Monday, May 18, 2009 - Page 2
Gadgets

Abandoned Duga-3 ‘Woodpecker’ Radio Antenna Looks Menacing

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Back in the 70s, amateur radio enthusiasts around the world began hearing a sharp, repetitive tapping noise at the 10Hz frequency, which disrupted communications and could occasionally be heard over telephone circuits. It was dubbed the “woodpecker” signal, and this was the cause of it: a Russian over-the-horizon anti-ballistic missile system called Duga-3, which could give early warning of missile launches.


Cars

Kvant Motorbike: Half the Snowmobile Yields Twice the Danger

Designer Patrik Petersson took his dirt bike and a snowmobile into a shed, played them some Yanni, and the result is the Kvant Motorbike.


Gadgets

Clock Clock Design Clocks In With 24 Analogue Clocks To Tell Time

Twenty-four wrongs make a right when it comes to telling time with Clock Clock.


IDAPT Docking Station Lets You Charge All Your Gadgets At Once

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There’s something fundamentally appealing about the IDAPT docking station, even though the shot above features a Nokia phone that wouldn’t be out of place in a museum. It’s the fact that you can charge up to three different, interchangeable gadgets at any one time without having to worry about cords tangling everywhere.


News

Win! One Of Five Terminator: Salvation XBox 360 Games!

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There are only 17 more sleeps until we get to watch Christian Bale take out all his rage on an army of humanoid robots hellbent on human destruction. And while we’re super excited for the upcoming Terminator film, five of you should be very excited by the chance to win a free copy of the Xbox 360 game that ties in to the movie…


Incredible Mindstorms NXT Theatre Creates Pirate Battle On Lego Seas

First of all, this whole motorised Lego theatre set up is legit. Skip to about 2:30 for a behind-the-scenes look at how it all works. Second of all, this is absolutely amazing.


Software

Flashback On The iPhone Is Like A Flashback To The 90s

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First there was Wolfenstein. Then there was Myst. Now there’s Flashback… the iPhone’s mission to become the ultimate handheld retro gaming console is almost complete.


Breakfast Wrap: Best Of The Weekend

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Retro Olympus Micro Four Thirds Camera Landing in Early July This is Olympus’ first Micro four thirds camera? Colour me disappointed…

Samsung Micro-Shutter Means Better Phone Cameras, Someday Hopefully someday=soon in this case…

Sony’s PS3 Costs Are Still 10 Percent Higher Than PS3′s Price That’s never going to make turning a profit easy…

Houston, We Got Porn On the Moon What a great story! Good one, Nasa ground crew…

Thank God: BlackBerry Storm 2 Screen Won’t Be Clicky Looks like theose RIM folk are paying attention…

Panasonic’s $US4 Billion Loss Makes Sony’s Bad Year Look Peachy Let’s hope the economy turns around before all our favourite companies go bankrupt.

How To Install Windows 7 On Almost Any Netbook Just remember – once the beta finishes, you’ll either need to pay up or go Linux.


Japanese Robot Powered By iPod touch, Muzak

This intrepid young lad has fashioned himself a robot that’s powered by an iPod touch, his incessant prodding, and some light but strangely out of place background music.


Mobile

LG enV Touch (Voyager 2) Will Contain Many Ubiquitous Mobile Phone Features

We got a quick, blurry look at LG’s upcoming enV Touch (aka Voyager 2) in April, and now we have the specs for this ho-hum handset: