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Hardware
WD Scorpio Blue Drive Is First 1 Terabyte Mobile Drive Ever
10:05PM Jesus Diaz | I seriously need the new WD Scorpio 1 terabyte drive. I want to be able to tote around all my desktop data, without any external drives hanging around, and $US250 seems like a little price to pay for that. More »
Weapons
Make a Blue Laser Gun Out of the Corpse of an HD-DVD Drive
6:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | Instructables has posted a guide for how to yank the blue diode out of a dusty Xbox 360 HD-DVD player and attach it to a (fake) gun to create…. a laser gun! It’s a pretty easy little mod, if you have the equipment lying around (and a laser gun sight you don’t use), and when you’re done, you’ve got a blue laser pistol powerful enough to light a match or pop a balloon. [Instructables] More »
Screens
South Koreans Discover ‘True Blue’ Material for Better OLED Screens
5:30AM Jack Loftus | OLED screens are pretty awesome all around, but they have more than a few Achilles Heels to overcome before they’re accepted into the mainstream. That said, one of the hurdles has allegedly fallen this weekend, thanks to new research out of South Korea. According to the AP, South Korean scientists have developed an efficient “true blue” material that, while sounding like a 1991 Madonna album, is actually a pretty important step forward for OLEDs. More »
Gadgets
BLUE Bowl Shines Light on Your Fruit to Stop the Rot
11:36PM Gizmodo US Edition | This design concept from Ahmet Bektes, Koray Gelmez & Eda Kose uses “Action Fresh Blue” technology—apparently used in “many new refrigerators”— to keep your fruit fresh. It seems that this tech is essentially a blue light, which shines down from the bowl’s handle, killing bacteria. Hmmm: I’m sceptical. But at least it’s rechargeable, and has a nifty blue halo all around when it’s in action so your kitchen looks all 21st Century. If it really works, it might be useful if you’re like me: buying a lot a fruit when on a health-kick, and then just leaving it in the bowl to go mouldy. [Envee Apparel via Home Tone] More »
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