Gadgets

Laser’s eBook Reader Isn’t Quite An eReader

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When is an eBook reader not an eReader? Probably when the screen isn’t made with e-ink, but is in fact a TFT LCD…


December 11, 2009

Spacy ZScanner Shoots Lasers, Just Not Of The Pew-Pew Variety

Z Corporation’s Z-Scanner looks like a 23rd century View-Master, and in some ways it is. This scanner uses lasers to capture complex forms in 3D, with resolution up to 40 microns. Set shields to full for the hands-on video below!


November 11, 2009

Laser T9 Probably Won’t Threaten The iPod

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Aussie company Laser has just launched a new MP3/MP4 player called the T9. Despite its decent enough spec sheet and attractive price point though, I highly doubt Apple is quaking in their booties.


October 13, 2009

Navig8r Satnavs Will Change Screens To Look Like The Street Directory

Gizmodo AU

If you want to enter the crazy world of satellite navigation, but can’t let go of your stylish UBD colour scheme, the Navig8r G series devices from Laser offer the ability to customise the appearance of the maps to resemble your favourite old-school street directory. No, us neither…


October 12, 2009
Gadgets

Laser Launches Portable Digital TVs

Gizmodo AU

Pocket-sized television devices are nothing new, but pocket-sized TVs with built-in digital tuners are, at least in Australia. Laser have announced their new range of DVB-T portable TVs.


August 3, 2009
Gadgets

DIY Laser Lighter: Because Smoking Wasn’t Dangerous Enough

Experts warn that smoking doubles the chance of going blind in old age, so why not increase your odds with Kipkay’s crazy (though admittedly awesome-looking) BIC-lighter hack. How-to video after the jump.


July 18, 2009

Full Size Gundam Get Attacked By Laser During Inaugural Ceremony

I am not a full size Gundam in Tokyo—although I want to be one when I grow up—but if I were attacked with greeen lasers during my inauguration ceremony, I would get pretty damn pissed off. Then I would destroy everything in sight, and go to have a carrot cake and coffee afterwards. [Mainichi Daily News]


June 27, 2009
Mobile

How To Make A Palm Pre Look Like A Palm Full Of Ass

We don’t mean a palm full of arse in a good way—when were you not happy when you had a palm full of ass—but a palm full of something really disgusting. Yeah, this thing right here.


June 13, 2009

Laser Synthitar: Man’s Weapon Against Sharks With Laser Beams

A shark with a laser beam is a pretty freaking deadly animal—so we understand. No one has lived to tell the tale. But when these sharks finally attack Man in mass, we’ll have a plan.


March 15, 2009
Science

Badass Scientists Prepare Anti-Mosquito Laser

Sure, this project is the product of a great humanitarian impulse: wiping out malaria, which claims about a million lives a year. But you can tell the astrophysicists are having a blast with it, too.