Make Your Own Low-Budget Dremel Stylus

"How to improve handling and control on your Dremel Multi, in BETA version for now. This is student-budget style." I would say, if you can afford to buy a Dremel, you can buy the "actual thing". Check it out anyway, it might be a fun project to do.

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See-Through Concrete

Concrete mixed with glass that allows for light transmission. Reflects light kind of like a curtain.

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Humback Whale Songs Have Elements of 'True' Speech

The songs of the humpback whale are among the most complex in the animal kingdom. Researchers have now mathematically confirmed that whales have their own syntax that uses sound units to build phrases that can be combined to form songs that last for hours. Until now, this has only been seen in human speech.

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Converting the first 10,000 digits of pi into a musical sequence

Take 10 notes and pi will be played, you can also let the computer select 10 notes for you and play. Very cool.

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Cryptic Apple Serial Numbers: SOLVED

Apple Serial Numbers have always been cryptic to the untrained eye, but this guy has figured it out. Just enter in the serial number and it will return all the data that can be wrung from the SN (model, date of production, etc...).

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Battlefield 2142 Confirmed and Trailer!!

The link is to the Battlefield 2142 trailer, which I kindly uploaded for Digg... There are full details in the May 2006 PC Gamer... It is coming this Fall! Sorry Star Wars fans, no lasers here.

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Mighty Mouse: hardware easter egg or optical illusion?

When you lift the mouse and look at the light pattern formed by the red LED underneath, it forms the shape of, well, a mouse... The question is: is this a real hardware easter egg, or are we all just completely drunk off of the Kool Aid that Steve's been feeding us?

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LED-Flex: An Efficient Substitute For Neon

How many times have you seen a broken or flickering neon light? LED-Flex are flexible LEDs that have the appearance and brightness of neon, and all the advantages of LEDs - durability, a cool operating temperatures and longevity. I want it!

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Color Changing Concrete

Color chaning concrete that is able to display paterns, numbers and text.

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Half Life 2 on Mac Mini!

The title explains all.....

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The tech behind fake debit cards

How does someone in Moscow step up to a cash machine and withdraw money from an account holder half a world away? Even when the debit card is still in the victim's wallet? To show me how easy it was, two executives from MagTek Inc., one of the largest makers of credit card stripe readers, visited MSNBC.com and gave a demonstration.

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Apple to Release Two Versions of Touch-Screen Video iPod?

Some expect to see two versions of the next video iPod: one that keeps the existing 60GB hard drive, and a slimmer, solid-state version that uses one or two 8GB or 12GB compact flash cards...Could the touch screens be a key to Apple's own Origami, an iTablet of sorts? Let's hope it's much better than that

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Search the Digis of Pi

Want to find how many digits into pi your birthday is, phone number, social security number? Just pop open this webpage and hit search.

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Google Launches "Google Mars"

Google has just launched a new service called "Google Mars" that lets you browse the martian land just as you would with Google Maps.

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Making a KeyGen - How it is done!

Well most of you have probably used a "key generator" or "keygen" as it is commonly called in internet slang. A keygen is a small program that will generate a key or serial/registration number for a piece of software. Here is a comprehensive guide, strictly for educational purposes, that shows you how a "keygen" is created

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Never pay a cell phone termination fee ever again.

What is the little known secret to getting out of your cell phone contract early without paying a termination fee? Make your carrier lose money by keeping you.

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