I found a new site with things to drool over: TOPGADGET. I’m not sure about the things like the ‘Q-link’ pendants, but darn those watches are something I really want! I’ve also wanted the EcoSpheres for awhile.

Even though the site is UK and I’m not… I can still look and drool.

If you don’t know about Archive.org by now, there is little hope for you.

I find the archive features of the site incredibly useful (especially when I find a dead link!) to see what a site used to look like. It’s also great for amusement purposes. What did eBay look like at first? Google? You’ll laugh, no doubt. It’s a great site.

It also has it also has books, music and movies that are either out of copyright or not copyrighted at all or copyrighted for internet distribution. Pretty nifty.

No matter how old you are, it’s always fun (in my opinion) to make ‘toys’. However, if you’re the type that needs an ‘excuse’ to play around with stuff, then you should simply skip the Science Toys site. It has a variety of ‘experiments’/toys from various areas of science.

There is even something about playing with electronic fish - something like an electric eel, only not quite as dangerous.

I have an urge to try making the ‘3 penny radio‘… but I’d need a few parts first. Hm.

The problem with virtual reality has always been that you’re confined to a relatively limited space… if you go too far, you’re going to end up at the end of your cord. If the virtual reality setup has something like a treadmill, then you’re still restricted to going in mostly one direction.

Sure, the environment will move around, depending on how it’s programmed, but that’s not very realistic, is it? Fortunately, someone has come up with a rather good idea: a virtual reality sphere. I’m not sure how you get in or out of these things, but at least you’re able to wander in ‘unlimited’ space as you explore your virtual world.

I’d love to try one of these things, unfortunately I’d wager that they’re prohibitively expensive for the moment. If not, I’d love to buy one some day.

You’ve worked hard all week, now it’s time to kick back, relax and enjoy some time to yourself. Go check out eScavengers, which seems to be an online treasure hunt.

Unfortunately, I haven’t yet been able to join an ‘Adventure’ as they call it, so I can’t say how easy or difficult it is. They do claim it’s fairly easy (I just did the sample training, and it seemed pretty easy if you’re a fast reader) and the prizes you can win are very nice. Even if you don’t win the big prize, they do give you ‘doubloons’ for simply playing which you can use to buy other things from the site.

You do have to collect a great deal of doubloons to get even the small prizes, and I’m not sure how many doubloons they hand out for playing, so I don’t know how outrageous the doubloon costs are.

If you want to see small computers, take a look at Mini-ITX.com and, specifically, today’s post. It may not be an entire computer, but it is the motherboard and it is very small.

I’ve seen an entire Linux computer about that size before, but I can’t find that link now unfortunately. Oh well, look at the tiny computers!