PowerPot Thermoelectric Generator

In this day and age, we all carry our fair share of gadgets wherever we go – and one important aspect of this would be to ensure that our gadgets remain fully charged so that we will not be caught unawares when the situation arises and we need to make that all important phone call or send an email. With the $149.99 PowerPot Thermoelectric Generator, it is one device that will be able to take heat and turn it into power, which would then be able to juice up any USB device using a heat source.

The PowerPot Thermoelectric Generator has a 5W output, and is the perfect companion for backpackers, hunters, and basically those who do not mind roughing it out in the wild for a few days on end without a single power outlet in sight. Definitely the perfect addition to any emergency kit, and just in case you are worried that your plugged in device might actually burst into flames, fret not, as the cord is flame-resistant by itself, and is said to be able to chrage just as fast as it does from a standard outlet.
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LG Display flexible OLED mass production in Q4 (with an LG phone to use it)

LG will begin mass producing flexible OLED displays for smartphones in Q4 2013, the company has confirmed, though while it has teased “major clients” it won’t confirm which manufacturers may offer handsets using the screen tech. LG Display expects to produce 12,000 sheets of flexible OLED every month, the company told The Korea Times, with

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The Science of Fire Breathing

It looks dangerous—because it is—but there’s more to fire breathing than meets the eye. In order to do it safely, you need to think about the science involved, and this video explains why.

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2014 Aston Martin Vanquish Volante pushes the drop-top envelope

Aston Martin has taken the wraps – and the roof – off its latest sportscar, the Aston Martin Vanquish Volante, dubbed the ultimate grand tourer and the first of the British marque’s drop-tops to feature a fully carbon-fiber skin. Packing the same AM11 V12 565HP engine as the Vanquish Coupe – good for a hair-messing

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LG launches TV set and all-in-one PC with 29-inch 21:9 ultra-widescreen

LG launches TV set and allinone PC with 29inch 219 ultrawidescreen

Remember LG’s EA93, that eye-catching 29-inch 21:9 “ultrawidescreen” monitor we played with at IFA last year? Well, it’s just spawned a couple offspring. Today in Korea, the company launched a TV set and an all-in-one PC which use the same 29-inch IPS panel with the same 21:9 aspect ratio, 2,560 x 1,080-pixel (WQHD) resolution and 178-degree viewing angles.

LG’s new all-in-one PC boasts a standalone TV tuner with instant-on (no booting required) and simultaneous PC and TV operation (PiP and several split screen modes). Details are few, but we know it features an Intel Core i5 CPU, NVIDIA GeForce GT640M GPU (3D capable) and HDMI / MHL inputs (to use the display as a monitor). The PC comes pre-loaded with an instant messaging app (and matching mobile version) which lets users watch television while chatting.

The TV set supports PiP and split screen, including a 16:9 plus 5:9 mode (HD broadcast plus connected smartphone), and offers a comprehensive set of inputs (DisplayPort, DVI, HDMI and MHL). Pricing is 1.49 to 2.29 million won ($1,315 to $2,021) for the PC (based on configuration) and 690,000 won ($609) for the TV.

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49 iPhone games that would rock with a controller

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Apple’s opening up iOS 7 like nothing before it, allowing and even encouraging the use of game controller hardware that will finally bring physical buttons to iPhones, iPods and iPads.

This has been done before, of course, but not with Apple backing those efforts. Companies like ION Audio and its iCade have brought hardware add-ons, though they required developers to tweak their games in order make those things work. This new option from Apple also requires that, but aims for a standardized set of controls that developers can plug into their software, and that come baked into Apple’s iOS and OS X software development kits.

We’ve rounded up a list of 49 games for the iPhone and iPod Touch that we think would play better with physical controls. Some already have support for the iCade, and other such solutions. Many are top sellers, and plenty of fun to play with touch controls. We’ve also broken them down by genre, from sandbox games all the way to endless runners.

CNET’s Scott Stein helped curate this list.

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Mercedes Car-to-X due this year to make cars talk between themselves

Mercedes aims to have its cars talking with each other and warning drivers of potential hazards ahead by the end of the year, with the company the first to deliver Car-to-X wireless to its range. Described as giving drivers the ability to “see around corners”, Car-to-X allows vehicles to send out localized warnings and notifications

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Bloomberg: Qualcomm Chips Are Headed For Microsoft’s Surface RT

Bloomberg: Qualcomm Chips Are Headed For Microsoft's Surface RTBloomberg is reporting that Microsoft is planning to give its Surface RT tablet an overhaul using chips from Qualcomm.

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Researchers able to predict iOS-generated hotspot passwords in less than a minute

Anyone who’s tried to tether to their iPhone or iPad will recall how iOS manages to craft its own passwords when used as a personal hotspot. The aim is to ensure that anyone sharing a data connection will get some degree of security, regardless of whether or not they tinker with the password themselves. However, three researchers from FAU in Germany have now worked the structure behind these auto-generated keys — a combination of a short English word and a series or random numbers — and managed to crack that hotspot protection in under a minute. To start, the word list contains about 52,500 entries, and once the testers were able to capture a WiFi connection, they used an AMD Radeon HD 6990 GPU to cycle through all those words with number codes, taking just under 50 minutes to crack with rote entry. Following that, they realized that only a small subset (just 1,842) of the word list was being used.

With an even faster GPU — a cluster of four AMD Radeon HD 7970s — they got the hotspot password cracking time to 50 seconds. The Friedrich-Alexander University researchers added that unscrupulous types could use comparable processing power through cloud computing. “System-generated passwords should be reasonably long, and should use a reasonably large character set. Consequently, hotspot passwords should be composed of completely random sequences of letters, numbers, and special characters,” says the report, which outlines the trade-off between security and usability. However, as ZDNet notes, Apple’s cycled password approach still offers more protection than static options found elsewhere. Check out the full paper at the source.

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Source: Department of Computer Science, Friedrich-Alexander University (PDF)

Sony PS3 v4.45 firmware yanked after bricked consoles

Sony has been forced to hurriedly yank the latest PS3 update, v4.45, after reports that some gamers were finding their consoles had been bricked after installing the new firmware. “We’re aware of reports that the recent PS3 update (4.45) has caused” Sony took to Twitter to confirm. “We have temporarily taken 4.45 offline and are

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