Our holiday favourite, Dream Machines is back. The Science Centre has the world’s largest collection of whimsical mechanical inventions by artist Rowland Emett. The “Emetts” include the Toot Sweet machine made famous in the movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, among many others that will also be on display in the Great Hall.

Exhibit is open Dec 22, 2008 to Jan 6, 2008

This amazingly easy and practical – with pictures, even! – tutorial from Josh Highland on how to replace the hard drive in an iPod makes me itch to grab a screwdriver and get to hackin’. Read the rest of this entry »