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Laptop Buying Guide 2012: How To Find The Right Laptop For You Lots of things are wigging me out about the burned up CCTV building. Are fireworks that dangerous? What will happen with all that debris? And WHY are they censoring news of it over here?
According to Windows 7 Team Blog, beta sign-up is ending at midnight tonight, Pacific time. Go start your download now—you can decide later whether to install it or not. [Complete Windows 7 Coverage]
David Hanson, the roboticist who brought us the creepy cybernetic substitute son Zeno, is now offering an empathetic smiling Einstein bot for our general horrification.
GPS satellites are just fast moving clocks, spewing out time code as they hurtle through space. Digital TV towers also spew time code, and could be a land-based GPS system or GPS assistant, says Ars.
We do know that the metal-and-wood sculpture by Greg Brotherton is convincing, right down to its tiny anguished protagonist. Feel better, little dude, so you can go back to chilling with Brotherton’s headlight-breasted fembots. [io9]
The Calypso chair is a do-it-all chair designed for web surfers and transforms into almost everything you could ever possibly need. You know what that means? Oh, yes. You’re never leaving your TV again, fatty.
Until we get organic cyborg beetles at the pet store, we’ll have to use these RC helicopters that look like real roaches.
We already knew that Nokia was launching its “Comes With Music” service in Australia this quarter, but now we have a tiny bit more information: local independant music label Liberation, who looks after artists like Jimmy Barnes, Bliss ‘n Eso, Josh Pyke, diesel, Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson, The Temper Trap and Troy Cassar-Daley, will be a part of the service at launch. I wonder if that includes the Barnesy back-catalog?
The Onion pisses on pretty much the entire gadget-making game with this fake news piece. Lots of cursing, do not watch unless you have a mouth like a Gizmodian.
Everyone likes free stuff. That’s probably why BigPond are giving away free movies and TV shows every week to download via their BigPond movies portal. There’ll be new movies and episodes every week, starting with Hellboy and The Tudors season 1 episode 1.
Naturally, the downloads are DRM’d to the hilt, and will only work on Windows Media Player 11 (the same as all video downloads from BigPond). You’ll need to sign up to BigPond Movies to access the films, and the offer ends on May 11. But there will be new movies and TV episodes every week, so it’s not all bad.
And if you’re not a BigPond broadband customer, remember that the download will count towards your data usage (it’s unmetered for BigPond). At about 1.1GB per film, it can quickly add up, so best to keep an eye on your monthly usage if you take this offer up.
