- retro – SEGA aero hawk cardpower toy

today i have tidy my room and found a old toy of my childhood. this aero hawk from sega (1988) was one of my favorites…a helicopter with start platform from japan. when pulling the toothed belt it could fly huge distance with a nice buzz noise :) i thought sega does only arcade/video games and i didn’t know they have produced casual toys like this one, but it’s still a fancy thing!

- gadgets – the myth of megapixels

i was allways stick by my good old nikkon coolpix 990, because she shot’s better pics with a 3 megapixel chip than many hyped 10 billon megapix digitalcam that allows you non of the functions like manual white balance or manual shutter. here is a great article that explains why a 5 megapixel camera isn’t necessarily better than a 3 Megapixel camera

the megapixel myth – by ken rockwell

- retro – NES pad turn into a MAC optical mouse

ok…call me a nerd, but here is the real reason why i have bough a NES :) i didn’t want the whole chest, but the seller wouldn’t give me only the controllers, so i had to take the console too. today i have sacrifice one of the four pads to make me my own NES-mouse and i’m quite successful with my oldschool mouse.