The Geek Church

I’ll start out with a device known as the Porn Detection Stick. Guess what it does.

Here’s a Driving Simulator from Honda to help you drive, I guess.

Here’s Google Gesture Search for Android, which lets you “draw” on the touchscreen to find a contact.

There is a Lenovo IdeaPad Y460 laptop now for sale.

The first App for Android made by Microsoft is Tag Hunter. See what it does here.

This iPhone dongle by New Potato Technologies allows you to control any device with IR.

Penguin publishing formats could change the way books come out.

The Sony VAIO M netbook is coming, soon.

Here’s an iPhone app from Lynda.com that gives video tutorials of your favorite software applications.
Canada’s Rogers Network is planning on getting the Samsung Spica.

Everyone’s favorite online restaurant guide Yelp has come to Android.

CeBIT has the MSI Toast PC.

Canon’s Zoom Lens is now a Thermos.

Netgear has two home theater networking kits with the WNHDB3004 and WNCE2001.

Isn’t it amazing all the advancements that we have? Isn’t it amazing how we take them for granted.

Go ahead and read Numbers 11-12, Proverbs 19, and then the entry.

Hey folks, recently a new form of robotics has been developed by a 27-year old man from Poland.  However, it may surprise you that this man is not an engineer or inventor by trade.  He actually works as a web designer who specializes in graphic design.  You will also probably find it unusual that his building materials of choice for his robotic design is ordinary Lego parts.

According to available sources, the name of this man is Paul and he lives in Warsaw, Poland.  Apparently, he has chosen not to give his last name but he is also known by the name “Sariel” and building things with Lego parts is one of his personal hobbies.  Last weekend, he built a robotic arm out of Lego parts that took two days to construct.  However, this creation is a motorized, functioning mechanical arm.

The robotic arm is operated with four remote-controlled motors and a four-valve pneumatic system.  All of the hand’s fingers are controlled pneumatically and they can adapt to the shape of any grabbed object.  The pneumatic system is powered from an airtank that filled by an electric compressor.  The arm’s joints are operated by linear actuators electrically.  The palm of the hand can also be rotated 360 degrees.

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The use of 3D has become a very popular marketing gimmick in selling any product imaginable from movies to high-definition television sets.  One example of this, of course is James Cameron’s most recent hit film, Avatar.  Since this movie’s release, other film makers have felt the pressure to follow suit by using 3D effects as well.  3D HDTVs also exist now and are currently available for any consumer who can afford them.  However, a new product may be coming soon in the next few years: 3D HDTVs without the need for glasses.

The concept of this new product still in development is called autostereoscopic 3D.  This concept will become possible by combining two technologies known as the 3D video codec and the plasma/LCD display.  Experts predict that this new development could be available in stores in about five years.  Of course, such a product would make current 3D HDTVs out of date and forgotten since they still require the use of glasses to get the 3D effect.

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