Holy shit! The house is collapsing! The entire house is falling apart! Laura—Laura, can you hear me? The roof is falling down! In chunks! Big chunks! Sweetie?? Can you hear this? This is incredible—everything is just falling down all over the place. The lamp! Oh sweet Christ, Aunt Ling’s lamp just crumbled before me. It’s all over Laura—I think I’m going down with the ship. No—no you hang up first. Laura! Baby, listen, I didn’t mean any of those things I wrote in the Courier-Dispatch—no, look, I know you were indicted, but that’s behind us, I—okay, fine. Well I’m telling you, the entire house is falling down. Everything is shaking. Shaking like God’s own tambourine! Well I know I’m not a churchgoing man, but, I’ll tell you, I feel holy spirit in this shaking house. Oh, the computer? No my laptop’s fine, I’ve got a 128GB Kingston SSD drive. Data corruption probably won’t be an issue, what with the lack of moving parts. And it was only $128 with free shipping! Can you believe that? Laura? Laura..? -SB

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HP: Limited supply of TouchPads on the way originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:57:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sure, Elgato already has an app that lets you stream TV to your iPad — but that’s only if they’re being broadcast online. To pull in live TV over the air you’d need a TV-tuner, something that has, until now, been unavailable for Apple’s popular slate. By the end of September that lack of broadcast television will become just a distant memory with the release of EyeTV Mobile, a £100 (about $163) dongle that connects to the iPad’s proprietary port. The tuner will be able to pull in MPEG 2 streams over DVB-T, but won’t work with DVB-T2 broadcasts like Freeview HD. Check out the source for more details.

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So much for stereotypes, eh? The future of farming is being painted in a far different light here at NEXT Aarhus, where a team from the University of Southern Denmark brought in the largest Wiimote-controlled robot that we’ve ever seen. The heretofore unnamed beast (going by SUFFER ’11 for the time being) is a farming-centric machine that’s designed to take the load off of the landowners (while providing a bit of enjoyment all the while). Put simply, this modular bot can have various apparatuses swapped into its midsection — one pop-in attachment could pick potatoes, while another could disperse pesticide, for example. There’s even a module that’ll enable it to detect rows and plow down the obvious routes, making it that much easier for farmers of the next millennium to take time off. Of course, the standout feature from our perspective was the inbuilt Bluetooth and WiFi, which allowed the demonstrator to operate the ‘bot with a standard Wii remote. Per usual, the vid’s after the break.

Continue reading SUFFER ’11 farming robot plays a multitude of roles, takes commands via Wiimote (video)

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Underwater photography is inherently intriguing. Colors cool and gravity gives way to currents. Here are your 12 underwater entrants from this week’s Shooting Challenge. More »