technology

Smart phones, tablets, laptops, desktops, iwatches, gps, it never ends. Everyday on the train I am the only person not staring at a phone or with headphones on ignoring the world. At a large family gathering this past weekend every person there was at some point glued to their phones or ipads...

If you are unwilling to put down several hundred dollars for a 100 channel scanner there are other lighter options. Using an android device along with a DVB-T dongle attached to an attenna and you have a complete scanner. http://www.dxzone.com/cgi-bin/dir/jump2.cgi?ID=28551

Sometimes you gotta find your campsite in the woods at night on unfamiliar terrain. Or maybe you want visitors to find you discreetly..I like these little lights: you can use rechargeable AA batts w/ them; and they're not disposable/wasteful like ChemLights...

A lot of us use those month to month phone plans -- Net10 Wireless, Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile, Metro PCS -- And while most services have like 2gb of bandwidth at 4g LTE speeds (Then worse than dial up speeds after that :( ) , I just found out that Metro PCS has literally uncapped bandwidth at...

I was very resistant to the idea of getting a smartphone for many years. When I heard about backdoors installed by default like carrierIQ I resolved to stick with my nokia brick for as long as I could. Then I started working at an electronics recycling place and was introduced to both Android...

I am NOT tech savvy at all. I know nothing about electronics.

As cool as technology is getting, all I can see is how big brother is going to use this stuff to keep an ever greater hand over us. http://uk.businessinsider.com/google-soli-finger-control-technology-2015-5 Google's new finger control technology is straight out of a science fiction movie...

Who here uses them? Designated hiking gps thing? I was looking at buying a garmin gps and two way radio thingy. http://www.rei.com/product/825518/garmin-rino-650-gps2-way-radio At school, I know the geology department uses them. I kind of wanted to figure out how to log coordinates into a GIS...

As I mentioned in the feed earlier, I have transferred the Houseless Not Homeless Project website to a new webhost. The URL will be the same, but it will just be on a new server. Hopefully one that everyone can access. Anyway, the server I moved it too is a place called one.com and they give...

Thinking about taking my samsung galaxy note 4 on the road with me next time, it is huge and was expensive but I take great care of my stuff and have an otterbox on it, wrap it in a bandana and keep it in a ziplock waterproof bag when not in use so it made me curious, who else here travels with...

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Carry a computer sounds impractical so I was thinking I could just cop a high capacity flash drive and throw a linux distro and all my files on there for all my computing needs. I'm probably gonna use https://tails.boum.org/ Seems fairly simple in practice just boot up a public PC, goto the...

At best buy, some prepaid sprint androids come with a free month of service of your plan choice. $35, 45, 55, I think they are all unlimited everything, but throttles at 1gb, 3 and 6 respectively. The cheapest phone is $40, and a pretty good deal...

A friend of mine told me that he once saw someone carrying a magnet for riding. I've never seen or heard of anyone doing it. However, I've looked online and you can buy magnets that hold like 200 lbs that are rechargeable or permanent magnets, and they only weigh like 1 or 2 lbs. Seems to me...

I'm trying to find a good travel computer something with some decent power behind it but also small sized and easy to pack, not easy to break and durable holds good battery life has multiple ways to charge it, and a sim card slot for 3g access.

just got my hands on a uniden scanner a couple months back, its already programmed to most of the american railroad frequencies. was wondering if anyone had any additional things i should program into it. any advice helps.

Hellooo I was wondering if any one on here could help explain some things to me about Solar power! I have been interested in getting a panel, deep cycle battery and inverter to make my own Solar Generator set up but I am still confused about some things. I have read a couple guides but still...

The Ultimate Swiss-Army Knife The Ultimate Swiss-Army Knife is not from Switzerland...nor is it a knife. It's the computer. There are a lot of green anarchists, primitivists, luddites, etc who argue (with quite a valid point) that the “information age” is just one more way that dominance and...