Interesting article over on TwistedSifter about the use of so-called "dazzle" or "razzle-dazzle" camouflage beginning during WWI. (The Wikipedia article is pretty good, too.) It's a kind of pra... |
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IEEE Spectrum's 25 Microchips That Shook the World presents a list of most groundbreaking IC's, including familiar classics like the 555 timer, 741 operational amplifier, and a link roundup to relev... |
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Arduino package for Eagle, I know ya'll are going to like this... now you can make shields and custom projects with ease (site and on github).
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My friend, Willow Bay, has a brief piece on The Steampunk Workshop called "Why I believe in maker culture." Snip:
All the things I do in life (which, admittedly, is a lot) are about Doing. I'm up t... |
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The quantum-logic clock, which detects the energy state of a single aluminum ion, keeps time to within a second every 3.7 billion years. The new timekeeper could one day improve GPS or detect the sl... |
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Nadine made a play kitchen for her daughter, Katharina, over Christmas. Here it is.
"We wanted to make a kitchen for our daughter. The basic is a Benno TV. We used many things from Ikea - I do not k... |
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Convertible tablets are a dime a dozen in the laptop space, but very, very few of them can save your life. Toshiba's Viamo is the one that could -- when used by someone who knows how to control it, t... |
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Shoulder buttons? Never heard of 'em. Give us all our buttons in a nice rainbow-shaped array and a big stick for our southpaw and leave us well enough alone. Hori, the company behind the most righteo... |
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If you're stealing a car these days, there's a good chance you're not bothering to actually pick the locks, but if you are, your job is about to get a little easier. A device called the Electronic Ke... |
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What do you do if your netbooks are starting to look so last season? Well if you're ASUS, you hire a leading industrial designer like Karim Rashid to revamp it, of course. The Eee PC 1008P's snazzy n... |
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3D's happening whether you like it or not -- but the good news is that there won't be any format war to go with the adoption of the new tech. At least that's the sense we've been getting, as most ma... |
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Fujitsu's stylish little Lifebook MH380's just popped up over on the company's site for sale. The 10.1-inch, Pine Trail Atom N450-boasting netbook's specs include 2GB of RAM, a 250GB HDD, built-in B... |
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AT&T certainly made a few of us happy yesterday when it announced that the iPhone SlingPlayer app would now be allowed to run over its 3G network, but the carrier apparently embellished the facts... |
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It's claim on the title of "world's first laser pico projector" might be a tad dubious, but AAXA Technologies' new L1 projector may just be the first to hit the market, with it set to start shipping ... |
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Telus hasn't yet committed to a date for the release of its mighty Milestone, but no sweat -- Best Buy's happy to commit on their behalf, pegging February 18 as the date that Canadians will have acce... |
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It looks like the tide is starting to turn decisively against Amazon's $9.99 e-book publishing model -- first MacMillan fought back and won, then HarperCollins dragged... |
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Back in the beginning of December, when Dell outed its business-oriented, 17-inch Precision M6500 laptop, it boasted some pretty meaty specs: Core i7 CPU, up to 16GB of DDR3 memory, a choice of ATI F... |
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When it rains, it pours, huh, Google? Not even a week after announcing the big multitouch update for its own Nexus One, Google has turned loose a new version of Google Maps that enables pinch-to-zoom... |
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It likely won't be ready for your next vehicle purchase, but some researchers from Imperial College London say that this rather modest-looking piece of material could eventually do nothing short of c... |
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Apple might have surprised everyone -- including us -- by naming its tablet the "iPad," but the UK's X2 isn't letting this opportunity pass it by: it's managed to drum up some cheap attention today ... |
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Well, this is disturbingly creative. Seriously, is there much more to say about this Kratos casemod? Well, Greek mythology and video game fanatics alike should be pleased yet horrified with this one.... |
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We've already seen a render of the kickstand-equipped HTC HD2 extended battery, but renders don't power cellphones, so we're particuarly glad that CoolSmartPhone has now come through and provided som... |
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Logitech's Squeezebox Touch has had a somewhat troubled launch since being announced back in September alongside the Squeezebox Radio, and it looks like the road to availability just got a bit bumpie... |
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Coveting an iPad, but not willing to pay full price? If you happen to live in Austria and don't mind committing to a two-year data contract, Hutchison's got you covered. The carrier's offering a 333 ... |
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Hey, it's been a killer week, and we're about to podcast live -- won't you join us?
