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    Remainders - Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)

    Neuma Hybrid Tattoo Machine: Even Tattoos Are Going Hybrid

    Sharpest Manmade Object Ever: A Tungsten Needle
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    Image of Benguin Benguin
    11/13/09

    In reply to Remainders - Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)
    How about instead of all this extraneous bullshit Youtube implements the one feature I've been craving since day one: AN OPTION TO DISABLE FUCKING AUTO-PLAY.

    It's so obvious that it's ridiculous that it's taken this long.

    ... and yes, I already have the Firefox plugins. But I'd prefer a built-in solution. #gizmodoremainders
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    Image of CanadianSL CanadianSL
    11/12/09

    In reply to Remainders - Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)
    1080p YouTube? That just strikes me as a bandwidth consuming cost center for a user base that, 90% of the time, probably doesn't care about such exacting quality. The appeal of YouTube is its variety and amount of content alongside a very fast loading time. I really wouldn't want to wait several minutes to buffer a 1080p video of some funny clip a friend linked me to, even if it is a credible news source or a comparable professional grade video. If I wanted high-definition video of anything, YouTube would not be my choice, since I can't download it.

    Granted, that's all based on my personal use, but I would wager the majority of YouTube's user base that enthuses about high definition video wouldn't choose YouTube for their 1080p wants. #gizmodoremainders
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/13/09

    @CanadianSL: Actually, with the Download helper tool on Firefox, you CAN download youtube videos. VLC can play the .flv's, as can Quicktime when you download the Perian plugin. #gizmodoremainders
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    11/13/09


    @Kaiser-Machead: Uhh, I hate to ask, but which one would that be? #gizmodoremainders
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    11/13/09

    @(Starman) Starman [Key in repetitiveness.]: The one highlighted. Great add-on. It works like a charm. #gizmodoremainders
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    Image of SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!
    11/13/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: For windows users, you can use VDownloader to download and encode videos to your PC. #gizmodoremainders
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    11/13/09

    @SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!:

    There are countless windows programs to download youtube videos, free FLV player (i think) and atubecatcher #gizmodoremainders
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    Image of se7a7n7 se7a7n7
    11/12/09

    In reply to Remainders - Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)
    The USB FM radio could be useful sometimes when you want to listen to a channel the doesn't or won't broadcast.

    For example.. A local station where I live cuts off it's online broadcast when it runs live KU football & basketball games (which is the only time I would want to listen). They cut the online broadcast because KU wants anyone listening online to be paying for the broadcast through another service they have.

    Also you could use it for easy rebroadcasting of a station online... Take what you pick up over the air and broadcast it online. There might be some legal problems there. But it would be a super low budget and easy way for a small station to get their broadcast online. #gizmodoremainders
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    Image of Moe Kalbouneh Moe Kalbouneh
    11/12/09

    In reply to Remainders - Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)
    i have a 20Mb connection and cant stream stream 720p without buffering every now and then
    but thats why theres [www.vimeo.com] #gizmodoremainders
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    11/12/09

    @Moe Kalbouneh: Who are you streaming it from? I stream HD content from Netflix (and sometimes Amazon Unbox, rather than via Roku) with no problems at all, and my connection averages about 18Mb. The bandwidth on a 720p stream shouldn't exceed 16 TO 20 Mb, depending upon compression (mpeg-2 or mpeg-4). Are you going through a wireless connection? If so, that could be your choke point. #gizmodoremainders
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    Image of Moe Kalbouneh Moe Kalbouneh
    11/13/09

    @met2art: youtube chokes on hd
    vimeo never does
    atleast for me #gizmodoremainders
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    11/13/09

    @Moe Kalbouneh: Ahh... YouTube seems to choke a lot. I suspect they have horrible bandwidth, and the number of constant users probably doesn't help. I've never been a big fan. #gizmodoremainders
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    Image of MadCrazy MadCrazy
    04/08/09

    In reply to Neuma Hybrid Tattoo Machine: Even Tattoos Are Going Hybrid
    Why don't they use pain-killers? Though to be honest the pain is what makes it special; just wondering I guess.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    04/08/09

    @MadCrazy:


    AFAIK you dont want to alter the chemistry of the skin. being drunk while getting a tattoo causes the ink to bleed out, for instance.

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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    04/08/09

    @MadCrazy: Because pain isn't always a bad thing.
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    Image of Carson Hill Carson Hill
    04/08/09

    In reply to Neuma Hybrid Tattoo Machine: Even Tattoos Are Going Hybrid
    What's a snake-board?

    Isn't it more like offering a pro skater a hover-board instead?

    Heres the website: www.myneuma.com
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    04/08/09

    @Carson Hill:


    a snake board is like a skateboard, but instead of having pivoting trucks, the axles are locked flat, and are turned by twisting your feet. you dont push the ground to go, you just swivel like a snake. use your google.

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    04/08/09

    In reply to Neuma Hybrid Tattoo Machine: Even Tattoos Are Going Hybrid
    my buddy contracted me to design a tattoo machine frame. i was surprised to find that the mechanism isn't a standard reciprocating, electric motor driven thing, but is rather a make-break electromagnet setup.


    i asked about other methods, but so far every alternative either lacked the torque required, or wasn't adjustable enough.


    good luck selling these to traditionalists.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    04/08/09

    @nutbastard: I have faith in you. Wear your R2D2 hat. That would make me buy from you.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    04/08/09

    @nutbastard: Uhm, "Traditionalists" don't use machines...


