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The Weekly Goods
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A Tech-Stuffed Turkey Day
by Miele Miele View Photo GalleryThanksgiving may be the country´s oldest celebration, but that´s no reason to cook with 17th-century tech. Whereas early settlers cooked over open fires, we have smart...
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PopSci's Best of CES 2007
bestofces_main_485.jpg View Photo GalleryTo say that CES is a crazy scene is more than an understatement. Every January in Las Vegas, corporate executives, retail buyers, tech press, plain-old...
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Practice Makes Solder Perfect
Simon Game Kit SparkFun Electronics For those of you who are new to the exciting world of electronics (or, if you're a solder vet looking for some creative fun), SparkFun Electronics has just...
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The $5 IR Keyboard
The $5 IR Keyboard Targus If you happen to still have a PDA and you're looking for a cheap IR keyboard, look no further than BG Micro. BG Micro has slashed $55 off the former retail price of the...
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Make a Metal Fingerprint
iButton Reader MAXIM Integrated Products What the heck is an iButton, you ask? Manufactured by MAXIM Integrated Products, Dallas Semiconductor, an iButton is a fingernail-sized computer chip housed...
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Props For Programming
PropSTICK Propeller 40-pin DIP Parallax, Inc. If you've been looking for an opportunity to experiment with Parallax's Propeller microcontroller, then opportunity is knocking at your door. A current...
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The Littlest Arduino
RBBB - Rev A Populated Modern Device Company Do you need a microcontroller for a project (maybe, ahem, our Mood Cube project?) but case space is at a premium? Well, fret no more. The Really Bare Bones...
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A Credit Card-Sized Linux Computer and a Matchbook-Sized PIC Powerhouse
Olimex PIC-LCD3310 Olimex, Ltd. Olimex Ltd., a Bulgarian electronic design and PCB fabrication company, has just raised the bar on powerful microcontroller development platforms, to the joy of DIYers...
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Remote Control Authentication
Fingerprint Slide Scanner SparkFun Electronics What's better than RFID tags? Your own fingerprints, of course. No batteries needed, no electronic eavesdropping devices, and no storage problems....
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Digital Storm Aventum
Meltdown-Proof Computer Sam Kaplan An overheated computer can defeat even the best gamer. When hardware gets hot, processors and graphics cards respond more slowly to commands, costing a player the...
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The Top 25 Innovations of the Last 25 Years
Burj Khalifa One of Popular Science's greatest innovations of the past 25 years View Photo GalleryEver since we inaugurated the Best of What's New (BOWN) awards 25 years ago, the bar we as editors set...
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5 Companies Make A Crazy Amount Of Stuff In Your House [Infographic]
Clorox doesn't just figure prominently in your kitchen, it IS your kitchen Nestle is famous for its candy, but did you know it's also the creator of the fine line of Hot Pockets-brand foods? Or, did...
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5 Services We'd Rather See Google Kill Than Google Reader
Google Plus It's starting to feel a little old-hat to make fun of Google Plus, but, come on, Google, you're not going to be getting petitions to keep Plus around like you are with Reader. Just quietly...
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View ArticleCure for the Failed Credit Card Swipe: Part Deux
Remember the flurry of discussion generated by our original article about prodding a bashful credit card into making a good swipe? Well, those creative minds at SparkFun Electronics (SFE) have now...
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Do you need a microcontroller for a project (maybe, ahem, our Mood Cube project?) but case space is at a premium? Well, fret no more. The Really Bare Bones Board (RBBB)…
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, a Bulgarian electronic design and PCB fabrication company, has just raised the bar on powerful microcontroller development platforms, to the joy of DIYers around the world.
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What's better than RFID tags? Your own fingerprints, of course. No batteries needed, no electronic eavesdropping devices, and no storage problems. They're always convenient and, well, they're always...
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