Some great advice on how to travel with homebrewed gear so you can get to your destination both with your gadgets and without a detour to Gitmo.

Some background info on the Arduino in documentary form. Some preface to the video here.

The more I read about this, the more I want to get into it.

Give this story a listen.

I’m totally going to look up getting a printer once I get back on my feet.

Incidentally, I seem to have only posted half a dozen times since the move. I may be having some job search depression kicking in. I’ll try to be more active and social in the near future.

Some fantastic phone concepts. I’ve been meaning to post something about the first one for quite some time and keep forgetting to.

Here are some of my favorite designs:

You know, if I have to get an e-reader gizmo, this looks like the one for me.

Nice.

Some pretty interesting technology most of us probably didn’t know existed.

I still don’t have my flying car, though.

A pretty cool breakdown of the innards of the new Google Nexus One phone.

Not that I’ve got the cash to get one, mind, but if I did I’d probably pick one up.

“You have to actually look for the things that are dangerous, and not just scan everybody. This calls for a total change in approach to the transportation security issue.”

– Rafi Sela, a security consultant at Ben Gurion International Airport

According to the Israelis, who – as you may know – have some experience in dealing with terrorists, relying on privacy-invading scanning machines won’t keep us safer. Neither will patty down every brown-skinned male who just *might* be Muslim.

Eye contact, checking the behavior of folks in your airport, and basically NOT TAKING THE LAZY WAY OUT are the keys to defeating terrorist acts in most public venues.

But no, we’ve got to depend on gadgets instead of skill. I swear, I work in technology and realize that the Mark One Eyeball and the brain behind it is still capable of being better than the best sniffer, camera, or X-Ray nudie picture machine we can build.