Yet another great Tech DIY series from Instructables. If you are put off by the high-falutin vibes of Aibo and its types, build your own basic Robot. To build this Mini Walking Bot, you need some ROBOTIX parts, PICXAXE microcontroller,and yes, a...

The guys at SnapStream have done a great series on Monster PVRs. First, they reported about the Medusa PVR, and then Hydra PVR. The names are their own. Remember, this is BYO project - ‘build your own’, for the newbies. The Godzilla has...

This image from a recent report by the New York Magazine on Top Bloggers shows how blogs relate to one another- mapping connections. Linkology finds out how the over 27 million blogs in the world relate to one another. The connections of the 50 most...

When you use your built in cell phone camera to snap a shot of the barcode on any product, Toshiba’s cell phone software then searches for product reviews on up to 100 web journals or blogs within 10 seconds and tells you if that product received...

Techcruch reports about TextPayMe which is coming out of beta. In U.S. only, Textpayme’s system allows the user to sms the payment to another phone number. At present, the service is free. Techcruch explains how it works, ... to send $15.27 to...

Tom’s Networking has a nice three part series on building your own quality home network. But, before you proceed on to the series, two things of note: 1. Here, ‘network’ means the internet plus the ability of all devices in the house...

From the upcoming March issue of Discover: New research has uncovered that viruses are actually the ancestors of all living things.. It may also be known that Bacteriologist Bernard La Scola first identified Mimivirus, the largest known virus, in...

This cool watch has a display which pushes up the top row of lights and they float back down in a real equalizer effect, finally all the lights fall down off the face of the watch to leave only two lights to indicate the time for 5 seconds, then the two...

The Watt has done a study of Wind Installations in every state in the United States. Wyoming has 568 watts/person of wind power. Thus it narrowly beat out Denmark, the number 1 wind power generator in the world with 540 watts/person. As far as how...

If NewtechSpy is true to its words, then Ford is working on a hybrid hydraulic system for their popular f-150 series. How it will work: The hybrid system stores the excess energy in hydraulic cylinders; which in turn increases the vehicle’s fuel...