Control your Lego Mindstorms NXT with the iphone

Check out the video and the link below on controlling your Lego Mindstorms NXT using your iphone with the NXT's light sensor.


http://www.battlebricks.com/iphone-lego-nxt-robot/index.html

Microsoft Windows 7 Video

Check out this video of a demonstration of multi-touch, a surface like interface in Windows 7 shown off at the Wall Street Journal's D: All Things Digital conference by Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.

Video: Multi-Touch in Windows 7

Grasshopper like robot sets new high jump record

A robot inspired by a grasshopper has set a new record for robots by being able to jump 27 times its own height. The previous record by a robot was for 17 times its own height. Check out the video below.

Tech Tip #2 Stuck Print Jobs

For today's Tech Tip we will be talking about canceling print jobs. In Windows if you cancel a print job while it was printing or do something else to cause of the print job to display that its deleting print jobs, but nothing happens, and the printer just sits there. You could restart the computer and the printer will finish printing, but what if you don't want to print that 50 page document now. So to delete those stuck print jobs first open services. To open services you can do this a variety of ways. It is accessible through administrative tools, computer management, and Vista Search. So first click Control Panel (In Classic View), Administrative Tools, then click Services. Now scroll down until you see a service named Print Spooler, click the Print Spooler service, now click stop. Now that you have stopped the Print Spooler Service, go to My Computer, click your C: drive (or whichever drive has Windows on it). Click the Windows folder, then click the System32 folder, then click the spool folder, then click the PRINTERS folder. Delete the files with the proper time and date of the print job that needs deleted. Now that you have done that restart the Print Spooler service. You may need to restart your printer. If you have done all this properly the print job that you wanted to delete should have disappeared

Man uses mountain bike to fly around Google Earth

Check out this video of a DIY mountain bike hooked up with a SunSPOT to use a bicycle to fly around Google Earth.

Tech Tip #1 Network Connections in Windows Vista

For today's Tech Tip I will be showing you a easy way of accessing network connections in Windows Vista. In Windows XP it was easy to access network connections through the control panel, but in Windows Vista its a little more hidden. You can access it through the control panel, but for a quick and easy way I access it through the search feature in Vista. Just click the Start button, type ncpa.cpl in the search box and hit enter.

Microsoft still interested in Yahoo

Microsoft had took back its offer to purchase Yahoo, but it looks like they aren't ready to give up Yahoo yet. Microsoft is now considering some sort of a transaction with Yahoo instead of purchasing all of Yahoo. Hopefully Microsoft and Yahoo will finally come to some sort of agreement. Check out the press release at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/may08/05-18statement.mspx?rss_fdn=Press%20Releases

Swashbot RC robot

Check out this video of a little RC robot called Swashbot by http://www.crabfu.com/.

Jet-powered wing

Check out these photos.

The Senate ok's 1 billion for software to fight online child porn

The Senate has okayed $1 billion dollars to go to a project set to take place over the next eight years that would incite the local, state, and federal police to make and use software that would help catch child pornographers on Peer-to-Peer networks.

Intel Atom based Eee PC 901 to come out in June

The 8.9in. Intel Atom based Asus Eee PC 901 is supposed to come out June 3rd with a price tag of below $650. The 901 is supposed to include bluetooth for the first time in a Eee PC.

XO laptops get Microsoft Windows XP

The XO laptops for One Laptop per Child (http://www.laptop.org/) will now have the option to run Windows XP in addition to Linux. Trials of the XO laptops with Windows XP will begin in June.