Hacks

Every once in a while we hit something so geeky that it blows our heads, this time Spud blew our potatoes. Because, Spud is the name for the world's lowest power consuming web server that runs on raw potato power. That's right Spud uses potatoes for power, about 5-6 of them and serving around 0.2 hits/sec, which means it will not survive any kind of digg effect unless it uses toothpicks ;)

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Here's an interesting video sent in my Matt, which explains how you can hack your standard goggles to work in infrared for under US$ 10. Pretty interesting.

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Building a radio generally isn't a difficult thing,  if you have the right set of components and a PCB board. But, this particular how to beats all other known Radio making tutorials. Because, this "how to" details perhaps the world's simplest home made radio, which can be built with just a few  wires, a razor, a safety pin and an ear piece. Forget what you learnt in electroic manuals, you don't need a PCB, crystals, ICs or even resistors for this home made radio hack.

 

No, we aren't kidding, read the instructions here.