Sep 17
The DIY maniacs at iFixit got their hands on the new Kindle Fire HD, cracked it open and found out some neat new details about the beautiful new 7-inch tablet’s guts. More »
Sep 17
Truly disruptive technology is hard to discover, but it is alive and thriving!
It’s living and breathing all around you. It’s working overtime to make your life faster. Easier. Better. It’s helping you to achieve more. Do more. Enjoy more. And it’s waiting for investors and buyers like you to bring it to life.
– Technology like Intuitive Motion’s Zboard, that’s the world’s first weight-sensing electronic skateboard which could be the next commuter trend.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: DEMO – The solid choice for non-stop innovation, Global Mobile Internet Conference: Silicon Valley – Oct 19-20,
Sep 17
Tank Chair is an All-Terrain Wheelchair that Will Take You Anywhere and Back
Posted in: Today's ChiliMost wheelchairs are just meant for indoor or sidewalk use. Because of that, many people with disabilities miss out on doing stuff they might want to do outdoors.
But not anymore. Not with the Tank Chair.
Aside from the fact that it looks totally badass, it’ll also take its riders to places that they never thought they could go to in their chair. It’s described as a custom off-road wheelchair that can ‘conquer streams, mud, snow, sand, and gravel.’ So if you’re a huge nature buff, then you can finally get out and bask in the sunshine once again.
The chair uses rubber trucks, treads and high-torque electric motors to take you where you need to go and back again.
These Tank Chairs are manufactured by TC Mobility and can be ordered from their website.
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Sep 17
I read the photo caption but I still don’t know what’s going on here: Two Japan Ground Self-Defence Force’s AH-64DJ Apache attack helicopters flying over eight of tanks shooting pyrotechnics in a live-fire exercise near Mount Fuji. More »
Sep 17
Emmy Nominees Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Nicole Kidman And More Reveal Favorite TV Shows
Posted in: Today's ChiliLOS ANGELES — Long before Kevin Costner, Bryan Cranston, Christina Hendricks and Nicole Kidman were Emmy nominees, they were kids who loved watching TV.
“I liked `Man from Uncle’ and `High Chaparral,'” Costner said. “I really, really liked that when I was a kid.”
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Sep 17
Late last month, Canon added yet another model to its Cinema EOS line — the C100 captures 1080p video, rather than the 4K clips enabled with the C500, but it also costs a heck of a lot less, at just shy of eight grand. It also offers some other nifty features, such as a pair of built-in mics and a duo of XLR inputs at the front of the top handle, SD card slots on the rear and a new autofocus button — it’s not a continuous solution, offering only single-shot, but it sure beats not having the feature at all.
The camera is surprisingly lightweight, given its size and capability, and can be held quite comfortably with a single hand, as we did during our hands-on at Photokina earlier today. With a modular design, the camera featured a 3.5-inch 920k-dot LCD in its current configuration, and offers the standard suite of ports, including HDMI output with embedded time code. It also includes an ISO range of 3200 to 20,000, a maximum shutter speed of 1/2000 second and a built-in ND filter. The C100 is expected to hit stores in November for $7,999, but you can take a closer look right now in our gallery below and the hands-on video just past the break.
Gallery: Canon Cinema EOS C100 hands-on
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Sep 17
The Living Dead: HuffPost Live Talks To Exonerated Death Row Inmate Anthony Graves
Posted in: Today's ChiliTwenty years ago, a Texas judge sentenced Anthony Graves to death for six murders he did not commit. He spent eighteen years in prison, twelve of them on death row. For most of that time, he was in solitary confinement — locked in an eight by twelve cell, reinforced by a steel door.
Throughout his incarceration, Graves maintained his innocence and was finally exonerated in 2010. Now an activist working to create awareness around prisoner isolation, he testified before a congressional subcommittee, describing the emotional torture he endured and the mental anguish of his prison mates.
Friday, he joined HuffPost Live — to tell his story again and describe how his many years in the hole impacted his life. He told Jacob Soboroff that solitary confinement is “a world that I could never describe that you would truly understand.” He said, “to confine someone like that is to break them down in every aspect of their being — emotionally, spiritually, whatever you can think of. It just breaks a man’s will to live.”
Sep 17
A controversial piece of New York state law, compulsory integration, has deepened the controversy over natural gas drilling in Madison County and across the state. Under compulsory integration, a landowner who has not leased their land can still have gas extracted from under their property if they are included in the gas well’s spacing unit and at least 60 percent of the gas field is located under neighboring land that has been leased to the gas company.
While the gas company pays a royalty to any properties within the well’s spacing unit, the company is allowed to extract resources even if the property owner does not voluntarily agree. Compulsory integration, which was signed into law in 2005 as Title 7 of the Oil, Gas and Solution Mining Law, is especially significant in Madison County, an area with abundant natural gas resources.
Sep 17
Gone are the days when I was out on the prowl, No more late night dance clubs, rock concerts or keg stands, I’m finally settled down and bored as… I mean, sooo loving my life. But that doesnt mean I cant enjoy finding some gadgets that might have been quite useful back in the day.
Checkout the Etiquette Checker, meant for those late night encounters that almost always require you to ask yourself these two very important questions, am I drunk? and how’s my breath? With two available settings, breath or alcohol, the Etiquette checker will rate your breath and determine your blood alcohol level, simply by selecting the desired mode and breathing into the device. How handy is that?
So your breath is ranked from good to bad utilizing a number system from 1-6, with 1 being delightfully fresh and a rating of 6 letting you know that before you do anything else, a date with a toothbrush and some paste may be in order. The alcohol setting measures your blood alcohol levels in 0.5 increments, which may not only be helpful in preventing you from driving while intoxicated, but also stop you from going home with a guy with blue hair, a pierced nose and a dragon tattooed on his forehead, no offense Frank, I had fun.
The Etiquette Checker is small enough to fit in a pocket or purse, comes with a backlit LCD screen, and has an auto off feature to save on battery life, and you can have one for yourself for around 80 bucks from japantrendshop.com. 80 bucks? Thats a small price to pay to save yourself from driving drunk… or Frank.
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Sep 17
Furby: u-nye-loo-lay-doo?
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Every year as the weather starts to turn cooler and the kids go back to school, I start to get a feel for the holiday presents I will need to get my hands on right away, for whatever reason smack in the middle of September, it all becomes crystal clear… time to dust off my credit card and grab one or two things that I know I probably wont be able to get my hands on if I wait!
Let me reintroduce you to Furby, a cool little critter you might remember from the late 90′s… Well, he’s back, and better than ever, with more expressive LCD eyes, a wider range of motions, and of course, its own iOS app. Furby responds to music or your voice, likes to be tickled or played with, and actually develops a personality based on the way you treat him.
You should know that Furby primarily speaks Furbish, but don’t worry, you can get some help with that, by downloading the free app that can give you a hand with translating, and the more you speak to your Furby, the more English he will eventually learn.
So if you think your child would enjoy a crazed, screaming little faux fur rodent-owl robot that will most certainly drive you 1000 miles past crazy – then Furby might be the perfect holiday gift! But you’d better get your hands on one quick, because they’re already sold out all over town. Available in 10 vibrant colors at amazon.com but remember to keep your eye on price and try not to spend much more than 54 bucks, if you end up waiting too long, don’t say I didn’t tell you so…
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