smart computer use?

Not sure how I ran across that page at geeks.com, but I’m glad I did because it reminded me of how nice it would be to have one.

Not the delivery guys

I was thinking about getting one of those things, an uninterruptible power supply, or UPS for short.

Think of all the times that the power has gone out or flashed in your office or home. I’ve had a few situations myself where the power has flashed and caused a computer to restart at a bad time.

Safety from power failures for your computer

The UPS would give you instant protection from power flashes that would cause your computer to lose power just shortly enough to restart. That would be a very nice feature. It’s still good to save work often but a power flash and a random computer restart sucks either way.

Also, if the power goes down for good, a power-outage victim is at least given time to properly shut down the computer.

Now I just gotta find something that isn’t too expensive. I’d imagine that a person could spend a good amount of cash on a UPS for a computer if able. I’m expecting that I should be able to find something that gives me enough uninterruptible power to at least just be able to shut down my computer safely to ride out the power outage in silence.

Cost

A $100 or less? I would think so.

I checked it out quickly and found that I could get a servicable computer UPS from eBay for between $50-$100. At least this is for a UPS designed for a personal computer, small setup. It’s easy to find larger, industrial size UPS devices for many hundreds of dollars more.

This is awesome. I ran across these muscle car flash drives at the Deadly Computer Blog.

What would you rather be carrying… a flat black boring USB flash drive or one of these stylish roadsters?

From etsy.com:

New to the car lot is this awesome USB Flash Drive Muscle Car. Under the hood, this thing is packing 1Gig of memory.

Click here to buy one of these bad boys. Looks like they are sold out right now.

Sometimes a hard disk is just dead. They just die. There may be no way to recover the data with means that you have at your disposal.

Here’s an interesting view on what to do in this situation:

Stop crying. The thing is dead, so why don’t you open it? You have nothing to loose. Get a screwdriver and have a peek inside. Don’t touch the plates, don’t touch anything. Plug it. Try to boot, from it or from another one or from a floppy, doesn’t matter.

Read the rest here.

Development of neurally controlled robotic arm has received a little bit of a kick in the ass. Any they’re gonna get it done is less than four years.

This is a neurally controlled arm, an arm controlled by thought. Good stuff.

Looking for some inspiration to get you moving on your next pc case mod project? Here’s some creative case modding, with a Matrix theme.

Warning: This one is pretty far out.