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Audi Car Concept Sees 62 Speakers Added For 360 Surround Sound
Considering my car is bombed out in a shed somewhere, I’d be happy with any car—but given half the chance I’d love to see this Audi Q7, complete with all 62 speakers, in my garage. It’s the Audi Sound Concept, which sees the car manufacturer’s engineers cramming in 52 mid-range speakers, five woofers and five … Continued
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An exclusive preview of Dark Horse Comics’ Predators #4
Here are some exclusive preview pages from Dark Horse Comics’ Predators 4, which hits the stands June 30. In this prelude to the Predators film, the Yautja are on the hunt, and someone’s organs are going in the trophy room. Here’s the solicit info: Predators 4 Writer: Marc Andreyko, David Lapham Penciller: Guilherme Balbi, Gabriel … Continued
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First Hands On: Nintendo 3DS
What’s the Nintendo 3DS screen look like? It looks great. UPDATE: A longer set of gameplay impressions here. The instant you put the 3DS in your hands, you recognize the feeling. It’s a DS through and through, but maybe a touch lighter than the DSi I’ve been accustomed to. In our 2-minute demo, we weren’t … Continued
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This Is What Douchebags Can Do With a Jet Ski and a Van
Kids, if you ever have to get a jet ski inside a van, please don’t use this method. Unless you want to get a Darwin award for a lifetime of practicing the fine art of douchebaggery, that is. [Thanks Roger!] Click to view
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Question of the Day: Were You Able to Preorder an iPhone 4?
AT&T’s servers have made preordering a new iPhone from either their website or Apple’s pretty much impossible this morning. Did you have any luck, or have you been frustratedly repeating the same couple steps over and over again? It appears that these server issues are sending people out to the physical stores, where they’re waiting … Continued
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The Nintendo 3DS Is Real, and Doesn’t Need Glasses
This is the Nintendo 3DS. It has two screens: a 3.5-inch widescreen on top, and a standard screen on the bottom. It also has a Slide-Pad, and it has a two-tone color scheme. Best of all, no glasses. There is a 3D depth slider to choose a degree of 3D, to maximize or even turn … Continued
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Russian volcano Klyuchevskaya continues to spew fire onto its icy slopes
The forbidding slopes of Klyuchevskaya are covered in snow and barren rock. And at its peak, a volcanic eruption continues to spew ash and rock into the atmosphere. According to NASA: Klyuchevskaya Volcano on the Russian Federation’s Kamchatka Peninsula continued to release a plume on June 12, 2010. The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection … Continued
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They Actually Had Real Tron Bikes In the 80s
Sometimes you look back in time and you see industrial designs that seem to be timeless. Like the Suzuki Nuda. It could come from 2045 or 1986, the year when it was actually introduced as a fully functional 174mph prototype. Suzuki showed this bike 1986 Tokyo Motor Show. It’s not hydrogen powered or even electrically … Continued
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So You Think Superheroes Can Dance?
Could a dance troupe launched by So You Think You Can Dance be the superhero webseries we’ve all been waiting for? Maybe — the Legion Of Extraordinary Dancers’ trailer sure looks impressive. The LXD, who are braving the wrath of Alan Moore with their colorful name, performed on SYTYCD a while back, and it was … Continued
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It’s-a Me, Wireless Trouble!
Counting the Apple WWDC Wi-Fi trouble and the Google I/O Wi-Fi trouble, this is the third conference in which there was wireless interference problems on stage and they asked us to turn off our Wi-Fi. This also explains why Miyamoto spent 30 slingshot rounds trying to take out one spider in the new Zelda game. … Continued
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Damon Lindelof’s fake movie for the BP oil spill is Armageddon 2. It should be Lost 2.
Damon Lindelof recently wrote a blockbuster movie treatment for the Deepwater Horizon leak. His take? “We’re gonna reverse-ARMAGEDDON this shit and call it a sequel.” But wait! J.J. Abrams did Armageddon. Here’s our idea of what Lindelof’s script should resemble. Esquire asked Lindelof to transform BP’s environmental clusterfuck into a gee-whiz popcorn thriller. Lindelof punched … Continued
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Watch the Nintendo E3 3DS Keynote Live
Odds are Nintendo is going to go THREE DEE for their DS today, allowing you to get all three of the dees in a portable package. You can watch their unveil live. Here’s Ustream’s, which should be live shortly before the presentation starts (at 9am PT) Click to view If you want Nintendo’s own stream, … Continued
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VBookz For iPad: A Text-To-Speech Reader For Public Domain Classics
Near my iPad’s iBooks bookshelf sits a new vBookz bookshelf. It looks awfully similar, but it’s much better stocked: It has every public domain novel and text-to-speech tech to read them aloud. But a true audiobook text-to-speech is not. As far as iPad ebook readers go, iBooks is probably the most beautiful one, and in … Continued
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Robert Downey Jr. and Sam Raimi are heading to Oz
The Spider-Man director and the Iron Man star are teaming up for Disney’s Wizard of Oz prequel, Oz: The Great and Powerful. In the no-longer-the-Spider-Man-man fallout, Raimi has been swinging from project to potential project, from The Shadow to a 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea remake. But according to Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood, last … Continued
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Death By Execution: Which States Do What Form of Capital Punishment?
Capital punishment. Sends a chill down your spine, doesn’t it? Hopefully none of our readers will ever see first-hand the following methods of execution in the following states of the US. Buzzfeed put together a guide to the US’ favorite forms of execution, with lethal injection being the most common way to say goodbye to … Continued
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Apple iPhone 4 Pre-Ordering Is a Total Disaster
The iPhone 4’s first pre-ordering day has been a total disaster. AT&T’s online system has collapsed, there are account security breaches, Apple’s online upgrades are down, and stores are now using pen and paper to process sales. Major update: Exclusive: iPhone 4 order security breach exposes private information. The photo of the line above was … Continued
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