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dvice.com - 4/9/2009

At last a watch from Tokyo Flash that is easy(-ish) to read

— dvice.com — Consider the Kisai Denshoku watch from Tokyo Flash . Now, we all know just how difficult the... japanese firm's timepieces can be to read — remember this one which tells you the time via morse code? — but this latest watch, with its LED ... (more) At last a watch from Tokyo Flash that is easy(-ish) to read

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lifehacker.com - 4/9/2009

Read It Later Brings Offline Reading to the iPhone [Downloads]

— lifehacker.com — iPhone/iPod touch only: Read It Later plugs one of the gaps in its mission to offer your... reading bookmarks anywhere at anytime with an official iPhone application, which features browser syncing and... (more) Read It Later Brings Offline Reading to the iPhone ...

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Power Glove: Reloaded features accelerometer, Arduino chipset
CrunchGear — ... hasn’t released a Powii Glove yet, but if they make it like this thing, I’m sure they’d sell a bundle. One feature I don’t see implemented is a open/closed hand sensor. Could be as simple as a button on the palm, but it would add yet another layer of glove-like control to the thing. Of course, beggars can’t be choosers. But they can beg! So you can get the whole set of instructions at the creator’s website, or at Instructables.

Power Glove granted infinitely more power, bluetooth, and accelerometer in honor of 20th birthday
Engadget — ... it with Bluetooth and accelerometer chips for a more modern take on the hand peripheral -- think of it as a more assimilated version of the Wiimote-embedded glove we covered in 2006. If you're interested in following in his footsteps, instructions are available at Instructables and in the video form after the break -- jump to 10:50 if you want to see it in action both with a test program and a brief glimpse at virtual boxing. Read - Product page Read - Instructables How-to Continue reading Power Glove granted infinitely more power, ...

Nintendo Power Glove Updated With Accelerometer, Bluetooth, Irony [Power Glove]
Gizmodo — ... as kind of a 20th anniversary present to the original Glove. The video below gives a pretty detailed instruction for how to tear apart your own Power Glove, presuming you can find one, and also shows him using it with an iPhone boxing game he's developing. Power Glove 20th Anniversary Edition — Build Video from Matt Mechtley on Vimeo. Finally, the future looks like we imagined it would in 1989. [Instructables, creator's blog] ...

Nintendo Power Glove 20th Anniversary Edition
Tech Blog — ... anniversary of Nintendo's Power Glove accessory, this modder replaced "the original ultrasonic sensors with an accelerometer, the microcontroller with an open-source Arduino, and the wired connection with Bluetooth." Video after the break. The video below gives a pretty detailed instruction for how to tear apart your own Power Glove, presuming you can find one, and also shows him using it with an iPhone boxing game he's developing. [via Gizmodo - Instructables]

Updated Power Glove with Bluetooth and Arduino
MAKE Magazine — ... Power Glove 20th Anniversary Edition -- Build Video from Matt Mechtley on Vimeo. Matt Mechtley is responsible for this maker's dream project: getting a classic Nintendo Power Glove to work with custom games by replacing it's brain with an arduino, implanting an accelerometer for motion detection, and using a bluetooth modem for wireless connectivity. He's outdone himself with downloadable code, schematics, this awesome video, and an Instructable to top it off. You may remember Matt from my asphalt mosaics video, or from ...

Nintendo Power Glove modded better for its 20 anniversary
Gizmo Watch — ... the microcontroller and Bluetooth to replace the wired connection. It doesn’t take much to glue one into gaming, yet turning a gamer into a modder must demand a lot. If you are an interested gamer then Matt has all the information for you to do something more with your Power Glove. Catch the video for a demo and the information for a step-by-step guidance to be a DIYer yourself. Via: Instructables/Engadget

Power Glove + Arduino
GEARFUSE — ... . Alas, it was just a controller bolted to a neat-looking glove. Now, 20 years later, Matt Mechtley has done the impossible and has officially made the Power Glove cool again. Using an Arduino , a Bluetooth module and an accelerometer, Matt can now manipulate all kinds of data using the Power Glove. Hell, I can only imagine the possibilities when paired up with Pure Data . If you dare make your own, Matt has posted all the code and instructions you could possibly need. Link [ via ]

Power Glove controls new video games
MAKE Magazine — ... Over the past few weeks I’ve been working on some improvements and extensions to my Power Glove 20th Anniversary Edition. On the tech side of things, I replaced the ugly 9V battery I was using with a low-profile, rechargeable Lithium-Polymer battery. I’ve updated the steps in the Instructable with new pictures and instructions. ...