The Cool Shirt is a t-shirt with a clever water cooling system for your body. If you are familiar with water cooler designs for computers, then this one will look quite similar. There is an inlet and an outlet on the fifty feet of rubber hose that connect to a pump. The water circulates and [...]
Posts from — April 2008
[ April 29th, 2008 ] ... [ C. S. Magor ]Water-Cool Yourself With a Cool Shirt
600-Year-Old da Vinci Parachute Design Works Like a Dream
Olivier Vietti-Teppa, of Switzerland successfully landed a da Vinci designed parachute, that the Italian artist conceived somewhere around 1485. It is not the first attempt to skydive using the design, there was an unsuccessful attempt in 2000. The parachute is made up of four equilateral triangles of fabric, sewn together to form a pyramid shape. [...]
360° Panoramic Photography on the Cheap with the Panamatic Mount
If you are looking for some 360° camera action at a reasonable price, the Panamatic Mount is an easy way to get there. It snaps onto a tripod, and makes use of a ratchet with twelve preset positions which will help you take a complete 360° panorama manually; an in-built level ensures that your [...]
AMD Quad-Core Chips Not Playing Nice with all MoBos
AMD has confirmed that their line-topping quad-core Phenoms are having trouble playing nicely with certain motherboards. The problem is a mismatch with the chipset that occurs when people try to pair a 780G motherboard with a 125-watt Phenom. To ensure that there are no CPU / motherboard mismatches, check the Thermal Design Power (TDP) of [...]
Xerox to Produce Solid Ink Printers for Household Applications
Have you heard of solid ink? Neither had I, it is Xerox technology that has apparently been around since 1991. Typical desktop printers make use of liquid ink which runs out quickly and is extremely wasteful. Solid ink, on the other hand, is melted as it is needed and dripped onto a small drum [...]
