Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - Page 2
Science

The Most Amazing Photo Ever Taken, Now In 3D

News

Gizmodo Australia Goes Mobile, Again

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Giz has given in to peer pressure like the geeks-to-the-cores we are. You’ve been asking for it and now, thanks to the folks over at BlackBerry, the new and improved Gizmodo Australia mobile site has finally arrived.

Entertainment

New Astro Boy Trailer Makes Me Want This New Astro Boy Toy

Check out this wicked Astro Boy figurine recently spotted at Hong Kong’s Ani-Com show. I can’t wait for the big-screen CG reboot of everyone’s favourite Pinocchio-like android kid with arm canons. Speaking of which, new full-length trailer after the jump!

Geek Out

WTF? Latest Use For A Leaf Blower Kinda Sucks

You gotta applaud this overclocker’s ingenuity in using a leaf blower (seemingly switched to suck) to cool a desktop PC. But the vibration you’d get makes me call shenanigans. Extra points for using a dictionary, though! [There I Fixed It]

Mobile

HTC Touch Pro2 Review: Wait, How Much?

The gadget: The HTC Touch Pro2, on T-Mobile

Gadgets

Remainders—Things We Didn’t Post

Google Gets Caffeinated…An Enormous Collection of Apple-Branded Crap…SpongeBob, Answer to Dell’s Increasingly Delirious Dreams…Liquid Condoms: 5X Safer, 10X Messier…

Art Lebedev Navigarius GPS Concept Really Belongs In A Spaceship

Art Lebedev’s concepts don’t always come to fruition, but they’re great eye candy even if they’ll never actually exist. This round-screened Navigarius GPS concept is one of their prettiest.

Cameras

Samsung Ad Reveals Secret Behind Blink Detection Technology

I love Samsung for their odd advertisements, but this one just made me say wa-wa—wow-WOW! I do wonder how many guys would actually keep their eyes open with this trenchcoat tech though. [YouTube]

10 Days Until Optus D3 Satellite Launches

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Optus this morning confirmed that their D3 satellite, which will give Foxtel subscribers a heap of new HD channels (among other things) is set to launch on August 22 between 8:09 and 9:09 am Sydney time. It’ll be launching from French Guiana, which is where they launched both the D1 and D2 satellites. [Optus]

Make Your Own Laptop Sleeve Out Of Any Fabric

Ars Technica posted a guide showing how to make a laptop sleeve out of any fabric you happen to have lying around. It probably won’t protect your laptop from falls, but it’ll provide some style and probably reduce scratches.

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