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I like the sleep suit, because can’t not like anything that allows me to sleep anywhere I want, and has holes for people to poke their hands inside. The suit is designed for siestas—four 30 minutes ones taken over 24 hours periods—, with holes that allow “human contact.” I don’t know about the contact, but…
OLEDs are known for having a kind of clinical coldness to the color gamut (read: “blue-ish”), but a Taiwanese researcher has worked out a way to up the temperature to the point where it comes very close to simulating sunlight. Basically, he adjusted the voltage on a certain type of OLED, which produces a light…
I’m not sure this story is true, but if it is, I’m going to go buy a hat just so I can take it off in this guy’s honor. Is there anything duct tape can’t do (besides repair ducts)? So this pilot was flying out in the Alaskan backcountry (is there a frontcountry in Alaska?)…
OK, so you might feel weird about those naked-o-vision scanners they’re installing at the airport. Here’s a nice alternative: chemical noses that can sniff out explosives and precisely track them through crowded areas. Researchers from Germany’s Fraunhofer Gesellschaft have created a network of these chemical noses that can do just that. First, the sensors pick…
Camera stabilization rig maker Steadicam-Tiffen is making its first anti-shake mounts for cellphones and pocket cameras, including the iPhone, Droid, and Flip. I say it’s about damn time for it because I’m tired of shaky cellphone spy videos. No pricing or release information is available for these small scale rigs at this time, but I…
I know there is a tradition to uphold, and I enjoyed the movie, but groundhog texting? Do they even have thumbs? Of course, the idea is to get the word out to the millions of crazy people out there that rely on a talking groundhog to predict the weather. If you are one of those…
We’ve teased that Apple Geniuses might not be the brightest in the bunch, but now Apple itself might make them feel stupid. The company is supposedly adding “experts” who’ll roam retail stores and answer support questions without need for appointments. https://gizmodo.com/apple-store-geniuses-might-actually-be-dunces-5055539 From the sounds of it, this new job position translates as a sales floor…
I never really cared for the classic look of Linkysis routers to be perfectly honest. The solution: dress it up with Lego. That’s just what Luke Anderson did with an old WRT54GL. He noticed that the guts fit nicely with the dimensions of Lego bricks, so he set about making a new case. The entire…
Scouring the App Store for the best games is a full time job. Luckily, it’s a job held by the guys over at Touch Arcade. Here are their picks for the best games—and only games—available on the iPhone. While the App Store had clearly been a huge success in 2008, the continued growth and explosion…
D-Link’s diminutive MyPocket 3G, which takes a 3G connection and outputs it as Wi-Fi, just got approved and poorly photographed by the FCC. It’s definitely destined for North America, since it uses our local 3G GSM bands. We don’t have much more information on the MyPocket just yet—we know it can handle up to 7.2Mbps…
CL!CK is a short film made by Lego about how Legos can inspire you to come up with great ideas. It’s a fancy ad, to be sure, but a truly lovely one. [YouTube via NotCot]
If you’re bored over the weekend, you could while the hours away playing video games. Or you could build yourself a badass Arduino quadrocopter. You know, either way. [Quaduino via Make]
New gadgets are the stars of CES, but there was a ton of gear behind the scenes that was instrumental to our coverage of the event. Here’s what kept us alive in Vegas. Let’s get this out of the way: MacBooks. We all use them. Except for Rosa.* It hasn’t always been this way—a few…
I don’t want to say that ILM and Weta did a bad job on Avatar’s visual effects, but an Atari 2600 edition of Avatar would still get most of the point across. [Penney Design via GameSetWatch via Kotaku] https://kotaku.com/new-movies-as-old-video-games-5446993/
The MiniGuru keyboard has three layers of functions designed to keep your fingers on the home row. Theoretically, that means you could type more efficiently. It would also mean a major overhaul to your typing technique. Special modifier keys can be held down with a free thumb, allowing the user to cycle through layers of…
For me it was the Radio Shack TRS-80. (My family had every model up to the 4P.) Trying to load tapes to watch a little ASCII man dance in a proto-Dance Dance Revolution? Music, games, synthesis, tinkering—I was hooked.
5 inches by 3.7 inches—that’s the diminutive footprint of the fully loaded conga-BM57 Core i7 motherboard. Despite its small stature, the conga-BM57 features an impressive spec list, including a 2.66 GHz Core i7, 8GB of RAM, integrated intel graphics, 5 PCI Express lanes, 8 USB 2.0 ports, 3 SATA, 1 EIDE and Gigabit Ethernet—plus support…
I…I just don’t know what to make of this Nunk on Droise performance art by Stéphane Perrin. Simply put, the performance consists in dynamically generating noise music from the alcohol drunk by the performer during the performance. During the performance, the performer drinks alcohol and several breathalyzers are used to generate sounds and interacts with…
Only AT&T offers the ability to talk and surf the Web at the same time, has the most popular smartphones and gives you access to over 100,000 apps* – all on the nation’s fastest 3G network.** So when you compare, there really is no comparison. AT&T simply offers a better 3G experience. See what Luke…
My love for Blu-ray players grows whenever companies add another feature that has nothing to do with Blu-ray. Now any worthwhile player is a home-entertainment hub, replacing cable box and Apple TV alike. How soon till they handle everything? We looked at the four newly announced flagship players from the four biggest Blu-ray companies, LG,…
