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Gadgets
Duct Tape With Embedded LEDs Opens Up A New Half-Arsed World
5:00AM Sean Fallon | Think about all of the half-arsed repairs we can already do with duct tape. Imagine what it would be like if embedded LEDs were thrown into the mix? We’re talking half-arsed upgrades here. More »
Science
Allergy Warning: The ITER Fusion Facility Contains Coconuts
12:40PM Rosa Golijan | It’ll be a while before the first commercially viable fusion facility, ITER in France, is powered up. But before that can even ever happen, there’s a need for a massive amount of coconut-shell charcoal which’ll absorb byproducts of thermonuclear reactions. More »
Games
PS3 Slim Eats Half The Electicity Of The PS3 Fat
2:29AM Mark Wilson | Sony claims that their new PS3 Slim uses 34 per cent less power than previous generations. But when Crave compared the original 60GB PS3 to the Slim, they found power savings to be greater than 50 per cent. More »
Science
U.S. Energy Star Guidelines Lag Behind World In Clarity And Purpose
4:40AM Mark Wilson | The U.S. is supposed to be the worldwide masters of consumerism. But as pointed out by Pop Mech, their Energy Star guidelines are not just inaccurate, they fail to compare one product to any other product. There’s no context. More »
Gadgets
The Dustbuster: Cleaning Up After You Since 1979
2:30PM Dan Nosowitz | Unveiled in 1978 but released in 1979, the Black & Decker Dustbuster was a revolutionary home-cleaning device, and the only power tool a parent was likely to let a children play with. Vroom! More »
Peripherals
10:30AM Matt Buchanan | Like the Callpod but fancier since it props up your gadgets on a shiny platform, the Messless Charger comes with six connectors for charging up to four gadgets simultaneously. It’s about $US100 thanks to the gloss factor, though. [pocket-lint] More »
Messless Charger: The Showoffiest Way To Charge Four Gadgets Simultaneously
10:30AM Matt Buchanan | Like the Callpod but fancier since it props up your gadgets on a shiny platform, the Messless Charger comes with six connectors for charging up to four gadgets simultaneously. It’s about $US100 thanks to the gloss factor, though. [pocket-lint] More »
Gadgets
TV Tricklesaver Makes Sure Standby Consoles Don’t Cost You Money
8:40AM Jason Chen | The Tricklesaver does two things: detect when your TV is off, and cuts off power to whatever console is plugged in so it doesn’t waste power when “off”. This is good, in theory. More »
Peripherals
Cooler Master Offers The Smallest 95W Laptop Adapter You Can Get
10:40AM Mark Wilson | It’s tough to tell without anything to scale this image, but the Cooler Master SNA 95 is the smallest 95W laptop adapter around—yet still manages to integrate some convenient extras. More »
Robots
Solar Powered Spider Will Populate My Nightmares For Months
9:00AM Jesus Diaz | Every time I’ve seen these Jansen walkers—usually driven by the wind, sometimes on electricity—they have crept the hell out of me. This one is solar powered, and it creeps me just the same. More »
Hardware
