Five Custom Gadgets You Can't Buy

photojournaliste noted a little story running over on Forbes which kinda looks like their editors read Slashdot. Their Five Gadgets You Can't Buy include a few things you might have seen here, as well as some new custom hardware hacks. If you didn't get it for christmas, maybe one of these will inspire you to build it yourself.

Comments

Not the best of gadgets...

[cente]

Good idea to have an article on custom gadgets. PC mods can be found everywhere, however.
Batteries for those small devices should be more of a concern these days as they *do* eat through them like mad. When it comes down to it, all you need are some cells and some resistors to regulate the power, but it'd be nice if someone started a little how-to section for each individual device.
The cryogenic mouse is neat.. not extremely practical I'm afraid. I'm sure someone will start making them commercially now that ./ has its hands on it.
With these sorts of articles, I like to see extreme stuff. Anti-gravitational engines, that sort of thing.

Re:Only one that was even remotely intersesting

[igrp]

Yeah, I liked that one, too. But it doesn't hold a candle to Simon's jet powered beer cooler.

Of course, if I actually ever attempted to build something like that I would probably blow the whole house up. Hence, I'll stick with my regular old-school fridge.

Advertising Slide Show?

[fermion]

The slide show is an interesting way to force viewing of ads, and the new cookie set every other screen is a good profit generator, but why are there no controls to go back and forth? To insure a minimum view time for ads? Or were there control but the UI so bad that I could not find them.

I am not anti-advertising. Just interested in the compromises that are made to sell product.