Monter Cables Has Come Up With Another Way To Rip You Off (5)
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The professional bullshit artists and dumbass fleecers over at Monster have devised another way to remove money from the wallets of the ignorant: cleaning sprays. They've released five different sprays for five different types of devices: a camera spray, a cell phone spray, an iPhone spray (Buchanan posits that this one is made of pure angel tears), a GPS spray and a laptop spray. Yes, Monster wants you to think that your GPS and your ...
Charge your dying phone by plugging it into your pen (1)
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Mobile chargers, small devices with batteries that you can plug a dying cellphone into, have been around for a while. But because they serve just one purpose, they haven't caught on that well. People need to remember to carry them around with them so when the time is right, they have it on hand. Easier said than done. This new charger, however, is different. It's actually a functioning pen that also charges up phones. Simply ...
Photoshop Contest: Create New Masterpieces Out of Google's Chrome Comic Using Photoshop (8)
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For this week's Photoshop Contest, I want you guys to go crazy with Google's Chrome comic. The 4chan folks have already done some stuff with it, now its your turn. Feel free to go beyond just swapping the words out. Insert photos, put panels together that don't belong together, make it as insane as humanly possible. There are tons of pages of source material, and I'm positive that you'll come up with some hilarious and ...
Screw the Large Hadron Collider, I'll Take the Large Helical Device [Science] (8)
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We've all been wowed by the remarkable photos of the apocalypse-bringing Large Hadron Collider (set to run next Wednesday!), but it's not the only piece of insanely-large scientific equipment that's easy on the eyes. Japan’s Large Helical Device was designed to "conduct fusion-plasma confinement research in a steady-state." Also, it looks amazing. Sure, it doesn't have as many far-reaching implications for the physics world, nor are there any idiot protestors complaining that it'll destroy the ...
Say Goodbye to Bike Chains; Say Hello to Belt Drives (20)
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Bikes with chains may be becoming an endangered species. Belt-driven bikes, which were introduced by boutique bike makers a couple of years ago, are just starting to hit the mainstream. Trek has introduced two new urban bikes for 2009 with belt drives rather than chains, and they look pretty sweet. The benefit to a belt drive system over a chain and shifters system is that it won't stretch and break over time like a chain, ...
100 Remotely-Controlled Cameras All Gunning to Capture the Same Moment [Photography] (10)
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At the Beijing Olympics, there were thousands of photographers all looking to get iconic shots of the games. For some events, that meant arriving many, many hours early and setting up elaborate remote camera setups. For the men's 100m dash, there were close to 100 remote cameras set up, all focused on the same thing: the finish line. Photographer Vincent Laforet was there, and he made this amazing video showing the sheer insanity of hundreds ...
Energy Ball brings a quiet wind turbine to your roof (1)
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Looking for a small, quiet wind turbine to stick on your roof and generate free energy for you whenever there's a breeze? Take a look at the Energy Ball. A small, beautifully designed turbine, it'll generate more energy than any other personal turbine while remaining whisper quiet. The spherical Energy Ball takes advantage of the Venturi Effect, something that measures the pressure created when water moves through a contained space. By taking that principle into ...
Microsoft to Set IE8 Apart From Chrome by Giving it Twice the Bloat [Browser Wars] (2)
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Here's something you don't want to hear describing your latest browser: "epically porcine." Yes, that's exactly how software research firm Devil Mountain CEO Craig Barth described it. Just how bad is the bloat on the latest beta? Well, on a 10-site scenario test, Firefox 3.0.1 consumed 159MB of memory. IE7 consumed a heartier 250MB. IE 8? A whopping 380MB of memory. Yikes. To be fair, IE8 is still in beta, which means it isn't the ...
PNY 2GB Thumb Drive to Come Pre-Loaded with Ghostbusters, Make All Other Thumb Drives Look Humorless [I Aint Afraid Of No Ghosts] (11)
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When you're going to buy a USB thumb drive, there's not much differentiating all the brands other than looks. Usually, people just grab the cheapest or the least stupid-looking. That won't be the case when PNY unleashes it's newest 2GB drive. Why? It'll come preloaded with Ghostbusters, that's why. Ghostbusters! There's no word on the pricing or what format the movie comes in, but if it's priced similarly to other 2GB drives, those other drives ...
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Hadyn said:
This is a fantastic idea!
