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Street Name from Twitter Account

Administrator — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:29:36 +0000

Tweet Street

The first time in the world, the name of a street is taken from one Twitter account. This could be you met in Palestine, precisely at the refugee camp in the West Bank.

A street name plates are blue with white font saying “@ arjanelfassed tweetstreet” plastered on the side of an old building in the middle of the camp which houses 15,000 refugees in Palestine.

The name refers to the way Twitter account people’s man named Arjan El Utrecht Fassed. Twitter address in order to carve on it, he’d reached US $146.

How can his name showed on the road? It turned out that the right to the names of streets in the area was sold. This action hosted by humanitarian groups from the Netherlands named Jouw Eigen Straatnam. Money from the sale of this street name will be donated to a local foundation, the Palestinian Child Care Society, which deals with the children drop out of school.

So far, 10 roads have managed to get sponsorship, but this is only one inspired by Twitter. Currently there are 184 left the road.

Knowing the course was ‘so’, what the response from Fassed own? “Called road accordance my Twitter account is a symbolic way to connect online and offline to the children of Askar, ‘he said.

via wired.com

Plug Computer, a pluggable computer with ethernet

Administrator — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 11:04:06 +0000

If you need an tiny home automation, then this tiny computer is the right device. With only 5 watt power consumption, you get a 1.2GHz processor and 512MB RAM and 512MB Flash memory. Just hack the webserver and plug the usb to the device you want to control.

Get more information here and there.

Legolize your self, only $60,000 cost.

Administrator — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:29:24 +0000

Painting now has an other choice. Instead of painting, you can legoing yourself. With full-size of your lego replica. Nathan Sawaya can make your replica from lego for $60,000. Yeah, it’s seem, this is the new trend of 2009.

Nathan Sawaya
gizmodo.com
bornrich.com

CLI Linux Command as a wallpaper

Administrator — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:07:31 +0000

Here’s a useful wallpaper for sysadmin and CLI Brotherhood!

Quickpost this image to Myspace, Digg, Facebook, and others!

Kingston, An inside look.

Administrator — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:40:15 +0000

Just got this video from apcmag.com. It’s insteresting video, showing us the inside view of Kingston the memory factory.

According to iSuppli, Kingston is the largest third-party memory module manufacturer and reported revenue of $3.7 billion for 2006.

apcmag.com | Buy Kingston products and save!

Hack your doorbell. Get personalized.

Administrator — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:43:40 +0000

I Found this site, and it’s awesome. It’s how to hack your doorbell and get personal sound of who is your guest. It’s so easy, so I think everyone is able to hack their doorbell. But I’m not recommended this thing to who doesn’t like electronics.

Below is the parts that you can buy @ amazon.com
Find a doorbell here
Sandisk Sansa Express 1 GB MP3 Player
Find the speaker here.

Hack Yeah. Naked Flash Drive by PopSci.com

Administrator — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:42:51 +0000

Just look this 5 minutes less videos, and you’ll be able to modifed your bare USB Flash Drive into a sexy small USB Flash Drive.

Buy Flash Drive @ amazon.com and make them Sexier!

Need Disguise? Try this clothes.

Administrator — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 08:05:25 +0000

Aya Tsukioka, a Japanese designer has designed a clothes that will vanish you in a snap. Just snap it to the top, and boom, you’re vanish.

And also, some source says that this clothes is protecting you from rape. I don’t actually see how this clothes will protect you.

Gizmodo | Gizmodo | Reuters

POP Wrap!

Administrator — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:10:18 +0000

Still remember the pop! sound with bublewrap? Are you miss those pop sound? You can try this little keychain size bubblewrap toy. This little gadget will virtually generated that ‘old skool pop sound.

Pre order now, because this toy is available on Monday 10 September, 2007. Geez, why it took so long? Well every piece of pop sound is recorded live from the original bubblewrap pop sound. Hi..hi.. nop, i’m kidding about that recorded things.

But from the sites says, every 100 “pops”, it will gives you a random sound like “barking dong”, “sexy voice” and more.

Set 5x piece included
Colors: black, white, orange, blue, and pink
Batteries: LR41x 2 (included)

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