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New Diesel X-Ray Watches Are Ectoplasmic, Orgasmic
Neon green is everyone’s color. The new Diesel X-Ray watch collection features transparent neon-green sections that reveal the innards of each style. Rock one, and you’d better be prepared to respond to, “Dude, wheredja get that watch?” a million times a day. Click here for more info about the Diesel X-Ray collection of watches and … Continued
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When comic book heroes go nuts, the readers win
In this week’s comics haul, the sanity of two big-league comic protagonists — Rick Grimes from The Walking Dead and Billy Butcher of The Boys — hits a breaking point. When our lead characters go bonkers, we’re all the richer for it. Let’s start with Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s superhero hit squad saga, The … Continued
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Power A Makes a Wireless Xbox 360 Controller for the PS3
This is the best PlayStation 3 controller right now, precisely because it’s not shaped like a PS3 controller. Power A spent a good deal of time taking what’s best about the Xbox 360 controller—the most natural “traditional” controller—and bringing it to the PS3. It’s called the PS3 Pro Elite, and it’s only $50. You have … Continued
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Ecomodo – The Best of Treehugger
On TreeHugger, a pedal-powered Porsche, a lamp powered by algae and your breath, a coffee table that eats your bills, awesome sculptures made from e-waste, and what to do with your old iPhone. Incredible Sculptures Created from e-Waste With artists doing cool stuff like this, there’s just no reason for dumping electronics. Check out these … Continued
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Apple Store App Invades App Store In Time For iPhone 4 Pre-Orders
The Apple Store App is here! It’s your basic retail experience, with added perks like setting up Genius Bar appointments and reserving an iPhone 4 from your current phone. Which might be why it’s currently borked. Yes, just like its browser-based cousin, the Apple Store App is experiencing some technical difficulties at the moment: Other … Continued
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“House of Discarded Dreams” is a biologist’s hallucination
With The House of Discarded Dreams, Ekaterina Sedia has written a satisfyingly complicated coming-of-age novel where “adulthood” isn’t about leaving fantasy behind. In this beautiful, surreal story, a young biologist discovers that dreams are as meaningful as empirical research. Vimbai is an undergraduate biology major in New Jersey, struggling to separate from her immigrant parents … Continued
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Belkin’s Energy-Conscious Gear Keeps Your Electricity Bill In Check
Belkin‘s Conserve Valet reduces cable clutter and, by charging until your gadgets are full and no further, eliminates pesky vampire-draw. Its cousin, the Conserve Insight, will help out by letting you see how much power your other electronics are sucking. The $40 Conserve Valet lets you charge 4 gadgets and draws zero power once they’re … Continued
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Scott Pilgrim’s video game is a thing a beauty
And we thought we were excited for the Scott Pilgrim movie. Get a load of the latest video game trailer and game-play clips for the Scott Pilgrim game. Watch these and get misty-eyed for the video arcades of yesteryear. Beside the fact that the trailer feels like Scott Pilgrim, the motion comic, it looks like … Continued
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Toshiba A665 Laptop Plays 3D Blu-ray and Games
In a lot of ways, a 3D laptop makes at least as much sense as a 3DTV, especially when that laptop is the first to play 3D Blu-ray discs in the US. That’s Toshiba’s A665. It’s kind of beastly. We’d already gotten a glimpse of the A665—called Dynabook in the UK—but the we finally know … Continued
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BlackBerry World Cup Apps Gallery
AP 2010 World Cup Coverage It figures that the newswire bods at Associated Press have an app for following the World Cup coverage. The app comes in several different language options (English, French, Spanish and Portuguese), and features live scores, schedules of games, the rank of teams and plenty of other soccer-shaped news. [Free, for … Continued
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Tracy Morgan’s Astronaut Jones: A missed opportunity
Given the awe-inspiring failure of MacGruber, it’s unlikely we’ll see another SNL-based movie any time soon. Which is a shame, because Tracy Morgan’s scifi-serial-blaxploitation mashup is a idea just waiting to make someone money. Just listening to that retro-bossa nova theme song conjures images of a Mad Men-esque ’60s romp through the stars, following a … Continued
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Stare into the face of the nastiest Predator of them all: Mr. Black
Right now, you’re staring at the armor and helmet that is shrouding the world’s biggest Predator alien. Constructed for Robert Rodriguez’s new Predator film, this alien, known as Mr. Black, is all sorts of ugly. Check out our behind-the-mask gallery. Beware there are a few spoilers in the pictures, alien design-wise. Predators will hit theaters … Continued
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International Planet of the Apes comic covers prove that we all hate talking chimps
Charlton Heston’s ape overlords may have spoken English, but telling those damn dirty apes to get their stinking paws off of you can be said in any tongue. Here are Planet of the Apes comic covers from around the globe. I’m particularly a fan of the Eastern bloc style Hungarian cover and the Argentinian covers, … Continued
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An electrician 350 miles above the Earth
The Hubble Space Telescope needs repair work just like every other large piece of equipment. But servicing an orbital telescope 350 miles above the Earth is no simple task. Here’s a closeup look at how it’s done. We’ll look at the 2002 repairs to the scope, known as Servicing Mission 3B. This was a mission … Continued
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Motorola’s Droid X (Xtreme) and Droid 2 (Shadow) To Drop July/August
Recent rumors are suggesting the Droid X will go on sale in July, with the Droid 2 Shadow the month after in August. Both Android phones will be exclusive to Verizon, and will run on 45nm Texas Instruments’ OMAP processors, at 1GHz. This should more than place them in-line with the wealth of Snapdragon-running phones. … Continued