September 2009
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Terrifyingly Awesome Railgun, with DYI...
How have I not seen this project before? It may not be quite as powerful as the Navy’s, but this DIY rail gun packs 5.6kJ. That’s five point six kilo Joules of Oh-my-dear-sweet-Geezuss-I’ll-never-piss-off-a-DIYer.
The rail gun seen in the video below is only the first revision Ravi Gaddipati’s project. The next one will be capable of “forty caps each rated at 400v...
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New Wheels On The Block (EPIC!)
These guys actually joke around about their condition. Helarious video!
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August 2009
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Amputee Elephant Walks Again Thanks to Incredibly...
Motola, like so many who must share their lives with former war zones and forgotten minefields, lost a limb in 1999. Thankfully, she walked again today courtesy modern medicine and an artificial limb. The thing is, she’s an elephant.
And, as an elephant, she weighs three tons. That kind of weight—excuse me for saying so, ma’am—requires one strong prosthesis. It took a few years of...
7:11.57 Gumpert Apollo NEW Nürburgring...
I rarely get get excited about auto racing, becuase it’s usually in a straight line or in a circle. GT auto racing is a different story though. Imense skill is involved in memorizing each turn of each track and whether or not you can decel or accel through a turn. Knowing how to shift isn’t and option it has to be second nature like eating or sleeping. The Nürburgring track in...
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James May of Top Gear in a U2 Spy Plane
Simple an incredible view from a U2 Spy plane used to spy other countries. James May of Top Gear (BBC) gets a chance to basically go into space.
July 2009
32 posts
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Windows 7 RTM Cracked (What Took So Long?)
I mean, it’s been six days since the RTM first leaked on BitTorrent. SIx days! That’s like an eternity. At any rate, it is true—Windows 7 RTM Ultimate has already been cracked using a Lenovo OEM product key.
The key and OEM certificate were extracted from Win 7 Ultimate’s .wim files. A similar method was used to bypass Vista, and those vulnerabilities were never addressed so...
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News Flash: Best Buy's Extended Warranties Are Rip...
Most savvy gadget shoppers know that extended warranties at places like Best Buy are the equivalent of lighting money on fire, but now HD Guru Gary Merson has done some investigating to show just how bad they are.
Best Buy’s sales pitch often differs from what you’ll encounter if you actually try to use your warranty. For example, they say you’ll get a new TV if yours needs to...
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How to fix some common iTunes problems
by John of 133754UC3.com
Well if you’re listening Apple, or in this case reading, there are a few improvements that need to be addressed in iTunes. Rather than adding visualizations or piggy backing on the “Pandora” type of reccomendation add-in, I think it’s time iTunes addresses some essential problems in your program.
The more aggrivating problem in my opinion is the...
Crazy Russian Sukhoi Su-35 Pilot Ejects For a...
Holy frak. Holy frak. HOLYROLLERBLADINGFRAK! Movie producers paid two Sukhoi Su-35 pilots to fly without a canopy at Mach 2.0, and have one of them eject in what probably is one of the most dangerous stunts ever filmed.
While on this speed I even managed to pull out my fingers in glove for an inch or two outside - it became heated very fast because of immense friction force plane undergoes with...
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Gmail's new unscubscribing feature makes Spam less...
Ever get an email from a legit mailing list but went ahead and marked it as spam anyway because you just don’t want it? Gmail has smartened up to this common behavior, offering to automatically unsubscribe you from certain messages.
From Gmail’s help pages:
We don’t think you should be burdened with managing messages you don’t want to receive. We do our best to put...
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Tron Legacy's New Awesome Lightcycle Escapes Into...
Here’s one of the ultra-sleek I-want-I-want-I-WANT new Tron sequel’s lightcycles, which apparently has escaped the grid to get into the real world. It’s on display at Comic Con 2009, and it gets me as wet as the trailer did. [YouTube]
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YouTube enters the cavernous, chromatic world of...
So it seems that YouTube has been experimenting with offering 3D videos over the past few days, but we’ve held off on letting you know just to make sure this wasn’t some sort of one-day lab test. As you can see in the video there in the read link, 3D videos that are uploaded can now be shown in a variety of formats in order to suit a variety of viewing styles. Believe it or not, this...
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Intel Core i5 750 reportedly arriving September 6,...
by Vladislav Savov, posted Jul 21st 2009 at 6:32PM
Presumably, Intel has been holding back its Core i5 CPUs in an effort not to cannibalize the prodigious success of its Core 2 line, but the chips had to come out of the oven at some point. If Chinese sources are to be believed, that time could be early this September. As detailed above, the i5 mainstream offerings will start at 2.66GHz (Core...
802.11n Should Be Finalized By September →
by Mark Hachman
By Sept. 11, it’s probable that the 802.11n standard will finally be approved.
On Friday, Bob Heile, the chairman of the IEEE 802.15 working group on Personal Area Networks, sent an email confirming that the IEEE 802.11n draft standard had been sent on to the Standards Review Committee, or RevCom, which formally recommends standards for approval.
“On other fronts,...
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Over 50 Percent of Internet Users Click on Spam →
Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with. Whether intentionally or by mistake, over half of Internet users click on spam ads. Spam constitutes between 85 and 98 percent of all email traffic, and a survey from the Messaging Anti-Abuse Group has shed light on why it is so ubiquitous: It works. While most spam clickers claim they only did so by mistake, and a smaller percentage...
