Friday, October 9, 2009

Litecup, Where The Hell Have You Been My Entire Life?

11:40PM October 9, 2009 | Joanna Stern

Don’t lie. You like to have a cup of water next to bed, but you constantly hit it when searching for it in the middle of the night. You also spill all over yourself when trying to drink laying down. More »

Burger King Updating 12,000 Locations With ‘Futuristic’ Look

11:23PM October 9, 2009 | Mark Wilson

Touchscreen menus. Corrugated metal. Red chandeliers. Brick. Burger King will add these elements to 12,000 locations in renovations costing franchisees between $US300,000 and $US600,000 apiece. More »

Gadgets

Colour Plastic Logic eReader Will Have B&N Store Early 2010

10:02PM October 9, 2009 | Danny Allen

Barnes & Noble will be on the colour reader via an eBook store app, according to the gushing rep in this video from CTIA. Interestingly, the news follows rumours that B&N’s own (possibly Android-powered) reader may arrive as early as next month. More »

Expectations Of T-Mobile’s Mysterious “Project Black” Are Sky-High

5:00PM October 9, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

Rumours surrounding T-Mobile’s very mysterious “Project Black” have been swirling around, and those in the know are claiming it’s going to blast T-Mo out of fourth place in the carrier wars. What do we know about Project Black? More »

Gadgets

Weekend Gadgets: PSPGo, Wacom Bamboo And Windows 7

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4:30PM October 9, 2009 | Nick Broughall

I’ve got so much to play with this weekend it’s not funny. There’s a PSPGo with Gran Turismo, Scribblenauts on the DS, Rock Band Beatles on 360, plus a Wacom Bamboo tablet, an Intel rocket, and I’m going to install Windows 7 on my Macbook Pro testing out Sun Virtualbox that so many of you recommended. More »

Geek Out

You Can Count Elephants By Just Using Acoustic Gear

4:30PM October 9, 2009 | Rosa Golijan

How do you count elephants in the jungles of Africa? You can either collect their excrement or you can listen. No, seriously. The Elephant Listening Project at Cornell University has figured out how to count elephants using acoustic monitoring. More »

Science

Researchers Made Mistake, World Is Ending Sooner Than Expected

4:00PM October 9, 2009 | Rosa Golijan

Supermassive black holes, heat death and entropy could be wonderful dinner conversation as you toast to the end of the universe. Not sure when it’ll happen, but based on some re-calculations of entropy in the universe, it’s sooner than we expected. More »

Adobe Unleashes The 40% Off Ninjas To Tackle Piracy

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3:33PM October 9, 2009 | Nick Broughall

Adobe knows your copy of Creative Suite 4 is “borrowed” from a friend. A friend you randomly met on the Internet, whose name you don’t know and probably never will. Fortunately, they’re doing something about it, so long as you’re a student. More »

Science

Your Great Great Great Grandkids Might Heal Like Wolverine

3:30PM October 9, 2009 | Rosa Golijan

It sounds straight out of a comic book: Scientists have figured out a way to inject gene-carrying nanoparticles into stem cells in order to make wounds heal faster. I’d get my superheroine costume ready if the method wasn’t potentially cancer-causing. More »

Gaming

Study Finds “Game Snacking” Makes You More Creative

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3:02PM October 9, 2009 | Nick Broughall

I’ve been playing a lot of Scribblenauts this week, during those rare breaks I get from my computer screen. According to a recent study by Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment means that I’m more likely to be a bit creative, as I’m turning into a “game snacker” More »