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How about the Logitech Io. I bought one when it was originally released, and I am quite pleased. Basically, it captures notes that you write with the pen, which can later be synched up with the computer. The new software also has a demo of a handwriting-to-text program that works quite well. The only drawback is the price- $140-$200 for the pen depending on where you look, and about $20 for 3 notebooks. Also, you can get the FranklinCovey iScribe package, which includes planner pages and syncs with outlook. Also, no linux support.

I've been using it for the last year and a half in college, and it is great to be able to take notes all in one notebook. When the data is uploaded, the computer automagically sorts the pages (as the notebook has a subject box on each page). I can then easily email them to my friends who missed class, and print them out 4 on a page. Its really quite neat, and unfortunate that not too many people take advantage of it.

Oh yeah, you can buy it here on ThinkGeek.

How about going to thinkgeek and buying the rollup keyboard and the keylogger? A little work with a battery for voltage and you have just what you asked for.

How about going to thinkgeek and buying the rollup keyboard and the keylogger? A little work with a battery for voltage and you have just what you asked for.

Accept it. The thing is real.

Nothing is real until it appears on ThinkGeek.

Wake me up when it can be attached to a molex connector...

Wakey, wakey!

...a very small shell script?

To pick up one of these babies... C'mon, it's like $400, I need to grab at any justification I can find!

Small doses of caffeine at intervals in the day?! pfft!

What about LARGE doses at regular intervals? I'd say that's best.

Anyway, as for the small amounts, that's where Penguin Mints from ThinkGeek come in handy =P

Like this?

Of course, they could also ban smoking.

That's cyber-soap? Here's cyber-soap !!!

That laptop is meant to be 100% certified with Linux, but Xandros seemed to have problems with it (namely there is no "sleep" function)

Sleep?! Linux geeks dont need no stinkin' sleep!

But seriously, nice to see linux certified consumer hardware making its way into the market.

Sorry for they thinkgeek plugging, not associated, just a happy part of the smart masses

That laptop is meant to be 100% certified with Linux, but Xandros seemed to have problems with it (namely there is no "sleep" function)

Sleep?! Linux geeks dont need no stinkin' sleep!

But seriously, nice to see linux certified consumer hardware making its way into the market.

Sorry for they thinkgeek plugging, not associated, just a happy part of the smart masses

That laptop is meant to be 100% certified with Linux, but Xandros seemed to have problems with it (namely there is no "sleep" function)

Sleep?! Linux geeks dont need no stinkin' sleep!

But seriously, nice to see linux certified consumer hardware making its way into the market.

Sorry for they thinkgeek plugging, not associated, just a happy part of the smart masses

That laptop is meant to be 100% certified with Linux, but Xandros seemed to have problems with it (namely there is no "sleep" function)

Sleep?! Linux geeks dont need no stinkin' sleep!

But seriously, nice to see linux certified consumer hardware making its way into the market.

Sorry for they thinkgeek plugging, not associated, just a happy part of the smart masses

That laptop is meant to be 100% certified with Linux, but Xandros seemed to have problems with it (namely there is no "sleep" function)

Sleep?! Linux geeks dont need no stinkin' sleep!

But seriously, nice to see linux certified consumer hardware making its way into the market.

Sorry for they thinkgeek plugging, not associated, just a happy part of the smart masses

That laptop is meant to be 100% certified with Linux, but Xandros seemed to have problems with it (namely there is no "sleep" function)

Sleep?! Linux geeks dont need no stinkin' sleep!

But seriously, nice to see linux certified consumer hardware making its way into the market.

Sorry for they thinkgeek plugging, not associated, just a happy part of the smart masses

That laptop is meant to be 100% certified with Linux, but Xandros seemed to have problems with it (namely there is no "sleep" function)

Sleep?! Linux geeks dont need no stinkin' sleep!

But seriously, nice to see linux certified consumer hardware making its way into the market.

Sorry for they thinkgeek plugging, not associated, just a happy part of the smart masses

Damn. I thought that guy with Thinkgeek T shirt just bluffing.

Slightly off topic, but I remember hearing about the Apple TiBook 17" having a keyboard which glowed different colours for various alerts.

Has anyone ever come across any programmables keyboards or USB devices which change colour? Something like the Mathmos Aduki would be cool if you could use it as a pervasive computing device. Do they exist, did I dream about them, or am I going to have to build my own?

I think this product is new, but the concept of a lighted keyboard is not new, they have been selling one on Think Geek for years.

This is something that the average joe can buy at Wal-Mart, and just plug it in and play. No worrying about which emulator works the best (and many emulators are crippleware, unless you shell out $20), trying to find and download roms (and the associated legal/ethical dilemmas), etc. Plus, if I had something like this, I could just hand it to my kids and not have to worry about them messing up my computer. Or have the kids tying up my computer while daddy wants to play "big kid" videogames.

I would also like to point out these:
Activision Game
Atari Game
Namco Game

These are actually presents that any geek would love! And the Commodore 64 game would be just continuation of this same theme...

