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Aegis Missile Defense—a Floating Iron Dome

While the US Navy is generally immune to IED attacks (the USS Cole tragedy notwithstanding) it must remain vigilant against ballistic missile strikes launched by hostile nations. When that happens, even before the Phalanx system begins to spool up, US warships engage the Aegis BMD—a nearly impenetrable ship-based missile shield. The Aegis BMD (Ballistic Missile…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Glowing Beacon Ensures You’ll Never Get Lost in a Sea of Tents Again

The next time you’re trying to drunkenly stumble back to your tent during your second night of Bonaroo or Burning Man, the TentFinder will illuminate your home-away-from-home so you can easily find it. That is, as long as your tent isn’t the only one glowing in a sea of hundreds. And you haven’t lost the…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Samsung’s EX2F Compact Camera Has a Wonderfully Wide Aperture

When Sony announced its RX100 pro compact last month, we ogled over the wide f/1.8 aperture, made possible largely in part by its spacious 1-inch sensor. Samsung is also entering this war with its EX2F, which sticks a f/1.4 aperture onto a 1/1.7-inch sensor (the same sized sensor found on many premium compacts). In addition…

Gadgets Adrian Covert

Make Mini-Rockets With Odds and Ends From Your Desk

It’s almost Independence Day, which means lots of big, bright, sulfury booms. Even if you’re not planning on checking out a full-fledged fireworks display, you can still make your own little rockets using items you probably have lying around your house. The above video shows you how to do it using just a match, a…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Video from Space Shows Army Creating an Island Off the Coast of the US

The Army has been creating an island since 1998 on the Northeast coast of the United States. Slowly, the US Army Corps of Engineers built dikes to establish its perimeter. They spent more than a decade filling them with mud. Its name: Poplar island. It seems like a perfect place for a mystery movie with…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Headphones or Earbuds?

Most of us listen to music in places where speakers just won’t do. But we all have different preferences for how we go about doing that. Some like the big sound and presence of over-the-ear headphones. Others like the portability and isolation afforded by in-ear monitors. But what do you use to listen to music…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Everything You Need to Make Kick-Ass Custom Case Mods

If you’re in the habit of giving credence to tired clichés, you’re probably aware that a good chef never blames a mistake on his tools. That’s not quite true when it comes to case modding. Anybody who’s ever tried molding metal (or anything else) into newfound shapes knows that skill is definitely a factor, but…

Tech News Brad Chacos - Maximum PC

Only 10-Percent of Androids Have Ice Cream Sandwich After Eight Months

Ice Cream Sandwich is now installed on 10-percent of active Android devices, according to Google’s own numbers. About 64-percent of users are still using Gingerbread. And the latest iteration of Android, Jelly Bean, is already on its way. When developers express concern about Android fragmentation, this is what they mean: Users are distributed over so…

Tech News Mario Aguilar

Google Nexus 7 Dissection Reveals Guts, Retina MacBook RAM and No Gorilla Glass

Take a peek inside the brains and guts of the new Google Nexus 7 tablet and then compare it to the iPad 3, the Kindle Fire, and this fish. Not surprisingly, they all share some similarities. Here’s the component list: • NVIDIA T30L Tegra 3 processor—plenty fast brain. • 1GB of Hynix HTC2G83CFR DDR3 RAM—the…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

This Fuel Cell Keeps Running Even When It’s Out of Fuel

Fuel cells are amazing things but, just like any portable energy source, they occasionally need topping up with juice. This one, however, can keep on going even when it runs out of fuel. What kind of sorcery is this? In fact, this is a new solid-oxide fuel cell (SOFC) developed at Harvard that converts hydrogen…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

What Do You Do Most With Your Smartphone?

