Archive for December, 2009

Shine On, You Crazy Gadgets [Gadgets]

December 31st 2009

I spent this decade hunting for the perfect gadget. I never thought I would end up with tech as good as this. But it’s not the tech that interests me the most anymore.
In 2000, I was just another…
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Tags: Decade, Gadget, Gadgets, Hunting

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How Many Times Have You Broken Your Phone During Your Two-Year Contract? [Qotd]

December 31st 2009

When thinking about the cost of a cellphone, we consider the phone itself and any service plans, but what about the price of misuse? How often are we finding ourselves paying an unsubsidized price to…
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Tags: Cellphone, Qotd

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Mysterious Moon Hole May Become Lunar Base or Real Life Sci-Fi Horror Movie [Space]

December 31st 2009

“We discovered a vertical hole on the moon,” says JAXA’s Junichi Haruyama. A mysterious tube so large and deep that it can shelter a future moon base. Until the creatures inside kill everyone, which…
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Tags: Creatures, Horror Movie, Jaxa, Junichi, Kill Everyone, Life Sci, Lunar Base, Moon Base, Mysterious Moon, Real Movie, Sci Fi, Vertical [...]

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DIY Wolverine Claws Seized During Postal Crackdown [Xmen]

December 31st 2009

A wannabe Wolverine is crying somewhere in the UK, because these homemade claws of his were seized by border agents as part of a crackdown on illegal goods shipping into the country. Guess he’ll just…
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Tags: Border Agents, Crackdown, Diy, Illegal Goods, Wolverine, Wolverine Claws, Xmen

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Moon Hole May Become Lunar Base or Real Life Sci-Fi Horror Movie [Space]

December 31st 2009

“We discovered a vertical hole on the moon,” said Junichi Haruyama. A mysterious tube so large and deep that it can shelter a future moon base. Until the creatures living inside kill every astronaut….
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Tags: Astronaut, Creatures, Horror Movie, Life Sci, Lunar Base, Moon Base, Real Movie, Sci Fi, Vertical Hole

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How To Build The World’s Most Useless Machine [DIY]

December 31st 2009

No, this isn’t an instructional guide on how to build a TwitterPeek. This device is even more useless. Impossible? Hardly. Check out the video. Then hit the following link for the complete set of…
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Tags: Diy, Instructional Guide, Video Link

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LED Shower Bathes You In Cascading Light (and Lots of Water) [Home]

December 31st 2009

Visentin’s LED shower heads are pretty stunning, that is, until you realize that, not only are you completely naked in front of your guests, but you’re also splashing water all over the living room….
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Tags: Led Light, Light Water, Living Room, Shower Heads, Splashing Water, Visentin

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Apple Refuses To Send Stolen iPhone Back To Rightful Owner After Repair [Crime]

December 31st 2009

When your stuff gets stolen, FILL OUT A POLICE REPORT. Consumerist reader Alisa is figuring this out the hard way after Apple received her stolen phone for repair. Even though it’s clearly hers, they…
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Tags: Alisa, Apple Repair, Iphone, Police Report, Stuff

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Wireless N Support in Next Gen iPhone Implied by Apple Job Posting [Unconfirmed]

December 31st 2009

After the iPhone 3.0 firmware update, we wondered whether the the next gen iPhone would bring a new chip with support for 802.11n. Now a job posting on Apple’s website is feeding that theory.
We’ve…
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Tags: Apple, Firmware, Iphone, Job Posting, Job Website, New Chip, Next Gen Iphone

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Single Photo Tutorial: How to Make a Mask With Photoshop [Photoshop]

December 31st 2009

Get it? Get it?? Yeah, I bet you got it. [tumblr via tumblr via Super Punch]
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Tags: Mask, Photo Tutorial, Photoshop, Punch

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Top 10 Most Popular Articles of 2009 [Zeitgeist]

December 31st 2009

Dear 2009, thank you for all the stories, the good and the bad ones. Here are the top 10 most popular stories. Now we have to say good bye forever, because 2010 and the new decade are here. So long!…
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Tags: Good Bye, New Decade, Top Stories, Zeitgeist

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Happy New Year from jkOnTheRun!

December 31st 2009

Happy New Year to you and yours from jkOnTheRun! May you have a safe and happy transition into the new year. We are honored and humbled that you spend time with us.

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Tags: Happy New Year, New Year, Transition

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Laptops in the Year 2000 Were the Smartphones of Today [Decades]

December 31st 2009

Now I want you to close your eyes and squint really hard. Because I’m going to tell you about a time that feels ancient, a time when Sony made some of the baddest laptops around.
Way before the…
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Tags: Decades, Smartphones, Sony, Sony Laptops, Squint, Year 2000

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Kodak lets you post pictures on their Times Square display, when you want it

December 31st 2009

Kodak, the company that is well known across the globe for photography and imaging products, has a cool new opportunity. They are allowing people to submit and post images to their large digital display at Times Square in New York City. If you think wasn’t cool enough, they even give you the option to choose [...]

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Gadget Deals of the Day [Dealzmodo]

December 31st 2009

Cop these bargains before the calendar clicks into the next decade. Get an eMachines 22″ monitor for $99, check out the Sony DSLR with extras for $700, and snag an Ani DiFranco MP3 to groove to this…
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Tags: Ani Difranco, Ani Difranco Mp3, Bargains, Calendar, Cop, Gadget, Groove, Next Decade, Sony, Sony Dslr

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Thorium, the Next Uranium [Science]

December 31st 2009

Wired has a fairly epic look into a material that could make nuclear power both clean and safe called thorium—named after the Norse god of thunder. Of course, scientists recognized its promise…
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Tags: God Of Thunder, Norse God Of Thunder, Nuclear Power, Science, Scientists, Uranium

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How To: Execute the Ultimate Phone Prank With Skype [Pranks]

December 31st 2009

Here’s an old gem of a trick for anyone feeling lonely, vindictive, or very drunk this new year’s eve: with Skype, you can connect any phones in the world, and listen in on the results. Man, what a…
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Tags: Eve, New Year, Phone Prank, Phone Pranks, Skype

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Star Wars and The A-Team get mashed-up

December 31st 2009

You know some things are just great together; like peanut butter and jelly, mustard and bratwurst, beer and well, more beer. But who would have ever dreamed that one beloved mercenary television series and an iconic science fiction story from the silver screen would mesh so beautifully together? Apparently kalleanka71 from YouTube had a vision they would.
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Time Warner Cable’s Genius Solution to Possible Fox Outage: The Internet! [TimeWarner]

December 31st 2009

PSSSSST! Hey, Time Warner Cable! If you tell everyone how to watch Fox shows from their PC, they’ll probably start doing it for all your other programming, too! Self-defeating bitterness really is…
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Tags: Bitterness, Fox Shows, Genius, Hey, Time Warner, Time Warner Cable, Timewarner Cable

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Control your PS3 with a Nokia N900

December 31st 2009

Yesterday we saw a very cool device created by a modder called a Wireless Visual Interface. With it you can control and play on your PS3 as though it is a handheld device. Today we have a slightly different wireless PS3 controller in the form of a Nokia N900.
It may not display the output from [...]

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