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Internet Explorer 9: A Fresh Start, With HTML5
By Gizmodo at 16 March, 2010, 11:55 pm
Ninth time’s the charm, sometimes! At least that’s Microsoft’s hope with IE9, which they’ve just announced at Mix, brings new HTML5 support (including HTML5 video!), hardware-accelerated graphics for text and images, and a totally new Javascript engine. (more…)
Read More >>Paper War Depicts My Youth In Terms Of Paper Aeroplanes
By AutoBlog at 20 February, 2010, 12:20 am
newVideoPlayer( {”type”:”video”,”player”:”http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9491180&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1″,”customParams”:[],”width”:570,”height”:375,”ratio”:0.75,”flashData”:”",”embedName”:null,”objectId”:null,”noEmbed”:false,”source”:”vimeo”} ); You don’t need to speak German to appreciate Papierkrieg (Paper War) by Makaio Tisu – you just need a sibling and/or one long-repressed paper aeroplane obsession. Two children face off, creating paper creations of increasing imagination. And it’s charming . (more…)
Read More >>17 Clever Tricks Of Scale
By Gizmodo at 16 February, 2010, 4:00 am
For this week’s Shooting Challenge , we asked you to abuse the principles of perspective to confound our sense of scale. The results are as charming as the y are clever…or someone took out a second mortgage on that giant Aibo. (more…)
Read More >>Child Engineers World-Peace-Promoting Ice Cream Rocket Car
By admin at 10 February, 2010, 12:40 am
While this is really just a Honda ad, I had to share its charms with you. Because not only is the alleged Alec probably the most promising mind of his generation; he’s likely husky and rejected by his peers. (more…)
Read More >>Deadly Submarine Freelances As Charming Bathtub
By admin at 5 February, 2010, 11:20 pm
The only way the Porthole Bath could be more charming? Through the addition of a periscope. $US5100 – nuclear core and depth charge detector not included. (more…)
Read More >>The Xbox 360 Storage Locker Is Charmingly Horrible
By Hong Kiat at 16 January, 2010, 10:20 am
Nice try PCgadgets, but I know a plain old storage locker when I see one. I’m sure that branding it for the Xbox 360 is the difference between a $US40 price tag and $US15 price tag. (more…)
Read More >>A Wooden Humidifier That Requires No Electricity
By yanko at 14 January, 2010, 1:40 am
If you live in a place that’s always dry, do yourself a favour and pick up a humidifier . This particular model from Japan definitely has an elegant “ancient tech” kind of charm. (more…)
Read More >>Criminal Escapes Prison, Taunts Police Via Facebook
By Gizmodo at 24 December, 2009, 2:15 am
Say hello to Craig Lynch. He’ll give you the finger. The police has been hunting him since he escaped from prison last September, and now he’s using Facebook to taunt them. He seems like a very charming man: (more…)
Read More >>Make Your Own Papercraft Xmas Tree
By Hong Kiat at 17 December, 2009, 5:00 am
Even Martha Stewart couldn’t conjure up a decoration as charmingly nerdy as this papercraft tree from Sparkle Labs . (more…)
Read More >>The Exemode Keychain Camera Has A Loveable Crappiness About It
By Gizmodo at 12 December, 2009, 6:40 am
The Exemode SQ28m isn’t going to pose a threat to the Flip anytime soon, but I will agree with Engadget that the digital video it records has a charm about it, kind of like an old home movie. (more…)
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