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A New View Of America’s Deadliest Drone
By Engadget at 27 January, 2012, 7:00 pm
X-47B, all ice, no man. The deadliest drone in the US arsenal, a stealth killer. I have seen dozens of photos. Videos too, of its first test and its cruise test. But I’ve never seen it from the top. It’s a beautiful machine from this angle, with its markings and all the surface detail. If you told me this was a new Imperial fighter for an incoming Star Wars sequel, I would believe you …
Read More >>Of Course The World’s Most Expensive Private Yacht Has Its Own Laser Shield
By Hong Kiat at 27 January, 2012, 6:30 pm
What does one do with an extra $US590 million burning a hole in his pocket? Well, if one is Chelsea boss and multi-kagillionaire Roman Abramovich, one commissions the construction of a floating pleasure island replete with early-warning missile detection. The only thing it’s missing are those cute mini-giraffes. The yacht, christened the M/Y Eclipse , is 163km long — 11m longer …
Read More >>World’s Fastest Movie Shot At A Quadrillion FPS
By yanko at 27 January, 2012, 6:00 pm
The Hobbit being shot at 48fps? Pathetic. MIT’s trillion fps camera? Pokey at best. Just wait until you see the video a team of German researchers have created. It’s two frames long, lasts just 50 femtoseconds, and doesn’t star Nic Cage. The film, which runs 800 billion times faster per second than a conventional Hollywood feature was created with an x-ray laser. The tea …
Read More >>Kepler Almost Doubles Science’s Stock Of Known Exoplanets
By Engadget at 27 January, 2012, 5:30 pm
NASA released dramatic new findings from the planet-scouting Kepler spacecraft project Thursday. Looks like the universe is way, way more crowded than we had realised. The Space Administration announced on Thursday that the Kepler Spacecraft has discovered 26 new exoplanets in 11 systems. This nearly doubles the number of confirmed exoplanets, bringing the tally to 60, and upping the numb …
Read More >>China Rings In New Year With Robot Dance Party
By Gizmodo at 27 January, 2012, 5:00 pm
When Chinese audiences tuned in to Big-Show last night to celebrate the start of the Year of the Dragon, they were treated to this 14-member all-robot dance troupe. Why yes, they are dancing to a remix of the Tetris theme. …
Read More >>FBI Being Sued For Shutting Down MegaUpload
By Hong Kiat at 27 January, 2012, 4:15 pm
Well that didn’t take long. Pirate Parties International is assembling a list of users who had lost data in MU’s shutdown last week as it builds a case for an upcoming lawsuit against the Feds. The gist of the lawsuit is that users who had been using the file-storage service of legitimate reasons were unfairly denied access to their personal files due to the FBI’s actions. “ …
Read More >>Foot Recognition Is The New Face Recognition
By yanko at 27 January, 2012, 3:30 pm
The problem with a multi-user tabletop computer is that it’s difficult for the software to keep track of who’s using it. Unless you strap a Kinect sensor to the underside that lets it make note of their footwear choices. Developed by the Human-Computer Interaction group at the Hasso-Plattner-Institut in Germany, Bootstrapper uses a Microsoft Kinect sensor to isolate and photograph each …
Read More >>Homemade Bungee Jumping Looks Like The Scariest Thing In The World
By admin at 27 January, 2012, 3:30 pm
Bungee jumping is already the scariest thing in the world, so how does one make it EVEN SCARIER? By going the homemade, DIY route. These guys just tied a few knots, used a few carabiners and then just jumped off a freaking bridge. That’s it. Watch it, you’ll be stunned at how flimsy the entire set up looks. This is so freaking extreme I almost cried. This is so extreme I’m going …
Read More >>Hawaii Wants To Invade Your Privacy
By Engadget at 27 January, 2012, 2:30 pm
Hawaii! You’re supposed to be the state that the rest of America dreams of moving to so we can escape the noise and interwaves of computers and internet. You’re not supposed to be the state that pushes a ridiculous invasion of privacy bill that requires every internet provider to keep track of every single website every person ever visits. What happened to paradise? According to CN …
Read More >>Desired: Lego-Compatible Moleskine Journal
By AutoBlog at 27 January, 2012, 1:30 pm
I’m constantly floored by what people choose to make with Legos. Why craft a life-size Halo sniper rifle or a Saturn V and not something else? I’ve got plans of my own, and now Moleskine’s got the perfect, fanboy-ready notebook to document them in. If you love Lego, this Moleskine probably makes you your heart tingle just a little bit. Moleskine notebooks aren’t just a gimm …
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