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Tech NewsNomis App Tells You About the Music Releases You Should Be Looking Forward To
Sure, you follow a handful of your favorite musicians on Twitter and perhaps even peruse their official websites now and then. That doesn’t mean that some upcoming albums don’t slip by you. Nomis scans your music library—albeit a bit slowly, at this stage—and lets you know about upcoming albums from the bands you already like. … Continued
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EcoModo – The Best of TreeHugger
This week on TreeHugger, solar powered cell phones, futuristic houses for Apple-minimalist-zero-clutter-loving people, carnivorous clocks, bikes for the elderly and more. Carnivorous Clock Takes a Bite Out of Bugs While Telling Time Designers and inventors James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau have explored the idea of autonomous robots, and come up with the Carnivorous Clock, which … Continued
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Tech NewsFisher-Price iCan Play Case Gives Your iPhone the Trappings of a Real Toy
Shoving your iPhone at your screaming kid in the backseat is kinda lowest common denominator parenting. But once you pop it into Fisher-Price’s colorful Laugh and Learn iCan Play rattle it becomes a whole lot more like a real toy. Better for both you and baby! The iCan Play case, out later this year for … Continued
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Tech NewsA Car That Makes the Mentos and Diet Coke Trick Ever So Slightly Less Wasteful
Drop a pack of Mentos in a 2 liter bottle of Diet Coke and you get yourself a nice soda geyser. It’s fun! It’s also pretty wasteful! With this kit you can at least tell yourself you’re using Mentos’ magical properties to propel a little plastic car up to 200 feet. The kit come with … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Cars 2 Car That Drives Up Walls
Remote control cars have long been confined to one plane: the floor. No longer the case! The Zero Gravity Finn McMissile car—a suave spyster whip voiced by Michael Caine—can cruise from the floor to the wall without changing gear. The Zero Gravity Finn McMissile will be out in May for $35. Presumably you’ll have to … Continued
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Arthur C. Clarke’s 31-Word, Universe-Ending Sci-Fi Story
Blog of note Letters of Note has a bite sized treat from sci-fi legend Arthur C. Clarke: a 31-word short story called “siseneG,” as in, ya know, the opposite of Genesis. As of March 1984, it was the only one he’d written in nearly ten years. The tale, in its entirety: And God said: DELETE … Continued
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This Week’s Best Apps
In this week’s redesigned roundup: neon asteroids, demolished; ancient Rome, explored; free kicks, taken; ropes, cut; languages, translated; Boomshakalaka!, revisited; and much, much more. iPhone To view these on one page, click here iPad To view these on one page, click here Android To view these on one page, click here We are so crazy … Continued
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iPad Apps – Feb 12
Konkreet Performer: A gorgeous multitouch MIDI controller that lets you make music by manipulating a shapeshifting geometric form. Basically you’ll never be closer to being Daft Punk. $25 Rome: Virtual History: History’s rad. Ancient Rome especially. Use this edumacational app to explore a fully immersive model of Rome back in its hey day—you might actually … Continued
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Tech NewsA Remote Control For Your Canon Camera
If you’re serious about shooting video with your DSLR, you might find yourself longing for a better way to get (and keep) things in focus. The $400 Okii Systems USB Follow Focus lets you snap between four preset points of focus, in addition to controlling digital zoom, adjusting ISO, aperture, and shutter speed, and starting … Continued
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Tech NewsiPhone Apps – Feb 12
Google Translate: Though the web app’s been around for a minute, the native Google Translate iPhone app adds a good deal of polish and some nifty features like a big ole full screen version of text results. It can handle a ton of languages, many of which it’ll speak back to you after you’re done … Continued
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Over a Thousand Nokia Employees Reportedly Walk Out in Protest
While Nokia’s partnership with Microsoft will undoubtedly present some attractive prospects for phone-buyers, there’s one cohort that’s not too happy about the news: the employees in Nokia’s Finnish offices. According to a Finnish newspaper, over a thousand employees left the Nokia offices in Tampere and Oulu this afternoon in protest. The employees exercised their option … Continued
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Explore the Sistine Chapel From Home
Who wants to actually travel to the Vatican to see Michelangelo’s masterpiece? And physically crane their neck to look at its spectacular ceiling? The Church’s official website has an excellent, high-res panorama that lets you explore the Sistine Chapel, one of the world’s finest works of art, without ever changing out of your sweatpants. Also: … Continued
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A Cube Inside a Loft Inside a Warehouse, for Feng Shui’s Sake
Liu Ming, a feng shui teacher in Oakland, CA, lives in a loft inside a warehouse in Oakland, California. But he spends much of his time—working, sleeping, meditating—inside a steel and plywood cube that sits on wheels in the middle of his loft. Why? Because, he says, it’s good feng shui. Liu liked his loft … Continued
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