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• Commented on Bike outfited with one-cylinder engine
  You can buy one here: http://www.ecrater.com/product.php?pid=3315830 It follows the designs of early mopeds from the 40s and 50s which were bicycles with small engines attached. I've seen two here in Toronto. One of the riders I talked to said the...
• Commented on Hairstylists could be early-warning systems for senior health problems
  Barbers have always been a good way to know what their clients are thinking: I was reading The Tunnels of Cu-Chi a while back. According to it, there was an incident where the majority of Vietnamese barbers on base at...
• Commented on Fresh Green: Rappers Against Car Idling, Pedal-Powered Monorails and More
  Really idling isn't a problem at all. Anyone familiar with engines knows this. Now only is the speed of the engine very low, but since it is not putting out much torque it needs even less fuel: An engine will...
• Commented on Bosch Cordless Hammer Drill: light, snappy and blows through brick like butter
  Canadian Tire sells these nice adapters that convert a regular drill into a hammer drill or an impact wrench. I saw somewhat suspect about their performance, but the reviews I've read are all glowing. http://www.canadiantire.ca/browse/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524443303346 They are frequently on sale...
• Commented on How to make a tiny polymer clay orange
  This is the same extruding process used in making some types of hard candy. How It's Made did an excellent job of documenting the process in this video: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=uep6FKZWRsY The results are astounding....
• Commented on BBtv Favorites from 2008: TechShop, a Community Tinkering Space
  We have (had?) something like this here in Toronto for automotive work. It was in an alleyway off Greenwood Ave., South of the tracks. You paid for a spot and they let you make use of all their fancy automotive...
• Commented on German traffic cops angered by British driver who mocks traffic cams with a Muppet
  So the speed camera automatically hides the identity of the passenger by twirling their face? Maybe because of German privacy laws? If that is the case, I remember there was a guy who was identified in child pornography pictures a...
• Commented on Beautiful toner explosion
  I noticed something very beautiful hidden in an old Epson inkjet I was stripping for stepper motors and IR sensors: To clean the print heads it sprayed them onto this ~2CM thick piece of blotter paper that runs along the...
• Commented on Fun analog PlotBot hack
  Pretty cool, but you can do this without the custom circuitry pretty easily: Just use a plotter and replace one of the pens with a magnet. The advantage here is that used plotters are cheap (I sold my old one...
• Commented on Pinkberry's "natural" desserts are made of toxic labratory gunk
  I think I should point out that fructose is just the kind of sugar that comes from fruit. It can be extracted from corn syrup as well, but this does not mean that it has been....
• Commented on Weird computer architectures
  I was hoping they would talk about trinary computers, which are base three instead of base two. Unlike these theoretical computers, there was actually a trinary computer built and used in the 50's. Instead of bits, they used trits. The...
• Commented on Flinstones car victory in court
  I got to take this thing for a drive after the court case (thanks guys). It is remarkably well built: All four people can pedal at different speeds, you can shift gears, and it uses the original drum brakes so...
• Commented on Build a prank camera that shocks a sucker
  Oh god, imagine the carnage if he had not clipped the capacitor. Being an electronics nerd I've had my fair share of run-ins with caps I thought were discharged, it's more then just a temporary situation: You are unable to...
• Commented on Re-lensing glasses by mail
  I think a big problem is that people don't realize that you can easily bargain down eyeglass prices. I found these really cool sunglasses at Hakim for only $90, but they wanted $380 for a single pair including the lenses....
• Commented on Tripod-wielding photographer mistaken for would-be gunman
  This is what I thought of initially: http://www.binocularsmart.com/cameras/photosniper.shtml I've seen other versions of this at photography shows....
• Commented on Facebook will sink under the weight of socially obligated "friendships"
  For me, social networking sites have always been for people I actually know and actively socialize with. I keep the list short and actively prune it, removing those I am no longer in contact with. If need be, I can...
• Commented on The Sex Pistols and Ron Paul The Tonight Show
  Teresa Nielsen Hayded: I'm well aware, and thankful that that is the case. I just feel that this story may have been the result of "the loud minority" doing their best to win favor. Also, I had no idea you...
• Commented on The Sex Pistols and Ron Paul The Tonight Show
  This was really the last place I expected to be stuck staring at a RP story. I guess enough of his supporters were sending in stories to get this non-story featured. I wish that the editors of BB would realize...
• Commented on Comcast also screwing with Gnutella and Lotus Notes (!?!)
  They might be blocking gnutella as it is being used for command and control of the storm worm et al. That is, naturally, an over reaction, but it is not as if they like P2P networks anyway....