Oct 01
The government started to shut down on Tuesday morning after Congress embarrassingly failed to come to an agreement on the budget. It’s bad news. While science and technology programs as a whole took a hit
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Oct 01
Earlier this summer, we highlighted Otto Dieffenbach and Ed Hanley’s RC Superman and Iron Man, which showed both iconic superheroes taking to the skies with ease. With Halloween right around the corner, both Dieffenbach and Hanley decided now would be the best time to reveal their RC witch and wizard planes. (more…)
Radio Controlled Flying Witch And Flying Wizard Take To The Skies original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Oct 01
This plush Star Wars Bantha is much better quality than the others that you can buy online – and he’s big too. This guy measures 15 1/2″ tall X 21″ long X 19″ wide. And he looks more authentic than others too. This is much better than having a real Bantha. There is no climbing a ladder to get on it and you don’t need to feed it that nasty, smelly Bantha fodder either.
This dude is made from recycled parts like fake fur from a thrift store stuffed animal, a sweater and vintage buttons for the eyes. He is pretty adorable, don’cha think?
Tatooine’s cutest animal comes from Etsy seller ecoLEFTZ and will cost you $1,200.(USD) Sure, that’s crazy expensive. It costs more than most moisture farmers make in a lifetime, but this is the best plush Bantha you can find.
Oct 01
Even though your schedule is constantly at your fingertips via smartphone, everyone gets a little off track every once in a while. So the creative studio Vitamins dreamt up a solution that bridges real-life and online schedules: A giant Lego calendar that syncs up with smartphones.
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Oct 01
GoPro HERO3+ launched
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It goes without saying that companies should not be complacent, with their products requiring a refresh from time to time in order to keep up with the proverbial Joneses. Hence, we are already up to the Samsung Galaxy S4 and also the iPhone 5S, so it also makes plenty of sense that GoPro’s HERO has now arrived as the GoPro HERO3+, delivering a new era of personal content capture as well as sharing. What makes the GoPro HERO3+ so special from its predecessors? It is said to be 20% smaller and lighter in design, where there is also an improved battery life of up to 30% better compared to previous models. These upgrades will work in tandem with an improved lens and convenient new video capture modes, resulting in the most advanced and easy-to-use GoPro to date.
Not only that, GoPro also knows that a device cannot live alone and requires accessories these days, which is why they have also introduced a bunch of new mounting accessories which will further enable immersive content capture regardless of the activity that you are involved in at the moment.
Other hardware specifications include 4x faster Wi-Fi connectivity to deliver a quicker transfer and playback of photos and videos from your HERO3+ camera to your mobile device when one is using the GoPro App. There is also SuperView, which is a new video mode that can capture the world’s most immersive wide-angle perspective. In addition, an Auto Low Light mode would be able to intelligently adjust the frame rate for different lighting conditions, while a new lens delivers sharper video and improved image quality. The asking price of the GoPro HERO3+ Black Edition stands at $399.99.
There is also the GoPro HERO3+ Silver Edition which is has a 2x faster image processor which also enables 1080p60 and 720p120 fps video. The HERO3+ Silver Edition camera will be more affordable at $299.99 a pop.
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Oct 01
We’re live from CEATEC 2013!
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It’s been just over a week since we roamed the halls of the Makuhari Messe in Japan for the Tokyo Game Show, and we’re already back to take a broader look at tech coming from Japan, from the Sonys and the Panasonics down to the Companies You’ve Never Of. There’s going to be a particular focus on car makers this year, with both Nissan and Toyota promising us some interesting new things and you’ll find everything we discover at the dedicated CEATEC 2013 page.
