Archive for December, 2008
Unreal Snooping Bot Can Grow from 25 Inches to 20 Feet
By yanko at 31 December, 2008, 9:22 am
pobject width=”506″ height=”380″ class=”left gawkerVideo embeddedVideo”param name=”movie” value=”http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2544519amp;server=vimeo.comamp;show_title=1amp;show_byline=1amp;show_portrait=0amp;color=amp;fullscreen=1″ param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true” embed src=”http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2544519amp;server=vimeo.comamp;show_title=1amp;show_byline=1amp;show_portrait=0amp;color=amp;fullscreen=1″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”506″ height=”380″ class=”left gawkerVideo”/objectSo weird. This iRobot Packbot has a Situational Awareness Mast built-in, a surveillance system which can grow from 25 inches (63cm) to 20 feet (6m) lifting 200 pounds (90kg), on its top configuration. The mechanism is very ingenious:/p !– Gawker Tags/Categories: robots, geosystems, irobot, situation awareness mast, zipper mast, zippermast –img src=”http://feeds.gizmodo.com.au/~r/GizmodoAustralia/~4/499165352″ height=”1″ width=”1″/
Read More >>Air New Zealand Successfully Trials Weed Biofuel
By Engadget at 31 December, 2008, 9:11 am
span class=”mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image” style=”display: inline;”img alt=”800px-Air_New_Zealand_747-400_sideview.jpg” src=”http://www.gizmodo.com.au/800px-Air_New_Zealand_747-400_sideview.jpg” width=”535″ height=”339″ class=”mt-image-center” style=”text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;” //spanRemember back in June how Air New Zealand announced it was going to be a href=”http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/06/air_new_zealand_to_power_a_747_with_weed-2.html”trialling a biofuel mix in a 747 aircraft based on the jatropha plant/a? Well, they did it, and according to a href=”http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/30/oily_kiwi_nut_jet_juice/”The Register/a, everything went off without a hitch. The plane used a 50-50 mixture of the biofuel and regular fuel in one engine, while the other three all had regular fuel running through them. They tested out a series of mid-air manoeuvres like engines stops, restarts, and got full power from the biofuel mix.img src=”http://feeds.gizmodo.com.au/~r/GizmodoAustralia/~4/499035970″ height=”1″ width=”1″/
Read More >>2009 Will Arrive One Second Late To Its Own Party
By admin at 31 December, 2008, 8:53 am
img src=”http://www.lifehacker.com.au/Skyshow_Adelaide_2006.JPG” class=”center” /If you’re heading out to watch the midnight fireworks tonight to say goodbye to the year that was 2008, be prepared for a slight delay. And when we say emslight/em, we mean emslight/em - one second, to be precise. Boffins at Greenwich will be adding a single second onto the year 2008 to adjust time for the minute slowing of the earth’s rotation. According to AP, the move has reignited the debate between GMT and atomic time as the worldwide standard fro timekkeping - atomic clocks are precise to the nanosecond and don’t need sporadic adjustments of a second to maintain accuracy. However, they don’t take into account changes to the planet’s rotation, either and in hundreds of years midday would actually be closer to 1pm than today’s 12pm. In any case, if any of you have an X-men like ability to slow down time and you’re wondering why tonight’s fireworks don’t kick off until 12:00:01, now you know. [a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iV3KdUj67O1boDiT85tnVn1qRT8wD95D7KDG0"AP/a]img src=”http://feeds.gizmodo.com.au/~r/GizmodoAustralia/~4/499017732″ height=”1″ width=”1″/
Read More >>Kissing Octopus Flash Drive’s Bizarre Mating Ritual Captured on Film
By Gizmodo at 31 December, 2008, 8:20 am
pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/adata-T806-2009.jpg” style=”display:block;” /Behold the rare Octopus USB drive mating ritual. Notice how the magnetised lips join together in a passionate kiss. Unfortunately, like the praying mantis, the female is prone to violence after mating./p !– Gawker Tags/Categories: storage, a-data, flash drives, kissing octopus, thumbdrives, usb drives –img src=”http://feeds.gizmodo.com.au/~r/GizmodoAustralia/~4/499037855″ height=”1″ width=”1″/
Read More >>Walmart Sticks Wii Fit Into Women’s Clothing Department
By Engadget at 31 December, 2008, 7:40 am
pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/wii_fit_wal_mart_01.jpg” style=”display:block;” /Now this is just low, Walmartmdash;about as classy as us putting up a game called emWii Should Maybe Protect Our Employees From Being a href=”http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/11/walmart_worker_trampled_to_death_by_dealcrazed_black_friday_shoppers-2.html”Trampled To Death/a/em next to the break room. [a href="http://kotaku.com/5120353/wii-fit-moves-out-of-electronics-into-womens-clothing-department"Kotaku/a]/p !– Gawker Tags/Categories: walmart, nintendo, walmart wii fit, wii, wii fit –img src=”http://feeds.gizmodo.com.au/~r/GizmodoAustralia/~4/499012383″ height=”1″ width=”1″/
Read More >>Israeli Army Videoblogs Blowing Up Gaza, Gets Censored By YouTube
By Engadget at 31 December, 2008, 7:20 am
pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/IDF_youtube.png” style=”display:block;float:none;” /a href=”http://www.youtube.com/user/idfnadesk”This/a is the Israeli Defence Force’s official YouTube channel, where they are posting several gun camera videos per day of bombs falling on Gaza. That is, until Google temporarily shut it down./p !– Gawker Tags/Categories: wtf, clips, gaza, google, gun camera, internet, internet video, israel, israel youtube channel, military, palestine, videos, war, youtube –img src=”http://feeds.gizmodo.com.au/~r/GizmodoAustralia/~4/499012384″ height=”1″ width=”1″/
Read More >>Sony Vaio Pocket Netbook’s Keyboard Looks Full Size, Has a Track Stick
By AutoBlog at 31 December, 2008, 7:00 am
pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/vaio_mobile_teaser_kb_01.jpg” /This keyboard teaser shot for the a href=”http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/12/sony_vaio_pocket_the_fancy_mystery_netbook_leaked-2.html”Vaio Pocket/a, Sony’s upcoming mystery netbook, shows two things. It has a full size keyboard (like the Vaio TZ) and a track stick for mousing. /p !– Gawker Tags/Categories: netbook, p, pocket, sony, sony vaio pocket, vaio, vaio p, vaio pocket –img src=”http://feeds.gizmodo.com.au/~r/GizmodoAustralia/~4/498996597″ height=”1″ width=”1″/
Read More >>Researchers Create Web Skeleton Key With 200 PS3s
By yanko at 31 December, 2008, 6:40 am
pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/ps3clusterbreak.jpg” /Using a cluster of 200 PS3s, an international group of researchers a href=”http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/12/berlin.html”have crafted a “skeleton key” digital certificate/a that can perfectly impersonate any website on the internet./p !– Gawker Tags/Categories: ps3, crack, cryptography, hack, internet, playstation 3, security, ssl, verisign –img src=”http://feeds.gizmodo.com.au/~r/GizmodoAustralia/~4/498996598″ height=”1″ width=”1″/
Read More >>Dell’s ‘Carbon Neutrality’ Is Really a Bunch of Cow Poop
By Engadget at 31 December, 2008, 5:40 am
pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/cowpooping_01.jpg” /Over the summer, Dell declared that it had become “carbon neutral.” You would think that meant, amazingly, it’s reduced its carbon footprint to the point it’s no longer adding to greenhouse gases. a href=”http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123059880241541259.html”Total BS/a./p !– Gawker Tags/Categories: dell, carbon neutrality, environment, green, green tech –img src=”http://feeds.gizmodo.com.au/~r/GizmodoAustralia/~4/498965691″ height=”1″ width=”1″/
Read More >>Oppo Muse G11: The Chinese PMP With A D-Pad And Classic Game Emulators
By Hong Kiat at 31 December, 2008, 5:20 am
pimg src=”http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/12/oppo_g11_main_01.jpg” /There are enough crappy Chinese MP3 players to fill a a href=”http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/11/60_minutes_reporter_investigates_chinas_ewaste_pits_gets_attacked-2.html”toxic Shenzhen waste dump/a many times over, but the Oppo Muse G11, with its traditional d-pad and promise of 8-bit glories emulated: I want./p !– Gawker Tags/Categories: pmps, classic games, emulation, emulators, gaming, mp3 players, muse, nes, oppo, oppo muse g11, snes –img src=”http://feeds.gizmodo.com.au/~r/GizmodoAustralia/~4/498965692″ height=”1″ width=”1″/
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