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Software

Iron Is Chrome Spin-Off for Tin-Foil Hatters

Posted by Jesus Diaz at 5:20 AM on September 26, 2008

German security company SRWare likes Chrome but not as much as their tin-foil hats, which is why they have created Iron. Iron is a Chrome derivative that has been developed to protect your intimacy by stopping the control that Google has over your data. I don't know if it addresses Chrome fatal flaw, but if you don't want to relay any information to the New Galactic Empire, its features list will make you happy:


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Design

Easily the Worst Product Concept We've Ever Seen

Posted by Mark Wilson at 12:20 AM on August 19, 2008

Give it a second. [Rachev via textually]


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Design

Lifesize Scopedog Mecha Towers Over Iron and Steel Celebration

Posted by Gizmodo US Edition at 5:00 AM on August 3, 2008

As part of its 150th anniversary celebration, the Japan Iron and Steel Federation got ironsmithing genius Kogoro Kurata to display his insane 1:1 scale model of the Scopedog mecha from the 80s anime series VOTOMS. Weighing in at two tons and standing a full four meters tall, it dwarfed everything else at the exhibition. The cast iron structure was actually finished in 2005 and has been on display before at other Japanese conventions, but it still thrills every time it rears its mechanical head. Look at the detail on this thing!


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