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Attempt at Escalator Spinning Fails Miserably
It was bound to happen: moron A tries to emulate the blonde girl's magical spinning—flat on an escalator's handrails—while moron B films. Moron A fails miserably, moron B posts video on the web. A sad epic failure, but perhaps not as epic as the marines's failed disembarking or as sad as the failed striptease. More »
Premature Excavation
First Time Jitters Cause Inaugural Mars Lander Load To Miss Target
Our favorite Martian gadget of the moment is experiencing some performance anxiety. While all of Phoenix's parts are working just fine, including the 8-foot scoop arm, the little guy just couldn't seal the deal when NASA scientists gave the green light to scoop dirt and put the bun in the oven. None of the inaugural sample made it into the first oven, you see, and scientists at the University of Arizona are scrambling today to find out why. More »
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Fournier's Skydiving Record Attempt Fails When His Balloon Floats Away
Bad news for wannabe record breaker Michel Fournier. While he was foiled by weather yesterday in his attempt to freefall from 25 miles up, today he was foiled by what appears to be ineptitude. The weather was fine. The problem? His fancy balloon that was supposed to take him up so high wasn't attached properly while they were filling it and floated away. Uh, oops? No word on whether or not he's going to try again or slink away with his tail between his legs in embarrassment. When even the news broadcasters are making fun of you for failing, you know it's been a bad day. [BBC]
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New Xbox 360 Failure Rates Still Around 10 Percent?
Site 8bitjoystick, the same people who seem to have broken the news that Bungie was splitting from Microsoft, claim to have scored an exclusive tell-all interview with an Xbox 360 designer regarding the console's notorious stability. Most of the piece really just confirms that which was already suspected (reasons for the RRoDs, early Xboxes failed around 30% of the time, etc) but what caught our eye was the insider's estimated failure rates on new, smaller and cooler-chipped Xbox 360s seem to still be around 10%. More »
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Finally joined the Xbox 360 red ring club? Make it official with this Red Ring of Death T-Shirt from Split Reason. Besides the 2001 reference and the HAL-esque design of the lights, you'll also make a bold fashion statement when wearing this—one that says, "Hey, I'm not too proud to admit I play Xbox, but I've also been forcibly deprived of it and made to go outdoors for 22 days while it was in for repair. The line starts here, ladies." That, unfortunately, doesn't fit on a shirt. [SplitReason via Joystiq]
The Xbox 360 Red Ring of Death Shirt
Finally joined the Xbox 360 red ring club? Make it official with this Red Ring of Death T-Shirt from Split Reason. Besides the 2001 reference and the HAL-esque design of the lights, you'll also make a bold fashion statement when wearing this—one that says, "Hey, I'm not too proud to admit I play Xbox, but I've also been forcibly deprived of it and made to go outdoors for 22 days while it was in for repair. The line starts here, ladies." That, unfortunately, doesn't fit on a shirt. [SplitReason via Joystiq]
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Xbox 360 Failure Rate: 30%, Says Retailers
We always knew the Xbox 360 failure rate was high, but the only time Microsoft's put any sort of solid numbers on the thing it was always somewhere around 5%. Retailers, on the other hand, have just reported a failure rate of somewhere over 30%. That's pretty ridonkulous. It's a good thing Microsoft support is usually pretty good about taking them back, so you don't have to go all Picard and shout about how many lights there are over the phone. More »
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Tablet Mouse is a Crappy Version of Both
Hey, look, a dumb idea! The Hanwang (LOL) Two-in-One Tablet Mouse combines a small, nearly useless tablet and a big, awkward mouse. Fortunately, this is a product too poorly thought out to make it to American shores. It's instead doomed to a life of dust-gathering on Far East electronics store shelves, otherwise known as where bad ideas go to die. Try harder next time, Hanwang. More »
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Canon and Toshiba Put SEDs on Hold Again
Looks like Canon and Toshiba are delaying SEDs yet again. This time around they're claiming they need more time to figure out how to mass produce the panels at an affordable price. SEDs were at one time a promising technology combining the best elements of a plasma, LCD and CRT at a cheap price, but at this rate, they've become a prime example of vaporware. Sorry SED, as much as we tried rooting for you, you just keep letting us down. More »
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Google Teaches Us Five Things About Hard Drive Death
Robin over at StorageMojo waded thought Google's "Failure Trends in a Large Disk Population," a document that details the search engine's first hand experience with hard drive failure rates by way of polling 100,000 of their own drives. More »
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Exploded Satellite-Launching Seacraft Finds its Way Home
Remember last week when that un-manned satellite launch didn't go so well? The large Sea Launch launch pad that the satellite exploded on is actually making its way back to land under it's own power. The massive explosion had me thinking that this seacraft would have an underwater burial, but I was wrong. Too bad this technology doesn't work for vehicles or my broken 1998 Cavalier would have already driven itself to the mechanic. Jump for more pictures. Thanks, Josh More »
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Let's start your day off with a bang: This is what happens when an unmanned launch vehicle with nearly a million pounds of fuel on board explodes. As the 209-foot Zenit-3SL rocket slumped to its Sea Launch platform, an enormous conflagration consumed its payload, a 96-transponder communications satellite belonging to SES New Skies. More »
Uh-Oh: Satellite Launch Ends in Tremendous Explosion
Let's start your day off with a bang: This is what happens when an unmanned launch vehicle with nearly a million pounds of fuel on board explodes. As the 209-foot Zenit-3SL rocket slumped to its Sea Launch platform, an enormous conflagration consumed its payload, a 96-transponder communications satellite belonging to SES New Skies. More »
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Like a Frog in a Pot of Boiling Water, Camera Makers are Slowly Dying
Very nice article about the death of film camera makers. From Konica Minolta to Kodak, these folks are getting nailed left and right. That, however, is the way the cookie crumbles. For example, I was just talking to a friend who bought a 35mm Canon Rebel. He told me "This will be the last film camera I ever buy." While he had a point—it's a good camera and you can take good pictures with film—he eventually succumbed and bought a digital Rebel. While there's no accounting for taste and there is an immense body of work that proves that film is in many ways superior to the bit-fiddling that goes on inside a CCD, there's just no way to warrant the purchase of a film camera in this day and age, especially on the consumer side. More »
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