Between carbon dioxide, dust, and sulfur dioxide, the air around us can get pretty polluted. In New York we emit as much as 149,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide in a day. What about dust? We know there’s a lot of that too. What about sulfur dioxide, well there’s about 60,000 tons of that a year in New York.
Slice’s series of redesigned, modern and safe cutting tools demonstrates that inventors could discover that a muse may be as close as your junk drawer.
M.C. Escher’s art is pretty mindblowing. It always featured impossible staircases that go up or down forever depending on how your eyes see it. Donkey Kong is pretty amazing too, but for entirely different reasons that only a video game nerd can appreciate.
Put them both together and you have yourself an amazing and crazy game where the barrels can roll up and down to infinity and Jumpman will never get the girl. Well, that’s not exactly what happens here, but it is still pretty amazing to watch.
Artist Chris Carlson replicated Escher’s staircase and combined it with Donkey Kong. And even though we don’t get a full animated level, this art is amazing and makes you appreciate Escher all the more as you watch the barrel do the impossible.
[via Geekosystem]
It looks like that “Something Big” that Nokia was hinting about earlier this morning might turn out to be the Nokia Lumia 625, if this leak by Finnish publication Puhelinvertailu is to be believed. The specs appear to match what was revealed a few days ago on China’s certification site; it’ll apparently sport a 4.7-inch Gorilla Glass 2 IPS WVGA (800 x 480) LCD, a 1.2-GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor, 512MB RAM and a 2,000mAh battery. The leak also hints at a rear 5-megapixel camera with 1080p recording, a front-facing VGA shooter, Bluetooth 4.0 LE and interestingly, an LTE variant with support for European bands (though we wouldn’t rule out North American support later down the line). It’s difficult to say exactly how the phone will actually look like up close, however, so it’s a good thing we’ll be up bright and early tomorrow at 9am UK time (4am Eastern) to see Nokia’s unveiling.
Update: An additional image of the alleged Nokia Lumia 625, which we’ve embedded after the break, has just surfaced on @evleaks’ Twitter feed. Unfortunately, this latest render tell us nothing new about the handset apart from Nokia’s continued design practice of colorful polycarbonate shells.
Update 2: @evleaks isn’t done posting Lumia 625 pics just yet apparently, as he’s just tweeted yet another render of Nokia’s latest, but this time in a cascading arrangement. You can take a look at it after the break.
Update 3: Yep, there’s another one.
Source: Puhelinvertailu.com, Nokia Conversations, @evleaks (1), (2), (3)
We all have dogs that need attention and playtime more than we have time to share. It is unfair to them, and in many ways unhealthy as well. Most dogs can remain healthy, physically and psychologically, if they are allowed to exercise everyday and allowed to run about and play. This is in addition to the daily walks that they must have to facilitate better gastrointestinal health.
The curved television era has officially begun, with LG announcing US availability for their new Curved OLED HDTV, which is the first of its kind to reach the US. LG’s 55-inch class model is going on sale starting today at select Best Buy locations. However, you’ll want to save up and go through your piggy bank to make sure you have enough cash, because these things aren’t cheap.
The new television from LG will cost you $15,000, a price that isn’t too surprising and one that we were expecting, but it’s certainly not in the category of an impulse buy. The curved OLED TV was initially put on sale in Korea, but Americans are now finally getting their chance to own one of the newest pieces of technology.
The TV is exclusively launching at Best Buy’s flagship store in Minneapolis, but availability will begin to spread over the coming weeks, including locations in Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Houston, Dallas, San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle, and San Antonio. Availability at all Best Buy locations is expected to hit later this summer at some point.
The new TV is only 0.17 inches thin at the edges, and it weighs just 38 pounds. On top of the OLED technology (which is known for better image quality and low-power state), LG’s proprietary WRGB technology is being used in this new model, which features white sub-pixels on top of the traditional RGB color scheme. It’s also the world’s first OLED TV to achieve THX Display Certification, but we’ll let the buyers be the judge of the television’s quality, if anyone is up for buying it, that is.
LG Curved OLED HDTV rolling out in the US is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Remember that curved OLED HDTV that LG was teasing way back at CES? Well, it’s just begun shipping here in the US. A Best Buy store in Richfield, Minnesota is the first retailer to stock the 55-inch set, which is available beginning today for just shy of 15 grand. It’s due to hit Magnolia stores at select Best Buys in Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Houston, Dallas, San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle and San Antonio over the next few weeks. The curved design is intended to provide a more immersive experience for viewers, though $14,999 is a bit too steep any way you look at it. Samsung, meanwhile, has a curved 55-incher of its own — that OLED screen arrived in Korea late last month, and is rolling out to (very) select US retailers this week, too.
Filed under: Displays, Home Entertainment, HD, LG
xRec, which appeared in the iTunes store on Saturday, promises to record everything on your iPhone’s screen — including apps that prohibit screengrabs. If you’re into that sneaky kind of thing, you better grab it fast, because we don’t expect it to stay in iTunes very long.
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Buying an old-school arcade console is a big investment. Ms. Pac-Man bragging rights don’t just cost a lot of money—you pay the price in real estate. That whole corner of your living room gone for just one measly game. A new service called All You Can Arcade sort of makes this proposition worthwhile.
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