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I already posted about the Drobo “robot”, but here is a video worth watching…

I’ve known for a long time that I’m a geek, and I’m okay with that.  But every once in a while, someone comes along to highlight how huge a geek I can be.  This time, I did it myself, by laughing my @$$ off at this comic.

My dad just sent me the link to this YouTube video, which had me laughing.  It’s just terrific.  Take the 2 minutes, you’ll enjoy it.

If you’re a digital photographer, or someone who collects music and/or video on your computer, you’ve probably already had to begin to deal with the explosion of your digital storage needs.  This article, by Thomas Hawk, talks about a system called Drobo which might be a worthwhile investment.  It’s a box into which you place “internal” hard drives, and it then uses them for both your storage and, most importantly, your backup too!  While it’s not exactly “RAID” technology, it’s great for anyone who’s got lots of data and doesn’t want to become a computer expert to protect it.  What I like about it is the ease of use that Thomas describes, and the ability to swap out a failed drive (and if your drives haven’t failed yet… give them time) and have your data saved.  I’ve got a series of external drives in place right now, with robocopy batch programs backing up and archiving my files.  It’s growing daily into the beast-that-ate-my-system, so I’m seriously considering the Drobo to keep things safe and sane.  As a responsible consumer, I’d also like to bone up on a few of the other storage solutions out there like Infrant and Buffalo Terastation.

While I’m not much of a woodworker, and I don’t even own a table saw, I did a double-take when I watched this video. Most new inventions are cruddy takes on a useless concept, but this one is pretty impressive in my opinion.  Both Taryn’s father and grandmother have lost either fingers or parts of fingers in woodworking accidents, and something like this would have been a godsend in those situations.  The video explains how it works, but the basic concept is “when it senses a finger, it stops”.  Watch the video and see how impressive it really is.