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Ars Technica
A Texas-based Linux admin was charged with hacking into the websites of at least 4 police groups after FBI agents engaged him in an online manhunt that mined photo metadata, Facebook profiles, and other digital evidence. He says he's surrendered all accounts in his control, but his status as a cooperating witness is anything but clear.
Crave, the gadget blog - CNET
Ikea wants to build you a house. Not a pine bookcase, not a nice little side table, not a quirkily colorful kitchen implement -- an entire house. LandProp, the property development arm of the Swedish furniture company, is building and renting out an entire neighborhood of homes in London, according to The Globe and Mail . No, really.
Apr. 7, 2012 ( 1:33 pm ) By: Ray Walters In: A new plasma device, created by the joint efforts of the Australian national science agency CSIRO and China’s Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), is capable of ridding your skin from harmful bacteria in just a few seconds. According to a paper submitted to the Journal of Physics last February, the “Portable Plasma Flashlight” is [...] Being blind means you can still communicate through sound, being deaf means you can rely on sign language and reading to interact with others. Being deaf and blind severely limits your communication options to just touch. Deaf-blind people mainly rely on the Lorm alphabet and tactile signing for communication, which requires physical touch on a [...]
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Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome
What better way to celebrate Star Wars Day than with two girls having a bubblebath lightsaber battle? The video is some sort of Axe body spray parody, but for some reason features Chewbacca, lightsabers, two girls in white tank tops, water, and bubbles. I'm not complaining, I just think you should know what you're getting yourself into. Throw in some bacon and maybe a dinosaur wrestling a robot and we may have the video of the year. And if not video of the year, at least something suitable for my *ahem* alone time. Now go away and close the door behind you.
Teclast is offering their new Android tablet called the P72. As far as specs, the device has a 7.0-inch 800 x 480 resistive multi-touch display, a Renesas ARM Cortex-A9 dual-core processor, and 1GB of RAM. Other specs include 4GB of storage, a microSD card slot, Flash 10.2 support, 1080p Full HD video playback support, WiFi, 3G card support, a 4000mAh battery and Android 2.2. The P72 will cost you 799 Yuan ($125). Interested?
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Neurons, the nerve cells that send and receive electrical signals within the body, are one of those things that most of us probably don’t give a lot of thought to. Educational entrepreneurs Timothy Marzullo and Gregory Gage, however, think about them a lot. They think about them so much, in fact, that they’ve designed a gadget that lets anyone listen to the neural electrical activity of bugs, and conduct a series of interesting experiments. It’s called the SpikerBox, and oh yeah – in order to use it, you have to take the leg off of a cockroach. Read More
The Latest New And Cool Electronic Gadgets Review Guide - GadgetMadness
The MoMA Remote Control Spaceman comes with a 2 channel infrared remote controller and flies up to 50 feet high. The SpaceMoMAN charges via the rapid battery charging unit which requires 8 AA batteries. Read More »
Some topics deserve special handling, they need to be discussed in the most gentle and reverent manner. That being said, sometimes there’s simply no way around just telling it like it is, and I guess that’s where we are on this one. People die, we bury them, we burn them, and a select few go to science, a nice headstone, an urn, a cool drawer at the University. How else do we memorialize our dead? Now we can make them into jewelry!
Coolest Gadgets - reporting on the latest cool gadgets
Google’s augmented reality eyewear is coming to disrupt your face and your business model. If you don’t even have to pull your phone out to take a photo, get directions, or message with friends, why would you need to buy the latest iPhone or spend so much time on Facebook? It could be a year before Google eyewear reaches stores, but that’s why these and other tech companies need to strategize now. If they wait to see if the device is a hit, the world could be seeing through Google-tinted glasses by the time they adapt.
CrunchGear
Play the movie while looking at the small white speck in the center of the ring. At first, the ring is motionless and it’s easy to tell that the dots are changing color. When the ring begins to rotate, the dots suddenly appear to stop changing. But in reality they are changing the entire time. Take a look. SILENCING demonstrates the tight coupling of motion and object appearance.
OhGizmo!
The scientific term for an animal having multiple-heads is "polycephaly", and the " most commonly observed two-headed animals are turtles and snakes. Other species with known two-headed occurrences include cattle, sheep, pigs, cats, dogs, and fish. In 1894, a two-headed partridge was reported in Boston, Massachusetts." Continue reading to see five bizarre (yet real) two-headed animals.
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Engadget
If you're a little too impatient to wait for the Absinthe jailbreak tool to make its way to Windows, good news, there's another option. The iPhone Dev Team has released Corona, a command line-based option for Mac and Windows 7 that will deliver Cydia to your iOS 5.0 or 5.0.1-running iPhone 4S or iPad 2. Obviously, you'll want to be comfortable with the terminal and command prompt but, if you can handle a little CTRL+c and CTRL+v action, jailbreaking your brand new iOS device shouldn't prove too difficult. Hit up the source link for complete instructions on how to free your shiny A5 portable from Apple's shackles while still using your Microsoft machine.*NOTCOT La Boite Concept+CC LAB's LD120 Hi-Fi Soundsystem + Laptop Desk - The signal is fed to discrete amps, then to seven speakers.There is an input for a minjack and RCA, bass and treble controls, and a built-in plug.