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3D printing? 3D without the glasses!

Terry — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:12:46 +0000

We have 3D TV’s that you need those stupid glasses for. Who would want to spend all that money when you can actually buy a 3D printer? What is a 3D printer? It’s a printer that actually makes things. A printer prints ink to paper, while a 3D printer puts one line of plastic on top of each other until a solid product is created. The MakerBot Replicator is a new 3D printer that makes all this much easier. A fun toy for those who can afford the $1,749 price tag!

Enjoy making your own toys and be the only one on your block who has a 3D printer!

Transparent LCD Screen

Terry — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:54:52 +0000

CES has come and past. I wasn’t in Vegas this year but have taken a look at some of the golden ones that this show has introduced. One of the best future technologies is something that we have seen for years in science fiction. A window that becomes your computer or TV screen. Samsung has introduced a prototype of this. While we are a long ways off from having the in our living rooms we could see businesses around the world use this great innovated technology soon.

Take a look at the video:

1.21 gigawatts of electricity will melt this DeLorean

Terry — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:43:53 +0000

It seems the world has been morphed into a Lego’s paradise. Yes 1.21 Gigawatts of electricity will melt the Lego DeLorean! But it is a toy you will love to pieces. As a kid I would spend hours creating magical things with my Lego sets, however they were just bright color blocks and everything I built kind of resembled the previous model. Today there is amazing things you cad do with Lego’s and over at www.ichibantoys.com they bring ‘Back to the Future’ and other childhood memories(Batman and Star Trek!!) to Lego life. The only thing I would add to this would be the radiation suites.

Foreign Gagdet: LED your drinking water?

Terry — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:32:09 +0000

It seems to me my family and friends are over influenced on this clean thing these days, listening to the constant flow of the chemical advertisers of how to properly keep your life clean. With the introduction of Freebrze, wipes and all the other chemical and anti-germ soaps which personally I think are just some marketing guys idea of a profit-margin, it seems they all get freaked out with the smallest amount of dirt left behind. So, if you really want to freak out the neat freak around you, run over to thinkgeek.com and pick up one of these LED faucet lights. They change they color of the water to blue or the temperature one also goes red, which might just send my mom to noon mass.

Bubble Wrap Popping Sport Has Simulator

Terry — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 02:36:35 +0000

Get ready all you pro-Bubble-Wrappers (PBW’s for short), this is the new way of practicing your sport. A bubble wrap simulator. No this isn’t a joke, keep those fingers moving till the the blisters pop. A way to keep the kids quiet, the dog barking and aspirin companies in business. Stop. Breath. Wake up to reality. This maybe the new hotest toy on the market considering the way our culture is breeding into a downward spiral. However it is rumored that our President may endorse these bubble wrap simulators, in hopes to distract the current headlines. They may make a great Christmas gift for that scrooge buried inside you… This is about as Technically Foreign as things get!

VIA: ohgizmo.com

Do computers have souls?

Terry — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 03:40:23 +0000

A computer that I have used for a long time died, deceased, pushing up the daisies, kicked its case, gone to the other side (no its not a mac now!!) — it now is in a scrap pile outside waiting for a dumpster. What a terrible way to go. We had our time together, the past year and a half. Like dog years, computer years are calculate by nine years but that is nine years for every month it’s first post passes boot inspection. So, I shed a tear for my P4 friend who for prosperity I will name P4.

As his mother board fried due to an accidental close encounter with Mr. Starbucks I lay back in my swirly chair and wonder if computers have souls. I mean we have souls. I believe we have a spirit inside us, a unique and powerful energy that if you put your two pointer fingers slightly together but not touching and focus on the empty part you will see your own unique energy. Whatever you call it, a spirit, soul, aura it is there and its still somewhat of a mystery. Animals have souls, you can sense there energy when they are near you.

Death in all cultures is the time when that spirit leaves its vestal and journeys to some far away world. Will we see our electronic devices in heaven in some big shopping mall? Do they meet there maker? And who would that be the guy who made the designs or the union worker who screwed the motherboard to the casing. It won’t be Bill Gates since he most likely won’t be joining P4 in heaven. I believe P4 has a soul and is in computer heaven soaking up a futuristic virus free OS, and has a full upgrade with 24TB of ram and Petabyte hard drive. I can dream that he is having a good life making someone happy as they fight a battles in WOW with Einstein, Edison and Tesla.

