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• Nanogenerators produce electricity by squeezing your fingers together, while you dance

  

  It's been a while since we last heard about nanogeneratos -- you know, those insanely tiny fibers that could potentially be woven into your hoodie to juice up your smartphone. Dr. Zhong Lin Wang of the Georgia Institute of Technology has reported that he and his team of Einsteins constructed...

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  March 31, 2011, 5:23 pm| Read full article | More articles from engadget.com

• A day with Deadmau5: LEDs, Super Mario, and techno

  

  Deadmau5 (also known as Joel Zimmerman) is one of the largest names in the electronic and house music scene -- and he also happens to be a major tech head. Recently, the Canadian producer added some impressive new gear to his productions, in the form of a massive LED-covered cube...

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  March 29, 2011, 10:30 am| Read full article | More articles from engadget.com

• DIY business card displays your info via persistence of vision, fails to impress Patrick Bateman (video)

  

  Still fancy the age-old business card and enjoy outrageous DIY projects that may or may not make you look foolish? Continue on then, dear reader. The peeps over at Instructables have provided a lengthy and seemingly difficult set of directions on how to craft a persistence of vision business card....

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  March 25, 2011, 7:52 am| Read full article | More articles from engadget.com

• DIY business card displays your info via persistance of vision, fails to impress Patrick Bateman (video)

  

  Still fancy the age-old business card and enjoy outrageous DIY projects that may or may not make you look foolish? Continue on then, dear reader. The peeps over at Instructables have provided a lengthy and seemingly difficult set of directions on how to craft a persistence of vision business card....

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  March 25, 2011, 7:52 am| Read full article | More articles from engadget.com

• Sharp LE830 series HDTVs now shipping: edge-lit LED, WiFi, no 3D

  

  Add another to your list of new HDTVs to keep an eye out for, as Sharp has announced its new LE830 series LCDs are shipping this month from its 10th generation plant. This lineup doesn't include any slick 3D features or the size of its 70-inch behemoth from CES, but...

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  March 24, 2011, 1:11 am| Read full article | More articles from engadget.com

• Flatbed scanner becomes multitouch panel in five-fingered DIY documentary (video)

  

  Few things do a better job at decimating desktop real estate than a bulky old flatbed scanner. Skinnier replacements are cheap these days, but what's one to do with the old ones? An enterprising hacker who goes by the handle Sprite_tm, the same bloke who brought us a knock-operated door,...

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  March 22, 2011, 6:30 pm| Read full article | More articles from engadget.com

• Cube made of 512 LEDs does 3D with calculus, not glasses (video)

  

  No goofy active shutter glasses, no headache-inducing parallax barrier screens, no optical trickery here. This is a pure 3D display -- unfortunately done at a resolution of just 8 x 8 x 8. It's a hand-built LED cube created by Nick Schulze, powered by Arduino, and driven largely by Matlab....

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  March 21, 2011, 3:56 pm| Read full article | More articles from engadget.com

• Samsung announces availability, pricing for 2011 HDTVs, Blu-ray players and HTIB

  

  It's coming a little late in the game since many of these models have already started shipping, but Samsung has finally seen fit to reveal prices and approximate shipping dates for its 2011 HDTVs (both LCD and plasma), Blu-ray players, and home theater in a box systems. There's no surprises...

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  March 16, 2011, 10:34 am| Read full article | More articles from engadget.com

• Bridgelux silicon LED could mean bright future for solid state lighting

  

  While Democrats and Republicans squabble over the future of the incandescent light bulb, a Livermore-based company has produced an LED that they claim could lead to brighter, more affordable solid state lighting. By growing gallium nitride on low-cost silicon wafers, as opposed to the typical sapphire and silicon carbide substrates,...

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  March 10, 2011, 8:44 pm| Read full article | More articles from engadget.com

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