From the Electrolux design room: a design for an USB based toaster. Now you can have your toast show any picture with this device! Designer -Sung Bae Chang South Korea People who don’t have time to wait for bread to toast can take their toaster to work, hook it up to their computer and even print articles and snapshots on it with Scan Toaster. The appliance is one of nine finalists out of more than 600 entries from 49 countries in the Electrolux Design Lab 2008 competition. This year, the sixth year of the global contest, undergraduate and graduate industrial … Continue reading Gadget of the year: USB based scan toaster

I read this funny line, from an interview with Andrew Tanenbaum. Q: If Linux’s Tux penguin and MINIX’s raccoon faced off in a fight to the death, who would win? A: Raccoons are quite aggressive. Penguins are not. There would be chicken for dinner. The rest of the interview focusses on Minix, a micro-kernel OS. Q: What made you decide to make MINIX based on a microkernel rather than a monolithic kernel? A: Good software engineering principles dictate that your programs are modular. You don’t want a bug in one piece to bring down the whole thing if that can … Continue reading There would be chicken for dinner

I love oldfashioned christmas tree decorations. Silver coloured, glass, o so breakable ;). Especially birds with feathers like swans. Just the day before Christmas day 2007 I acquired a new collection of birds. Here you see some. Continue reading Christmas tree decoration

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It is always hard to find a gift, unique and surprising! On geeks.com I found this, the USB powered greenhouse! Not that this is of any practical use, who keeps his PC running 24×7 to grow plants? Ah, I hear the dutch think: grow cannabis (for your own personal usage … 🙂 ) at the office! So ask one for Sinterklaas. A real geek will of course order a USB powered Plasma ball! So boys, this is what I want for my birthday…. But please, not a USB powered aquarium! Filled with real water and plastic fishes. Continue reading Looking for a Xmas gift?

Always handy, a pocket torch when it is dark and the power is down. Of course, at that moment the battery of the tortch is always empty. So I got myself a very old type of device, in a new incarnation: a dyno torch! Just press the handle several time and the two bright white LEDs start to shine. Keep on pushing and the builtin battery is recharged, so light for free and at the right time! Continue reading Dyno torch or ‘knijpkat’