Posts by Jesus Diaz

Saturday, March 20, 2010
Gadgets

Tendril Vision Clock Helps You Save In Electricity Bills

9:50AM Jesus Diaz | I like the Tendril Vision’s looks. And I like it even more because it’s real, even while it feels like a spare part for the Enterprise’s bridge. The clock connects to the electric grid, giving you real-time consumption information. More »
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Online

DIY Alien Race Invades Earth

9:40AM Jesus Diaz | After birds and firetrucks and scuba divers and branches and the devil and burgers and God and teddy bears and drunks and noses invaded Earth, now it’s the turn of crafty DIY aliens. Here’s their mothership. More »
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Toys

My Childhood Memories Live In Lego’s Underground Secure Vault

6:20AM Jesus Diaz | Nothing brings up memories as smells do. In my case, it’s the smell of plastic. Thousands of little colourful plastic pieces in cardboard boxes. Literally, all those memories live in a secure, temperature- and humidity-controlled, fireproof archival vault in Denmark. More »
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Games

Would The iPad Take Over Casual Home Gaming?

3:40AM Jesus Diaz | Get ready, because this one may get big: 44 per cent of all iPad applications being tested in the actual device are games. Hey Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft, the iPhone/iPod titan is getting its tentacles all over the living room. More »
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Computers

Paladin XLC Gaming PC: Six-Core CPU, Looks From Hell

12:30AM Jesus Diaz | The new liquid-cooled Paladin XLC gaming PCs from iBuypower come loaded with Intel Core i7 980X Extreme Edition processors, 12GB of DD3 memory, a maximum of 1TB of storage and Blu-ray. They start at $US2159. [iBuypower via <a href="http://www.slashgear.com/ibuypower-paladin-comes-in-four-flavors-is-extremely-overclockable-1878240/]
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Software

The Windows Web Browser Choice Screen Works

12:04AM Jesus Diaz | According to the latest data from Opera, the Windows Web Browser Choice Screen – a browser download and activation pop-up mandated by the European Union in all versions of Microsoft’s operating system – is working. They say it’s a “dramatic uptake on downloads”. More »
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Friday, March 19, 2010
Weapons

A Calm Beach Day In Nuclear Hell

11:20AM Jesus Diaz | Hey, may I have another caipirinha and another nuclear bomb? Thanks! [Thanks David Keyes!]
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Random Stuff

Today, Steve Jobs Is Very Sad

3:23AM Jesus Diaz | Apple Director and IBM ex-CFO Jerome B. York is dead, following his hospitalisation yesterday after suffering a burst brain aneurysm. He joined Apple’s board when Steve Jobs came back into the company. Needless to say, Steve is very sad: More »
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Music

Cardboard Record Sleeve Doubles As Record Player

2:19AM Jesus Diaz | This is pure genius: Audio engineering company GGRP Sound sent a 45rpm record in a corrugated cardboard sleeve that doubles as a record player. You can put it together one single step. More »
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Design

NASA Mission Posters Are Hilariously Painful

1:40AM Jesus Diaz | Sweet. Baby. Jesus. I’m speechless. I love NASA. I love astronauts. They’re true heroes, risking their lives in the name of science and progress. But why did they make these posters? WHY? They defy any description, they are pure gold: More »
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