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make your own dry ice

filed under: gadgets | strange and wonderful

Portable Dry Ice Maker

Just in time for that Halloween fog machine, this strange looking contraption will let you make as much dry ice as you want. Just add a canister of compressed liquid CO2, and it’ll do the rest.

The Portable Dry Ice Maker can crank out a one-pound block of dry ice in less than a minute…

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September 17th, 2007 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

when asimo freezes, does he see the blue screen of death?

filed under: just plain fun | robotics

A while back, we showed you a funny clip of Honda’s ASIMO humanoid robot falling on his ASS-IMO trying to climb some stairs. Well the good news is now the little guy seems to be doing fine climbing stairs…

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January 10th, 2007 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

ps3 copies xbox 360 and overheats too?

filed under: video games

While it’s way too soon to know what kind of post-launch issues Playstation 3 users will encounter, a video has surfaced of a new PS3 console which has died a tragic death.

Apparently these guys were playing Tony Hawk’s Project 8 for about 3 hours when the console died…

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November 19th, 2006 6 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

next gen games increase xbox 360 failure rates

filed under: video games

A couple of months back, I posted about my concerns that my Xbox 360 had overheated and died as a result of the next-gen game Prey. Now Kotaku is reporting about an Xbox 360 developer who reported an esimated 30-50% failure rate on Xbox 360s used in the testing games, with even higher failure rates on the zombie-killer Dead Rising…

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August 29th, 2006 8 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

will prey kill your xbox 360?

filed under: video games

Red Ring of Doom

Since buying my Xbox 360 console back on launch day in November 2005, I’ve been one of the fortunate 360 owners to never have a problem with overheating, disc scratches or freezes. My console is in a wide-open, well-ventilated area and had always behaved well. I’ve played just about every game, demo and Live Arcade title to date…

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July 19th, 2006 71 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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