Search My Belt Buckle

Phillip Torrone, over at Engadget, must have spent part of his summer vacation at geek camp. He went wild in the Arts & Crafts & Technology session to produce: the Search Engine Belt Buckle! Ta daaa! It’s “a PDA which shows 24 hours of all the bizarre and banal things people are looking for on the web.” Even before prepping it for clubware, the manufacture involved multiple hardware, programs, and processes.

After involving his PC, Windows Media, the Dogpile browser SearchSpy (recording the results of 24 hours of searchiing!), file manipulation, a device to move the recording to the PDA, more file manipulation — then came the fun part (for nongeeks) — Arts and Crafts. Mostly crafts. To slap that puppy on his midriff, he used black tape, sticky pads, a glue gun and beads, and a belt.

The directions, complete with photos of the whole process are available at Torrone’s engaging website.

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