Google Launches Super-Spycam, Google Logo Into Orbit (10)
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Google is getting a new eye in the sky -- and as a bonus, its rainbow-colored logo will be getting a ride on a rocket. Satellite company GeoEye will launch a new orbiting imager on Thursday, and Google has signed a contract making it the exclusive online mapping site to use the satellite's photos, which will appear in both Google Maps and Google Earth. The search company also got to slap its nearly-ubiquitous logo on ...
Video: 2100 Barrel Paintgun Sprays Out Mona Lisa in a Quarter of a Second (1)
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When the MythBusters shill for the Man, they do it in style. Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman were hired by Nvidia to demonstrate the speed differences between CPU and GPU processing. First, we see the pedestrian "CPU" in the form of a one-pixel-at-a-time paint gun. Painfully slowly, a smiley face trickles onto the canvas. Next, the "GPU", represented by the truly awesome "2100 massively parallel barrel processors", a huge paint gun with 2100 barrels spitting ...
IPosture Stops Slouching, Enlarges Breasts | Gadget Lab from Wired.com (2)
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Have you all got your Buzzword Bingo cards ready? Good. Eyes down... The iPosture is a gadget that begins with the letter 'i'. The little disk constantly monitors your posture and delivers a sharp, corrective vibration if you deviate by more than three degrees from your starting position. How does it manage such a feat? Nanotechnology: The secret of the iPosture is WINS TM, or Wearable Intelligent Nano-Sensor, a microchip that monitors stance several times ...
Hack Turns iPhone into Macro Camera (33)
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Photo credit: eastrain/Flickr Forget about buying cheap, tacky plastic add-ons to mod the iPhone's camera. Flickr-er Daniel Forsythe instead used his knowledge of cellphone camera lenses to make this quick-and-dirty manual focus hack for the iPhone. It's simple. All you have to do is crack open the glue surrounding the lens. The lenses used on both the 3G and the original iPhone can be turned to focus them -- usually the focus is set to ...
Factory: 'iPhone Girl' Is For Real, Not Fired (3)
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Following the footsteps of YouTube's Lonelygirl15 and Chris Crocker, the next self-made viral super star is shaping up to be a mysterious Chinese factory worker people are calling "iPhone Girl." About a week ago an iPhone owner published photos he found saved on his brand new handset, which appeared to be of a young woman assembling iPhones in Apple's Chinese factory. Curious bloggers have used their detective skills to track down the girl's whereabouts: MacRumors ...
Macs Make Their Way Into Hotel Rooms Worldwide (1)
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Similar to the way Microsoft is showing off its "big ass tables" in Sheraton hotel lobbies, Apple has been installing its desktop computers in hotels around the world. HotelChatter provides a list of some hotels offering rooms that include Macs. In the U.K., City Inn plans to put iMacs in all of its rooms, with rates starting at $250 a night. The Fountainebleau resort in Las Vegas is planning to do the same in each ...
Thank God: Guitar Praise Offers Guitar Hero for Christians (1)
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A company's releasing a Guitar Hero ripoff that doesn't make you taint your soul by rocking out to tunes by Satan. Slated for a September release, Guitar Praise features a diverse Christian Rock song list, including "Undo Me" by Jennifer Knapp, "Jesus Freak" by dc Talk and "This Fragile Breath" by Todd Agnew. And of course, for $100 the game comes with a plastic wireless guitar, which unfortunately isn't shaped like a Holy Cross. For ...
Samsung Reveals Tiny, Credit Card-Sized Hard Drive (3)
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A new credit card sized USB drive from Samsung has shown up in China. The tiny 20GB hard drive comes in the same 1.8 form found inside media players and the MacBook Air. Apparently it is very quiet, and draws a maximum of just 1.4 watts, which means it will get power from the USB port, just like any other thumb drive. The Black Edition Q Series is cheap, too, coming in at the equivalent ...
Apple Bans Murderdrome Comic Book from iTunes (1)
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Yesterday's post on iPhone comicbooks drew some great points in the comments. But it was an email sent to me by artist Paul Jason Holden that made me realize why comics won't succeed on the iPhone, and why the App Store's "quality control" is just a euphemism for "censorship". Holden and writer Al Ewing (both 2000AD alumni) put together a comic book designed from the start to work on the iPhone's small screen, complete with ...
