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A pair of designers, Jae-yun Kim & Jong-Su Lee, have come up with a speed bump that actually knows and rewards you if you’re obeying speed limits. Vehicles who just gun it upon driving over the speed bump will encounter a normal speed bump, but those who do slow down to below 30 km/h (about 19 mi/h)…
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December 16th, 2008
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author: lambert v.
filed under: design future tech technology
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There are plenty of replacement cases out there for the Nintendo DS Lite, but this one has a nifty trick up its sleeve.
The new XCM Hyper Gear case for the DS Lite not only gives your handheld a new look, it turbocharges your games. See that little switch that says “N”, “1.4X” and “1.7X”…
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November 5th, 2008
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author: technabob
filed under: hacks + mods video games
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Let me start by saying this — I need one of these. A new technology is in the works that can stop moving vehicles cars dead from a distance.
Pasadena’s Eureka Aerospace has developed high-power microwave-based system that can be fired at a specific car and kill its electrical system in an instant. The prototype…
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December 4th, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: future tech
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Need to take photos in really, really slow motion? Look no further than Vision Research’s Phantom Miro high speed digital camera series.
These cameras can shoot close up images at an insane rate of speed. They can take as many as a thousand 800×600 (SVGA) resolution photos every second. The lower the resolution is set,…
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June 26th, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: digital imaging strange + wonderful
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This wondrous little auto gadget uses GPS satellite tracking, radar and laser detection technologies to alert you to the presence of speed traps and traffic cameras.
The PogoAlert features a compact 1.8-inch LCD screen that mounts on your car’s dashboard or windshield, and lets you know when you’re approaching a speed trap or traffic camera.…
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March 5th, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: gadgets
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Apparently, Nike is getting ready to release a new digital watch that can record and upload data from their Nike+ shoe sensors without the use of an iPod. The new watch, called the Nike Speed+ appeared for just a few minutes on Nike’s European website before vanishing. Luckily, an enterprising visitor managed to grab a…
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January 17th, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: mobile tech timepieces
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While using a small amount of hard disk space to cache a portion of game content is a trick long used by the Xbox 360 and pretty much all PC games, it’s been revealed that some PS3 games would be using a very significant portion of the console’s hard drive to speed performance.
For example,…
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October 31st, 2006
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author: technabob
filed under: home entertainment video video games