Worlds Coolest Keyboard

While many people are building wooden keyboards and others are making their keyboards completely black there is one that completely blows away the competition. It is called the Optimus Keyboard and each individual key is an led display that can be changed depending on what you are
doing.

For example, if you are using Photoshop than the keys can serve as shortcut buttons or if you are playing a game than they can be the buttons to control your character like in the picture below.

However, if you are now convinced that you need on than you may want to reconsider because, it will cost you over $1500. Yes, that's right $1500. But, maybe if you wait a while the price will drop (I sure hope so because I would love one of those on my desk) and maybe even one day they'll have them installed on laptop keyboards.

Shut Down Your Computer With a Text Message

If you have ever left your house without turning off your computer and you need to turn it off for whatever reason but, don't want to go home than you can set your computer up with this program. It takes only a few minutes to do and even though it really isn't practicle, although it could be (I guess), it is pretty cool. For a little more fun you can set this up on a friends or family members computer and have a little fun :-).

Make Your Own USB Powered Fridge

If you have ever wanted to keep you drinks cool while you surf the web than this is the perfect project for you. The best part, the whole thing will only put you back a mere $2.50.

Turbocharged PC Cooling

If you have ever seen an ad for a "turbo charged", super speed pc than you'll think of a much more litteral meaning whenever you see one from now on. Mark Purney constantly saw many of those ads and finaly decided to do something about it, make his own REAL turbocharged pc. While the thing isn't actualy turbo charged it does use a real turbocharger from an old 90's Mitsubishi Eclipse and uses it to cool down the system. The turbocharger doesn't run at anywhere near max rpm because it is meant to be water-cooled and Mark doesn't want to make the thing any more inpracticle than it already is. He says that he uses it every once and a while for a little fun throughout the day and to show it off to friends but, he uses a regular pc for any daily usage.

Roomba Controlled via Wiimote

Criss Hughes from The Internet Patrol has posted a hack that he did that allows him to control his Roomba. The wiimote sends signals to the computer which then sends codes to the Roomba via bluetooth. For the code he used and for more details visit his website.

RC Car Controlled by IPhone

Nerd Kits.com has created some hardware to allow your IPhone to connect to an R/C car controller via the Internet which then sends the signals to the RC car. You control the car by moving your finger in different parts of a box that is on the IPhone screen which in turn moves the car in that direction.

LED Hard Drive Clock

Ian has made an LED hard drive clock by using flashing LED's and a spinning CD with a slit in it to create patterns. He uses an LED strip from Super Bright LED's and programed the whole thing himself. The CD spins at 90 RPM which tricks the human eyes into thinking that it isn't flashing which is the reason that we see solid patterns. The thing, as you can hear from the video, is pretty loud, but later on Ian plans on building a plexiglass case to enclose the project to reduce the sound levels.

Evaporation PC Cooling System?

Whoever made this thing sure has an imagination! We think that he has built an evaporation based PC cooling system. As interesting as this sounds it seems to work. He has some not to detailed plans on his website, but it's pretty cool to look at.