MyRemote is pretty great for Windows Media Center, and it also has a touchpad for general mousing around.

There are already probably a thousand ways to increase the energy density of batteries in the lab by a factor of 5 or 10 or 20. The real problem is more like - how to you increase the energy density of batteries so that they (1) last many years and through (2) thousands of cycles and (3) complete discharges, over (4)…

There are two killer things about Gmail and this will cover one of them.

I have a free version of PDAnet that tethers through USB. I thought the paid version got you bluetooth tethering. Did something change?

Koreans have used stuff like this for a long time. One reason is they don't stain, another is they really really seal up the odor. Kimchi, cayenne peppers and garlic will really do a number to plastic ware, and your milk will smell like fermented cabbage if you don't seal things up really tight.

Totally agree. My personal favorite way to get just about anything down is half letter sheets on little clipboards scattered about. I have at least 5 of 'em.

I really think that 3D printing, when mature and more mainstream, will completely revolutionize and accelerate tech and inventing of all kinds. This kind of shape is just so very very difficult to make via more normal shop methods without heroic industrial scale machinery. There are way more clever and creative…

I was just pondering the standard diamond frame chain drive bicycle design which after about a hundred years now, has really not been bettered. And there have been and continue to be many many noble attempts.

Email (especially something like Gmail) seems to already do pretty much exactly all of this, doesn't it? I've tried Evernote and some of the others as well. But you know what? Email is already there and it's already got all my email correspondence (which is the bulk of the information I really need to reference.) So…

Undoubtedly could hack this to just be an Android tablet, and a nice cheap one.

@Simon Gardner: This appears pretty cool. Until I saw that it's a Novell thing that seems to only be available on Novell's OpenSuse 11 as a server. Huh? Massive fail.

I think the main photo in this post is actually Ardour running on Ubuntu or Ubuntu Studio. Linux makes an incredibly flexible and capable audio studio setup based on free software that's very advanced and community supported. Previous to Ubuntu, I'd used a lot of proprietary audio software and just got sick of the…

The wire suspension thing in the lead picture to the article looks like it could be intriguing and beautiful, other than the weird little green foam things where the wires cross. The finished chair is a huge letdown, plasticky and not beautiful. The article doesn't say what happened.

I'd say that looks . . . better than any other single set top box out there so far.

@Spoony: What's driving McDonalds and anyone else who uses this crap is cost, cost, and still being able to call it 'chicken'. So, no they are not going to be using humane, sustainable, or organic methods to get this stuff, because that adds to the cost. I'm all for affordable food, but are there no limits? Soylent…

I don't really understand how this is chicken anymore. As someone pointed out, you might as well just use tofu or some other vegetable based patty. It would probably be cheaper, way less trouble and mess, and pretty much devoid of the gag reflex.

You will not tempt me to try this again. I have an HP media center PC, with both a monitor and a TV hooked up to it. It came with Vista. I bought Win 7 shortly after it came out to upgrade it. Upgrading simply did NOT work, and wipe install of Win 7 was a real PITA to install and get back to the point where the…

You have to use some common sense. The silverware example works only as long as mixed up items that are in a single bin are super easily distinguishable. It's easy to tell forks from spoons from knives. It's hard to tell small forks from large forks, ditto with spoons. So in this case you might have two bins for…

@Bant: Electric Burger: Oh man, great example, and one that's burned me a few times. My pickup is ten years old. It's got manual wind windows - they didn't exactly pimp this ride at the factory. Needless to say, the lights do *not* go off until you twist the little stalk. I've come back to a dead battery from that,…

7" is a good size for a portable tablet. I had an iPad and it's just not at all the kind of thing you'd casually drag along in a coat pocket - I pretty much never left the house with it, unless I was going on a weekend trip or something.