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Design
X-Ray Coffee Table Reveals a Hidden Life That’s Cooler than Your Real Life
4:30AM Mark Wilson | According to Diesel, your coffee table is obscuring a series of turntables used for your closet DJing habit. In reality, that fossilized trilobite-esque table up top may be more your speed. [Diesel via MoCo Loco] More »
Games
The X-Rays of Completely Healthy Game Consoles
1:50AM Mark Wilson | Just how do some of gaming’s famous consoles make their way into an x-ray machine? More »
Cameras
TSA to Transition From Metal Detectors to Whole Body Scanners
9:00AM Mark Wilson | While the TSA introduced whole body scanners as a means to search passengers posing a greater security risk (like those who set off metal detectors), they now plan to use the invasive technology on everyone. More »
Design
X-Ray Lamp Shows the World Your Awesome Internals
12:00AM Mark Wilson | Every proud PC modder uses acrylic casing to show off the sweet internals of their system. So why not take a cue from those kings of design? More »
Computers
Aluminium MacBook X-Ray Makes Perfect Desktop Background
3:15AM Jesus Diaz | I’ve seen a lot of disassembled MacBooks already, but this is the first time I’ve seen one under x-rays. The image was taken by Jason De Villa because he wondered how it would it look like. I like his curiosity: Like other gadget x-rays we have featured in the past, there’s something about radiographed technology that satisfies my most intimate geek peeping tom and Dr. House-wannabe desires at the same time. And no, I’m not talking about the cellphones-up-your-buttocks x-rays. [The AfterMac via Cult of Mac] More »
Science
Researchers Build X-Ray Machine With Scotch Tape
8:20AM Sean Fallon | More than 50 years ago, Russian scientists discovered that simple Scotch tape emits x-rays when peeled off glass. New research conducted by colleagues at UCLA has determined that the power that the tape generates is much higher than anyone could have imagined. In fact, they have constructed a machine that generates x-rays by peeling up Scotch tape in a vacuum at the rate of 3 centimeters per second. As you can see in the recent demo they did for the journal Nature, their device was able to successfully generate an x-ray of a finger. More »
Design
X-Ray Bulb Lamps X-Ray Themselves Only
11:45PM Mark Wilson | When we originally spotted the X-ray bulb lamp, we imagined an awesome Halloween party scattered with black light and some amazing bulb that showed our skeletons. Alas, the X-ray lamp only shows its own guts, in a sense, displaying the X-ray of an incandescent or CFL bulb. Intended for exhibition at the moment, we hope that X-ray bulbs hit that market one day—whether it be these pieces of art or some neato bulb that lets us examine the contents of a beloved’s stomach. [Samulnoli via technabob] More »
Phones
7 Prisoners Have Surgery To Remove Mobile Phones Stuck ‘Up There’
3:43AM Mark Wilson | 37 prisoners in a Pakistan jail were caught hiding cellphones inside their bodies—presumably their rectums. And for 30 of said prisoners, life continued as normal once the phones were removed. But for an unlucky 7, those stuffing themselves with smartphones, nature couldn’t take its course. So they underwent surgery. More »
Peripherals
TSA Says X-Rayable Laptop Bags are Go
6:09PM Gizmodo US Edition | The director of the TSA, Kip Hawley, has spoken to the New York Times and confirmed that X-ray-friendly laptop cases will be accepted by the agency as soon as they hit the shelves, potentially bringing an end to the panic that your laptop will go astray in all the fuss at airport checkpoints. We brought you first hints of this back in May, but it looks like the process of getting the bags approved is well underway. And both Targus and Pathfinder Luggage are hoping to have products on sale as soon as September or October. More »
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