- Tech News Setting A Canon EOS 5D Mark II On Fire For No Real Reason Hopefully this lovely Canon EOS 5D Mark II was really broken beyond repair before its owner decided to use it as a fire-breathing practice target. Oh hell, even if it was completely broken: This is senseless abuse of an innocent gadget. [Planet 5D]
By Rosa Golijan
- Tech News Canon 60D Impressions: The Perfect Video DSLR Is Just a Little Bit Closer The 60D, Canon’s new midrange DSLR, is a whole lot like the Rebel T2i inside—still fantastic. It’s what’s outside that’s better, a flip-out swivel screen and more rugged body that tug the camera closer toward video DSLR nirvana. https://gizmodo.com/canon-rebel-t2i-review-this-should-be-your-first-dslr-5541310 The 60D replaces the horribly aged 50D, sitting between the pricier 7D ($1900) and T2i ($900) … Continued
By Matt buchanan
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By Matt buchanan
- Tech News The Next Alternative Energy Source: Electricity Out of Thin Air It’s been coined “hygroelectricity”, which means “humidity electricity“, and scientists are already in the early stages of developing devices to harness it. What is “it” exactly? “It” is electrically charged water droplets hanging in the atmosphere. Recent experiments have shown that moisture in the air is not electrically neutral, as previously thought. Water in the … Continued
By Christina Bonnington
- Tech News Chair + Wii Fit Balance Board + Wheeled Robot = One Happy Baby Some children suffer from disabilities which prevent them from crawling around and exploring the world, but thanks to projects like this one they might have an alternative way to move around: Baby-sized motorized chairs. This particular robotic chair consists of a Wii Fit Balance Board which has a child seat strapped to it. The Balance … Continued
By Rosa Golijan
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By Christina Bonnington
- Tech News How Do You Give Your Milk Carton Some Sophistication? Why, With a Handle So you want to go old school and drink some milk from a carton. But you’re not 7 anymore, your beverage needs to be a bit classier. Enter Motte, an attachable wooden handle for your carton. [SPGRA via Design Milk]
By Christina Bonnington
- Tech News What Do The PlayStation’s Circle, X, Square, and Triangle Buttons Mean? Teiyu Goto, a Sony engineer who had much freedom to design the original PlayStation as well as its controllers, actually explains that the PlayStations’ iconic button shapes weren’t just arbitrarily picked—they actually mean something. Other game companies at the time assigned alphabet letters or colors to the buttons. We wanted something simple to remember, which … Continued
By Jason Chen
- Tech News Oil-Eating Bacteria Having Fun, Getting Fat, Munching BPs Spillage You know when you drop some food on the kitchen floor and eventually the co*ckroaches eat it all up and there’s nothing left? The same thing is happening in the crisis-hit Gulf of Mexico, with bacteria chomping up the hydrocarbons. The oil-eating bacteria, many of the Alcanivorax variety, are currently gorging themselves on the hydrocarbons … Continued
By Gary Cutlack
- Tech News Meatspace Mass Effect M8 Avenger Assault Rifle I wasn’t a huge fan of the transition between cool-down guns and ammo-using guns in Mass Effect 2, but none of that matters if each copy of the game came with one of these Volpin Props-created replica rifles. Most of this rifle was made from cheap-ish parts, which doesn’t matter, since it’s put together with … Continued
By Jason Chen
- Tech News Mass Effect Rifle
By Jason Chen
- Tech News Like Most Men, Thomas Edison Enjoyed A Good Catfight Thomas Edison and his friends were prone to recording short movies for amusem*nt. This particular one reveals how the brilliant inventor is really just like nearly any other man: He just wanted to watch women box. https://gizmodo.com/this-may-be-the-only-existing-video-of-mark-twain-5496677 The women in the video are identified as the Gordon sisters and I’m not certain why they were … Continued
By Rosa Golijan
- Tech News Does Kanye’s Twitter Mark the Death of Music Magazines? There’s an interesting conversation happening over on the music internets today about technology and the state of music magazines. The premise: Kanye West is Tweeting so prolifically and Ustreaming so earnestly that he’s totally outmoded the standard magazine profile. Of course, there’s no debate that the internet has totally changed the way we discover music. … Continued
By Kyle VanHemert
- Tech News Nike’s Got Back to the Future II Sneaker Patents They’re the ultimate pipe dream of shoedom: Back to the Future II’s Nike Air Mags. I mean, they’re self-lacing, for goodness sake. And Nike’s patented the technology to make them real, charging station included. We’ve already seen someone make a power laces prototype, but those were one-offs encumbered by bulky motor on the heel. Taking … Continued
By Brian Barrett
- Tech News Sony’s Little Netflix-Streaming, MKV-Playing Netbox A diminutive black box with an equally quiet announcement, Sony’s netbox is their take on the Roku box: It streams Bravia Internet Video (read: Netflix and Amazon), is DLNA-compatible and plays MKV and DivX files streamed across your local network. https://gizmodo.com/roku-hd-xr-hands-on-wheres-roku-going-with-this-5390586 It’s got wireless N, supports full 1080p video, USB storage and is controllable via … Continued
By Matt buchanan
- Tech News Laser Tag Now Officially An Olympic Sport, Sort Of The modern pentathlon will switch to using laser pistols for the shooting portions of the event in the 2012 Olympics. Super cool sci-fi twist, or major puss move? Gone are the days of actually using guns, and putting a visible hole in a piece of paper or cardboard duck cutout or whatever they did. (Actually, … Continued
By Barry Petchesky
- Tech News Logitech’s Z623 Speakers Are Their 2.1 THX-Certified Successor Logitech’s Z-2300 speakers were a great set of computer speakers: THX certified and not atrociously priced. The upcoming Z623 speakers seem like a pretty good successor to the aging system, complete with an updated look. The Z623 will be $150 in September, and have RCA as well as 3.5mm inputs, so you can connect it … Continued
By Jason Chen
- Tech News Prototype Robot Swarm Could Clean Up Oil Spill in a Month This solar-powered fellow is part of a robot group called Seaswarm. He and his buddies are cheap, autonomous, and communicate via GPS and Wi-Fi. And 5,000 of them could theoretically clean up the Gulf oil spill in a month. The clever MIT folks currently only have a prototype of this robot swarm ready, but it … Continued
By Rosa Golijan
- Tech NewsGoogle Come and Get Your Droid 2 Root Joining the proud lineage of rooted phones, Droid 2 has officially been compromised. What took you so long, guys? As always, please proceed with extreme caution. It’s not the most complicated hack in the world, but a wrong move could do some serious damage to your phone. [XDA Developers Forum via Engadget]
By Brian Barrett
- Tech News Deflate This Inflatable Air Mattress and Store it Inside the Hand Pump As I’m getting on a bit, I’m finding my creaky back needing the (relative) comfort of an air mattress when we go camping. Only trouble is, carting around that bulky pump as well as the mattress. Here’s a nifty solution: The Aerobed Pakmat, which squeezes the deflated air mattress inside the pump. Looks like visual … Continued
By Kat Hannaford
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