With the passing of P4 I have learned that true lessons of technology; Moore’s law. A dual-core processor blows the slow poke out of the water! I salute P4 and all the processing he has done for me, I raise Mr. Starbucks, lay back in my swirly chair and listen to Pandora.com. Rest in peace my old friend, thanks for the memories, you won’t be missed since Dual-Core got a sister I’ve been eying and she’s called Quad-Core.

Are Apples breaking Windows again?

Terry — Wed, 30 May 2007 14:32:24 +0000

For a long time electronic companies have made computers. Toshiba, Sony and Panasonic have been doing a good job with their computers as electronic companies can do. For a while now the tables are turning. Dell, Microsoft and Apple are just a few who have entered the consumer electronic market. But the head to head battle that has been going on for thirty years is Apple and Microsoft. They are taking the battle out of the office and dorm rooms and into your living room and morning commute.

So the question really is, which products are better? I can be opinionated, but lets look at some interesting things. Microsoft has announced a new computer called “Surface” today. Now this is a very cool and new wave of computing that has been in development for a long time. The demo this morning on NBC was almost a large scale version of the iPhone demo done in January by Apple’s Steve Jobs. Now all will agree that this type of touch interface will be the next jump in the industry and both parties have the approach.

Apple approach: Building something small, a portable computer for the size of your hand. The iPone is the start of many things to come that uses this new Touch Screen technology. The iPhone which is coming out in June has been known and talked about since January when it was first revealed. Now the interface allows multiple touching, increase pictures, select and move things around by touching. The first consumer product with this technology will be the iPod.

Microsoft approach: Now since everyone knows about the iPod it was only a matter of time that other companies use this technology and take it in other directions. Now Microsoft’s “Surface” is a pretty big computer under a table. This will be the first of a generation of table-top computers with full interaction. The table-top or ‘Surface’ would interact instead of a keyboard and mouse. Now touch screen computers have never been very popular because multi-touch wasn’t around. Now Microsoft’s approach is to give this to companies, restaurants and other service like industries. The demo Bill Gates gave was a restaurant, the menu in front of you and you visually select you meal. Then when paying you place you credit card on the table, select the items you want to put on the credit card and drag them over.

Overall the technology for a more hand friendly interface is here. We will be interacting with our computers and gadgets in a whole new way with this and many other new technologies on the way. The thing is its the same based technology and both companies will package it with a different name and brand. This is what makes things confusing in the wonderful world of Tech.

Apple will make it to the consumer market first with a portable version of this technology we may say they started this new trend. Since there won’t be a consumer version of ‘Surface’ for many years Apple has plenty of time to create a consumer multi-touch entertainment computer that works great with Apple TV and the iPod. I personally think that Microsoft is still playing catch-up to Apple’s baked goods.

Carpet Skating anyone?

Terry — Wed, 16 May 2007 23:52:17 +0000

Business is about speed and what slows you down the most? A ton of spam in your inbox, that P4 computer that’s still chugging away or is it the healthy switch to decaf? None of the above its the fact you don’t have Carpet Skates. Yes. I said it, Carpet Skates. That is a wierd phrase. These skates apparently do not have wheels but allow you to slide through your fast passed day with ease and maybe grab a workout.

The dangers of this might be obvious, like running over the interns, but lets face it we live in a fast paced world and what would be a better solution then speeding up the time it takes to get from one end of the office to another. Cutting down on the amount of time spent of doing one task like walking could save companies billions of dollars a year.

Now for all those who feel that this technically insane instead of foreign jump over to the Sci-Fi Tech blog or where they got a pair from E-Xtrem geek. I for one would love to have a pair but the server room doesn’t have carpet. In a couple of years when we have Extreme Geek Sports I will compete in the Carpet Skating International.

Fire in the Hole – Oil Lamp Grenade

Terry — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:40:08 +0000

Attention! At ease solider. Lighting up your night life has become a military exercise with these Grenade Oil lamps. They are surplus US Army Hand Grenade shells modified for civilian use to spread a unique glow in your nocturnal life.

via: ELSEWARES.COM

A Clock that Writes? Verbarius clock!

Terry — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:27:10 +0000

We will have to wait till November to put the writing on the wall. The clock defines Technically Foreign. This clock spells the time out for you….

“Verbarius answers the question â€œWhat time is it?â€ writing a different reply every time itâ€™s asked: itâ€™s either forty-five minutes past four, or fifteen minutes to five, or four forty-five, or a quarter to five.” -Verbarius Website

Visit: http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/verbarius/ for more info…