MIDAS: Homemade Dorm Room Home Automation System
Since moving into my dorm this last fall, my roommate RJ Ryan and I have been working on creating the most elaborate automation system we could envision. Featuring everything from web control, voice activation, and a security system, to large continuously running information displays, electric blinds, and one-touch parties, [...]
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Roger Waters Revisits The ‘Dark Side’
This week, Pink Floyd’s landmark album “Dark Side of the Moon” notches a significant milestone: 1,500 weeks on the Billboard charts (The Billboard 200 and Top Pop Catalog Albums). In an exclusive Billboard Q&A, Roger Waters, the band’s former frontman, dishes on the album that changed his band forever and [...]
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Movielink Test Run on JoeBlo
The Movielink announcement last month about releasing VOD movies for purchase left me with a lot of unanswered questions. First, who the hell would pay for this? Why would you spend $20 for KING KONG on your computer when you could go to Wal-Mart and buy the DVD for $14 [...]
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Woot : iRiver H10 20GB MP3 Player & Recorder - Remix Blue
Hey hey and welcome back! At www.woot.com on your Internet dial, we’re counting down the greatest river songs of all time. These timeless classics not only use river metaphors to teach us something about life, love, and loss - they also tell us quite [...]
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A year ago a group of disgruntled ex-TechTV employees sat down and recorded The Revenge of The Screen Savers. Little did they know the journey it would take them on and the cult following they would create. Now they have turned one and are showing no sign of slowing down with over 50 episodes and [...]
Wall-O-Monitors project — twelve 30-inch flatscreens mounted
When “Crazy Jon” called and told them about a project he was working on, they didn’t believe it at first. But when we got to his house, sure enough — twelve 30-inch Dell flatscreen monitors are sitting in his office, and he’s grinning from ear to ear. Also among [...]
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