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Top Secret SR-71 Blackbird Flying Manual Declassified

So, you read Brian Shul’s description of the thrill to fly the SR-71 Blackbird in a real mission over Lybia, and now you want to try it yourself. Well, no problem! First, you need its top secret flying manual. https://gizmodo.com/the-thrill-of-flying-the-sr-71-blackbird-5511236 It’s available online and it contains everything you need to fly this amazing beast, including…

Tech News Jesus Diaz May 7

Blackbird Web Browser: Because Firefox is Too Navajo for Black Web Surfers

Wait, why do I need a special web browser? I mean, I get there’s been a long standing digital divide between black America and the technological world (controlled by The Man). But do I really need a repackaged piece of software whose name evokes the Jim Crow era? Last time I checked, I don’t physically…

Tech News Adrian Covert Dec 9

Blackbird Rider Nylon Guitar Actually Carbon-Fiber and Nearly Indestructible

Blackbird’s Rider Nylon guitar is actually not made of nylon—ok its strings are—but instead it’s far more highly-tech’d and its body and neck are actually carbon fiber. It may not be bullet-proof, but Blackbird says its “nearly indestructible,” making it perfect as a travel guitar. The material has meant a few design tweaks over a…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Nov 18

VoodooPC Will Survive, But Confirms “Integration” into HP

I just got off the phone with Rahul Sood, founder of VoodooPC, who confirmed that the rumors of Voodoo’s demise were not just premature but “nonsense,” but said “HP is asking us to integrate into the larger execution engine.” Rahul is comfortable speaking both plainly and in business-ese—what we take this to mean is that…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Oct 3

HP Blackbird 002 Exhilaration Refresh Packs Newly Loosed Nvidia GTX 280 in SLI

HP is one of the first out the door with Nvidia’s right-off-the-presses GeForce GTX 280 in its Blackbird 002 Exhilaration edition. Also making up the Blackbird‘s refreshed guts are an nForce 790i Ultra motherboard (’cause the GTX 280s are in SLI), 1600MHz DDR3 RAM, quad-core Core 2 Extreme processor (QX9770). Naturally, all of this is…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jun 16

HP Blackbird Gaming PC Dinged for Vista OS and Slow ATI Video cards

The Blackbird 002 by HP looked like the gaming PC to have, with smart design including that aluminum stand. Maximum PC just gave it a 7/10 score for two main reasons: Vista OS hurts its game performance, as does its SLI implementation hacked up to use twin ATI cards…slower ATI cards. Will Smith, EIC, says…

Tech News Brian Lam Oct 23

HP’s Voodoo-Powered Blackbird 002 Unveiled By Creator (Video)

Click to viewTonight in New York, VoodooPC cofounder (and HP employee) Rahul Sood shows off his newest miracle of PC science, the Blackbird 002. It’s a little long (7min, 30sec or so) so you might want to grab a beverage. –Video by Richard Blakeley https://gizmodo.com/the-love-child-of-hp-and-voodoo-blackbird-002-gaming-p-296409

Tech News Wilson Rothman Sep 5

The Love Child of HP and Voodoo: Blackbird 002 Gaming PC Photos and Impressions

When HP acquired Voodoo PC, the boutique gaming maker, I could think of only one thing: What would a creative PC maker like Rahul Sood do with the resources of a small platoon of HP engineers? The Blackbird 002 is the first collaboration, built with lots of HP workstation and server innovations, and a few…

Tech News Brian Lam Sep 5

Blackbird Rider: Carbon Fiber Guitar Waited for this Moment to Arise

The Blackbird Rider is a guitar made out of carbon fiber that was designed using 3D CAD software. It’s 2/3 the size of an ordinary guitar but makes up for that by being hollow throughout—even in its neck and head—making the entire guitar a sound box. The goal of this design was to get the…

Gadgets Charlie White Jan 24

Top Secret SR-71 Blackbird Flying Manual Declassified

Blackbird Web Browser: Because Firefox is Too Navajo for Black Web Surfers

Blackbird Rider Nylon Guitar Actually Carbon-Fiber and Nearly Indestructible

VoodooPC Will Survive, But Confirms “Integration” into HP

HP Blackbird 002 Exhilaration Refresh Packs Newly Loosed Nvidia GTX 280 in SLI

HP Blackbird Gaming PC Dinged for Vista OS and Slow ATI Video cards

HP’s Voodoo-Powered Blackbird 002 Unveiled By Creator (Video)

The Love Child of HP and Voodoo: Blackbird 002 Gaming PC Photos and Impressions

Blackbird Rider: Carbon Fiber Guitar Waited for this Moment to Arise

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