Friday, May 22, 2009 - Page 2

Air Force Twitters on GPS Outage Reports: Calm Down, Civilians

When the U.S. Government Accountability Office released a report saying that worldwide GPS performance is likely to degrade in the next few years, lot of people, public and private, kinda flipped. Cue the inevitable about-face, right about…now.


Gaming

EA’s Sports Active Game For Wii Now Available

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Forget about the pathetic Wii Fit exercises if you want to lose weight while gaming. EA’s Sports Active looks like it might actually do something to help you shed your geek fat.


I Love Battery Packs and Portable Chargers

As Matt explained last year, batteries are holding up laptops, mobile phones and PMPs from lasting long enough and running fast enough to get things done properly on the go. What’s my solution? Portable battery packs.


Software

Klingon Anti-Virus Software Detects Romulan Activity

U.K. security firm Sophos has re-released their Threat Detection Test software, but with a slight tweak to use the new Star Trek’s popularity to its advantage: The software has been translated entirely into the Klingon language.


Online

Google’s Creepy New Algorithm Knows If You’re Going to Quit Your Job Before You Do

Google’s developed an algorithm that tells them which employees are most likely to quit. That’s creepy.


Entertainment

Life-Size Bumblebee Statue At Cannes Needs A New Home In My Backyard

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Transformers: Life-size Bumblebee, Cannes Now that my hopes and dreams for an awesome Terminator movie have been pretty much shattered by negative reviews, I guess I have to turn my attention to the next big blockbuster on my Entertainment Geekly radar: Transformers 2. If you can tolerate the annoying music from this clip, you can check out the awesome life-sized Bumblebee statue set up in Cannes for this year’s film festival.


Online

Oprah Skypes with a Sub, Gets Skinny on Life Submerged

newVideoPlayer("/SkypeSub_gizmodo.flv", 475, 376,""); That Oprah, always using product tie-ins in new and different ways, this time jiving with the commander of the USS Louisville “The Slugger” submarine—which is 60 feet underwater off the coast of Hawaii—via Skype.


SUNA Traffic Channel Now Covers The Gold Coast

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The SUNA traffic channel has just launched traffic alerts for the Gold Coast, to accompany their alerts for Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. I wonder if they can say “Don’t drive here – everything’s underwater“.


KOBIAN Emotional Humanoid Robot: Mime of the Future?

By adjusting its posture and wiggling its eyes and lips, this plucky android conveys several emotions. From the looks of it, they run the gamut from joy to absolute disgust. More pics after the jump.


Gadgets

Alfred Dunhill Atmos Regulator Clock Is an Art Deco Dreamboat

This timepiece oozes with the same classiness found in 1930′s era lighters and watches. The caliber-582 movement is so sensitive that small changes in temperature are enough to power the clock for days. [Acquire Mag]