Saturday, December 13, 2008

Gadgets

Guy Fights Off Pranksters With Night Vision Goggles and Supersoaker Filled With Piss

6:50PM December 13, 2008 | Brian Lam

Some guy got tired of kids wrapping his house in toilet paper every night. So he borrowed some mil spec night vision goggles, filled a super soaker with pee and drenched them when they showed.

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Cars

Photo Du Jour: An Electric Mini Cooper’s Dashboard

6:29PM December 13, 2008 | Brian Lam

This car has 43% battery life remaining, but I wonder if that gauge depletes linearly or, as on my laptop, surprisingly quickly near the end.

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Computing

Remember to Back Up: HP Deletes Your Data for the Letter ‘P’

12:30PM December 13, 2008 | Gizmodo US Edition

It should be common sense to back up whenever you are sending your laptop off to be fixed, even for something small. According to Consumerist, one unlucky reader learned the hard way.

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Waterflux Art Museum Is Clearly an Alien Cockroach Nest

12:15PM December 13, 2008 | Jesus Diaz

Horrific yet incredibly intriguing is the only way I can describe this spiked and gelatinous alien nest that mimics the landscape around it. Fortunately, it won’t hold any eggs waiting to snatch human bodies.

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Lil Drum and Bass Bot Never Goes Anywhere Without His Theme Music

12:00PM December 13, 2008 | Wilson Rothman

YouTube may be full of robots, but few as charming as this little drummer bot. Armed with a rudimentary pill-jar plastic drum and a beep-bop-boop synthesiser, he somehow gets quite the groove on.


Mobile

BlackBerry: $US20, McCain-Palin’s Contacts: Priceless

11:49AM December 13, 2008 | Andi Wang

In order to get back some of the money spent on the McCain-Palin campaign, items from the campaign were sold today at a yard sale, including a $US20 BlackBerry, fully loaded with confidential information.

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Science

Bomb Victim Fitted With Cyborg Arm That Fuses With Her Own Skin and Bone

11:00AM December 13, 2008 | Sean Fallon

Kira Mason, a victim of the London bombing attacks in July of 2005 has been fitted with a cyborg arm that fuses with her own skin and bone. The procedure has been called “a breakthrough.”

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Software

Slingplayer Mac Update Offers Improved Streaming Video Quality, Online IDs, Aspect Ratio Toggling

10:59AM December 13, 2008 | Adrian Covert

Slingplayer for Mac received an update today to 1.0.7, offering improved video quality, easy toggling between 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratio, and the ability to register and store your Slingbox ID online.

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Why Apple Keynotes Are On Tuesday

10:40AM December 13, 2008 | Brian Lam

Apple cultists know that Apple announces news and has big Keynotes on Tuesday. But most don’t realise why this happens on this particular day of the week, and accept the legacy of the pattern as some sort of cult tradition handed down since days of Woz. But Woz told me that it started after his time. So I poked around a bit, and found out that Tuesday’s Apple news turns out to be just another practical left brain decision built entirely around the news cycle.

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Mobile

Marathon to SMS Those Too Lazy to Run In It

10:20AM December 13, 2008 | Mark Wilson

I’ve come to the conclusion that despite childhood fantasies, I will never be passionate or self-loathing enough to run a marathon. However, I could track a friend via SMS.

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