The UK mobile carrier O2 released some usage stats from its smartphone user base, revealing that talking on the phone is only the fifth most popular thing (web surfing, facebooking/tweeting, gaming, and listening to music were all more popular). And as the Atlantic points out, thats not a trend exclusive to the UK, as other…

Tech News Adrian Covert

How Batteries Work

Batteries are essential in our everyday lives. But their prevalence doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s easy to understand how they work. In this video, the engineering guy Bill Hammack takes a look at perhaps the most basic battery of all—the lead-acid cell—in order to explain the fundamental science behind every single battery you’ve ever used.…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Porn and Google Glass Are Natural Bedfellows

Last week’s awesome Google Glass demo proved that strapping a decent quality camera to a person’s face makes for awesome first-person viewing. Funnily enough, the porn industry thought the exact same thing. It’s incredibly easy to see why porn’s interested in Google Glass—we don’t need to spell out exactly why first-person shots are attractive. But…

Tech News Sam Gibbs - gizmodo uk

Google’s Jelly Bean Mascot Melts in the Sun

Google’s Jelly Bean mascot has only been standing outside Google HQ for a week, but it’s not coping well with the Californian heat. According to Android engineer Dan Morrill, the statue’s head partially melted in the sun, then popped off. To add insult to injury, a passer-by made off with one of the jelly beans…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Leaked RIM Document Suggests First BB10 Devices Will Arrive Early 2013

BlackBerryOS has posted what appears to be a leaked RIM roadmap, and it suggests that RIM is planning to launch the first of a glut of new BlackBerry 10 devices in early 2013. The document (click image above for full view) suggests that two new phones—the London and Nevada—will launch at the same time as…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Apple Fails to Ban HTC Imports

Back in May, Apple managed to hold up the import of HTC handsets on the grounds that they infringed a number of patents. The ban didn’t last for long—and now the ITC is flatly refusing to listen to Apple’s whining. Apple placed an emergency request for a new ban to be imposed, but the ITC…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Nokia Claims Google’s New Nexus 7 Infringes Its Patents

Google’s Nexus 7 is the best new way to spend 200 bucks: it’s fast, slick, and expensive-feeling. But Nokia claims it also infringes some of its patents in the process. Nokia has announced that the tablet infringes a number of its patents connected with the IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi standard, reports The Inquirer. In fact, most…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Google Chrome’s URL Search Bar Feature Is Not Working Properly

At least it isn’t just me! TheNextWeb is reporting a problem with Google Chrome’s beloved URL bar search feature. The beauty of Chrome is that you don’t need to open a tab and go to Google in order to search something. It’s already Google! It understands. Usually. For the past few hours I’ve be unable…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

The Stoner Channel: Stunting Plants, Stone on Weed, and Colombia Says “Si, Se Puede” to Cocaina

Indoor Gardens Are Selling Plants Short Researchers from the Julich research institute in Germany recently trained an MRI machine at the roots of potted sugarbeet and barley in an effort to view water absorption by their roots. The team, led by Dr. Hendrik Poorter, made a very surprising find—potted plants’ root systems are rarely as…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

An 18th Century Spanish Church Gets a Thoroughly Modern Makeover

The crumbling centuries-old Sant Francesc Church and Convent, built in the first part of the Eighteenth Century in the Catalan town of Santpedor, was saved from near demolition, instead receiving a super modern makeover by Catalan architect David Closes. [Inhabitat] The renovation itself took seven years, reaching completion only just recently. It will now serve…

Tech News Molly Oswaks

Aegis Missile Defense—a Floating Iron Dome

Glowing Beacon Ensures You’ll Never Get Lost in a Sea of Tents Again

Samsung’s EX2F Compact Camera Has a Wonderfully Wide Aperture

Make Mini-Rockets With Odds and Ends From Your Desk

Video from Space Shows Army Creating an Island Off the Coast of the US

Headphones or Earbuds?

Everything You Need to Make Kick-Ass Custom Case Mods

Only 10-Percent of Androids Have Ice Cream Sandwich After Eight Months

Google Nexus 7 Dissection Reveals Guts, Retina MacBook RAM and No Gorilla Glass

This Fuel Cell Keeps Running Even When It’s Out of Fuel

What Do You Do Most With Your Smartphone?

How Batteries Work

Porn and Google Glass Are Natural Bedfellows

Google’s Jelly Bean Mascot Melts in the Sun

Leaked RIM Document Suggests First BB10 Devices Will Arrive Early 2013

Apple Fails to Ban HTC Imports

Nokia Claims Google’s New Nexus 7 Infringes Its Patents

Google Chrome’s URL Search Bar Feature Is Not Working Properly

The Stoner Channel: Stunting Plants, Stone on Weed, and Colombia Says “Si, Se Puede” to Cocaina

An 18th Century Spanish Church Gets a Thoroughly Modern Makeover

Ahead of the SpaceX IPO, xAI Has Now Shed All 11 of Its Non-Elon Musk Founders

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