Filed under: Cellphones, Robots, Wearables, Storage, Science
Oct 01
While this watch may look goofy as all get-out, rest assured it holds an important spot in the history of timekeeping. It is one of the first “atomic” clocks that is accurate to a second every thousand years – provided the battery doesn’t die. Called the Cesium 133 it’s made by a small Hawaiian watch company called Bathys [Warning: Autoplaying audio]
The watch uses a small Symmetricon SA.45s CASC, an atomic clock on a chip. It provides the timekeeping system for the analog clock face. The creator, Dr. John Patterson, slapped the chip into a milled metal case, added a face and a strap, and is now working on figuring out how to manufacture these monsters. This isn’t even the watch’s final form. According to ABlogToWatch:
Further, the final version of the Cesium 133 watch will have some LED status lights and a more attractive case. The prototype is 60mm wide by 50mm tall, and 23mm thick. The final version will have a light-weight carbon fiber case, be smaller, and retain the classic Bathys moon phase dial.
I’ve looked at some of Bathys’ other pieces on this site and the style and quality have always been top notch, especially for a US-based brand. I’m interested to see how these monsters come out when Patterson is finally ready to ship.
Considering Woz runs around with a huge Nixie Tube watch sometimes I suspect this behemoth will end up on some techie wrists when it’s finally complete. Bathys will make 20 of these watches in 2014 and they’ll be priced at $12,000 each, arguably a steep price to pay in order to get absolute integrity in your time keeping. However, now you know you’ll never be late.
Oct 01
![Apple iWatch Expected To Use Flexible OLEDs [Rumor]](https://i0.wp.com/cdnrss.ubergizmo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/apple-iwatch-concept-2.jpg?resize=631%2C548 "Apple iWatch Expected To Use Flexible OLEDs [Rumor]")
It has been a couple of weeks since we heard of any drool-worthy rumors concerning Apple’s smartwatch, which is being called the iWatch at the moment. We recently heard rumors of Apple facing manufacturing issues with the device as well as its expected pricing and availability. Today, we’re hearing some new interesting rumors surrounding the iWatch, which includes its display technology and screen size. (more…)
Apple iWatch Expected To Use Flexible OLEDs [Rumor] original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Oct 01
Every once in a while you come across a piece of Star Wars merchandise and wonder how it took so long for Lucas’ or Disney’s giant merchandise-o-tron computer to make the connection. A Death Star soccer ball (football for our overseas readers, or inflatable kick bag for you non-sports types) seems so obvious you’d have expected George Lucas himself to have doodled the design between takes on the original Star Wars films, but sadly it’s taken ’til now for it become a reality.
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Oct 01
It wouldn’t be a CEATEC show without a new, left-field interface. This year, it’s Asukanet’s turn, with its Aerial Imaging Plate (AI Plate). “The one aerial imaging device that will change the future” is how the company’s selling it, and although we can’t quite vouch for that, the interactive concepts we played with were impressive enough. The plate combines reflective surfaces with a tablet interface, although the magic is how the touch display is projected into midair. Like 3D TVs, there’s a specific sweet spot you’ll need to stand in to use it, but Asukanet reckons that’s part of the appeal, with one of its concept ideas involving a touchpad interface for entering PIN codes — if only the user can see it, that’s pretty secure, right? Other benefits include hygiene: with no physical surface to interact with, there’s less chances of picking up any bugs the previous user might have had.
The first demo entailed a shopping mall menu, with a requisite anime hostess to help get us where we needed to go. There’s a motion sensor built into the unit to track your hand and the character’s eyes trailed our finger as it went around the ethereal display. We had to actually poke our finger through the projection to register a hit and get further into the system. To return to the home screen, we simply swiped back across the screen — it’s all very tablet user-friendly.
However, it’s a little trickier to describe how the projection looked: our photo above suggests that the image is resting on the flat surface, but in the flesh it floats above that, at a 45-degree angle to the user with no 3D effect or flicker. It’s a single two-dimensional pane, making it easy (once you’ve got the knack) to navigate through. We had no issues ordering plenty of fictional sushi plates on the second restaurant-esque demonstration. The company is still reaching out to businesses looking to adopt the tech, so there’s nothing approaching a release date, or even a place where you could test the tech for yourself… unless, of course, you can scrape a trip to Japan before Saturday. %Gallery-slideshow99625%
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