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Apparently when a Navy SEAL takes a minisubmarine to a combat zone, his ride is an open system, meaning they literally spend hours with their bodies exposed to the water. Sounds terrible! Fortunately, they just got an upgrade. The Navy has been trying to get the SEALs into a new Swimmer Delivery Vehicle (SDV) for…
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The Canon T2i dSLR sounded extremely exciting, as it promised to bring 1080P video (with decent frame rates) to Canon’s sub-$1000 dSLR line. Photographer Dan Chung was among the first to test it out, and the results look fantastic. https://gizmodo.com/canon-rebel-t2i-dslr-18mp-and-legit-1080p-video-for-8-5466616 As it turns out this little camera is a really competent performer and the footage…
Final Fantasy I & II: An extremely faithful pair of ports. The original FF1 and FF2 are old enough that Square Enix decided to revamp the artwork for the iPhone, making these versions noticeably prettier than the originals. Gameplay doesn’t suffer too much on account of the touch controls because of the games’ slowish pace,…
The latest iMac was released 16 weeks ago. Since then, it’s been plagued with problems, most notably flickering and/or yellow screens. Today, the saga comes to an end because Apple has acknowledged the issues and offered their support. At long last, Apple has released a statement to us, admitting the production issues with iMacs—which reader…
Raidon Hybrid Disk puts together a Solid State Drive with a hard drive that backups data, just in case the former goes to hell in ball of fire and data loss mayhem. No price or capacities yet. [Raidon via MacWorld]
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Helicopters make a lot of noise because of a physical phenomenon called blade-vortex interaction. Eurocopter engineers have developed a new kind of rotor blade that attenuates this problem. It’s called Blue Edge, and—as you can hear—it works beautifully: The new blade shape is combined with another technology called Blue Pulse, which adds three flaps to…
If you have a CLIQ, it’s probably a good idea to hold off on any updates, as a multitude of issues have cropped up. And most importantly, a T-Mobile forum mod recommends you “not to Master Reset your phone if your OTA update did not download or if you are experiencing issues at this time.”…
A Pentucket Regional High School science class got an unpleasant surprise yesterday when one student’s iPod exploded on her desk. But don’t worry! Nobody was hurt, and there’s a perfectly good explanation. While Apple has gotten in trouble in the past for spontaneous iPod Touch combustion, Newburyport Daily News Online commenter “jos” offered some valuable…
The XCM Cyberchrome case makes your PlayStation 3 look like the bumper of a ’57 Chevy, which is neat. Although I’ve gotta wonder if it makes the PS3 any less of a dust magnet. We’ve already seen XCM’s chrome case for the Xbox 360, but it somehow looks a bit better suited for the PS3’s…
The US Patent & Trademark Office just published Apple’s latest trademark application for “Magic Trackpad”—and, looking at a bit of history, we think it could be one of two new products. Possibility #1 Back in July 2009, Apple was granted a patent on their multi-touch Trackpad. However, many elements of the patent were left out,…
The half ereader/half netbook from enTourage eDGe was one of the best gadgets CES threw up in my opinion. While the sale date has been pushed back by a month to March, some more details have been drip-fed to us. https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-with-the-entourage-edge-dualbook-if-you-want-5444059 In an interview with e-reader-info, enTourage’s President and CEO Asghar Mostafa detailed when the…
Cristian Wicha designs both furniture and surfboards. And looking at his PK Lounge, that’s pretty obvious. I wasn’t going to get too literal with an interpretation, but I just can’t help myself—it’s as if the base of the chair is the wave and the top of the chair a board! And while I’m no surfer,…
This isn’t confirmed, but with RIM rumored to be exploring sliding-QWERTY devices for a pretty long time, one of our BlackBerry connects dropped some info on us and we wanted it to share it. Here’s what we know: • It’s a portrait-oriented slider. While most people assume a device with slideout keyboard would end up…
