Hardware – Page 5

Mac TV, Video and Radio Capture Card

AlchemyTV – TV Tuner and Video capture PCI card for your PowerMac
Looks like a nice uncompressed video capture card for the Mac. The TV PVR and radio capabilities are a nice bonus.

Another ultra-portable PC

Flipstart PC by Vulcan – FlipStart PC in detail
I would like to see one of these side by side an OQO (or whatever this: http://www.walking-productions.com/slop/cat_hardware.html#000426 is called).

Open Source Small Device C Compiler

SDCC – Small Device C Compiler
From the site:
SDCC is a Freeware, retargettable, optimizing ANSI – C compiler that targets the Intel 8051, Maxim 80DS390 and the Zilog Z80 based MCUs. Work is in progress on supporting the Motorola 68HC08 as well as Microchip PIC14 and PIC16 series. The entire source code for the compiler is distributed under GPL.

Linux distro for routers and more

NYCwireless
From the description:
Pebble Linux is a smallish (smaller than 64megs, larger than 8 megs) distro image designed for embedded style devices such as the Soekris boards, or a Stylstic 1000. It is based off of Debian GNU/Linux. It runs on many different types of systems, such as old 486 machines, mini-itx boards, or the $199 machine down at Frys.

Company developing flexible displays

Polymer Vision
From the site:
Polymer Vision is developing flexible, rollable displays
Dedicated large displays in small housings that easily connect to the smallest mobile devices. Rollable displays: a permanent solution for the ever-increasing demand of larger displays in a roaming environment.

Materials materials materials

Material ConneXion

Material ConneXionÆ. Where
professionalsóarchitects, engineers, industrial and interior designers, manufacturersóaccess specifications
and manufacturersí contacts for the latest, most innovative materials and processes from around the world. How? Through our on-line database or physical library.

TiVo to your friends favs

RSSTV: Syndication for your PVR
From the site:
We propose to share program information by building on existing syndication infrastructure. Specifically, we’ll add a number of namespaced elements as an extension to RSS. The value formats for these elements will be taken directly from XMLTV, a source of publically available program information.