DIY Techno-hacksOld hard drive platters make wonderfully good drinks coasters - they look dead smart and expensive and you've stopped people reading your old data into the bargain.
Have you taped all your remotes together, peep-show-style? Have you wired your doorbell to the toilet? What enterprising DIY have you done with technology?
Extra points for using sellotape rather than solder.
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chthonic, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 12:30)
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Staggering!...I haven't been on B3ta for ages now but feel compelled to write and tell you what a genius I think you are for your posts regarding your house set up.
I have at one time or another considered every single gadget you have mentioned so far...but that's about as far as it gets with me, as I have the techno savvy of a deep fried urang utan with a badly wiped arse.
Could I suggest (if you haven't done so already) that your 'shopping list' when it is created automatically, is connected to a database that puts the items in order of the location of the goods in the supermarket? thus saving valuable seconds on your trip round?
I have also thought of an 'all in one mail sorter'...you open your mail and run it through a double sided scanner which date stamps the scan, but there's also a keypad for a basic ID label to be attached to the file (in conjunction with the info that the scanner reads), plus a small on board storage (SD card or something) or network link, then an automated feed into a double tray underneath, by which you can choose to keep the hard copy or run it straight down into a shredder?
I know you could make that happen.
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Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Tue 25 Aug 2009, 9:02,
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Oh my God.I'd forgotten about that!
I actually did at one point have a similar thing to what you suggest.
I'll post it up as a QoTW answer now, rather than mention it here.
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Like it!"Could I suggest (if you haven't done so already) that your 'shopping list' when it is created automatically, is connected to a database that puts the items in order of the location of the goods in the supermarket? thus saving valuable seconds on your trip round?"
Ooooh - I like that. Sadly though, I don't use supermarkets all that much any more - living in the sticks means that I have no choice but to travel to the bigger one every now and then, but I try for the most part to use the local shops, butchers, green grocer etc... as not only are they cheaper these days, but they are more often than not much better quality.
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Surely as a self confessed'IT dweeb' you should have some stuff for this weeks QOTW yourself, Pooflake? You've been missed by many!
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