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LEGO Robot Helps Test iPad Apps, Promises Not to Make Any In-App Purchases
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Developers, what do you do when you don’t feel like testing your apps yourself? You built a LEGO Mindstorms robot to do the job for you. That’s basically what researchers and developers at the Pheromone Lab did recently. Their LEGO robot helped them test an app by taking 10,000 photos… |
September 27th, 2011
IQ Alarm Clock Concept Makes You Take A Test Before Alarm Turns Off
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How will alarm clocks wake thee? Let us count the ways. Here’s another innovative idea that will force both your body and your mind to wake up. Designed by Oliver Sha, the IQ Alarm Clock presents users between 1 to 3 multiple choice questions that they have to answer correctly… |
February 25th, 2011
LEGO Robot Tests Kno Textbook Tablet
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You might look at this LEGO robot that the Kno dev team is using to test the gestures support of a Kno Textbook tablet and wonder why – but I totally get it. As a guy that tests more products than I care to think about most days it gets… |
February 2nd, 2011
Hardcore Gamer Aptitude Test: One More Thing to Brag About
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Gamespy invites gamers to test just how hard their cores are with the Hardcore Gamer Aptitude Test, or HGAT. The multiple choice test spans an annoyingly diverse selection of questions, from history – which includes historical facts about games, memes and consoles – to video game analogies, and just to… |
June 4th, 2010
3dmark 11 Will Crush Your Lousy Graphic Card
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The guys at Futuremark just took wraps off the latest version of their 3DMark benchmarking suite, and it’s guaranteed to put your graphic chipset through the most aggressive set of tests it’s ever been tasked with. The new version of the software is designed to exercise the latest in DirectX… |
May 24th, 2010
Nerd Purity Test: Will You be Proud if You Get a High Score?
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The Armory has a 100-item Nerd Purity Test with questions ranging from reasonable (Have you ever programmed a computer?) to absurd (Do you know the Latin name for the fruit fly?) to just plain hilarious (Is your weight less than your IQ?).… |
April 8th, 2010
Microsoft Looking for Video Game Testers, Offers Free Software
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Citizens of the United States of America, young and old, noob or hardcore, Xbox loyalist, Wii fanatic or PS3 fanboy, hear ye hear ye! Microsoft is looking for video game testers! The most likely location of the “Playtest facility” will be in Microsoft’s Seattle compound, but they’re encouraging everyone from… |
February 1st, 2010
Google Chrome Os Download, Almost Exactly the Same as the Browser
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Curious and/or impatient techies! An early developer build of Google (Google’s?) Chrome OS – which was just formally announced – has been unleashed on the Internet for those who want to take an early early early peek at what I like to call the BrOSer. From what I’ve read about… |
November 20th, 2009
Plasma Tvs Pwn LCD Tvs in Displaymate’S Tests, but Displaymate Also Pwns Tv Makers
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New Hampshire-based DisplayMate Technologies, maker of “video calibration, evaluation, and diagnostic products”, conducted a thorough comparison on the display quality of plasma TVs and LCD TVs, resulting in a long, jargon-riddled but ultimately revealing article that declares the plasma TVs as winners. The author of the article, DisplayMate president Dr.… |
July 14th, 2009
Pac-Man Pain Assessment Chart: Maybe You’D Feel Better if You Ate Some Cherries and Pretzels?
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Pac-Man pain assessment gauge, spotted on Flickr. Currently, I feel a little Woopop myself.… |
February 3rd, 2009
