Archive for December, 2008
Some say that the end of the trusty hard drive is near, killed by SSD. But let’s not be so quick to give up on a technology that stores a whole terabyte for $100.
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Tags: COMPUTERS, DESKTOPS, HARD DRIVE, HARD DRIVES, HDD, HITACHI, LAPTOPS, MAC, MACS, MAXTOR, PCS, SEAGATE, WESTERN DIGITAL
When I was 13 my Mom bought me the classic “How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way.” It did a pretty good job of convincing me I could draw superheroes, when I really couldn’t. Now there’s an easy step-by-step tutorial showing us how to do something about as formulaic: Design video game characters the Square-Enix [...]
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Tags: FINAL FANTASY, SQUARE-ENIX, SQUENIX
With 8GB flash drives available for under $20 and 32GB drives edging into the mainstream, nobody can blame you for shelving old USB sticks. But there are a surprising number of uses for those rickety, sub-gigabyte keychains.
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Tags: opera, firefox, chrome, DIY, HACKS, USB, USB STICKS, USB DRIVES, USB KEYS, THUMB DRIVES, FLASH DRIVES, VNC, LINUX, EMULATORS, WINDOWS, BITLOCKER, PORTABLE APPS, PORTABLE, INVENEO
The world’s first “hovering soccer stage” system accommodates both soccer and baseball games. The gigantic natural turf soccer stage, measuring 120 m by 85 m and weighing 8,300 t, slowly moves into the closed arena through the open moving wall at a speed of 4 m/min. by 34 wheels, hovering 7.5 cm by air pressure.
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Tags: big egg, building, sapporo dome, Sport
Believe it or not, there’s a company in New Mexico that has serious plans on the table to shoot this space tourist fishbowl into the sky by 2010. The design is a concept for now, but Armadillo Aerospace, with the blessing of the New Mexico government, hopes to build a working prototype by 2009.
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Tags: ARMADILLO AEROSPACE, FISHBOWL SPACESHIP, FISHBOWLS, NASCAR IN SPACE, NEW MEXICO, SPACE, SPACE TOURISM, SPACE TRAVEL, SUBORBITAL
Oh look, another insane tower planned for Dubai! This one is dubbed the Anara Tower, and while it’s not going to be the tallest in the world (it’ll be about 500 feet shorter than the Burj Dubai at 2,150 feet), it’s still incredible all on its own.
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Tags: ANARA TOWER, Architecture, DUBAI, GALLERY, SKYSCRAPER
Fujitsu and automotive safety advancements go hand-in-hand, so it’s no shock whatsoever to hear that the outfit is fixing to showcase a new technology that enables wraparound view of vehicles in real-time.
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Tags: automobile, driver, Driver assistance, driver visibility, DriverAssistance, DriverVisibility, driving, Fujitsu, in-car, japan, safety, transportation, vehicle, visibility, Wraparound
We tested eight different browsers, and while some put smiles on our faces, others proved that rendering HTML correctly is a far cry from actually giving you an awesome web experience. And what about 3G vs. Wi-Fi? Everything the carriers have told you is a lie. This is the true state of mobile web.
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Filed under: Apple, RIM blackberry, Tech, gadget, iPhone, mobile phone | Leave a Comment
Tags: ANDROID, Apple, blackberry, BLACKBERRY BOLD, BOLD, BROWSERS, CELLPHONES, COM, COMS, DARE, E71, iPhone, IPHONE 3G, LG, LG DARE, microsoft, MOBILE BROWSERS, MOBILE SAFARI, nokia, SMARTPHONES, symbian, SYMBIAN S60, WEBKIT, windows mobile, WINDOWS MOBILE 6.1
So modern treehouses aren’t new, but the designers of this project in New Zealand have crafted something that blends fantastically with its host redwood tree.
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Tags: Architecture, GADGETS, GREEN, NEW ZEALAND, REDWOOD, TREEHOUSES, TREES, YELLOW PAGES, YELLOWTREEHOUSE TREEHOUSE RESTAURANT
We are so used to the International Space Station that we don’t give its massive scale a second thought. I, for one, took it for granted until a newly-released NASA photograph reminded me that this thing is huge. So huge that I fired up Photoshop and did an illustration comparing it to several sci-fi ships…
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Tags: CORELLIAN CORVETTE, ENTERPRISE, feature, GALACTICA, ILLUSTRATION, INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, ISS, nasa, SPACE, TOP, VIPER
By allowing its snooty customers to manipulate the snooty Microsoft Surface interface with their snooty fingers, BMW has officially become the first car maker to offer the touchscreen tech to a worldwide car-buying audience. Impressed? Me neither, but that’s just because I’m a low-paid writer who’s insanely jealous of anyone driving [...]
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Tags: bmw, CARS, GERMANS, MICROSOFT SURFACE, SNOOTY, SURFACE, touchscreen
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