Archive for May 2010
Nec Program Identifies Illegally Copied Videos: Your Move, Pirates
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Japanese IT company NEC claims they have developed “a video content identification technology that detects illegal copies of video content uploaded to the Internet in a matter of seconds.”… I’m not entirely sure how this works, so bear with me on this one. According to the company’s press release, the |
May 7th, 2010
My Fireplace for the Wii: Burning Down the House
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The ESRB’s website has frequently been a source of video game leaks and spoilers, but I don’t know what to make of this. Apparently there’s an upcoming game for the Nintendo Wii in which players tend to a fireplace. I’ll give you time to pick up your jaw from the… |
May 7th, 2010
Super Mario Cake Comes to Life Before Your Eyes
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Created by Michelle Wibowo of Michelle Sugar Art, this Mario cake looks like it took quite a bit of time to put together, and you could only eat his body. From what I can tell, his head is made out of foam, covered with fondant. Speaking from personal experience, styrofoam… |
May 6th, 2010
IPad + SNES + Wiimote = Geek Fantasy
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Combining three of geekdom’s favorite technologies, here’s a nifty hack which allows you to play old SNES games on your iPad and control them with a Wii-mote. In order to pull it off yourself, you’ll need to jailbreak your iPad, then install the latest version snes4iphone. The latest version (7.0)… |
May 6th, 2010
Omg, Run, It’S Hector! Oh Wait, It’S Just Lola
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When I was a kid, there wasn’t any parental supervision over what I watched on TV. I once watched a flick called Hotel Hell and couldn’t go into the meat area in the grocery store for six months. I can thank the sci-fi flick Saturn 3… for my unnatural fear |
May 6th, 2010
LEGO Stop-Motion Star Wars Recaps Episodes 4, 5, and 6 in 2:12
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This hilarious LEGO stop-motion video recaps the original Star Wars movies, from Episode 4: A New Hope, to Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back, to Episode 6: The Return of the Jedi in just about 2 minutes. When I was a kid, it baffled me that the Star … |
May 6th, 2010
Apple Wants to Hear Your Heartbeat Before Using Your iPhone
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I can’t say that I have ever used a biometric sensor that works as promised. I once had a Dell laptop that had a fingerprint sensor. I could swipe my finger a million times and never log in with that thing. It worked so poorly that I simply never used… |
May 6th, 2010
Space Invaders Silver Pendant: Wear an Alien Around Your Neck and Hope It Doesn’T Choke You to Death
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What could be a better present for the geek or geekette in your life than this ultimate Space Invaders pendant? This pendant was designed by La Tête Au Cube, which roughly translates as your head cubed. The design collective collaborated with Christofle to make a new edition of the fan… |
May 6th, 2010
IPhone Os 4 Features Preview: File Sharing! Multitasking! How Novel.
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Boy Genius Report has pics of the iPhone OS 4 beta 3 in action, showing some of the new features in store for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad owners. One of them is this totally new, magical, revolutionary concept that I can’t believe no one has thought of before: file… |
May 6th, 2010
Brando Slim Bluetooth Keyboard Dares to Pair Itself With the iPad
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Someone forgot to tell Brando that Apple prefers form over function any day of the week. Brando’s Slim Bluetooth Keyboard may be one fugly gadget, but it is a lot more portable and cheaper than Apple’s own keyboard. More importantly, as Brando says, “it works in iPad.” Also, it’s “slim … |
May 6th, 2010
