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If you have $1.5 million spare change you can buy this Titan 1 nuclear missile base on eBay today. Located in central Washington, the 57-acre Larsen Air Force Base Titan ICBM launching complex 1A —complete with 16 underground buildings including three 160-feet missile silos— is ready for your post-Cold-War Jack-Bauer-induced delusional paranoia, War Games reenactments…
Sony’s pocket-sized U series Vaio has been updated, replacing the previous CPU, an Intel Core 2 Solo U2100 at 1.06 GHz with a Core Solo U1400 at 1.2 GHz. What else? Oh yeah, they’ve boosted the HD: That’s now up to 40GB from 30GB, and there’s also a port extender. Unchanged is the screen, still…
The next-generation Vaio G is out in Japan next month, boasting a Core 2 Duo CPU, SSD and a drip-proof keyboard, which shuts down the system if it detects a spillage, while diverting the water away from the important stuff. You can see how that works in the gallery below, while the gen on the…
It’s not the first time we’ve seen Samsung’s Armani phone, but its official unveiling happened in Milan yesterday, following Giorgio’s runway show. The credit-card-sized phone is 10.5 mm wide, has haptic feedback and will be on sale in Europe from November. An Armani-Samsung Casa LCD TV is to follow in January. Stats, pricing and more…
Today’s New York Times has a very interesting piece about the effect of the Space Age on popular culture. An effect was much more than simply a spillover from the silvery streamlining of the space program. It was an increasing preoccupation with the future and technology that helped change not only the country’s look in…
Mac users love giant local storage drives, and Iomega knows it, designing the UltraMax Mac Pro-inspired baby HDD towers to accompany the heaviest machinery out of Cupertino. The latest edition is the one on the far left, the single-drive UltraMax Desktop Hard Drive, with one eSATA, two FireWire 800, one FireWire 400 and one USB…
Sebastian Ritzler, a design student in Germany, has created a feature-laden rolling white cane called the Mygo that will make the blind scoff at us eyesies. The Mygo uses a sensor-camera combo to measure the ground below it and give the user real time feedback via a wireless headset. The cane also ends in a…
Click to viewThe other day, I posted a video showing some cool Halo 3 swag Microsoft sent me as part of the press kit. Despite me putting the word “Incredible” in the headline, people thought my video reflected a lack of appreciation for the gear, and I was called many names for it, and even…
The Toshiba T400 Gigabeat player is nothing especially new in the Asian markets but its appearance on Sam’s Club’s website means the player is finally going to be availabe in the States. Generally, the 4 gigabyte player is underwhelming. It can play MP3s, WMAs, WAV files and has video playback for WMV videos that you…
Nothing quite flavors a meal like the black, peppery-goodness of R2-D2’s droppings. The cute little peppermill comes in two colors — or droid models, I should say — the white R2-D2 and the black RD-Q5. The R2 works pretty much how you’d expect, just turn his head and the 11 cm droid will grind to…
There’s nothing quite like a mass of cluttered cables to cause a stress-related premature death — luckily, the guys over at Instructables have a cheap and easy solution. This involves buying a plastic box and lid from IKEA (it doesn’t have to be IKEA, but it’s much hipper if it is), buying a drill with…
I love these Star Wars Kubricks because I have a soft spot for cult toy makers that work with big franchises. The characters for this series were taken from Episodes I-III, and feature the likes of Qui-Gon Jinn, naked C-3PO, and Anakin Skywalker before he grew a rat tail and allowed his hormonally raging manhood…
Sennheiser’s latest Bluetooth headset, the VMX 100, has on-board technology that distinguishes the human voice from background noise in order to provide a clearer outgoing sound during conversations. We’re unsure how well the headset will distinguish background noise when the background noise is actually human conversation, but at least it’ll have five hours talk time…
Click to viewYou heard that the new firmware bricks unlocked iphones? Get this: Apple just confirmed to me that running any third-party app at all voids the warranty, and you won’t be covered if your iPhone bricks for whatever reason. The reasoning is that Apple cannot distinguish between other third party apps and those that…
Not only are certain Apple stores voiding the warranty on hacked and unlocked iPhones, Apple’s just released a statement saying the unlock process coupled with a future iPhone update may make your phones a useless brick. Apple “strongly discourages users from installing unauthorized unlocking programs,” because the “permanent inability to use an iPhone due to…
Bicycles built for two seem like they’d be romantic, but how do you decide who gets to sit in front? It’s clearly the better position, as you get a view of the open road rather than of your bikemate’s sweaty back. That’s why this strange mutant two-person bike makes sense… sort of. I mean, it…
Anyone catch last night’s season premiere of the Simpsons? Notice a little friendly nudging to Apple iPhone users? So did we. [Simpsons]
I was one of the unlucky ones who bought an iPod early. I thought I was stuck with a wonky screen. I waited a couple of weeks to see what was up, and once Walt Mossberg said the defective screens were only an early production problem, I was off to the Apple Store to exchange…
Click to viewThe folks over at Loading Ready Run made a fantastic video illustrating why Halo is the future of gaming. After viewing, we have to say we’re on board. Kudos. [Loading Ready Run]
Are you wearing a protective exoskeletal suit that’s independently mobile or are you happy to see these Metal Gear Solid 4 1/6 size figures? Because if you ask us, there’s nothing more bad ass than going to work and finding Old Snake and/or non-pussy Raiden staring you in the face while you sip your first…