Motorola has recently announced the launch of their latest music handset, the EM325, on Vodaphone which will retail for $99 with a pre-paid plan.
Incorporating a 3.5mm headset jack, 2GB of internal memory, one touch music access, and play time of up to 11 hours the EM325 is perfect for the music lover on a budget.
Also including a 1.3 megapixel camera, complete with 4x digital zoom, and a 1.8 inch 128.160 TFT display the Motorola EM325 packs quite a punch for it's price.
The FCC has approved the Nokia E63 smart device just one day after it was officially announced by Nokia.
This nokia phone features a QVGA display, quadband GSM/EDGE and dualband UMTS, Wi-Fi radio with SIP support, Bluetooth with stereo audio support, S60 operating system, microSDHC expansion slot, speakerphone, and a 2.0 megapixel camera with video recorder and flash.
The device is slated to launch sometime this quarter though no pricing or availability information has been confirmed for the US at this time.
Another major feature of the device is a toggle switch for Corporate Mode and Personal mode where each mode is completely customizable with relevant sets of information and does not conflict with one or the other during operation.
Lucas and his dad enjoy making stuff. In this video Brad interviews the young Tinkerer about the spiffy new speakers they made and rigged up to their stereo.
This was a great project - we followed the plans at http://makezine.com/12/diymusic_plate/ but didn't have the right wire, magnets, or plates. Instead we used 30 ga wire and magnets from RS and a variety of cups, plates, and disposable ware and compared how they all worked. They ALL worked well. This is one bulletproof project.
Making speakers is a really empowering thing. It can be as easy as wrapping some wire around a plastic cup, hooking it up to speaker terminals and listening in. Beyond that, you and your collaborators can find yourselves learning about crafting speaker enclosures, magnetism, electromagnets, repairing busted cones, and so much more. What have you done with magnet wire recently? Have you tried out projects from Make Magazine? If you have a tale to tell of the build, successful or 'learning experience', then post in the comments and add pictures and video to the Make Flickr pool.
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Gakken's New Edison-style Cup Phonograph Kit is a cylinder recorder that uses a needle to cut sound waves onto plastic cups. This kit lets you relive the excitement of Thomas Edison as he successfully recorded and played back sound for the first time on a similar cylinder recording system back in 1877.
Thomas Edison first experimented with sound recording by using paraffin paper, metal cylinders wrapped in tin foil, and then eventually settled on wax cylinders. As the story goes, the first thing to ever be successfully recorded and played back was Edison reciting "Mary Had a Little Lamb." Gakken's phonograph kit lets you recreate a model of how Edison first experimented with sound recording and playback, replacing the wax cylinder with regular plastic cups.
How does it sound? Here's a video, yours truly, recording a brisk rendition of "I've Been Working on the Railroad":
This is certainly no mp3 player, but that's what is so great. It's eerily low-fi and nostalgic; it makes your voice sound like it's one hundred years old. You can hear and see the medium speak, and that is what makes this kit so much fun! Clear some space next to your music collection: You might never throw away a plastic cup again.
Here's a follow-up to my backyard coffee roasting post. All around great makers Mikey Sklar and Wendy Jehanara Tremayne made this video showing how to roast coffee with an airpopper. It doesn't get any easier than this! They used an unmodified West Bend Poppery II, which is a somewhat legendary machine in home roasting circles. With some luck you can pick one up for a few bucks at a yard sale, or get one on Ebay for around $30.
The Poppery II is 1000W and has its air holes in the sides of the cylinder, not the bottom, which improves circulation. This method is called "fluid bed air roasting". Since the beans are all flying around in a vortex being heated from all sides they roast much more evenly than the stirred pot method I use.
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For Brooklyn real-estate agent Maria Mackin, the obsession started five years ago, on a trip to Pennsylvania Amish country. She, her husband and three children—now 17, 13 and 11—sat down for brunch at a local bed-and-breakfast, and suddenly the chef realized she’d run out of eggs. “She said, ‘Oh goodness! I’ll have to go out to the garden and get some more’,” Mackin recalls. “She cooked them up and they were delicious.” Mackin and her husband, Declan Walsh, looked at each other, and it didn’t take long for the idea to register: Could we have chickens too? They finished their brunch and convinced the bed-and-breakfast owner, a Mennonite celery farmer, to sell them four chickens. They packed them in a little nest in the back of their Plymouth Voyager minivan and headed back to Brooklyn.
Motorola has recently announced the launch of their latest music handset, the EM325, on Vodaphone which will retail for $99 with a pre-paid plan.
