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LEGO Robot Helps Test iPad Apps, Promises Not to Make Any In-App Purchases

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.

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IQ Alarm Clock Concept Makes You Take A Test Before Alarm Turns Off

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 in order to shut off its alarm.

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LEGO Robot Tests Kno Textbook Tablet

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 really, really tedious sometimes.

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Hardcore Gamer Aptitude Test: One More Thing to Brag About

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 screw with us, math.

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3dmark 11 Will Crush Your Lousy Graphic Card

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.

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Nerd Purity Test: Will You be Proud if You Get a High Score?

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?).

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Microsoft Looking for Video Game Testers, Offers Free Software

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 the USA to sign up.

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Google Chrome Os Download, Almost Exactly the Same as the Browser

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.

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Plasma Tvs Pwn LCD Tvs in Displaymate’S Tests, but Displaymate Also Pwns Tv Makers

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.

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Pac-Man Pain Assessment Chart: Maybe You’D Feel Better if You Ate Some Cherries and Pretzels?

Pac-Man pain assessment gauge, spotted on Flickr. Currently, I feel a little Woopop myself.

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Rhombus Dress Shirt Hides Binary Code

At first glance this just looks like a nice, stylish button-down dress shirt. But upon further examination, you’ll notice that its shading isn’t just some sort of abstract pattern. It’s actually comprised of tens of thousands of little 0’s and 1’s.

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Halo 3 Beta Start Date Official

Bungie.net has revealed the dates for the official Halo 3 Beta test. The Beta will run for just under a month from May 16 through June 6, 2007. Since the Beta will be over in June and the game isn’t expected to be released until September, we’ll be going through at least two months of withdrawal symptoms during the late Summer.

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LEGO Robot Helps Test iPad Apps, Promises Not to Make Any In-App Purchases

IQ Alarm Clock Concept Makes You Take A Test Before Alarm Turns Off

LEGO Robot Tests Kno Textbook Tablet

Hardcore Gamer Aptitude Test: One More Thing to Brag About

3dmark 11 Will Crush Your Lousy Graphic Card

Nerd Purity Test: Will You be Proud if You Get a High Score?

Microsoft Looking for Video Game Testers, Offers Free Software

Google Chrome Os Download, Almost Exactly the Same as the Browser

Plasma Tvs Pwn LCD Tvs in Displaymate’S Tests, but Displaymate Also Pwns Tv Makers

Pac-Man Pain Assessment Chart: Maybe You’D Feel Better if You Ate Some Cherries and Pretzels?

Rhombus Dress Shirt Hides Binary Code

Halo 3 Beta Start Date Official

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