August 31st 2009
Yep, it’s real. The Canon 7D is an 18-megapixel semi-pro DSLR that shoots 1080p video in 24—or 30—glorious frames per second for $1899, kicking Nikon’s previously unchallenged D300s where…
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Tags: Canon, Canon 7d, Digital Cameras, Frames, Hd, Mdash, Nikon, Video Cameras, Video Digital
August 31st 2009
Somehow the thrill of skydiving is lost after you’ve jumped out of a plane, had both parachutes fail, passed out before hitting the roof of a steel shed, and walked away. With video of the fall….
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Tags: Films, Freefall, Parachutes, Skydiver, Skydiving, Steel Shed
August 31st 2009
The PS3’s newest firmware upgrade, 3.0, is now officially going out to all the consoles in the land.
Go to “System Update” in the XMB to get the update, which replaces the Information Board with an…
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Tags: Consoles, Firmware Upgrade, Information Board, Live Gaming, Playstation, Playstation 3, Ps3, Xmb
August 31st 2009
Designed by Foster + Partners, the Inhabitat “super-city” will incorporate biomass energy generation, hydrogen fuel cells, and hydroponic roofs in order to be the greener city on the other side. No…
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Tags: Biomass, Energy Generation, Hydrogen Fuel Cells, Incorporate, Inhabitat, Roofs, South Korea
August 31st 2009
This is one of the worst waterproof cameras I have ever used, even if its the cheapest and does 720p video. Maybe you can recommend it to a merman you hate? Price
$150 Waterproofness
Because it…
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Tags: Hd Camcorder Review, Merman, Waterproof Cameras
August 31st 2009
In 2008, Apple announced that we would see ZFS as part of Snow Leopard Server, but a year later our copies are shipping with ZFS nowhere to be found. What went wrong? And will we ever get ZFS?
Robin…
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Tags: Apple Drop, Shipping, Snow Leopard, Zfs
August 31st 2009
Just follow these simple steps.
It’s actually not as scary as it looks. The chart’s a compilation of all of the useful—and interactive—charts for PC troubleshooting and repair by Morris…
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Tags: Compilation, Computer Easy, Computer Image, Image Cache, Mdash, Pc Troubleshooting, Simple Steps
August 31st 2009
Time Bananas and awkward statements aside, Jason Chen’s a pretty cool guy to work for. I’m sure that unlike Vicki Walker’s boss, he wouldn’t fire me for going nuts with bold or colorful fonts in…
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Tags: Bananas, Boss, Colorful Fonts, Cool Guy, Disharmony, Jason Chen, Nuts, Woman
August 31st 2009
Astronomers are rejoicing that they’ve found the best place on earth for astronomical observation. The only problem? It also happens to be the “very worst place on the surface of the planet for…
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Tags: Astronomical Observation, Best Place On Earth, Place On Earth, Robots
August 31st 2009
It was bound to happen, so I’m not surprised: According to The Onion—reportedly America’s finest news outlet—Apollo 11 Mission Commander Neil Armstrong has finally admitted that the Moon…
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Tags: Apollo 11 Mission, Bound, Conspiracy Theorist, Finest News, Mission Commander, Moon Conspiracy, Neil Armstrong, News Outlet, Obvious Truth, Onion
August 31st 2009
Taste Test food week wouldn’t have been complete without our fun Q&As with Alton Brown, but his hot-out-of-the-oven book Good Eats: The Early Years is the real news peg.
If you’ve read his I’m Just…
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Tags: Alton Brown, Amp, Food Taste, Hot, Peg, Real News, Taste Test
August 31st 2009
Are you able to solve a Rubik’s Cube quickly and easily? Does that make you feel like a real smart guy? Well, piss off. Try the Bram’s Cube, created by the creator of BitTorrent.
Bram Cohen, known…
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Tags: Bittorrent, Bram Cohen, Cube Rubik, Piss, Puzzles, Rubik Cube, Rubik S Cube, Smart Guy
August 31st 2009
For every copy of Internet Explorer 8 downloaded from here, Microsoft donates $1.15 to Feeding America—but if you upgrade from IE6, they’ll double their donation. Even if you switch to Firefox…
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Tags: Explorer 6, Ie6, Internet Explorer 8, Mdash, Microsoft, Stealing Food, Using Internet
August 31st 2009
UK-based Tech 21 have devised a real-life, mailable, flubber-esque gel that becomes rigid on impact. This substance dubbed “d30″ is used to safeguard an iPhone or iPod Touch from owners with buttery…
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Tags: Flubber, Iphone, Ipod, Shock
August 31st 2009
Hardcore photo geeks know that Leica’s M9 is supposedly due out on 09/09/09 (exactly one 9 less cool than the Sega Dreamcast’s release). Now the company’s second digital offering has been captured in…
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Tags: Geeks, Hardcore Photo, Leica, M9, Sega Dreamcast, Video Cameras, Video Hardcore
August 31st 2009
Apple recently published a small Mac OS X Snow Leopard application blacklist. Now, some users have set up wiki with an exhaustive directory of Mac OS X 10.6 software, each with their compatibility…
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Tags: Apple, Compatibility List, Mac Os X, Os X, Snow Leopard
August 31st 2009
Alan Turing, who is said to be the father of modern computer science, was a WWII code-breaker until he was prosecuted by the British government for having homosexual relations. Thousands have now…
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Tags: Alan Turing, Apology, British Government, Code Breaker, Father Of Modern Computer, Homosexual Relations, Modern Computer Science, Wwii
August 31st 2009
James May’s Lego abode may be shaping up to be spectacular, but he’s far from the first person to build a house out of something novel. Here are ten more amazing homes with, shall we say, unorthodox…
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Tags: Abode, Architecture, First Person, Lego, Novel
August 31st 2009
Hookay. So we knew that texting while driving is stupid. But what about using your cellphone to take photos of yourself while driving. Drunk. Speeding. Fishtailing. Running red lights. Crashing…
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Tags: Cellphone, Cellphones, Driving Drunk, Drunk Driver, Photos, Running Lights, Stupid, Texting
August 31st 2009
The SEC is all up in Apple’s business again, this time over suspicions that some illegal trading may have gone down using insider information in regards to threee “three particular Apple-related…
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Tags: Apple, Insider Information, Insider Stock, Insider Trading, Sec, Stock Trading, Suspicions, Threee