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         Really simple wireless transmission of electricity. Efficient too. Uses just a battery (1.5v, one transistor two simple coils and some LEDs). Found this on the page of a chap called Slider, and copied it to see if it would work... If I can make this, anyone can! Lots of fun!

Twenty Three years ago today CERN published a statement that made the World Wide Web freely available to everyone. To celebrate that moment in history, CERN is bringing the very first website back to life at its original URL. If you’d like to see the very first webpage Tim Berners-Lee and the WWW team ever put online, point your browser to http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html For years now that URL has simply redirected to the root info.cern.ch site. But, because we all know cool URIs don’t change, CERN has brought it back to life. Well, sort of anyway. The site has been reconstructed from an archive hosted on the W3C site, so what you’re seeing is a 1992 copy of the first website. Sadly this is, thus far, the earliest copy anyone can find, though the team at CERN is hoping to turn up an older copy. Be sure to view the source of the first webpage. You’ll find quite a few things about early HTML that have long since changed — like the use of <HEADER> instead of <H...

We use 21st century tech terms like hashtag, stream, and mouse with casual indifference, but how did these words get to be so commonplace in our everyday vernacular? We know the origins of Superman (kryptonite), Spider Man (radioactive spider), and Batman (rich boy's revenge) but not "podcast," "spam," or even "hacker." So I looked at 21 common tech terms that have been downloaded into our collective hardware and decoded them. Mouse The name "mouse" for the device came to be because the term CAT was used to describe the cursor on a screen and it seemed like the cursor was chasing the tailed desktop device. Bluetooth The 10th century King Harald Gormsson is known for uniting all of Scandinavia-and having one gnarly tooth so rotten, it looked blue. Hence he earned the nickname "Bluetooth." His kitschy moniker and ability to bond nations inspired Jim Kardach, a software developer from Intel, to pitch "Bluetooth" ...

There are many great reasons to use Node.js, regardless of experience level. Take a look into what some of the greatest practical reasons are to use Node and why you should love it. I get it. You're not a bandwagon developer. You don't use the cool, trendy platform just because everyone else is. That's why you haven't looked seriously at Node.js yet. (Or your boss hasn't let you yet.) Well, it's time to look again. There are many great, practical reasons to use Node. Here are ten of them. 1. You Already Know JavaScript              Let me guess. You're using a rich client framework (Angular, Ember, Backbone) and a REST-ful server-side API that shuttles JSON back and forth. Even if you're not using one of those frameworks, you've written your own in jQuery. So if you're not using Node.js on the server, then you're constantly translating. You're translating two things: 1) the logic in your head from JavaScript to your server-side ...