Travelling Terabyte Project: Digital Care Package

Here's something for the books: A hacker known in the community as "Deviant Ollam" had a couple of spare hard drive and decided to put it to a better use -- fill it up with digial media files (music, movies and pictures) and send it over to American troops stationed overseas. Tgdaily.com reports that initially, the drives had a 50/50 ratio of educational and entertainment content but as the project becomes popular, people donates more and more entertainment contents.

The "digital care package" is not meant to stay in one place. Deviant Ollam encourages its recipients to add their own content to the package and then send it over to other camps.

Cool idea huh?

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SteriPEN Adventurer: Clean Water Anywhere

Definitely not for the couch potato nor the sedentary geek, the SteriPen Adventurer can help a hiker/camper or overseas traveller make sure that the water they are drinking is safe.

Using high-powered UV light, the SteriPEN is supposed to kill bateria, virus and other micro-organisms in the water simply by using it to stir the water to expose the water to its powerful UV rays. An indicator in the unit will inform the user if the water is fit for drinking.


At $109.99 (around Php 5,000), the SteriPEN may become a standard mainstay on a hiker/camper's backpack.

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