Corsair's New Extreme SSD Line Is Blazingly Fast
Corsair just announced their new Extreme Line of SSDs, coming in 32/64/128GB capacities. So they’re not going to win a storage space award, but these little guys are fast—Corsair’s claiming read speeds of 240MB/s and 170MB/s write speeds.
They’re not the absolute fastest 2.5-inch laptop SSDs we’ve ever seen, but are definitely right up there at the top. WD’s new...
Corsair's New Extreme SSD Line Is Blazingly Fast
Corsair just announced their new Extreme Line of SSDs, coming in 32/64/128GB capacities. So they’re not going to win a storage space award, but these little guys are fast—Corsair’s claiming read speeds of 240MB/s and 170MB/s write speeds.
They’re not the absolute fastest 2.5-inch laptop SSDs we’ve ever seen, but are definitely right up there at the top. WD’s new...
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Password strength too often overlooked.
The invention of the Internet has caused all of us to create personal passwords for our online accounts. But regular passwords leave our personal information vulnerable to hackers and criminals. The best safeguard for our valuable online accounts is using complex passwords. Your personal information can be instantly more secure online if you follow these simple guidelines. Don’t become another...
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7 employees you meet in Best Buy
Have you ever noticed that no matter which Best Buy you go into, you end up seeing the same people working there? That’s because there are seven types of people that work at every single Best Buy, with no exceptions.
A little known fact about me is that I worked at Best Buy for a couple of years in high school before getting fired for badly, badly abusing the employee discount system. But...
Google/Microsoft OS battle could reduce PC costs
* Microsoft could cut prices to respond to Google-analysts
* Google’s move could help margins at PC vendors
(Adds details on pricing, partners)
By Gabriel Madway
SAN FRANCISCO, July 8 (Reuters) - Google Inc’s (GOOG.O) bid to compete with Microsoft Corp’s (MSFT.O) Windows operating system may help lower the cost of personal computers at a time when prices are already being...
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Google set to create Chrome OS
That Google operating system rumor is coming true—and it’s based on Google’s browser, Chrome.
The company announced Google Chrome OS on its blog Tuesday night, saying lower-end PCs called Netbooks from unnamed manufacturers will include it in the second half of 2010. Linux will run under the covers of the open-source project, but the applications will run on the Web itself.
In...
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New Russian Stealth Superfighter
Most people know the US fifth generation wonderplanes—the F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II—but the Russians are working on their own stealth superfighter: The Sukhoi PAK-FA. These concepts—by industrial designer Aleksander Dultsev—are simply amazing:
Nobody knows if the real PAK-FA will look anything similar to any of these three models, but we will probably...
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Improve Your Email Etiquette
Recently, I started using an old family friend as a travel agent. Before then, we’d never had occasion to email one another. From the start, I was shocked to find that she regularly wrote her emails exclusively in all uppercase letters. I politely mentioned that using all caps in an email is the equivalent of screaming in voice conversations and she said she appreciated the tip. Still, I couldn’t...
Colorware releases a "stealth" Macbook
Colorware’s well known for offering up all sorts of consumer electronics in all sorts of hues, but the outfit has definitely stepped up its game with the Stealth MacBook Pro. This limited edition piece is an all-black 15-inch MacBook Pro with a matte display, 3.06GHz CPU, 8GB of DDR3 RAM, 256GB SSD, an 8x SuperDrive, zero gloss finish and a SofTouch coating that’ll make it downright...
Ben Heck's Xbox Laptop
Ben Heckendorn—true geek god amongst men—is back with revision 5 of his portable Xbox 360 console.
Though he’s gutted the same Gateway 1775W laptop with 17-inch (1280 by 720) display, he writes that this design is from scratch, and has the following new features:
• Built-in Ethernet port, finally. • Built-in WiFi adapter, as usual. • Digital pushbutton volume control rather than a...
NZXT Sentry 2 Touchscreen Fan Belongs In KITT's...
This is the NZXT Sentry 2 fan controller. It installs into any 5.25-inch bay, and you can use its touch screen interface to set the speed of up to five fans. Note: Leather pants are not included. [NZXT via BBG]
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Hansgrohe RainBrain Shower controls water,...
This RainBrain smart shower controller from Hansgrohe seems like one of those things that you didn’t think you needed, but once you try it you can never go back to what you had before.
This thing controls music streamed wirelessly via Bluetooth, lighting in your shower and even (who’d have imagined) what kind of water is raining down on you. It even has a Scottish Shower mode, which I...
June 2009
25 posts
Dress Up Your Ties with the "Merovingian Knot"
The realm of dress tie knots is dominated by a handful of traditional tie knots. Check out this rather unique tie knot and be the first on your block to sport it.
If you’re a very sharp-eyed fan of Matrix movie trilogy, you’ll recognize the knot captured below as a rare specimen sported by “The Merovingian.” The knot itself didn’t originate with the movie, and...
New Mouse replacement has real life recoil
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The Novint Falcon® Pistol Grip is the Must Have FPS Accessory For Falcon Gaming. The Pistol Grip attaches to the Falcon, replacing the standard Grip for an incredibly realistic gaming experience that lets you feel realistic weapon recoil and force feedback.
Price: $19.99
The Pistol Grip is currently only available for sale in the U.S.
The Pistol Grip is currently not available for...
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Indie Film Company Sells Film on eBay
Lost Dogs Can be Yours If the Price is Right!
56k has decided to sell the distribution rights to their first feature length film Lost Dogs on eBay.com. The independent film scene has changed so much in the past 15 years. The festival circuit has become increasingly focused on showcasing projects with “known talent.” It makes sense, the more films shown at a festival that feature...
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