Google Chrome EULA Claims Ownership of Everything You Create on Chrome, From Blog Posts to Emails [Google Chrome] (30)
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So, are you enjoying the snappy, clean performance of Google Chrome since downloading yesterday? If so, you might want to take a closer peek at the end user license agreement you didn't pay any attention to when downloading and installing it. Because according to what you agreed to, Google owns everything you publish and create while using Chrome. Ah-whaaa? Here are the juicy bits in question: 11. Content license from you 11.1 You retain copyright ...
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Aaron said:
This EULA is so unreasonable that the state of Washington would throw it out in a second. There's legal precedent here, so I'm not terribly worried about it.
Google Claims Ownership of Everything You Create in Chrome (22)
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So, are you enjoying the snappy, clean performance of Google Chrome since downloading yesterday? If so, you might want to take a closer peek at the end user license agreement you didn't pay any attention to when downloading and installing it. Because according to what you agreed to, Google owns everything you publish and create while using Chrome. Ah-whaaa? Here are the juicy bits in question: 11. Content license from you 11.1 You retain copyright ...
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fei said:
it's a big deal, if not misunderstood
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Jonna said:
Google PWNS YOU!
Google Chrome EULA Claims Ownership of Everything You Create Using Chrome, From Blog Posts to Emails [Google Chrome] (1)
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via: Gizmodo (drop this source • show all sources) • help relevance: Top • Web 2.0 (tell me more...) rate it: | So, are you enjoying the snappy, clean performance of Google Chrome since downloading yesterday? If so, you might want to take a closer peek at the end user license agreement you didn't pay any attention to when downloading and installing it. Because according to what you agreed to, Google owns everything you publish ...
90 Gadget Cross Promotions That Would Seriously Damage Some Brands (2)
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For this week's Photoshop Contest, I asked you to create some really awkward gadget-related cross promotions. Another home run, if I do say so myself. There were an inordinate number of entries that involved condoms or feminine hygenine products, but beyond those we have some truly inspired entries. And some truly twisted entries. In fact, all three of the top winners are tasteless to the point of maybe crossing the line, but I guess you ...
Buy this Camera or Chuck Norris Will Beat Up Your Family [Digital Cameras] (4)
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What do you do when you want to show that your phone is tough? If you're Rollei, you put a picture of Chuck Norris on the front. That's right, a camera with Chuck Norris in fighting stance on the front. One of the features of this camera is that instead of smiling, all of your subjects will have looks of fear and intimidation on their faces. [TechFever via The Raw Feed]
Most powerful magnet ever being built in Florida (1)
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Your fridge magnets suck. At least compared to the new magnet being built at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, which is set to be the most powerful in the world. It'll be a pulsed electromagnet that will reach a power of 100 tesla when it's complete, which is a whopping 67 times more powerful than the magnets in a typical MRI. The super-powerful magnet will be used to "test the properties of newly discovered ...
Google Chrome Hands On and First Impressions with Screenshots [Google Chrome] (13)
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Here it is, folks: the first honest-to-goodness screenshots from Google Chrome, which you can now download for yourself. You can see the main tab setup, the settings windows, the new tab page and the Incognito window. Want to see more? Let us know what you're interested in in the comments section and we'll add to the below gallery. Don't worry, Mac and Linux folks; there'll be a version for you soon enough. Hit the jump ...
I See No Possible Dangers to Embedding Swarovski Crystals in Contact Lenses [Cool Like Ray Charles] (7)
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Gee whiz guys, why didn't any of us think of this sooner? You know Swarovski crystals, those fancy, shiny pieces of glass that kind of look like diamonds but are much cheaper? Let's put them in contact lenses! Sure, it's essentially putting shards of glass on your eye, but it's just so cool looking! Bling bling! Going blind is totally hot this season anyways, so we'll just ride this wave of trendiness all the way ...
Treadmill Bed Sends Mixed Signals to the Morbidly Obese [Laziness] (2)
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This handy invention is a combination of a treadmill and a bed. It automatically props your fat ass up and puts your feet on a treadmill. Apparently, you can exercise this way. Wait, what? Call me crazy, but moving your feet while sitting down isn't a form of exercise. It certainly isn't jogging. If you're sitting on a bed, you aren't going to get much aerobic exercise. I'm no doctor, but if you're so morbidly ...
Microgrippers could perform surgery with no incisions necessary (1)
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In the future, surgery might be a lot less invasive thanks to some downright-amazing new medical technologies. New devices, called microgrippers, could be swallowed by a patient and then activated via chemicals and magnets to do surgical work inside the body with no incisions necessary. Microgrippers could be programmed to react to chemicals it finds in the body. For example, a group of microgrippers could seek out and find a tumor based on its chemical ...
