Are you infuriated by the fact that your wireless keyboard won’t let you move more than a few feet away from the receiver?
If it’s an RF keyboard and you have some soldering/dismantling skills, you can easily add some range to most wireless systems.
How? Give the receiver a bigger antenna. This page tells you how:
http://www.bigmech.com/misc/rf_receiver_mod/rf_receiver_mod.html
And if that doesn’t work, well, you can do the same thing to the device itself and give the keyboard or mouse a larger one.
(This could be applied to just about any RF hardware, including wireless cards, if you’re feeling adventurous… but be warned, it will void your warranty in all cases!)
Ever wonder where technology is headed?
This page is a must-see, as it contains photos of some incredible tech devices.
Future cell phones, MP3 players, and notebooks,
http://tides.ws/2007/11/06/the-future-of-technology-its-here/
Go ahead, Pique your curiosity I can verify that some of those devices do actually exist, others I don’t know.
Yes, the price of flash drives are about to go down again…
Taiwanese manufacturer Samsung has managed to squish 128GB of storage space on to a single memory card, to be introduced in 2009.
You can see photos here: http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2007/10/23/samsung_breakth.html
With this kind of technology, we will soon be going back to the 1980s when computers didn’t have hard drives, and everyone had disks with their stuff on it. Now though, people will be able to have their whole operating environment with them, and just plug a mass flash storage device in to a computer shell without a hard drive.
I wonder if that card will work in my digital camera
Remember Wal-Mart’s $200 Linux PC that went on sale last week?
It’s been sold out of Wal-Mart’s online warehouse, according to Slashdot.
And who’s to say there wasn’t a market for it?!?
Ever wanted to build a PC inside something that’s just too small for a standard motherboard?
The Pico-ITX is a new form factor that measures about 7cm x 10 cm (or 3×4 inches) and packs a wealth of features.
This definitely shows that technology is going further by the day.
How long before we can expect to see a full-fledged PC built in to something the size of most current CPUs?
Pics, a review, and specs available here:
http://www.mini-itx.com/reviews/pico-itx/default.asp?page=1

If you’ve never stripped down a hard disk drive, here is what it looks like without clothes: