Archive for January, 2010
Wi-Fi Detecting Bumper Sticker Helps Out The Wardriver Behind You
By admin at 31 January, 2010, 2:00 am
Here’s a neat Instructable for significantly increasing the geek factor in your car’s rear windshield, showing how to modify a Wi-Fi-detecting t-shirt into a Wi-Fi-detecting bumper sticker. At some point in some traffic jam, you’ll make a fellow nerd’s day. (more…)
Read More >>Firefox Mobile 1.0 Burrows Onto Nokia N900s
By admin at 31 January, 2010, 1:11 am
Firefox Mobile crawled into its first pockets last night, going live on Maemo5. The mobile version retains the full awesomeness of the Awesome Bar and includes WeaveSync for keeping tabs, passwords and bookmarks straight across desktop and mobile versions. (more…)
Read More >>Gigantic Music Box Is Finally Finished With Nowhere To Go
By Engadget at 31 January, 2010, 1:00 am
Henry Dagg spent four years building this gigantic pin barrel harp, commissioned for a London garden. It’s finally finished but is too fragile for the outdoors. Listen to it play “A Long and Winding Road” and reflect on its fate. (more…)
Read More >>Wii Magic Stick Cover Ditches D-Pad For Analogue Stick
By Hong Kiat at 31 January, 2010, 12:19 am
If you can’t wait ’til later this year , and you want to give your Wii-playing thumbs a rest with an analogue stick, slide the $US7 Magic Stick cover on your Wiimote. It ain’t pretty but it’ll do the trick. (more…)
Read More >>How Regular Movies Are Converted To 3D
By yanko at 30 January, 2010, 10:50 pm
Now that Avatar is officially the highest grossing movie of all time, it’s inevitable that studios will continue to push 3D as the new frontier of cinema. But actually filming in 3D is prohibitively expensive. Here’s how they fake it. (more…)
Read More >>The Slate Walloped The State In Social Media
By Hong Kiat at 30 January, 2010, 9:48 pm
Two events dominated discussion last week: the unveiling of Apple’s iPad and President Obama’s State of the Union address. Leading up to last Wednesday, many wondered if Apple’s event would overshadow Obama’s. On social media, that was certainly the case. (more…)
Read More >>Amazon Tries To Quell Kindle Rebellion, Removes Macmillan Books
By yanko at 30 January, 2010, 3:52 pm
Books published by Macmillan mysteriously poofed from Amazon yesterday. The reason, according to the NYT , is that Amazon is punishing the publisher for arguing that the price of Kindle books should go up to $US15. This won’t end well. (more…)
Read More >>Hand-Mounted Mouse Or Goa’uld Weapon?
By admin at 30 January, 2010, 12:20 pm
Maybe I’ve been watching too many Stargate reruns or maybe the AirMouse hand-mounted input device was really inspired by Goa’uld technology. Either way, I’m sceptical about its ability to prevent repetitive stress injuries. (more…)
Read More >>These Koosh Ball Bullets Make Getting Shot Look Friendly
By Gizmodo at 30 January, 2010, 11:40 am
Look at these bullets. They’re rubbery, less lethal, “almost incapable of penetrating the body” and happen to resemble Koosh balls – a popular toy. Getting shot with these must be fun. (more…)
Read More >>Best Buy’s “Optimisation” Update: Technically Optional, Still Dickish
By yanko at 30 January, 2010, 11:00 am
An email sent to Consumerist by a Best Buy employee lays out the changes Best Buy has made in pushing their optimisation service . Basically, you can’t be forced to pay for optimisation – but the salesman won’t tell you that. (more…)
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