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A Fresh Apocalypse Every Day
Do you feel like you’re falling behind when it comes to the latest developments in post-apocalyptic pop culture? Now you never have to be out of the end-of-the-world loop again, thanks to the Quiet Earth blog, a fantastic compendium of all things apocalypse devoted to “making the post-apocalyptic genre mainstream.” Hold the right-wing nut jokes, … Continued
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HDTV Power Consumption Charted For Your Pleasure
CNET’s hired an intern to type up power consumption stats for loads of their recently reviewed TVs into a large table, which conveniently enough is now sortable. If you’re in the market for a new HDTV, head over to their big-ass chart to see who the winner is in overall annual cost (Envision), cost per … Continued
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Rambus Targets 1TB/sec Bandwith For Computer Memory
Memory maker Rambus has unveiled its Terabyte Bandwidth Initiative with the goal to develop a new memory architecture capable of achieving 1TB/sec bandwidth. The plan is to push the data rate to a whopping 32X—which can provide a 16Gbps signaling rate with a 500MHz clock. Compare that with to the 2bits/1Gbps provided by conventional DDR … Continued
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Witness The Evidence For Life On Mars
This Martian meteorite, which goes on display today at the Natural History Museum in London, crashed in Egypt nearly a hundred years ago. It was part of the great Martian rockfall of 1911, which started with the appearance of a cloud and some detonations. Local residents were terrified when they were hit with a rain … Continued
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Motorola Drops to Third Place Behind Samsung, Nokia – Nobody Wonders Why
In news that surprises no one, Motorola’s dropped to third place in global cellphone sales behind Samsung and Nokia, thanks to inventory issues and “an unremarkable product lineup”. That’s code for too many RAZRs and RIZRs, in case your decoder ring’s in the shop. In comparison, Moto’s down from 21% to 13% of the market … Continued
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Stupid Guy Sues Microsoft for $5 Million Because Halo 3 Crashed His Xbox 360
Randy Nunez’s Xbox 360 is being beaten to death by Halo 3, so that it “routinely, consistently, and systematically ‘froze,’ ‘crashed,’ or ‘locked up.'” Naturally, this “disrupted game play.” For his pain and suffering of having to reset his console to resume getting teabagged, he wants $5 million and class action status, ’cause “many consumers” … Continued
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Atomic-Powered Hats of the Future
OK, it’s not really a hat, just a late-1960s “differential multidetector” that used radioisotopes to diagnose (and maybe cause a few) brain tumors. But I swear the eccentric hat junkie Isabella Blow once wore something exactly like it to Ascot. From The Atom at Work: How Nuclear Power Can Benefit Man (1968), by C.B. Colby.
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Simroid the Retarded Robot’s Sensitive Mouth Trains Dentists, Perverts
Say hello to Simroid, a new robot from Japan designed to help train dentists. Forgive me for being a little off-color here, but this thing looks like it’s better suited to give BJs, but it’s looking a little too downsy to sell well in any of Japan’s numerous sex shops. In any case, it’s loaded … Continued
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Micron’s Future Concept of SSD is RAM-Module Like
In addition to Micron’s traditional solid state drives announced today, they also showed off a concept for a SSD module that resembles RAM in physical design and would fit into a similarly designed port. It’s obvious but genius: while the SSD drives with SATA interfaces are terrific because they can be used in current laptops … Continued
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Google Gadgets Getting OS X Dashboard Compatibility Tomorrow
Google Gadgets, the widget-like plug-ins for your Google start page, is getting a huge port onto the Apple Dashboard platform starting tomorrow. G-Gadgets are nice, and actually have been port-able onto the Dashboard using another widget for a while now, but official support is always welcome. Google slobberers will definitely be happy, but Apple slobberers … Continued
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World’s Crappiest Projector Reviewed
Come along with us to a sideshow, starring the Torpedo Entertainment Projector by Senario, a $169 LCD unit made in China. We’ll show you just how plum-awful a projector can be. We picked one up at a local Target store, put it on our test bench, and were shown a thing or two about projectors, … Continued
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Doctor Who Stunt Casting: A Report Card
Kylie Minogue’s star turn on Doctor Who, and the return of overexposed Billie Piper, may seem like signs that Doctor Who has finally gone cameo-crazy. But really, stunt casting has a long and trashy tradition in Doctor Who. Sometimes, it’s even made the show more watchable. Here’s a quick chronology of the show’s stunt casting, … Continued
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SyncMate Lets You Sync Your Windows Mobile Phone With Your Mac for Free
What Missing Sync did for $39, SyncMate does for free—syncing your contacts, calendars, notes and favorites from your Windows Mobile phone onto your Mac with little to no hassle. Unfortunately for WM users, the default iSync software doesn’t support either WM5 or WM6 as well as it should. We haven’t tried SyncMate yet ourselves, but … Continued
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Polarpak Moflow Canteen doubles as a Pressurized Shower
This water carrier for outdoorsy types includes a pressurizing hand pump that works to improve the design of ye old camelback-canteen in several ways: First, you won’t have to suck on the straw to get hydrated, an inflated reservoir doubles as a pillow, and mounted high, it works as a pinch shower. Joel notes that … Continued
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Twistalamp Makes K’nex Lovers Nostaligic
The Twistalamp is basically nothing more than some resin blocks with LED lights inside to make it glow. The eye-catching feature, however, is the multiple configurations that you can make by snapping the blocks together much like a set of K’nex or Legos. Each set comes with four blocks, but you could string together as … Continued
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Close-Up of Life (and Death) from Another World
No, this isn’t the plant life you’ll see on Jupiter when we get there. It’s a tiny piece of decaying strawberry. It’s the work of amateur macrophotographer Bill Hails, who spent a recent sleepy afternoon taking his high-magnification camera on a safari through the the micro-jungle. The strawberry was there, along with a photograph of … Continued
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Motorola RIZR Z6c Has Dual-Band GSM and CDMA
If we’re reading this correctly, the Motorola RIZR Z6c has both GSM and CDMA, meaning you can take this phone from CDMA networks in the States (Sprint/Verizon) onto GSM networks all over the world (or onto AT&T/T-Mobile). The phone’s just hit the FCC so we’re not sure what Motorola’s plans for this are in terms … Continued
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Micron unveils RealSSD Solid State Drives in 32GB, 64GB Flavors
Micron announced today that they will be releasing the RealSSD line of solid state drives, including a 64GB drive. While the entire line ranges from 1GB to 64GB, the 32 and 64 GB models are geared toward notebook and desktop use. The drives feature a SATA II interface and draw a mere 2 watts of … Continued