Saturday, April 4, 2009

Cyberoctopus Attacked by Steamships

2:00PM April 4, 2009 | Wilson Rothman

Yeah, usually our featured images are photos, but Alex Broeckel’s photorealistic rendering—of that all-too-likely scenario that we will soon battle giant robo-octopuses using the power of steam—well, it just made horrifying, paranoia-inducing sense. [io9]

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Light-Up HDMI Cables Make Sense, But Not Like This

1:00PM April 4, 2009 | Wilson Rothman

I love the idea of light-up HDMI cables but I’m not sold on these, from Japan’s Donya electronics retailer. In a sense, they are completely backwards. Have you guessed why?

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Science

Russians Will Announce Soyuz Replacement Spaceship Monday

12:30PM April 4, 2009 | Wilson Rothman

The BBC reports that a long overdue replacement for the Soyuz spaceship will be announced Monday. For now dubbed PPTS—Prospective Piloted Transport System—the moon-reachable ship should look like the one above.

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Mobile

Samsung Omnia OLED Screen Is At Least Good for Something

12:00PM April 4, 2009 | Adrian Covert

One nice thing I stumbled upon during this year’s mostly underwhelming CTIA mobile phone show was Samsung’s wall of 300 OLED displays, the same screen used in their Omnia.

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Friday Easy Origami: Business Card Becomes iPod Earbud Winder

11:30AM April 4, 2009 | Wilson Rothman

Those designers at Core77 never stop. Today, one of them devised a super-simple but damn-if-it’s-not-worth-it business-card hack that finally gives you a way to stash those damn white earbuds. Share your attempts in comments. [Core77]

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Gadgets

Vintage Massagers Look Like Torture Devices

11:00AM April 4, 2009 | Gizmodo US Edition

The geniuses at Oobject have curated a hilarious gallery of 18 forgotten vibrators/massagers, all of which look more likely to induce pain than pleasure.

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CD Turntables Are Possibly the Product of the (Last) Century

10:30AM April 4, 2009 | Sean Fallon

Pete Verrando has himself some CD turntables and, as you can see in the images, these beauties are patent pending.

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AT&T Says Horrible Terms of Service Update Was All a Big Mistake

10:14AM April 4, 2009 | Matt Buchanan

Millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and AT&T swiftly backtracked on the draconian updates to their terms of the service that effectively ban Skype, Sling and other goodness: It’s all a big mistake!

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Japan Pledges To Land Humanoid Robot On Moon By 2020

10:00AM April 4, 2009 | Wilson Rothman

In an otherwise vague announcement, Japan’s Strategic Headquarters for Space Development said that it would put a two-legged humanoid robot on the moon by 2020.

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Ondus Digitecture Wall Mount Is The KITT of Faucets

9:30AM April 4, 2009 | Sean Fallon

There’s just something about this sleek, black, digital Ondus Digitecture faucet that makes me wish it would speak to me in William Daniels voice.

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