Waffle Squadron Omega

This week, Apple announced the new iPhone 2.0 at the WWDC. While the addition of 3G is good (shoulda been there in the first version if you ask me), there’s a lot of disappointments:

No additional storage
No better camera
No camera on the front for videoconferencing
No additional RAM
No MMS
No bluetooth audio
No video capability
No turn-by-turn navigation
No copy/paste function

But… you get GAMES!!!11 Oh, and 3G is important, but not really a selling point since the data plan adds up to $45 to my existing $50 plan. Is it worth it? For some people, maybe. The drop in price will definitely convince a lot of people to buy the new iPhone. For me, I was hoping for some extra features.

Since I already have a Jailbroken iPod Touch, I have added a lot of neat software that gives me the ability to send MMS via email, and copy/paste functions. And, I’ve almost filled up my 16 GB storage. So what’s the incentive to buy an iPhone now? Will there be a SIM card slot in this new version? Maybe that will be a selling point for some people. I might consider it if it meant I can hook up my work SIM card into an iPhone and let my job pay for the data!

Well, this is pretty cool! I could see owning a few of these plants to power small electronics and whatnot. Found this article via Engadget. From Tech-On of Japan:

“A Japanese institute and firms prototyped a foliage plant-like solar cell module by using organic thin-film solar cells.

A leaf-like module featuring bright green solar cells was developed by National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Mitsubishi Corp and Tokki Corp.

The organic thin-film solar cell consists of a plastic substrate, phthalocyanine layer, fullerene layer and so forth. And eight 7.5cm² solar cells connected in series constitute about 60cm² solar cell module. “

So, pretty neat! Organic film with solar cells inside of it. Won’t be long until our coats and hats have solar cells all over them, eh? Maybe the roofs of our cars could have many layers of these organic cells? At any rate, it’s interesting. You see fake plants all over the place, so maybe someday soon those fake plants will have a use other than decoration and collecting dust!

Mattboyslim pointed out to me that ThinkGeek.com is selling a replica Flux Capacitor for about $250 (marked down from $275). Now, this is an official replica, and only 1,000 will be made. But, for those of us who can’t really afford such expensive memorabilia, there’s always a cheaper method to owning the toys that we want… nay, need. 

Enter Instructables user ‘sponges‘. He says: “250 bucks for a flux capacitor? Forget that, I did it for 54 dollars and 79 cents. It has 7 modes and it’s totally freaking awesome! Very little electronics experience is required, just a little resourceful scavenging.” 

Check out sponges’ instructable on the DIY Flux Capacitor here.

Homebrew? On my Wii?? It may be easier than you thought!Instructables user ‘btop’ has just posted a very helpful guide on how to add “The Homebrew Channel”, or other homebrew apps, to your Wii with only an SD card and The Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess.But, to do it you’ll need to transfer a save file onto the SD card, so you’ll need an SD reader of some sort. I have a USB thumb drive SD card reader, which is very handy on the go. Read all about this hack on Instructables.

 Reminder for Halloween 2008:
* Lose weight
* Buy cheap Ironman costume and affix LEDs to it
* ???
* Profit!

An instructable has been posted on how to:

How to make an Iron Man Mask (with LEDs)
How to make an Iron Man Arc Reactor

I’ve been blinded …with science!