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Tech NewsWoodStation Defiles Mother Nature Just to Tell You the Time
The WoodStation isn’t your standard LED clock/weather station. It’s your standard LED clock/weather station that’s made of wood. Through a seamless block of lumber design, the inert WoodStation is motion activated to display glowing information pseudo-magically. In reality, a series of LEDs are hidden beneath a thin wooden facade. These LEDs are bright enough to … Continued
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Ultimate BBQ Trailer
Alex R. and friends came up with the idea for a BBQ trailer made out of the front end of a 1985 VW Jetta GLi. Of course! It has BBS wheels, a 10-inch subwoofer, 6x9s, 6 ½” speakers, 2 Kenwood amps, a Kenwood deck, and a 50-gallon drum charcoal cooking area. Alex says: “The headlights … Continued
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io9Books & Comics
Build Your Own Robot Monster, And Support Electronic Free Speech
One of our favorite artists, Joe Alterio, has given us two reasons to rejoice. First, he just released this piece of “concept art” for a graphic novel based on his amazing series of “Robots And Monsters” images. And secondly, he explained how you can get your very own robot/monster artwork — based on topics of … Continued
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Xbox 360 DVD Vs. Hard Drive
Click to viewThe New Xbox Experience will provide 360 gamers with the option to preload entire games onto the system’s hard drive. Because of its faster data transfer rate, this should translate to faster load times, especially for earlier generation titles. In this clip, we see a side-by-side of GTAIV loaded on DVD vs. the … Continued
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Stereo-cooler
Football fan Tyler M. crafted a badass rendition of a typical “stereo-cooler,” featuring: • 10″ JL W3 • Phoenix Gold XS 4600 amp • 2 Pioneer 150 watt 6″ x 9″s • Alpine deck with iPod controls • AM/FM antenna • iPod/ iPhone dock with remote • 2 3′ green neon tubes (I had them … Continued
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Tailgate Trailer/Shotski
ASU Sun Devils superfan Bonnie J.’s tailgate trailer boasts two plasma-screen TVs, a Wii, a bathroom, a built-in kegerator, a grill, a kicking stereo system, and a 2,500-watt generator. She says: “In additon to the trailer, my husband and I make ‘shotskis.’ Literally, a ski with shot glasses attached. Everyone takes a shot at the … Continued
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Scientists Find Gene That Makes You Good at Halo Also Makes You a Premature Ejaculator
After a study of 200 Dutch men, scientists found that those with a premature ejaculation problem all had a version of a gene that controls the release of serotonin. And, unfortunately for all of you awesome Call of Duty players out there, those affected seem to “have very quick reflexes. They may be excellent at … Continued
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Watch The Splinter Monster Shimmy, Just Don’t Touch
Splinter is one of the great scary movies coming out during the spooky pre-Halloween season. We’ve located a long interview with director Toby Wilkins who explains the ins and outs of the movie’s parasitic creature, which roams the forests of Oklahoma. In this clip, you can see the creature, made up of people bits, bear … Continued
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An Apple A Day Makes For Cheap Comedy In Chuck Webisode
If you think that NBC’s Chuck would be improved if it had less Chuck, less spy stuff and much more BuyMore, then congratulations! You’re the target audience for the new series of Chuck webisodes that play up the wacky and play down the… well, the everything else, really. Didn’t we get tired of this faux-documentary … Continued
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Best Buy Starts Listening to Consumers With HP and Toshiba “Blue Label” Laptops
Today Best Buy launched “Blue Label”—a new line of electronic products developed directly from customer feedback. Shockingly, Best Buy discovered that consumers wanted laptops with “longer battery life, a thin and lightweight design, an illuminated keyboard, more optimal screen size and superior warranty support”—so they enlisted the help of HP and Toshiba to create an … Continued
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Mazda Kiyora Recycles Rain Water for Drinking
This is the new Mazda Kiyora, a concept car that is not only designed to consume less gas and produce less emissions, but to collect and purify the most important liquid on Earth: Water. You know, for drinking. If you are into that kind of liquid, anyway. When you drive the Mazda Kiyora through rain, … Continued
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Start Your WiMax Engines With Laptops From Acer, Asus, Lenovo and Toshiba
Sprint’s Xohm WiMax network got extra super official today with a party and all, so laptop makers are tossing out confetti in the form of WiMax-enabled notebooks. Here’s what you’ve got to pick from. Acer dropped a pair of Aspire cheapies in 14- and 16-inch sizes, while Asus’s 14 and 15-inchers are a bit mo’ … Continued
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Your First Glimpse At Battlestar Galactica’s Black Ops Spin-Off
Click to viewIt wasn’t just the Galactica and her fleet that escaped the destruction of the twelve colonies, according to new comic Battlestar Galactica: Ghosts — but that doesn’t mean that the smuggler crew of the Orion’s Pride or black-ops Viper “Ghost Squadron” have escaped the Cylons altogether. We’ve got some exclusive pages from the … Continued
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Tech NewsNetflix Movie-Watching Marathon Ends After 123 Hour and 10 Minute Record
Apparently the sight of Susan Sarandon was too much for the final two contestants in the Netflix Movie Watching World Championship in NYC. After a record-breaking 57 movies or 123 hours and 10 minutes of nearly constant entertainment, Suresh Joachim (as predicted) and Claudia Wavra walked away with the coveted Popcorn Bowl Trophy during the … Continued
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded for Transgenic, Glowing Animals
Today the Nobel Prize committee announced the Nobel in chemistry would go to a group of US and Japanese researchers who discovered the green fluorescent protein (GFP) in jellyfish and transformed it into one of the most powerful research tools in genomics. Although GFP can make glowing kitties (above), glowing bunnies, glowing monkeys and mice … Continued
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Geode Plug-In Makes Firefox Location-Aware
Mozilla Labs has unveiled Geode—a plugin that will take advantage of the W3C Geolocation Spec in Firefox 3.1. The plan is to make the browser location-aware so that somewhere down the line, you could visit a site like Yelp on your laptop in a strange town and it will automatically find your location and offer … Continued
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Tech NewsNothing Says ‘Happy Halloween’ Like a Robotic Crab with a Baby’s Head
Nothing says creepy like a crab robot with the head of a Cabbage Patch Kid doll. The robot, which is available in a DIY kit (sans head), takes about three hours to put together and is sure to freak out any kids that come around your house looking for free candy in a few weeks. … Continued
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Ron Moore Brings Us Same-Sex Marriage… In Space!
Click to viewAs Californians prepare to vote on whether to allow teh gayz to get married, we could soon be seeing our first same-sex married couple on television — but the show takes place in the distant future. As this week’s TV Guide trumpets, Ron Moore’s Virtuality includes the sure-to-be-controversial married couple Manny (Jose Pablo … Continued