Digital Calipers are useful for measure sizes of various small objects, most notable nuts and bolts and other small parts. Traditional analog calipers, ie. the ones with numbers printed on them, have been available on the cheap for quite a while. More recently, digital calipers have become readily available. A search on Amazon yields some [...]

The Assisted Open Knife: The modern alternative to a switch blade. That’s actually an unfair comparison, it is very different from a switchblade, and it’s differences are exactly what make it “more legal” (not legal advice). It’s much more of a utility knife, and is not meant to be concealed – but rather utilized by [...]

News has come out recently that wireless keyboards are being “hacked”. First of all, remember that the term “hacked” is being thrown around loosely these days. Also remember that all of your “wireless” devices broadcast out a signal to communicate with your computer. Your receiver at your computer also broadcasts a signal.Both your keyboard and [...]

I thought I would re-iterate the awesomeness of the bicycle that I started ranting about here. The bicycle is one of the greatest gadgets every known. It is young, yet it has ruthlessly spread through the modern world and infect every place on earth and every terrain. That may sound like an exaggeration but it [...]

LHC. The Large Hadron Collider. The biggest, most expensive gadget every built by mankind. ‘Nuff said. The LHC hopes to discover the next frontier in physics. The LHC is the next step towards anti-gravity devices, quantum computers, and Sci-Fi style transporters. Of course that’s pretty far down the road, but what does the LHC hope [...]