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Alienware M11x Adds Core i7 Power
Dell’s Alienware M11x already offered up some potent graphics, especially for a laptop of its size. Now—just a few months after release—the M11x is getting a Core i7 CPU upgrade that makes it a powerhouse in every sense. While we’d heard before about the Core-i bump, the M11x will also get Nvidia Optimus, a system … Continued
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Ecomodo: The Best of Treehugger
This week on TreeHugger, incredible inventions for fixing the human body, a solar power plant on the moon, e-bikes are making us lazy, and a fridge that tells you want to cook. 8 Incredible Health Innovations That Transform Lives From bionic arms to regrowing ear hairs, check out some crazy cool inventions for fixing up … Continued
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Sputnik Watch Goes From Concept To Reality, For $40
We feature many concepts here at Gizmodo, it’s great to actually see something put into production. This Sputnik watch has an inverted LCD screen, and displays the time and date, plus has an alarm and stopwatch. Not bad for $40. Vadim Kibardin is behind the Sputnik design, and is taking pre-orders on his email address, … Continued
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Check out the coral reef paradise undisturbed by humanity
Millennium Atoll, the easternmost island of the Pacific nation Kiribati, is a rare pristine example of the coral reef ecosystem. Isolated from human disruption for centuries, the atoll is full of life as it would be without humans. A team of ten researchers from a variety of American institutions conducted the first scientific survey of … Continued
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Latest Leaked Pic of HTC Aria Comes With Rumored “Liberty” Name-Change
A clearer shot of the HTC Aria we saw last week has surfaced, however it sounds like the phone has been renamed as the HTC Liberty. Unless it’s a different Android phone altogether…UPDATE Either way, so far there’s not a lot to go on for this mysterious phone. Reports have suggested it has a resolution … Continued
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Amazing casting call for Titanic 2: Mermaid Saviors!
Read the synopsis for what is possibly the most brilliant idea ever pitched in the history of mermaid movies. What happened after the Titanic sunk? The passengers were saved by mermaids – and Jack Dawson was elected mermaid King, naturally. This little casting call popped up on NY’s Craigslist. Yes, there is no doubt that … Continued
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Welcome to Hooker Mountain: San Francisco’s crime rate as topographical map
Doug McCune has charted San Francisco’s crime rate topographically. Crimes like prostitution and narcotics peak in certain areas (Shotwell Street and the Tenderloin, respectively). San Franciscans, do you live in Strumpet Heights or Teetotaler Valley? Says McCune: Many of the maps have peaks in the Tenderloin, which is that high area sort of in the … Continued
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Don’t Step a Toe On This Chinese Farmer’s Land
Most farmers will just grab a shotgun, or phone the police when confronted with trespassers. Not Chinese farmer Yang Youde though, who fires petrol bombs from his homemade cannon—one time, he even held off 100 people. Youde had leased his farm until 2019, but after learning last year that it was to be repossessed, he … Continued
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Was there a miniature art museum on the Moon?
A new PBS documentary concludes that Andy Warhol and five other artists contributed sketches that were miniaturized and put on a postage-stamp-sized chip smuggled aboard Apollo 12. According to USA Today: “For us, at the time, the moon landing was the most exciting thing that ever happened. The artists just wanted to be part of … Continued
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Captain America casts its super scientist. Plus a new Predators poster brings heat signatures!
Captain America is adding another Oscar-nominated actor. Transformers 3 shooting reveals the recasting is real – meanwhile, things get too real for Washington, DC. Episode descriptions and tidbits galore for True Blood. The new Predators poster sees infrared. Spoiler overload! Captain America: The cast continues to take shape, as Stanley Tucci has come on board … Continued
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Whirlpool Bath Tub With OLED TV Folds Into Basin
Rub-a-dub-dub, it’s Whirlpool’s Sub-Tub concept. Perfect for small flats in imaginary-land, the OLED TV lid folds down for access to the basin and mirror. Check it out: Like most good concepts, it’ll never get made, but we can certainly live in hope. It’s nice to see a bathroom fitting which doesn’t combine a bathtub/shower, or … Continued
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Bag of Rice and Duct Tape Modify Xbox 360 Controller For Disabled Use
As you know, duct tape can be used for pretty much anything, and rice fills a large hole when needed. Coupled with some Xbox 360 controller parts though, they can make a disabled chap get his game on. With a little help from Ben Heck, Evil Controllers modified an Xbox 360 controller so muscular dystrophy-sufferer … Continued
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Apple WWDC Keynote Video Now Up
Now you—yes you—can relive all 112 minutes of Steve Jobs’ keynote from yesterday, as well as watch the official iPhone 4 video. Everyone loves a gesticulating Jonny Ive, after all. [Keynote video and iPhone 4] Update: Reader Brantley tells us that Apple edited abotu 2 minutes out of the keynote when Jobs was having Wi-Fi … Continued
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Ford Adds Google Maps to Sync System
While other car manufacturers already have inbuilt Google Maps support, Ford’s going to be the first to go it away for free—in Sync-equipped cars, that is. It’ll become available late June, for all 2010 – 2011 car models. It works by pulling Google Maps information from Bluetooth phones, with the navigational directions read aloud for … Continued
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Change Lanes With Tokyo Flash’s Latest Watch
Inspired by the colors of taxis and couriers weaving through rush hour traffic, Tokyo Flash’s Changing Lanes is another puzzling watch from the Japanese timepiece masters. Can you work out how to read this one? Running down the left side of the watchface are the hours, with 1:00 at the very top, and 6:00 at … Continued
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Most awesome moments from “Princess of Mars” with Traci Lords
Over the weekend, Syfy aired its latest insta-classic, Princess of Mars. Starring sexy Martian Traci Lords, it’s the tale of . . . um . . . a guy, and Mars, and babes in chains . . . and SPIDERS. One of the greatest “bizarro excuse to send you into another dimension” scenes opens the … Continued
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Here’s What’s New In Apple iOS 4.0
The Apple iOS 4.0 Gold Master has hit the iPhone Developer Center and we’re tearing it apart to find out what’s new so that you don’t have to risk your iPhones. Here’s what we’ve discovered so far. We’ve covered most of the new features of iOS 4.0 when the first beta came, but there have … Continued
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