[scott] had a need to capture a mouse and wanted to learn about how to program an arduino, so he built an Arduino controlled mousetrap. It is made from things he had laying around the house, like some Tupperware containers and wooden rods. The program is pretty simple, when a trip wire is touched, t...

Finally. I say it's about damn time we fit our hamsters with little jackets that harness all the energy they're wasting when running incessantly in their little wheels. Also, we're harnessing the power of the wheel too, right? To harness hamster power, the scientists sewed electricity-generating thr...

Mouse Computer Japan introduces their latest LuvBook series laptop, the LuvBook TW600X model. Retailed for €800 (about $1,016 USD), the notebook features a 15.4-inch WXGA display, an Intel Core 2 Duo P8700 processor, a 4GB of DDR2 main memory, a 320GB of hard drive, Blu-Ray burner, Intel GM45 Expr...

Windows only: Moving your mouse cursor across multiple monitors them all can be a long haul, especially in triple- and quad-monitor setups. Snap your mouse from screen to screen instead with keyboard shortcuts. Multi-Monitor Mouse is a small application which, when triggered by a keyboard combinatio...

President Barack Obama is giving the State of the Union Address, which is not really a State of the Union. There is a lot of discussion about what he might say. Language Guru George Lakoff has a good post on DK about Obama’s progressive code. Six weeks ago, the smartest guy in Washington DC se...

The REAL stars of the Academy Award winning film Slumdog Millionaire made their way down to Anaheim, CA yesterday to celebrate their Best Picture win at Disneyland! Ayush Mahesh Khedekar (who played Young Jamal), Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail Sheikh (who played Young Salim), Rubina Ali Rafiq Qureshi (w...

This new mouse is basically using the 3D mouse concept and spinning it around with a new design to avoid legal hassles. The Orbita wireless mouse is in the shape of a large circular knob, this rechargeable wireless mouse can be freely spun around for zooming or scrolling through long WebPages. There...

For just 49,800 Yen (around €420 or US $533), you can grab the latest desktop PC from Mouse Computer of Japan, LM-M110S Series. Measures only 60 x 200 x 250mm, this compact computer is powered by a 1.66Ghz Intel Atom 330 Dual Core processor, a 2GB of main memory, and an Intel 945GC Express chipset...

Kensington promised us that the SlimBlade Trackball would turn us into "smooth operators," and we certainly felt retro behind the ball -- we hadn't used a trackball since the original Kensington Turbo Mouse. Muscle memory issues and a loss of efficiency drove us back to our trusty MX Laser after jus...

Today, we followed the Plan, the Plan being: Arise early, and yet not too early, don clothing appropriate to the day and hour and hit the Butchers Block in Fairfield for breakfast. Having eaten well, and yea verily caffeinated, too, we removed to SRM Galactic Headquarters, there to sign a quarter-zi...