Friday, January 22, 2010 - Page 2
Gadgets

Telstra’s Elite Mobile Broadband Card Is Quad Band 3G And Expensive (UPDATED)

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My first thought when I saw Telstra’s new Elite mobile broadband card: “Wow, Expresscard isn’t dead yet?” My second thought: “Really? It isn’t dead yet?” My third thought: “Come on, surely it’s dead and this is a joke.” My fourth thought: “Okay, this joke was kinda lame to begin with, but now it’s just plain embarrassing.”


Science

This EMP Cannon Stops Cars Almost Instantly

We’ve heard of electromagnetic pulses cutting steel in milliseconds, but apparently they can also be used to stop moving cars just as fast. The cannon demonstrated in the video here is still a prototype, but it definitely seems to work.


Software

Channel 7 Using Windows 7 Snap During Australian Open Coverage

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This is pretty cool – so long as you enjoy tennis, I guess. Channel 7 is using Windows 7′s Snap feature to show two video streams side by side during the telecast of the Australian Open.


One Man, One Mouse, Three Hours

It only took graphic designer Anatoly Zenkov a few hours of Photoshop work to log this exhausting, web-like trail with his cursor. Here‘s how he recorded it, and how you can too. [Flickr]


Soon Toy Cars Will Be Powered By Mountain Dew

Glucose-powered bio-batteries aren’t a brand new idea, but Japanese toymaker Takara may be among the first to attempt to use them in their products. They’ve made some prototype remote-controlled toy cars which run on our favourite sweet drinks.


Two YouTube Videos And A Motherf***ing Crossfader, Dot Com

I could never capture the essence of this incredible timewaster better than its URL already has. I will add that it also features a “party” button, which you will click, and sparkly fonts, which you will enjoy. [2YTVaaMFCF.com, thanks Max!]


Software

Emirates’ iLingual App Half Solves The Language Barrier

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There are a few different iPhone apps out there designed to make inter-language communication an easier proposition, but none of them are quite like the Emirates iLingual app. Combining either French, German or Arabic with those stupid mouth replacement gimmicks you see on late-night TV infomercials, the app lets you “speak” another language through the iPhone.


Science

Clay- And Water-Based Hydrogels: Possible Alternative To Plastic

Plastic polymers are efficient, cheap and easy to make – but not very environmentally friendly. Hydrogels had previously not been really considered a viable alternative, because they’re, well, gels. But by attaching them to clay, that’s all changed.


Entertainment

Spike Jonze Shows Us That Robots Handle Relationships Like We Do

By getting drunk. Spike Jonze latest project I’m Here, a 30-minute tale about the ups and downs of robot love, is set to premier at the Sundance Film Festival. It’s also being used in an ad campaign for Absolute Vodka.


Gadgets

Remainders: Our Job Just Got Harder Edition

In today’s Remainders, David Pogue is distressed about the Nook’s weight problems, America’s Cup entrants ditch sails for wings, Engadget spots an HP Smartbook on the FCC’s site, and iLounge coughs up some unconvincing Tablet rumours.