| Monday, February 13, 2006 |  |
| EZTradein Electronics | 0 comments |
 13 Feb 2006 @ 11:00 EZTradein Electronics under eBay’s ReThink February 13, 2006 12:15 AM - Warren McLaren, Sydney We’ve mentioned eBay’s ReThink program for salvaging computer stuff on one or two occasions in the past. Now Tipster Alex D. alerts us to the fact they have a newish scheme, whereby you can get PayPal money by sending in any old electronics goodies that you no longer require. The program is quite broad, it includes the following categories; Desktops-PC, Desktops-Apple, Notebooks-PC, Notebooks-Apple, Camcorders, Digital Cameras, Servers, Multimedia Projectors, Home Audio Receivers, Mobile Phones, Car Audio, Monitors, Game Systems, PDAs and Apple iPods. And is pretty simple. Fill in the online form, it gives you an estimate, if you think the $$$$’s sound half decent, just make a booking, print off the prepaid mailer, and ship the goods to their warehouse. A week later you’ll receive your dough via PayPal. The quoted prices won’t make you rich, but if you’ve run out of friends and family to donate your old computers and hi-fi to, then at least you get something back this way. What exactly happens to the goods at this point isn’t made clear, but given that they've just paid you for them, we doubt they are landfill bound. |
| “Wolfenstein Radio Station” PC | 1 comment |
 13 Feb 2006 @ 10:43Relax, wipe the drool off your mouth, and gaze your eyes at this beauty. This is a “Wolfenstein Radio Station” PC mod. The specs are mediocre with an AMD Athlon 2200+ processor, and an ATI Radeon 9600 graphics card, but who cares how it performs when it is this sexy. The Wolfenstein PC has a custom paint job, a built on receiver and antenna, gauges and meters, and authentic-looking decals. Sorry folks, not for sale. More > |
| Some New Tech Toys | 0 comments |
 13 Feb 2006 @ 10:33This is all from Gizmodo MIT Working on Nanotube Batteries, Could Be a Breakthrough In the search for that holy grail, the everlasting battery, not much has been accomplished over the 200 years since old man Volta rolled out the first crude battery back in the dark ages. Now those whiz kids at MIT are using nanotube structures to create new super batteries by using energy storage doodads called ultracapacitors. These devices do their magic by storing electrical fields at the atomic level. Bear in mind that ultracapacitors are nothing new, but what is new is making them small enough to put into regular-sized batteries. Best of all, the MIT researchers are saying these nanotube batteries can be made using ordinary manufacturing methods. No word on how much more energy storage capacity these whiz-bang batteries will have than the conventional ones we know and love to hate. If these scientists can pull this off, standby world—you’re about to be changed forever. --------------------------------------- You’ve Been Slimed. Now Get Back on the Road The company that should consider a new name for itself, Slime, is offering Mini Smart Spair, a palm-sized microcompressor that can pump up your tire after you’ve sealed it with Slime, a special substance that the company says is made of “environmentally friendly fibers, binders, polymers and proprietary congealing agents that inter-twine and clot to seal punctures up to 1/4 of an inch.” The micro-compressor plugs into your 12-volt car battery. Once you perform that roadside repair, then you can make your way to a place where you can fix that tire properly. The kit includes eight ounces of the legendary Slime, ready to seal up anything  |