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The Pentagon is giving the war profiteers over at Lockheed Martin a nice chunk of change to develop a spy camera modeled after a maple seed. Loaded up with two rockets, the wee, single-winged camera would be used in large clusters over war zones, capturing loads of imagery to give a complete picture of a…
A Giz reader got us this video of his friends playing with an AT4, the preferred anti-armour bazookas of sweet svenska valkyries: the AT4 is manufactured by swedish SAAB and beyond looking fun, what is interesting is his description about the feeling of firing one. And no, it’s not what you expect from the movies:…
Apple’s numbskull design decision to make it so that regular earphone jacks can’t fit in its iPhone have inconvenienced nearly everyone who bought it, but now Helium Digital steps up with a $3.99 solution to the problem. That’s the cheapest one yet. Check out our market overview of problem-solvers—none of which is made by Apple—after…
If you put the words “weekend” and “roundup” together, what do you get? All this: •A fellow from Pennsylvania filed a $5billion law suit against Google. •Microsoft patent discovered that indicated some cool Zune WiFi features. •SRI International talked about zero gravity surgery. •We found some unofficial MacBooks in aluminum. •YouNeverCall pledged $10,000 to the…
This Thermaltake Soprano keyboard has nothing to do with the seminal HBO mob drama, but you just know that Thermaltake was hoping to get a boost in their Google PageRank with that name. Chances are, an aluminum keyboard with a “scissor foot” design underneath the keys to provide for maximum comfort won’t be as popular…
We’re not exactly sure what kind of evidence you’ll be gathering with this so-called “world’s smallest” micro camcorder. But whatever that is, you’d better get ‘er done in two hours, because that’s how long its battery lasts. You can see how tiny this thing is—small enough to literally pull out of your ass—but despite its…
Time to put the old girl out to pasture. Though it’s not from the Mouth of Steve, rumors are confirmed that Leopard won’t support the following 800 MHz G4 systems: PowerBook G4 Titanium, PowerMac G4 Quicksilver, iMac G4, iBook G4 and eMac. If you were lucky enough to hold out for the 867MHz G4, you…
News Corp, the daddy of MySpace, has announced that it’s launching a mobile version of the social networking behemoth. It’s great news for the people who still use MySpace, although that number is plummeting quickly. I mean, come on, who uses MySpace anymore? It’s all spam these days, and the ads are overwhelming. It’s a…
Virgin Digital, a Branson-owned online music subscription and download service, is shutting down operation in the US and UK next month, probably because you never even heard of it. [IDG/Yahoo]
Just in time for the big Halo 3 rollout tomorrow, master LEGO builder Nathan Sawaya creates a likeness of that mofo Master Chief, which he says is his most-requested object these days. The video shows a lot of the other amazing creations done by this attorney turned LEGO artist. As you can see by his…
It sounds like a double-whammy of a bad idea: a free phone service that determines which ads to target to you by applying speech-recognition to all your conversations. To make things worse, the home page of ThePudding.com insults potential customers by saying it’s “a breakthrough technology that makes your phone calls interesting.” Hey, my phone…
Sub company Erbert & Gerbert was looking for a cheaper way to advertise its food than the usual $365,000 that’s usually needed to film a commercial. And this is what they came up with. Cool and clever. [Human Flipbook via Fresh Creation]
Sony’s AR series of VAIO notebooks with their Intel Core 2 Duo T7250 and T7500 processors are already in our catbird seat but now the company’s goosed its 17-inch versions, giving them the ability to do a lot more both on the road and in the home theater. How does a Blu-ray drive on board…
From Oct. 2 to Nov. 7, more than 10,000 Starbucks shops will be handing out free “Song of the Day” iTunes download cards. Starbucks estimates it will hand out 1.5 million songs per day, over 50 million in all, to promote the iTunes Wi-Fi store to which Starbucks will grant free access over its T-Mobile…
In the past two years, the Australian Navy has paid for 13 women to get breast implants for reasons of morale. But whose morale? [Danger Room]
Lenovo installed an interactive water wall at its home office in North Carolina, and it reacts to passersby with an optical tracker, rippling along as they get closer to the projection-based display. Maybe Lenovo was thinking about its waterproof keyboard when it created this installation. We’re thinking they should have installed more than one water…
Here’s the UXV Combatant, a new class of warship being developed by BAE Systems to fight in the drone wars. BAE believes that the future battlefield will be full of intelligent robots fighting against each other, probably until they realize they can join together to eliminate all humans from Earth. The ship looks and specs,…
If you ever wake up in the morning and think: “Every day is just the same old same old,” then maybe you need to look at Ryuuichi Terada’s blog. Entitled “I Take a Picture of the Same Vending Machine Every Day (or so). I’m Very Sorry,” the Sapporo-based man has spent the past two years…
Dell got in bed with GOME Group, the Chinese equivalent of Best Buy, to improve poor sales in China. Lenovo is market leader with 35 percent; HP has around 12. By comparison, Dell’s market share is “single digit.” [Reuters]
This is Bugstepper, a kids’ electronic game that Danish scientists are hoping is the first step in developing computer games that can detect a player’s boredom and up the ante accordingly. Researchers at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense tried out the active electronic game on 56 eight- to ten-year-olds to create a program…