Archive for January 2011
Cloning Woolly Mammoths: Nothing Could Possibly Go Wrong
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Scientists have announced that they are close to cloning woolly mammoths. This could take place in as little as 4 years. While we won’t exactly get Jurassic Park, we may have a real-world Ice Age Park…. |
January 18th, 2011
Watch Out Where the AT-ATs Go, Don’t Eat That Yellow Snow!
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Yes, there’s a lot of snow right now and it can be a pain, especially if you’re not used to receiving that much of it at the same time. Personally, even though I’m currently living in Taipei, I love snow. I used to live in Quebec, Canada, and the last… |
January 18th, 2011
U-Socket Adds USB Ports to Your Wall Outlets
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How many USB ports does one really need? I’m of the opinion that one can never have too many USB ports. I mean, just think of all of the gadgets you have that utilize the technology. Heck, some devices even need to recharge using it. Of course, you don’t always… |
January 18th, 2011
Video Game Characters Escape into the Real World
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Aled Lewis’ has done it again. The geeky mashup artist took a bunch of video game characters in their pure pixelated form and placed them in pictures of the real world. I’m sure that this concept has been explored a hundred times before – I think I might have made… |
January 18th, 2011
Samsung Central Station Wirelessly Provides Larger Monitor, Extra Ports
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Not all of the gadgets featured at CES 2011 were exciting. Some of them are “merely” practical, like Samsung’s CA750 Central Station. It’s a dock and monitor in one, providing not only a larger display but a healthy helping of ports and connections as well. All that is done wirelessly… |
January 18th, 2011
LEGO Angry Birds: Do Not Catapult.
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There’s not much more to say besides the fact that these LEGO Angry Birds by Tsang Yiu Keung are nothing short of awesome.… |
January 17th, 2011
MeeBlip Synthesizer Kit Encourages Hacking
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If you’re into making electronic sounds and like to really get under the hood of your electronics, the MeeBlip is a new synthesizer kit designed for ease of assembly and hacking.… |
January 17th, 2011
Project HiJack Steals Power from iOS Headphone Jack
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I’m not a developer of accessories or gear for iOS devices, but I would have to imagine that much of the cost to develop the accessories would have to be the fees associated with Apple certification and the plugs and such you need to work with the docking connector. Some… |
January 17th, 2011
Triple-Boot Evolve III Maestro Tablet is Perfect for the Indecisive
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Tablets are great if you choose the right one, otherwise you might end up stuck with a thin slab of crap that you never use. If you are in the market for a new tablet, but you just can’t decide what OS you should buy Evolve III has a new… |
January 17th, 2011
Carbon Nanotubes Makes Aerogel Even Lighter Than it Already Was
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Aerogel is a man-made material that was invented a while back. It’s one of those products that is really cool, but hasn’t made its way into anything too interesting that I have seen yet. Aerogel is the world’s lightest solid though, and scientists have used our friends the carbon nanotube… |
January 17th, 2011