This is something that the average joe can buy at Wal-Mart, and just plug it in and play. No worrying about which emulator works the best (and many emulators are crippleware, unless you shell out $20), trying to find and download roms (and the associated legal/ethical dilemmas), etc. Plus, if I had something like this, I could just hand it to my kids and not have to worry about them messing up my computer. Or have the kids tying up my computer while daddy wants to play "big kid" videogames.

I would also like to point out these:
Activision Game
Atari Game
Namco Game

These are actually presents that any geek would love! And the Commodore 64 game would be just continuation of this same theme...

This is something that the average joe can buy at Wal-Mart, and just plug it in and play. No worrying about which emulator works the best (and many emulators are crippleware, unless you shell out $20), trying to find and download roms (and the associated legal/ethical dilemmas), etc. Plus, if I had something like this, I could just hand it to my kids and not have to worry about them messing up my computer. Or have the kids tying up my computer while daddy wants to play "big kid" videogames.

I would also like to point out these:
Activision Game
Atari Game
Namco Game

These are actually presents that any geek would love! And the Commodore 64 game would be just continuation of this same theme...

The Touchstream Keyboard use finger muscles less and in a different way from a normal keyboard. Add the fact that it does mouse as well. It does take a bit of learning, but is otherwise pretty cool.

I agree with other people that changing imput devices - mice, keyboards - would be a good idea. I run the touchstream and a conventional Qwerty in parallel. When running apps which use a lot of F keys or the numpad (which my favourite editor prefers), I need a conventional keyboard. Wne word-processing, I switch to the Touchstream. Web surfing probably better in the Touchstream because of gestures.

<a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/key boards/6afa/">Better Solution?</a>

Or you could get it for half that price at Think Geek

clicky... not sure about that though, a friend of mine bought the nyko airflow gamepad and it broke (fan stopped working and the right analog control is messed up) after like a week.

ThinkGeek also includes an explaination on how their putty works. Not sure how much it applies precisely to this body armor, but it's interesting nonetheless.

J

Killer, I'm gonna try this tonight, I just got my liquid armor in today from
think geek.
Now where'd that shot gun go...

Just a non-newtonian fluid. Go mix cornstarch and water, borax and something (forget what, its been a while since 6th grade science, dishsoap maybe) or get some of this. You get the same basic thing, but the point of this is that it probably doesn't shatter under the impact of a bullet... I've been kicking around the idea of something like this for a while myself actually, but more along the lines of that ferrous oil stuff they use in super high end variable shock absorbers that has a current applied to it and hardens when it senses a projectile. Not sure how to go about sensing that though, so a passive option i probably better.

Very similar to Smart Mass Thinking Puddy. Is the military beginning to read /. and buy products from ThinkGeek for inspiration for R&D?

PlusDeck

Sure, I believe it's called the "Airzooka" and you can buy one at Thinkgeek.com :-)

The SecuriKey might do what you're talking about. Uses USB.

here.

This would be really cool if there was a driver to instigate a change based on an event/time of day/karma rateing.

All these nifty USB light'em'up things out there - getting kinda obnoxious.

Looks like you can buy those from thinkgeek

Thinkgeek for a mere $26.99. Coincidence? *wink wink*

Here

Cold Heat Soldering Tool

Buy this shirt, take that job and you'll be ok!

And I've got the attire to prove it.

Instead of going rack mounted, you might want to try this pc case out. Its dimensions are 8" x 7.4" x 11.7". I think this is a slick little case here!

I guess I'm behind the times. The only blue LED toy that I have is the binary clock from Thinkgeek. I bought it for my office desk as a conversation starter (it works). Couldn't decide between red and blue -- went with blue just because. Haven't yet purchased another toy with blue leds. Not because they are too bright (though they do lean in that direction) but because I haven't had the chance yet.

pfft, a mere toy! I use one of these

CPOD? Sounds like iPod to me; does that imply Apple was involved? Or a lawsuit is immanent? Call thinkgeek, this would sell like hotcakes because PHB's everywhere would insist we all wear them or embed them into our right arms.

The despair calendar has a quote:

"A company that will go to the ends of the earth for its people will find that it can hire them for about 10% of the cost of Americans."

Calendar photo at: www.despair.com/discovery.html

Namco do one as well with Pacman, Dig Dug, Galaxian, Bosconian and Rally X.

Thinkgeek stock them

I'm add to this argument, as I think the insecurity we see in Windows is part of the Microsoft Mindset.

A large part of all the bugs that causes vulnerabilities can be through good design and good coding standard (starting with NOT using strcpy() ). Most of the vulnerabilities in the Microsoft OS (and almost anywhere else) are buffer overflows. I'm pretty sure most of them could be squashed with good code audits...

What does Microsoft want, as a corporation? Money, profit! There is little insentive to actually correct those bugs BEFORE taken the product to market, because they would MAKE LESS PROFIT!... The only thing they lose with those vulnerabilities is credibility and image... maybe why they started the security thingy to improve their image... The security audit/training program is probably genuine though... (You can't fake that too much)

Think about it...

I though about that when I read this.. and it made me think of this and this.

Of course, I could be all wrong and Windows(R) could simply be too big to maintain....