    [www.tao-of-tattoos.com]

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    Image of Jason Renda Jason Renda
    04/08/09

    @Blinded by the Lite: Heh. good point on the traditionalists.


    @nutbastard Every tattoo artist I know that has used pneumatic, loves them. They put a lot less strain on the artist on top of being slightly less painful.

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    04/08/09

    @Blinded by the Lite:


    actually my ex has a tattoo from samoa that was done with pigs teeth.

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    04/08/09

    @Jason Renda:


    i got a good buddy who tats for a living, ill ask him if he's ever used one.

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    Image of Shamoononon: I shave my legs. Shamoononon: I shave my legs.
    04/08/09

    In reply to Neuma Hybrid Tattoo Machine: Even Tattoos Are Going Hybrid
    The only tattoo I have and will ever have is the one I did with indian ink... when I was 13.


    Talk about a constant reminder that I was, indeed, super stupid when I was young. Not saying I'm a package of brilliance now, but... you know.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    04/08/09

    @Shamoononon thanks Rocephin: Well, while you still have the tattoo, it's always good to remember that your record was expunged b/c you were a minor.
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    Image of EBone EBone
    04/08/09

    @Shamoononon thanks Rocephin: My only "tattoo" is where little Susie-whats-her-name jabbed me in my wrist with a pencil in the fourth grade because I was fresh. Still have a black dot on my wrist.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    04/08/09

    @EBone:


    i've got a pencil poke dot on the palm of my hand that has about a 5 year half-life. it gets smaller every year but i wonder if it will ever go away...

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    Image of EBone EBone
    04/08/09

    @nutbastard: *checks wrist*


    Still there 35 years later.

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    Image of zenpoet zenpoet
    04/08/09

    @nutbastard: I have three pencil dots on my hand from elementary school, so, probably not.
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    Image of morcheeba morcheeba
    04/08/09

    In reply to Neuma Hybrid Tattoo Machine: Even Tattoos Are Going Hybrid
    Air powered? Great for Amish tattooers!

    [blog.makezine.com]
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    04/08/09

    @morcheeba: What about Rumspringa?
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    Image of The Lab The Lab
    04/08/09

    In reply to Neuma Hybrid Tattoo Machine: Even Tattoos Are Going Hybrid
    While we are talking tattoos, does anyone know if glow-in-the-dark tattoos are being done? Turn out the lights and its Autobot logo on my chest baby! Irresistible.
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    Image of Halfricanb Halfricanb
    04/08/09

    you could just get one that shows up under black light. It won't always be glowing, but i have never heard of a glow in the dark tattoo. How would you charge it all day? your chest would never be in the light. n@The Lab:
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    04/08/09

    @The Lab: I know they do UV inks
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    04/08/09

    @Halfricanb: How do you know he doesn't live at a nudist colony? They use the internet as well. They just always have a towel with them when they do.
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    Image of CrispyAardvark CrispyAardvark
    04/08/09

    In reply to Neuma Hybrid Tattoo Machine: Even Tattoos Are Going Hybrid
    Perhaps pneumatics vibrate less than an electric motor? Less side to side vibrations may hurt less?
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    04/08/09

    @CrispyAardvark:


    tattoo machines dont use electric motors, they use a make-break connection electromagnet. connection is made, magnet activates, moves forwards, breaks connection, spring pulls it back, rinse and repeat.

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    Image of zenpoet zenpoet
    04/08/09

    In reply to Neuma Hybrid Tattoo Machine: Even Tattoos Are Going Hybrid
    Works like a Prius, looks like a Ferrari, and makes you look like an emo tool.


    And yes, I have a tattoo, and I think I look like an emo tool.

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    Image of Forsakenchild Forsakenchild
    04/08/09

    @zenpoet: I was in the middle of writing this big old comment about how ridiculous it is to associate tattoos with emo, but then I got bored. So instead I will just laugh at you in pity.
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    Image of Brian Looney Brian Looney
    04/08/09

    @Forsakenchild:


    i, too, was wondering at what point tattoos became associated with emo. i've never considered myself as such, either before or after i got inked.

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    Image of zenpoet zenpoet
    04/08/09

    @Forsakenchild: judging by the over emotional responses by those replying, emo fit the bill perfectly.


    Its a wonder how some people can read without comprehension, and still comment without knowledge. I dare say that kosai got the point.


    Anyway, carry on.

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    04/08/09

    @Brian Looney: I can't say that it really is associated with emo. It could have just as easily been frat boy, goth chick, pirate, Yakuza, or Tongan political dissident, but what the tattoo I was looking at made me think of emo, as it was supposed to be emotionally charged.
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    Image of klaybc klaybc
    04/08/09

    In reply to Neuma Hybrid Tattoo Machine: Even Tattoos Are Going Hybrid
    Zune tattoo guy rejoices!
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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    04/08/09

    @klaybc: Zune guy should get this tattooed on his arm for truly recursive irony.
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    04/08/09

    In reply to Neuma Hybrid Tattoo Machine: Even Tattoos Are Going Hybrid
    What kind of Gizmodo perks could one get if they got Gizmodo.com tattooed on them? I'm asking for a friend, BTW.
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    Image of B1663R B1663R
    04/08/09

    @Oligarch_GitEmSteveDave: You get the preview button back
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