FLAIRS | Truckers Delight
Lenovo definiert mit dem X100e das Entry Portable
Normalerweise kommt man mit den Notebookreleases nicht mehr mit. Als ASUS das Netbook oder Apple das Macbook herausbrachte, gab es vielleicht mal einen Aha-Effekt. Lenovo könnte mit dem X100e auch so etwas passieren…
Das Entry Portable soll seinen Platz zwischen Netbooks wie dem Ideapad und Ultraportables finden. Die Ausstattung ist vollständig und die Verarbeitung Lenovo-typisch gut. Am interessantesten ist jedoch der Preis: Das X100e soll Anfang 2010 für ab 450 Dollar auf den Markt kommen…
via netbooknews.de
Human cat perch
A Hidim turns a torrent into a regular PNG image

You save the png yourself. You can post it anywhere. People can decode it, but it can’t be searched for… it won’t turn up in searches for those torrents, unless you provide text that matches.
Tony Hawks on batteries
The eBoard Neo is a 400w battery powered skateboard with an acceleration of 0 - 20 in 4 seconds and a maximum speed at 14mph for 13.5 miles - £219.99
Janet’s Whizbang Chicken Plucker In Action!
This video of a homemade chicken plucking machine in action is pretty astounding, in that it takes about 90 seconds to fully defeather a bird. It was built using the advice from Herrick Kimball’s Anyone Can Build a Tub-Style Mechanical Chicken Plucker (Amazon), the book that makes the dream of owning a mechanical plucker an “affordable reality.” Not the for the faint of heart.
via eatmedaily
PeerBlock – Safer P2P
PeerBlock lets you control who your computer “talks to” on the Internet. By selecting appropriate lists of “known bad” computers, you can block communication with advertising or spyware oriented servers, computers monitoring your p2p activities, computers which have been “hacked”, even entire countries! They can’t get in to your computer, and your computer won’t try to send them anything either.




