Giant mechanized rhinoceros beetle makes...
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While it’s certainly not all that uncommon to see giant robots wandering the streets of Japan, it looks like even the jaded folks on the Japanese TV show “Nanikore Chin Hakkei” were impressed by this massive beetle robot built by an Ibaraki man, who apparently spent a full 11 years...
Keepin’ it real fake, part CXCVIII...
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You know how we know this here TAG Heuer Meridiist isn’t the real deal? Not because it isn’t sexy, and not because we don’t really, really want to believe. No — it’s because the authentic handset can’t be found for under five or six grand , while this little impostor...
Dogpile on Microsoft! Adobe, IBM, Oracle...
Filed under: Internet , OS Updates , Microsoft Are you kidding me? Did a whole group of major companies just jump in to the Microsoft-EU brawl? Yep. Adobe, Oracle, Sun, Corel, and RealNetworks - who are members of the European Committee for Interoperable Systems - have joined up with Mozilla, Opera,...
Canadian killed by unsecured laptop duri...
Here’s a tip folks: don’t get in car wrecks. If you someday find such a situation unavoidable, however, here’s another: keep that laptop of yours in the trunk, or at least in a case tucked down behind the driver’s seat. Mounties in British Columbia are reporting that a Canadian...
YouTube launches CaptionTube: A caption ...
YouTube has just put out a new Web based application called CaptionTube that lets users add text captions to their videos . The video service has had support for captioning in its videos since August of last year, but until now you’ve been stuck having to do it with time codes and captions uploaded...
Psystar Open(3) manages to ship, gets un...
Take a good look at the box above, folks — it just might be the first, the last and the only Open(3) you ever see. Psystar ’s latest Mac clone, which was launched right around a month ago, has miraculously managed to ship out (or, at least one has). If you’ll recall, the company has...
Should Twitter Remove Its Follower Count...
Over the past few days, actor Ashton Kutcher has been racing CNN to be the first Twitter user with a million followers. Kutcher and other parties like EA have been pulling out all the stops to help his account gain followers as quickly as possible to hit the number. Clearly, this is a game — and...
Symbian ports its platform to Atom, just...
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Companies and enterprising individuals have been dabbling with the tantalizing concept of slapping Android on a cheap netbook for months now, and seeing how Android and Symbian could end up locked in a heated battle for the hearts and minds of the open-source mobile platform world, it stands to reason...
Firefox 3.5 beta 4 coming soon...
Filed under: Mozilla , Browsers Mozilla is inching closer to the release of Firefox 3.5, which includes a faster Javascript engine, a private browsing mode, faster page rendering, and changes to the way tabs are handled. Firefox 3.5 beta 4 is due to be released within the next week or so . If you’re...
Garmin intros super sleek 5-inch nüvi 1...
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Just a month ago, Garmin came clean with the nüvi 1390T as part of its 1300 lineup , and today we’re being formally introduced to the numerical successor. The nüvi 1490T sports a chassis that’s some 25 percent slimmer than most nüvi models and an expansive 5-inch touchscreen....
PC That Provides 2 Years of Quality Gami...
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The folks over at Tom’s Hardware’s Forums apparently know their stuff , having come up with a configuration that supposedly provides great gaming for the first year, “decent” gaming for the second—working with a $1000 budget. Here what they have so far: Casing: Antec Three...
Interview With Andrew Keen At The Next W...
TechCrunch Europe’s Mike Butcher and myself just finished conducting a short video interview with entrepreneur and author Andrew Keen about the end of Web 2.0 and the dawn of a new age of individualism, driven primarily by Twitter. [Mike Butcher writes] The controversial, anti-Web 2.0, figure...
Gadgets- Understanding and Controlling MotorsDriving motors from a microcontroller will be required for a project eventually. This video by NerdKits will go over some of the basics that are needed. Thanks Humberto. "Electric motors are a key way of converting electrical power (voltage and current) into mechanical power (torque and speed), and because electric motors are simple and reliable […]