPoint presentation. It's wicked funny, but it also demonstrates a thing PowerPoint is good for: outlining. Sometimes I'll use PowerPoint when I have no intention of giving a presentation. It can just be really handy for organizing thoughts ...

The Secret Of Their NFL Success: 60 Minutes had a great segment tonight about NFL coaches and the role they play in their team's success. Apparently computers are playing an huge role in NFL team strategy. They showed John Fox, coach of the Carolina Panthers, in front of his machine. ...