Update: It's all over -- but don't worry, our regular podcast post will be up tomorrow!The Engadget Podcast, live... |
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For a platform billing itself as the business user's best friend, BlackBerry's list of unsupported protocols that have achieved ubiquity is actually astonishing: you can't do two-way read status sync... |
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Remember those rumors back in the day that Dell's Android-powered Streak MID -- the device that would later be revealed as the Mini 5 -- would be manufactured by Qisda? Well, we've got some pretty so... |
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Though Sony's overall bottom line is back in black, what held it back from an even bigger celebration cake was its core electronics brand, and no stranger to that sector is the PlayStation group. Bot... |
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In the gun duels of Hollywood Westerns, the one who draws first (usually the bad guy) always tends to lose. Why? Decades ago, Nobel laureate Niels Bohr claimed that would likely be the case in a real ... |
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With the 2010 World Expo just three months away, Shanghai officials have launched a public etiquette clampdown targeting pajama-wearing in public.
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Sent in by "Shelly" to Kitty Hell, spotted via Neatorama via Makezine via Wonderland....
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Sony, 'significantly exceeding expectations,' announces a profitable Q4. The gadgets division is leading the way. [NYT]...
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MIT Media Lab musician/inventor Tod Machover talks about the neuroscience of the musical experience, and using technology to close the loop between brain activity and what we're hearing in real time. ... |
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A respected Pakistani diplomat keeps getting rejected as ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Why? Because his full name translates into Arabic as "Biggest dick." (Thanks, Samuel Rubenfeld!)...
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That's an image of the Moon and Earth sent via Twitter on February 3rd by International Space Station astronaut Jose Hernandez. I've seen plenty of official space photos were equally breathtaking, but... |
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Thank you, Robert Popper. Previously:Pardon me?...
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Via HuffPo, news that the Baltic nation of Latvia will auction off a Soviet ghost town abandoned after the Russian military departed. The town, Skrunda-1 (map), centered around a now-abandoned radar b... |
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Vans and the Places they Were, by Joe Stevens, via Todd Lappin. Above (photo by Joe Stevens): "Tradesman with Candy Paint Stripes," Hollywood, California, Winter 2009. Let there be a large-format book... |
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Via Wired: Der Spiegel reports that hackers obtained unauthorized access to online accounts where companies maintain carbon credits, and stole around $4 million worth of carbon credits. "At least seve... |
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Kudos to Mike Arrington for immediately disclosing his discovery that a young TechCrunch writer solicited expensive gifts from the startups on his beat. Unfortunately, the sacked 17-year old doesn't s... |
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You so do not want to know what Jon Stewart did to us last night. [Current.com, NSFW]...
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Though Xeni and I still have yet to hold our crimp-off for local number one fan status, it's safe to say that pretty much everyone around these parts is a fan of cult TV/radio/theater supergroup The M... |
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Look at those sunglasses, just look at them. Here's some background on the über-outré 1992 cult cinema specimen from which the video clip above was snipped: A Blog Post Referencing The Title Which I C... |
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Allan Haley at the Fonts.com blog, on Avatar: "[W]hy are the sub titles for the Na'vi people, the alien protagonists of the film, set in Papyrus?" (via @shellen)...
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They've got better moves than some people I know. (Via ScienceHack, one of my favorite sources for science videos of all types.)...
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Beware the coming onslaught of Chinese superbugs: "Studies in China show a 'frightening' increase in antibiotic-resistant bacteria such as staphylococcus aureus bacteria, also know as MRSA . There are... |
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The hell? Who knew SkyMall sold USB rootkits? From the ad copy: "Easy To Use & Undetectable Total Computer Spying Tool Covertly Monitors Passwords, Chatting, Photos, Websites & More! Insert In USB, An... |
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Following up on an earlier BB post about graphic designers mocking James Cameron's choice of typeface for the blue hippies' subtitles in Avatar: An Open Letter To James Cameron from Papyrus. (prttysht... |
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Congratulations to:
Lana B. of Sterling Heights, Missouri for winning the Sony Ericsson MBW-150 Bluetooth Watch
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Crystal O. of Columbus, Ohio for winning the Sony Ericsson HBH-PV720 Bluetooth Head... |
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Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to shower your loved one with gifts. Probably not because you want to, but because you know you have to. An upgrade from your standard flowers, candy, and jew... |
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Facebook has just started rolling out a new photo uploader, one that the company promises will be faster, easier and more stable than the current one. In an announcement on Facebook’s blog , the compa... |
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Today has been the Day of Location-Based Reporting at ReadWriteWeb, and what better way to help you end your tedious work week than by showing you this entirely speculative infographic that's recently... |
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