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Automated Shopping Cart: Most Awesome Kinect Project Yet?
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Geeks have been doing all sorts of wild things with Microsoft Kinect sensor since Microsoft launched it. The Kinect for Windows sensor hasn’t been around as long as the original gaming sensor, but it already has one of the most awesome uses I’ve ever seen for anything Microsoft manufactured. What… |
February 28th, 2012
GM Demos Touchscreen Windows for Interactive Road Trips
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When it comes to road trips, any parent can tell you a few hours spent in a car with a couple kids can feel like days. Kids get bored and cranky after a while, leading to cranky parents. Now, GM is showing a cool concept that takes the windows of… |
January 18th, 2012
Board of Awesomeness Kinect Longboard Uses Everything but Your Feet to Make It Move
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The Kinect was designed to make it easier for us to command software, but the guys at Chaotic Moon Labs knew they could make it move actual objects. The result? The Board of Awesomeness, a motorized longboard that relies on video recognition, speech recognition, gesture recognition, location data, accelerometer data… |
January 10th, 2012
Code of Arms T-Shirt Reminds You of the Three “R’s” of Windows Maintenance
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Let’s face it. If you’ve got a Windows PC, you’ve probably had it crash at least a few times, and most of us have seen the dreaded Blue Screen of Death more times than we care to. After a few crashes, sometimes the best option is to just wipe your… |
January 3rd, 2012
Nokia Lumia 800: The Windows iPhone
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Nokia has officially announced its new Lumia 800 Windows smartphone, which will cater to people who just don’t want an iPhone but would like some of its style and features, but prefer the Windows Phone OS.… |
October 27th, 2011
Want to Turn Your Windows into Solar Panels? 3M Has a Film for That
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Solar panels are a great technology, but the problem is that they are still too expensive and they require costly renovation to your home. There must be a clever and easier to implement solution. There is. 3M’s new solar film can be used with your existing windows, turning them into… |
October 5th, 2011
Man Mods Windows to Automatically Close When Trains Pass
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My family and I just recently moved to a new house in a subdivision that’s also still relatively new. Every morning, we would wake up to the noise of trucks passing by to deliver construction materials to the other homes that were still being built. |
September 14th, 2011
Nyan Cat Progress Bar Will Have You Shuffling Files All Day
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Are you still addicted to the hypnotic and trippy Nyan Cat? Well now you can have it dancing around your desktop and hear its nyan-tastic theme music every time you transfer or download a file, thanks to Ben Stone and his custom Nyan Cat progress bar.… |
July 11th, 2011
Salty Pixels Salt and Pepper Shaker: Wait… Which is Which Again?
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Here’s a geeky salt and pepper shaker for Windows fans. The Salty Pixels salt and pepper shaker is shaped like the classic hourglass cursor. Why? Because the new blue spiral thingy in Vista and 7 doesn’t look like a shaker.… |
June 8th, 2011
Ctrl+O Bottle Opener Leaves Mac Users Green With Envy
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Here’s a product that could only be designed by the creative minds at Art Lebedev. Like its namesake Windows command, the Ctrl+O will help you pop open bottles in real life. This can easily lead to an entire suite of Windows command products. Ctrl+X scissors, Ctrl+C carbon paper, Ctrl+V glue…… |
May 3rd, 2011