Bike Rack Art Installation Shines in New York City (4)
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Who says bike racks have to always be a U or M shaped piece of metal frame? Former Talking Heads music group co-founder and New York City based artist David Byrne has created some awesome bike rack installations in shapes including the dollar sign, a car and a guitar among other things. And in a stroke of genius, the racks are contextually installed. That means the steel dollar design is at Wall Street, the guitar ...
Early Humans Beat Neanderthals by Being Gadget Geeks (1)
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Good news, Gadget Lab readers: Your wanton lust for the latest, shiniest new toys from Cupertino, Akihabara, and even Round Rock, Texas may just be evidence of your evolutionary superiority. Not just yours, mind you, but the whole human race's. That's the theory put forth by a team of archaeologists who compared the tools made by early humans with those made by Neanderthals. The surprising conclusion: Neanderthal tools (fat stone flakes) were no worse than ...
BlackBerry Bold Exhibits Same Network Symptoms As iPhone 3G (1)
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Early tests of the BlackBerry Bold reveal that the new handset is suffering from the same 3G connection problems as the iPhone 3G, according to an Apple Insider story. Citigroup investment research analyst Jim Suva said he tested the BlackBerry Bold, which has yet to be released in the United States, and found that the device experiences unstable 3G network connection, sometimes switching over to the EDGE network -- similar to symptoms many have reported ...
Bike Vest Reads Your Speed in Giant Glowing Digits (3)
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The claimed purpose of the Speed Vest is safety: It gives a glowing, live readout of your speed to increase "motorists' awareness of both cyclists and speed limits." What it's really for, though, is showing off. The six inch high digits are made from electroluminescent wire which will glow for six hours on a single AA battery. The brain of the operation is the Arduino, a programmable circuit which in this case takes the speed ...
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I say this is for show-offs in lycra... :P
NextWorth Will 'Swap' Your Old iPhone for a New iPhone | Gadget Lab from Wired.com (2)
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The big advantage of the first iPhone over the new iPhone 3G was that you could just walk into a store and buy one. This led to a huge black market around the world in unlocked iPhones. Now, to get your hands on an iPhone you need to sign up for a contract. The phones can still be unlocked, but this is really onely useful if you want to pop in a local SIM card ...
Video: A Peek Inside the Lego Factory (2)
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If you ever wondered just how a lego minifig is made, today is your lucky day. Over at Gizmodo, Jesus Diaz has posted a smartly edited video of his day at the Lego factory, complete with hot'n'steamy close-ups of the machines in action. Above you see part of the full gallery of faces available in the current Lego product range: the printing of faces and bodies is apparently the most expensive part of the process. ...
Canon Makes EOS 50D Official (4)
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Those leaked EOS D50 specs on Canon's Chinese site? Real. The official announcement came today and everything tallies with what we saw on Friday. 15.1 megapixel CMOS sensor (with 1.6x crop factor), a big 3" LCD screen, Live View (for previewing images on the screen), ISO running up to 12800 (in a special, try-not-to-use-it hidden mode) and, possibly the most interesting, Canon's new image processing chip, the DIGIC 4. In digicams, the two things which ...
Australian School Embraces Cheating With Gadgets (2)
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If One Laptop Per Child believes technology can save third-world education, then why are gadgets prohibited from use during school exams? An Australian school is exploring that question by allowing students to freely use cell phones and internet-equipped devices during test taking. Sydney Presbyterian Ladies' College is test driving a trial program, which allows ninth-grade English literature students to phone their peers, surf the web or listen to podcasts during a 40-minute exam. The teacher ...
Firefox Logo Spied In Deep Space | Gadget Lab from Wired.com (4)
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One of these is a photograph taken by the Hubble space telescope on December 17, 2002, featuring the variable star V838 Monocerotis. The other is the same photograph overlaid with a familiar logo. Can you tell which is which? Below is another photo of the same star, from the Wikipedia entry on V838 Monocerotis. If the above photo has been photoshopped to look more like the Firefox logo, the editing seems minimal: it's been rotated ...
RFID + Olympic Ceremonies= Oppressively Long Lines and One Security Hole | Gadget Lab from Wired.com (2)
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Despite cruelly long lines caused by tough security measures (and RFID-enabled tickets) at the Olympic opening ceremonies, the uncontrollable chaos expected at the entrance gates never came. However, a few reports coming out of Beijing suggest that the security wasn't as good as it seemed and that the closing ceremonies could face even more challenges. In an effort to stop counterfeiters and make the opening and closing ceremonies secure, the Beijing committee included RFID chips ...
