Thursday, November 26, 2009 - Page 2
Gadgets

How To Make Any Pair Of Gloves Work With A Touchscreen

There are commercial gloves designed to work with touchscreens, but you can achieve the same functionality with your current pair of gloves using a needle and some conductive thread.


Entertainment

Internet TV And Video On Demand: Changing The TV Landscape Forever

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Television is in the middle of a revolution. A revolution brought about by a little thing known as the internet. Where traditionally the broadcast technology that made beaming video programming from one place to many different homes was a passive form of entertainment, the rise of technologies like DVRs and the Internet has allowed us to be more actively engaged in where, when and how we want to watch TV. And thanks to the web, IPTV is going to take that shift to the next level.


Gaming

Opening Up A Sega Genesis Leads To A Genesis IPhone Dock, Naturally

When you find a dead Sega Genesis and you open it up to see what the insides look like, the chances are probably good that you’ll end up with a Genesis you can plug your iPhone into. [Gadget Lab]


Gadgets

Yoomi Baby Bottle Heats Milk For You, No Cartridges Required

Self-heating containers aren’t a new idea, but rarely are they as practical or reusable as the Yoomi baby bottle.


Geek Out

Check Your Receipts When You Exit Radio Shack

A Consumerist reader was scammed into giving a donation to Livestrong that he didn’t consent to, as he found out when he got home and discovered an unauthorized donation on his receipt.


Computing

NES Netbook

If you don’t have at least one NES-style accessory incorporated into your daily routine, you’ve haven’t just failed us, you’ve let down everyone who ever believed in you. Score this NES netbook case for $US50. [Etsy via Lilliputing via UberGizmo]


White House Deputy Chief Technology Officer Compares Censorship In China To American ISPs

AT&T did not take kindly to remarks made by White House Deputy CTO Andrew McLaughlin comparing oppressive Chinese censorship to the practice of American ISPs.


Breakfast Wrap: Best Of Wednesday Night

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Glorious Muppets’ Bohemian Rhapsody In Full High Definition YouTube Glory Turn it up and watch it in HD. It’s fantastic!

Now They’re Teaching Robots To Dance With Lightsabers We’re doomed!

Pixel Qi Dual-Mode LCD Ships Next Month, $US100, 10-Watt HDTV Up Next Let’s hope it starts happening then!

New Parental Filter Will Annihilate Internet Porn Forever Quick! Someone tell Conroy!

Kindle Gets Firmware Updated To 2.3 Nothing worth getting too excited about though…

Windows 7 Passes Mac OS X Install Base It took them a whole month?

The Best Gadgets Pretty comprehensive list here. It’s from the US, so feel free to argue all day about it in comments…


Software

Handbrake DVD Ripper Just Went 64-Bit

Handbrake just updated to 0.9.4 which uses x264 libraries to encode faster and smaller file sizes. On my iMac Core i7 a DVD ripped 25% faster.


Gadgets

Passive-Aggressive Gifts For Geeks Who Are Late To Everything

If I show up for something on time, it’s probably an accident. Some of us just weren’t born with internal clocks that sync up with the rest of the world—these gifts are for people who’re late for everything.