Friday, October 2, 2009 - Page 2
Cars

NASA Is Running Out Of Space Fuel, No Refills In Sight

So apparently, NASA needs this itsy-bitsy little thing called Plutonium-238 to make their deep-space rocketships go ZoOOOooOoOooM ZooOOOOoMM, but they’re running out of it and need congress to drop $US30 million to help make more.

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Au Revoir, And Things I Forgot To Post

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Well, that pretty much wraps it up for me as Nick Broughall’s stand-in while he was away the past two weeks welcoming a new child into the world. Nick is due back on Monday when all of you who have been hassling me about stuff for which I have no discretionary power will be able to find some resolution. Or not. Go easy, OK? It’s tough becoming a new parent. But before I go, here’s a few things I didn’t get around to posting earlier.

Gadgets

This Might Be The Most Ingenious Bedside Clock Ever

There are two things I don’t like when I wake up in the morning — having to look across the room at the alarm clock on my desk, and sitting up to make sense of it. This timepiece acknowledges both issues.

Gadgets

Antenna-Based Personal Communicator Realises My Fantasies

My second biggest Star Trek fantasy? Being able to tap a badge to communicate. Silly, but not to a Finnish company who is improving on Star Trek design and my fantasies with flexible, fabric communicators toting built-in GPS to boot.

Gadgets

Apple Tablet May Have Two-Handed Multitouch Input

Apple’s latest patent filing revolves around dual-handed touchscreen detection for typing, gesturing, controlling a 3D interface and handwriting. But it this intended for the fabled Apple Tablet, or something entirely different?

Gadgets

Create Your Own Cylon Pumpkin

Those evil, evil people at Evil Mad Scientist are already setting up for Halloween with their new version of their Cylon jack-o’-lantern. Now you can buy your own Larson Scanner Kit to do exactly the same.

Forget Training For Sports Glory… Cheat Instead

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Gadgets make us better people. Especially in sports. So this week while we’re Playing with Balls, it’s the perfect time to look back at our 10 gadgets that help you cheat at sports post. Because it doesn’t matter how you get there, so long as you win. Unless, you know, it actually is important how you get there…

Gadgets

Remainders — Things We Didn’t Post

Woman Disarms Terrorist With Axe, Then Shoots Him With His Own AK-47…Windows 7 XP Mode Is Ready For Realsies…Skype rumoured To Become Lenovo Crapware…Windows Mobile, Symbian To Dominate World Smartphone Biz in 5 Years???

Gadgets

Shootout: Canon M80 V Photo Safe II

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In this digital storage device face-off, we’re looking at two products that may do the same thing, but are chalk and cheese at face value. Canon’s M80 storage device (much like Epson’s device, indeed almost one and the same) and Digital Foci’s Photo Safe II have been on the market for some time but there isn’t much choice in this area, so they stand up as current offerings.

Cameras

Sony Announces Development Of High Frame Rate, 3D Camera

Why use two lenses when one is better? Sony’s announced that they’re developing a single lens 3D camera with a frame rate of 240fps and none (OK, OK: less) of those freaky misalignments 3D cameras can have.

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