Monday, March 2, 2009 - Page 2

DIY Paintball Turret Keeps Kids Away By Firing 38 Paintballs Per Second

I just saw Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino for the first time the other day. This DIY paintball turret would have made the ending… different.


Software

This iPhone App Will Result In At Least One Accidental Shooting

The RNSK “Bang! Bang!” iPhone app recreates the sound of several firearms using authentic Hollywood special effects, and will probably get you shot up for real. You even hold it like a real gun.


Uncategorized

Breakfast Wrap: Best Of The Weekend

Gizmodo AU

LG Might Be Ready To Give Up on Plasma TVs Altogether It looks like plasma is headed down the path of CRT…

Sir Howard Stringer Named Supreme Leader of All Things Sony All hail, the Sony Emperor!

Hearst Media Magazine Company Planning Their Very Own E-Book Reader And will almost certainly neglect the Australian market as well…

Inside the Mind of Microsoft’s Chief Futurist Absolutely fascinating read.

Watchmen Featurettes Show Dr. Manhattan’s Tron Suit, New Scenes My Watchmen countdown timer says two days and 16 hours until the movie opens. Can’t wait!

Fish-Devoured Phone Still Works After Retrieval by Fishermen Seriously, this should be an ad.

How To: Rip Blu-ray Discs Although it’s probably cheaper and easier to buy the DVD and rip that…


Science

Mega Laser Set to Explore Jupiter’s Mysterious Gas

Whats that smell? Why, it’s a 500 trillion watt mega laser deciphering the mysteries of space’s gas giants, that’s what that smell is. Get a good whiff, because you’re about the learn something.


Cars

Speedy MIT Solar Race Car Is One Part Cylon Raider, One Part Flight of the Navigator

MIT’s latest creation, a speedy solar car cheekily named Eleanor, can reach 145kph (good for enticing lead-footed Americans) and is packed with tech that could outfit mainstream hybrids soon (good for everyone else).


Gadgets

Cheeseburger Vacuum Sucks Up Desktop Dirt, Crumbs, Your Dignity

A cheeseburger-shaped mini-vacuum for your dirty desktop? Sure, why the hell not?


Mobile

‘Millions’ of Flawed US Nokia 5800 XpressMusic Causing Issues, Nokia Now Selling Euro Version

After only seven hours of availability, the recently released Nokia 5800 XpressMusic has been yanked from the Nokia flagship store in NYC, apparently due to widespread 3G network access issues. Update.


LEGO Mindstorm Ogre Autonomously Detects, Targets, and Destroys Other LEGO Creations

This is “Ogre,” an autonomous, projectile-launching, LEGO block-destroying remote control tank. Ogre could honestly be the first LEGO creation I wouldn’t want to meet in a dark alley. No minifig is safe this afternoon.


Mobile

Rumour: AT&T Considering ‘Mobile Phone Trade-In Program’

If this rumour pans out, AT&T could soon offer disgruntled mobile phone users a “phone trade-in program,” good for a few bucks off a new phone, should you really hate the one you just bought.


Cameras

Fantastic iPhone Photography Has Forced Me to Apologise to My iPhone

After viewing Jesus’s Bruce Springsteen iPhone photos again this morning, I was all prepared to continue staring spitefully at my own iPhone camera. But then I found these 100 amazing iPhone photos. World: Upside down.