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Even Knitting Needles Are Awesome In Space
By Engadget at 7 February, 2012, 10:30 am
Even the most mundane objects and experiences seem to become totally amazing up in space. Like, say, this knitting needle that’s been charged with static electricity interacting with tiny droplets of water. Combine the electric charge with the velocity of the droplet, and the result is a gravity-like orbit of the water around the needle. Neato! Here’s to even more ISS astronauts bored …
Read More >>Google HUD Glasses Might Be A Real, Actual Thing
By Engadget at 7 February, 2012, 6:45 am
Iron Man’s HUD display is one of the cooler effects in sci-fi movies, and Google X is apparently pretty darn close to cramming similar tech in a pair of glasses you can buy in the real world. A 9to5google tipster got to see a prototype pair, and says that they look similar to Oakley Thumps glasses that have a front-facing camera, voice recognition and navigation/input handled by tilting your …
Read More >>Rdio’s New Android App Beats iOS Version
By Engadget at 7 February, 2012, 1:00 am
Streaming-music-service-slash-social-network Rdio’s new Android app is pretty damn excellent. In addition to support for Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0), the app now includes Network Activity, User Profiles, New Releases, Album Charts and recommendations based on listening habits. If you’ve had a chance to check out the iOS version of Rdio, you’ll know that the Android version h …
Read More >>USB-Powered Massager Can Be Synced To Your Tunes
By Engadget at 7 February, 2012, 12:20 am
Osim is best known for its far-from-portable massage chairs. So for relief on the go the company created this electronic muscle stimulator called the uPixie that’s powered and controlled by a USB dongle. Like any EMS massager the uPixie uses pads attached to the skin which stimulate your muscles through small electrical currents, providing stress relief as well as toning. By default it lets …
Read More >>The Worst Super Bowl Tech Ads
By Engadget at 7 February, 2012, 12:00 am
If you watched this year’s Super Bowl, you probably noticed one thing: Madonna looks good for a 53-year-old. Oh, and also, the commercials sucked. Screw Brady and Manning, where the heck is the creativity, ad people? You guys are boring me. I need something more than King Elton John and moonwalking dogs. And you know what? The Super Bowl commercials about technology were especially bad. Here …
Read More >>Han And Chewy’s Secret Love Revealed On Conan
By Engadget at 6 February, 2012, 4:00 pm
It’s time we let our favourite Star Wars characters be themselves. Why should they hide behind the vail of traditional gender roles? After all, relationship politics can be as compelling and fantastical as battling the Empire, right? Thankfully, Conan opens up the closet door using clips from Star Wars: Force Unleashed [Team CoCo] Give the video a minute to load… …
Read More >>ARM Based MacBook Air Unlikely
By Engadget at 6 February, 2012, 10:00 am
In discussions with analysts, Apple’s Tim Cook has all but put the kibosh on rumours that Apple would switch its notebook lines over to an ARM architecture. ARM’s the architecture underlying the wildly successful iPad, and it’s been rumoured for a while that Apple might flip its computer lines over to ARM so as to work under one unifying operating system — presumably iOS o …
Read More >>Culturemodo: The Phantom Menace 3D Review
By Engadget at 6 February, 2012, 6:00 am
What happens when you take a process that’s lost its lustre in the eyes of the moviegoing public and apply it to one of the most critically derided sci-fi films ever made? Gizmodo Australia went to the Australian premiere of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace 3D to find out. I rather like Star Wars , especially the original trilogy. Yeah, I know, that’s not the most stunnin …
Read More >>7 Silly Gadgets To Make Your Sports BBQ More Fun
By Engadget at 5 February, 2012, 8:00 am
On any given Sunday, most Giz readers would rather be spending time with family, playing Xbox, nursing a hangover, or maybe — just maybe — hitting up the beach. That’s right, it’s Summer. And a funny thing happens this time of year. We all love barbeques, and give us a grill and a few drinks, and we’ll even get into the Cricket for the day. Image: Ricky Ponting …
Read More >>Bone Conducting Ski Goggles: Say It With Your Skull
By Engadget at 5 February, 2012, 2:30 am
Microphones can’t discriminate what they hear, which can lead to noisy conversations if you’re careening down a snowy hill. But by picking up the vibrations in your skull while you talk, Buhel’s new SpeakGoggle G33s promise to clearly decipher every word. The goggles connect to a mobile phone in your pocket over Bluetooth, letting you take and place calls. Or can connect to anoth …
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