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There’s nothing quite like the home creation of deadly weapons. I mean, what could go wrong? This beautiful $11 wall chart explains how everyday materials can become a propane-powered flamethrower, and there’s a potato cannon version, too. Take a look: OK, so maybe this isn’t one for your younger cousins. The 36- x 24-inch posters…
Seriously, how awesome does that look. Imagine Special Forces soldiers zooming through the skies at 60 mph, covering distances of 30 miles or more without being picked up by radar. It could actually happen. A group of German companies with expertise in parachute systems have joined forces to create the Gryphon Next Generation Parachute System.…
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Sony and FIFA have teamed up to bring next year’s second-biggest sporting event in 3D exclusively to those who truly appreciate the beautiful game. Read: not Americans. Sony will be lugging its 3D cameras to South Africa next year to film up to 25 World Cup matches. It marks a big commitment to a technology…
One of the main complaints about underpowered netbooks is that they can’t even handle YouTube. YouTube! What good is using the internet if you can’t watch cat videos? But now Feather is here to fix that. Feather is the name of YouTube’s new lightweight version of the video streaming site. You can try it out…
And so a timeless truth is revealed: If you put enough nerds in front of a set of lettered keys, one of them will produce awkward art, eventually. Strictly speaking, this should be called typewriter art, since the ASCII acronym didn’t come into use until 1963, and this piece, but a young gentleman named Bob,…
Beach balls of death, kernel panics, dead iPods and tinier Steve Jobs come together to form the most unflattering portrait of Steve Jobs possible. True, reader Derek cheated a bit using the same photos over and over, but hey, if you think you can do better, go for it. (Click on the picture to embiggen.)…
Are you looking for something “different” in your life? Watching Japanese girls apologize or say “I love you” turn you on? Simultaneously? Then you’re strange, but hey, there is something that caters just to your tastes. For Japan’s upcoming Apology Day, an interactive website by the name of Ayamari Bijin offers 31 different girls apologizing…
It feels like Google is slowly becoming the internet. First, with their twice-as-fast HTTP replacement, SPDY, and now with Google Public DNS, which promises faster DNS lookups (and tons of data and cash for Google). Google DNS’s IP addresses? 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. Oh, and man, OpenDNS is so, so screwed. Google eats everything it touches.…
She’s like the Ashton Kutcher of the ape world: An orangutan in the Vienna Zoo now has a Facebook fan page to showcase the photos she takes with a digital camera. The orangutan, named Nonja, uses a Samsung ST 1000 point-and-shoot that automatically uploads the photos. When this post was published, Nonja had over 9,000…
You can easily make your own 1080p movies with relatively inexpensive gear at home now, but what if you want quality sound effects? Samson’s (a name brand for microphones) Q2U might be your ticket for do-it-at-home Foley times. The Q2U supports both XLR and USB cables, letting you plug it into basically any machine you…
The guys at HDGuru have scoured the offerings of online retailers once again to find the best post-Cyber Monday HDTV deals. There are some decent offerings in there, including a 40-inch Samsung 1080p LCD for $609 and a Panasonic 50-inch 1080p plasma for $1095 (Buy.com). Check out HDGuru for all of the details—and you had…
Song Summoner was one of the few games released for the iPod—not the touch, but original clickwheel type. It was special, as a game, because it used your own music to procedurally generate enemies. Now, it’s on the iPhone. It’s $10, but it’s an RPG, which supposedly implies more gameplay hours than non-RPGs. Even when…
Sure, Intel paid off AMD to drop their antitrust suit, but the FTC’s still mighty interested in their their fights with Nvidia, and concerned about preserving competition in the chip marketplace overall. It could get ugly. [BW] https://gizmodo.com/intel-pays-amd-1-25-billion-to-end-antitrust-patent-w-5403185
Like the Everest-climbing George Leigh Mallory, modder Tyler saw a Linksys router and decided to shove a MacBook inside, “because it’s there.” Well, it was either that, or a Billy the Big Mouth Bass. Using two Linksys routers, he rammed the MacBook’s parts, along with the iSight camera and microphone in the joined-up cases, loaded…
Epson’s PictureMate Show isn’t quite a sleek digital photo frame with hidden printer, but if you wanted to print 4×6 images at home (and nothing else), it’s a fairly elegant solution. Featuring a 7-inch LCD face, the Epson PictureMate Show is half digital photo frame, half small form photo printer. You can load images via…
The timing and price are up in the air, but Acer’s next high-end gaming notebook will be the first using DirectX 11 graphics. It’s also going to be insane. Fudzilla’s reporting that the Aspire 8942G-728G1280TWN is going to be a beast, shipping with a Core i7 processor at 1.6GHz, 8GB of DDR3 RAM, and the…
Let us work our personal babelfish on Sanyo’s new Eneloop Kairo. Eneloop means “envelope,” right? Kairo…Kairo means Cairo? Like Egypt? Ahh, these devices are an envelope of heat. And they’re leaving Japan, heading Stateside in time for winter. Coming in two different models, the pink and white egg-shaped KIR-SE1S is single-sided in heat, and gives…
Go to Google, but don’t touch anything. Just look at it. Now move your mouse. Oh hey, there’s all that noise. It took Google 10 variations to arrive at the new, ultra spartan homepage. I like it. [Google]
These decals serve as little reminders to switch off, and consider just how much energy you’re consuming. I’m sure we could all do with some of these for our wall outlets. [HU2 Design via Inhabitat]
