Thursday, December 24, 2009 - Page 2
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The Punishment For A National Hoax: 30 Days In Jail

The grand total cost of pulling off a national hoax is whatever balloon-making supplies go for, $US42,000 in fines and 30 days of jail time. Richard “Balloon Dad” Heene probably considers that a bargain in the world of attention-whoring.


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How The Decade Was Supposed To Turn Out

“In the years since the new millennium, the world has seen such progress.” So begins a noted Super Bowl commercial from 2000 that milked the Christopher Reeve sympathy/inspiration angle to show how well an investment firm can predict the future.


Gadgets

Seiko Brings Back Their Famous Talking Pyramid Clock

The year was 1984: Ronald Regan was president, the Macintosh computer was born, and Seiko’s talking Pyramid Talk clock was all the rage. If you missed it the first time around, now is your chance to score an updated version.


Are You Gadgeting It Up For Christmas?

Gizmodo AU

Each and every Christmas, my family enjoys two fully baked dinners, a champagne breakfast and a few bottles of choice wine. And in between opening presents and talking about the year that’s been, for the past few years we’ve also managed to squeeze in a bit of family Guitar Hero action…


Apple To Host Event In Late January, Possibly Tablet-Related

The Financial Times is reporting that Apple rented out the Yerba Buena centre in San Francisco, its preferred convention centre, for a few days in late January. Does this mean all the tablet rumblings are correct?


Science

What Is This?

When I first saw this abstract image, I thought I was looking at some weird crystals, or maybe some snowflakes under the microscope using polarised light. The answer was much more amazingerest and surprising than that.


Rfiddler Rifle Zaps USB Sticks And RFID Chips Into Oblivion

Sensitive data is no match for the Rfiddler rifle. It can burn out RFID tags and USB sticks by zapping them with a strong electromagnetic field generated by a hacked 0.6kJ photo-flash unit driving a 50-turn copper spool.


Breakfast Wrap: Best Of Wednesday Night

Gizmodo AU

Only one more sleep ’til Santa, suckers! Meanwhile, here’s the best of the feed…

Can You Find Every Internet Meme Hidden In This Picture? Probably not!

Google Nexus One Hands On Best Android phone ever? Probably – it is a real Google phone…

Mind Blowing Video Of The Canon 1D Mark IV Mind, consider yourself blown.

The Best Alternatives To Every Apple Product So long as you live in the US, that is. Nah – there’s still some good pointers for Aussies here…

Microsoft Is The New IBM: Old, Fat And Dull Oh, snap!

Apple Tablet Demo Coming In January; Devs Already Building Apps But after it launches, what will gadget blogs speculate about?

The Future Of Vehicle Apps Are—You Guessed It—on The iPhone The future of human existence is on the iPhone.


The Apple Mouse, Evolved

Living, breathing mice evolved over millions of years. The Apple mouse has mutated from a beige box to contoured sliver, like a big drop of mercury, in just over 20.