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You don't have to search very long before you find someone raving about the Retina display used in Apple iPads. We're not going to disagree. These 9.7" panels pack in a whopping 2048x1536 resolution and the color is fantastic. But we were surprised to hear you can get one of these for a meager $55. That's how [Andrzej] sourced the part when he set out to connect a Retina display to a regular … [Read more...]
Giant fresnel lens is dangerous fun Here's an interesting, and rather dangerous, use for those old big screen TVs that are frequently listed for FREE on Craigslist. With the lens from the old TV built into an adjustable wooden frame, [Grant] was able to melt a stack of pennies, instantly burn wood, melt spots in concrete, and serve his family a cooked egg... Cool. Projection mapping app helps … [Read more...]
Pinch-zoom is a godsend (and shouldn't be patent-able) and although we mourn the loss of a physical keyboard on a lot of device we use a tablet nearly as often as we do a full computer. But the touch screen interface is not open to everyone. Those who lack full dexterity of their digits will find the interface frustrating at best or completely unusable at worst. A team of researchers from the … [Read more...]
[Carnivore] uses a Pipo Max M1 tablet. It's an Android device that is very responsive thanks t the 1.6 GHz dual-core processor and it runs Jellybean (latest version of Android OS). The one thing he wasn't so happy with is battery life. Under heavy load it lasts about three hours. When reading an eBook that use can be stretched to 10 hours. His solution was to add an external battery. It turns out … [Read more...]
At this year's Pycon [Jason Huggins] gave a talk about his Angry Birds playing robot. He built a delta robot which includes a pen actuator for controlling a capacitive touch screen. The video after the break starts with a demo of the bot beating a level of Angry Birds on the iPad. The idea behind the build is that robots like this could be used for app testing. I this case [Jason] has tweaked … [Read more...]
[Will Powell] sent in his real-time subtitle glasses project. Inspired by the ever cool Google Project Glass, he decided he would experiment with his own version. He used two Raspberry Pi's running Debian squeeze, vuzix glasses, microphones, a tv, ipad, and iphone as the hardware components. The flow of data is kind of strange in this project. The audio first gets picked up by a bluetooth … [Read more...]
Remember the times before the iPad existed? When a tablet PC was actually a full computer in a tablet form factor? Yeah, those days we were all so very optimistic about the future of tablet computing. Don't think we don't appreciate the new amazing toys that we've got around with the plethora of tablets to choose from, but we still dream of fully functional tablet computers. [Brian] wrote in to … [Read more...]
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