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Keep your laptop, cell phone, or car working in an emergency with the Duracell Powerpack 450.

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Save your eyes with the anti-glare Gunnar Computer Glasses.

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Keep all your in-flight essentials within reach with the Nirvana Organizer.

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From the Gadget Warehouse: The Kodak Disc Camera.

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Forget those little bottles at security, lather up with Travelon Sheets instead.

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Listen to your music via DRM-free MicroSD cards with the SanDisk Sansa slotMusic Player.

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Shoot a whole photo safari with just one high-capacity Kingston 32GB SD Card.

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The Wi-Fi, GPS, keyboard-included T-Mobile G1 smart phone, running on Google's Android.

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From the Gadget Warehouse: Konica Kanpa

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Turn you iPod into a 16-bit, 44kHz audio recorder with the Belkin GoStudio.

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Normally MIG welding requires a big fancy machine, sometimes also with a large tank of pressurized gas. Instructables user TimAnderson managed to hack together a hand-held wirefeed MIG welding gun and a couple car batteries for a more portable effect. He writes:

Here's my new wire-feed (MIG) welder.
All of it.
They sell these things as accessories for commercial MIG units, but they can also work great on 24 volts from two car batteries.
I have it loaded with .030" flux-core welding wire.
It cost me less than $100 on ebay.
The "Ready Welder" is a similar commercial product.
WARNING: The tip is electrically on all the time!

One of the highlights of the Faire for me was seeing Steve Davee's work-in-progress Maker's Notebook hacks. He's adding a binary page indexing system with a conductive bookmark and LEDs on the cover that tell you where the marker is in the book. He also has plans to solarize the book and to add an Arduino and capacitive touch to the cover to do something (play sounds, maybe).

He says he has trouble following through on projects, so Steve, if you're reading this: follow through! We'll send you more Notebooks if you finish this one, document it, and send us the docs. This is just the type of project we were hoping to inspire with the book. We want more of this!

If YOU have a physical computing/electronics hack of your notebook, or any sort of mod, send us pics. We want to see what folks are doing with their notebooks. Also: If you've designed a cool project IN your notebook, we'd like to see how people are actually using the book.

In the Maker Shed:

You can't tell from the video that there's no throttle: just an on-off switch. Because adding a motor to a tallbike wasn't dangerous enough;)

John Edgar Park writes on his blog:

I love coffee and I love laser cutters, so I was thrilled to read about this collision of the two on Tonx's blog.

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Okay so this one is not scary or hardcore at all. It's basically two skeletons on a see-saw that is powered by a simple to use and cheap wiper motor. Not scary but for those Halloween parties or kid friendly events it's very whimsical.

Jerry shares his strategy for weather-proofing a webcam for use on his balcony. Nice video documentation - one might consider using some silicone to seal up those cable ports. You can see the results of his rig on his site.

More:
DIY $27 Outdoor Webcam Enclosure

Here's the link to learn more on EFF's site.

On Sunday afternoon at Maker Faire Austin, the lights went out. All power was lost in one whole area of the fairgrounds. It turned out that a dome tent from the camping area had taken flight in a dust devil and crashed into the power lines. Fernando Rizo got a couple of great shots of the tent moments before impact.

The story does not end well for the tent

MIDI input added to a classic Dubreq Stylophone by by Diabolical Devices / Class A Electronics. [via Synthtopia]