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7 Gadgets You Need To Exercise Without Getting Off The Couch
By Gizmodo at 8 February, 2012, 7:30 am
Just because your life revolves around your living room couch — whether you whittle away the hours playing video games, blogging, or buying and selling action figures on eBay — doesn’t mean you can’t have the body of a chiseled supermodel. Many will try and tell you that heading to the gym and using complicated workout equipment is the only way to build muscle and tone your …
Read More >>Garmin’s New GPS Come With Free Maps For Life
By Engadget at 8 February, 2012, 7:00 am
Garmin’s upping the ante in the local GPS space; instead of a limited time “free maps” offer, its latest range will come with map upgrades for the entire life of the product. One of the more irksome factors when buying a GPS is that, historically speaking, map upgrades have been horrendously expensive things. I’ve long held that (unless you’re a taxi driver) you prob …
Read More >>Watch How Special Forces Busted Into The Megaupload Mansion
By AutoBlog at 8 February, 2012, 7:00 am
On January 20, dozens of New Zealand police’s elite special forces broke into Kim Dotcom’s mansion with assault helicopters, M4A3 automatic weapons, Glock pistols, dogs, sledgehammers and even a circular chainsaw, as if they were expecting a vicious narco gang waiting inside, armed to the teeth. What they found instead was two kids, a 15-month-old baby, some Filipino nannies, two secur …
Read More >>Samsung Outlines Its Quickflix-capable Gadgets
By Gizmodo at 8 February, 2012, 6:45 am
We already knew that Samsung and Quickflix were getting all cosy in preparation to launch the movie service onto Samsung’s devices. Now it’s emerged which of Samsung’s devices will actually get the service. In a release sent out today, Samsung’s outlined which of its smartphones, TVs and tablets will be Quickflix enabled in 2012, although the timeline is still only stated …
Read More >>Hands On: Accoustic3D Emergence 2.1 Speakers
By yanko at 8 February, 2012, 6:30 am
I wrote up last week’s announcement of the Emergence 2.1 Speaker system, but a release can say anything. Accoustic3D is making some big claims, and it was time for them to prove their mettle. Accoustic3D’s Joe Hayes bought a set of the 2.1 Emergence speakers — there are apparently only two hand-tooled sets in existence right now — into the Gizmodo offices for a bi …
Read More >>These Are the Earliest Human Paintings Ever
By AutoBlog at 8 February, 2012, 6:30 am
According to new radiocarbon dating tests, these are the first paintings ever made by humans. They are seals painted more than 42,000 years ago, located in the Cave of Nerja, in Málaga, Spain. And they may turn our idea of humanity upside down. Until now, palaeontologists thought that the oldest art was created during the Aurignacian period, by modern humans. But these are way older, way m …
Read More >>1980s MTV Australia Presents A Guide To Sampling And The Music Business
By admin at 8 February, 2012, 6:30 am
Long before the Today Show , Richard Wilkins brought MTV to Australia as a program on Channel 9. This video from around 1988 is as charming as it is naive. It’s the early days of electronic music when sampling was considered theft. Beastie Boys, Ice T, Fresh Prince — sorry, Will Smith — Jazzy Jeff, Cold Cut, De La Soul and even Debbie Gibson try and get to the bottom …
Read More >>Chrome Browser For Android Hands-On: Faster, Smarter, Better
By Engadget at 8 February, 2012, 6:00 am
Google’s Chrome browser has been chewing up market share on desktops and laptops for a while now, and now it’s going mobile. If you’ve got an Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) phone or tablet you can download it now. If you don’t — and that should be most of you — time to get jealous. Chrome for Android features a host of improvements over the old Android browser …
Read More >>Facebook’s New Photo Viewer Is The Best Ever
By Engadget at 8 February, 2012, 5:45 am
Facebook is the place we look at photos online. And for years, those photos have been constrained to tiny boxes and ugly, low-resolution uploads. No more! Facebook’s new picture browser is here: your life is now giant and pretty. The new format also takes comments and tags and swings them over to the right-hand side instead of underneath each shot. This is a little jarring at first, …
Read More >>Defendant Ordered To Decrypt Hard Drive Says She Forgets Her Password
By Hong Kiat at 7 February, 2012, 8:00 pm
A Colorado woman who was ordered to unlock her computer for investigators is reportedly saying she can’t remember her password. Last month U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn ordered Ramona Ficosu to decrypt the hard drive on her Toshiba laptop by February 21st. The laptop was seized in 2010 in connection with a mortgage fraud investigation. The judge ruled that Ficosu couldn’t use th …
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