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Archive for March 2011

Silence of the Celebs Chrome Add-on Says Bye, Bye, Charlie… Farewell, Lindsay!

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If you feel that your constantly deluged by news about celebrities, then this new browser add-on is for you. Silence of the Celebs is a Google Chrome extension that allows you to block and remove the headlines of certain celebs from news sites, such as CNN, The Huffington Post, and…

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March 10th, 2011 by: Range

Konect USB Concept Watch Plays MP3s, Stores Files, Skypes, Sorta Tells Time

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Olivier Demangel tended to lose his USB flash drives often, so when he created a wristwatch design submission for Tokyoflash, he decided to make a watch with a complementary USB flash drive.…

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March 10th, 2011 by: Lambert Varias

MapleXO & Grove iPhone Case: Created From Crashed Skateboards

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These limited edition iPhone 4 cases were created by a collaboration between Grove and MapleXO. They include wood that came from old skateboard decks.…

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March 10th, 2011 by: Range

Unreal Engine 3 Samaritan Demo Lives Up to its Name

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…no not so much the samaritan part – the UNREAL ENGINE part. Honest to god, the graphics in this newly released real-time demo footage running on Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 3 is the best looking bit of game engine footage I’ve ever laid eyes on.…

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March 9th, 2011 by: Technabob

Yamaha Noise Generator: The Next Best Thing to the Cone of Silence

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If you need to have a private conversation, you could find an office with a door on it, but if you happen to work in a cubicle farm, it might be difficult to have a conversation without your neighbors eavesdropping. Now thanks to this gadget from Japan, you could keep…

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March 9th, 2011 by: Technabob

Most Awesome Home Theater EVAH!

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If you ever needed a reason to pursue higher education or play the lottery more frequently, here it is. First, check out this awesome Hawaiian beach house. It’s pretty freakin’ awesome just from the outside, but wait until you step inside.…

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March 9th, 2011 by: Shane McGlaun

H2O Shower Radio Gets Power from Water

If you like long hot showers in the morning and a bit of music to go with it to wake up we have the radio for you. You can buy all sorts of radios that are made for use in the shower that can survive the water. All of those…

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March 9th, 2011 by: Shane McGlaun

DIY Pulse Laser Pistol is So Much Better than a Laser Pointer

I am a big fan of lasers and laser guns. Sure, they are mostly the stuff of science fiction, but the military is making some great advances in using lasers on the battlefield today. I want something a bit more portable than a laser that needs an entire jet to…

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March 9th, 2011 by: Shane McGlaun

All the Power Rangers Return in an Epic, Candy-Colored Battle

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I’ll admit it, I used to love watching Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers…. My brain ate that formulaic plot up: start with a scene with all the Rangers at school, then a monster appears, they fight the foot soldiers unmorphed, then they morph and fight some more, then the monster

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March 9th, 2011 by: Lambert Varias

Super Mario Bros. With Modern Sound Effects: Aurally Brutal

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Aside from graphics, video game sound effects have gotten more complex over time as well. But does that mean that they have gotten better? What if the sound designers back then had access to the technology we have today? YouTube user virtjk made such an experiment, and he went after…

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March 9th, 2011 by: Lambert Varias

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