Archive for 2007/07


Lil’ Nick Neg recycles old PCs for those in need

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops

He may not yet have the resources to build his own PCs and sell them on the cheap, but 15-year old Jacob Komar looks like he could well be a young Nick Neg in the making. As ABC News reports, Komar has already prevented some 1,500 PCs from ending up on the […]

Tenacious hacker brings the iPhone keyboard to a Nokia N800

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds

One awfully clever Brazilian programmer couldn’t stand not being able to experience the sometimes-maddening act of typing on the iPhone’s notorious keyboard — so he wrote an iPhone keyboard app for his Nokia N800. In what appears to have been a fairly short amount of time, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri put together an […]

“Organic semiconductors” help researchers monitor your heart

Filed under: Wearables

Have you ever been halfway through a heart attack and thought “If only my shirt had been laced with wireless sensors that monitored respiration and body temperature, this cheese-stick-related incident might have been prevented”? Well now, next time you have one-too-many wings while tailgating, a fabric developed by researchers at the University of […]