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Nissan Adds Cool Tire Inflation Technology to 2013 Vehicles
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My wife has a 2012 Nissan Altima, and like all vehicles since 2007, the car has a tire pressure monitoring system. The part that’s so stupid about the rudimentary system in that particular car is that when the light comes on you have no idea which tire is actually low.… |
May 26th, 2012
Junkyard Robot PC Case Mod Dares You to Ask if It Can Play Crysis
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Believe it or not, this sculpture of a robot actually houses a working computer in its body. While this doesn’t dethrone the weirdest or the prettiest case mods that I’ve seen, the man who made it says he finished the whole thing in just 2 days. I can’t even finish a… |
May 25th, 2012
Medicine Jet Injector Less Painful, More Awesome than Needles
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If Ian Hunter and his team at MIT have their way, the serial killers and torturers of the future will have one less tool to brandish and freak out their victims. Hunter and his colleagues have engineered a jet-injection system that can administer drugs with less pain and more accuracy… |
May 25th, 2012
PressurePen Stylus Adds Pressure Sensitivity to iPad, Android Tablets
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I’ve longed for a stylus that was actually good for drawing on my iPad, but after many purchases, I’m still not satisfied. What I really want is something that has a fairly fine tip, but can also produce pressure data. What I really want is to be able to use… |
May 24th, 2012
Quirky Ions Magnetic LED Lamp: Light Where You Need It
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The problem with repairing stuff is that I don’t how to do it. But if there’s one thing I do know about repairing, it’s that whatever it is you’re working on is bound to be dimly lit. That’s why the world needs something like Ions, which are tiny magnetic LED… |
May 24th, 2012
Transformers 3 Extra Awarded $18.5 Million after On-Set Injury
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Back in September of 2010, when the Michael Bay helmed Transformers: Dark of the Moon… movie was filming, a 26-year-old woman who was hired as an extra was severely injured during a scene. The woman’s name is Gabriela Cedillo, and she was injured when a cable snapped that was towing |
May 24th, 2012
gTar: The iGuitar You’ve Always Wanted
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I use my iPhone quite a bit, and I know that many people use it to also create tunes. Now you can have a guitar which integrates an iPhone dock, and it’s fully powered by the phone, making it the ultimate iGuitar. I’m not sure, but it’s definitely an interesting… |
May 23rd, 2012
Arcadie Adds Arcade Joystick to iPhone and iPod Touch on the Cheap
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There are already a couple of add-ons on the market or in the works to equip your iOS gadgets with a joystick. I actually have one of the original iCade units for my iPad and it’s pretty cool. However, most of the joysticks out there are pretty expensive, and they… |
May 22nd, 2012
CordLite Illuminated iOS Cable: A Simple Solution for a Very Simple Problem
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This is how much technology can coddle us: someone’s come up with a charge and sync device for iOS devices that has built-in LEDs to make it easier to plug it in in the dark. I usually just use my iPhone’s own light or feel which end is which, but… |
May 22nd, 2012
Users Upload 72 Hours of (Cat) Videos per Minute to YouTube
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YouTube is crazy popular. One of these days, Google will figure out how to make more money off those videos and generate metric tons of income. Until then it’s a place we can go to look at videos people post up of things as mundane as their daily breakfast or… |
May 22nd, 2012
