Blobfish Plush: Ziggy of the Sea

ThinkGeek is blackmailing kindhearted people with its blobfish plush. What’s a blobfish? This poor creature was voted the world’s ugliest animal. To make things even more insulting, blobfish are endangered animals and don’t look hideous when in their natural habitat, thousands of feet underwater. That’s like having an alien take the last human to outer space stark naked, then noting that we look like bloated and sunburned corpses.

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On the other hand, the voting was conducted by an organization called the Ugly Animal Preservation Society, which raises awareness for unsightly endangered animals. Many people know about pandas, eagles and tigers, but they’re not the only dying animals. With its title, the blobfish now serves as the mascot of its ilk.

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Wipe your browser’s tears and order the blobfish plush from ThinkGeek for $40 (USD).

[via Boing Boing]

Inhabitat’s Week in Green: Gigafactory, eVolo Skyscraper Competition and super-powered bionic plants

Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green.

First, the bad news: A new NASA-funded study predicts that industrialized society could completely…

Musician Builds a Robotic Instrument That Reads the Tattoo on His Arm

Moscow-based artist Dmitry Morozov aka "vtol" has built a robotic system to read a tattoo on his arm like a musical score. The sounds this thing makes are pretty gnarly.

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Samsung NX mini set to capture stunning photos

samsung-nx-miniI can’t believe it, but it seems that the trend of introducing a “mini” version of an existing device has moved on from the world of smartphones over to the digital camera environment. This time around, it would be South Korean conglomerate Samsung that flies the flag, having introduced their latest ‘star’, which is the all new Samsung NX mini SMART camera, which somewhat brings back memories of the likes of the Samsung Galaxy S3 mini and its ilk. The Samsung NX mini is touted to be the world’s slimmest and lightest interchangeable-lens camera, where the body tips the scales at a mere 158 grams, with an extremely slim 22.5mm design.

Just what can shutterbugs expect from the Samsung NX mini? Well, for starters, it will come with a 75.2mm (3.0-inch) Flip up and Touch Display that can flip itself 180-degrees around, not to mention accompanied by a 20.5MP BSI CMOS Sensor, 6fps Continuous Shot, and 1/16000 sec Shutter Speed among others. Of course, what good is a camera’s body if it does not have the appropriate type of lens to go along with it? This is why Samsung has not forgotten about this extremely important aspect, which is they they will also introduce a trio of NX mini lens (NX-M) in the form of the NX-M 9mm F3.5 ED lens, NX-M 9-27mm F3.5-5.6 ED OIS lens, and NX-M 17mm F1.8 OIS lens.

Samsung intends to market the Samsung NX mini as a “go-to” device for great photography, letting users shoot special moments in stunning detail. Apart from that, it will also boast of NFC and Wi-Fi capabilities, so that users can capture impressive shots which can then be shared quickly and easily, allowing friends to enjoy it in real time. With a solid premium metal body alongside a luxurious leatherette finish, you can be sure that it does not look cheap – far from it. The fashionistas would also not mind carrying this around as it comes in five different colors (white, pink, mint green, brown and black) so that users are able to choose the color that best suits their style.

Press Release
[ Samsung NX mini set to capture stunning photos copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]

NSA snooped on Huawei and the Chinese Government

With each new day, a new skeleton tumbles out of the NSA closet; today we look into the news about spying on Huawei and the Chinese Government. It is common … Continue reading

NODE+ Wireless Sensor Platform lets you measure plenty

nodeA wise man did tell me once before, that anything which you can measure, you are able to improve. Hence, it is not a surprise at all to find out that the folks over at ThinkGeek have come up with a slew of rather interesting devices – which will range anywhere from $24.99 all the way to $149.99 a pop for the NODE+ Wireless Sensor Platform.

Just what is the NODE+ Wireless Sensor Platform all about, anyway? This happens to be a wireless, handheld sensor which allows you to measure plenty of different things. You will be able to choose from an iOS or Android base unit with gyroscope, accelerometer, and magnetometer. Apart from that, just like old school LEGO fun where you can “augment” the original creation with more bricks, you can also pick an add-on such as a color or temperature scanner.

NODE can also be described as a wireless, handheld sensor base unit, where the base unit features a 3-axis gyroscope, 3-axis accelerometer, and 3-axis magnetometer and Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity, in addition to enough space for another pair of add-on sensors. These add-ons include a Barcode Scanner, a Chroma Color Scanner, a Clima sensor, an I/O, a Luma Light and a Therma Sensor. It is also Arduino-compatible with open API, open firmware, and open source code, virtually allowing you to transform it into anything that you require.
[ NODE+ Wireless Sensor Platform lets you measure plenty copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]

Dell Computer Gives An Unsolvable Error

This article was written on August 25, 2006 by CyberNet.

Dell Keyboard Failure

Don’t you hate when your computer has problems? I think everyone does, but normally they can be solved by restarting the program or maybe you need to reboot the computer.

Sometimes things may not be that simple. When this computer couldn’t find the keyboard there was no way that the user was going to be able to boot-up the operating system. I have seen plenty of error messages similar to this one, and I can’t help but laugh each time.

News Source: This Is Broken

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Assassin’s Creed: Unity brings a French flair to stealth action on PC, PS4 and Xbox One

We hope you’re making good progress on Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag, because there’s already a sequel on the way. Ubisoft has unveiled Assassin’s Creed: Unity, a follow-up that takes the stealthy game series to Paris during the French Revolution….

See In The Dark With Night Vision Contact Lenses

Who wouldn’t love to see in the dark? An idea best remembered
from the rainy Tyrannosaurus Rex scene in the original Jurassic Park
movie in 1987, night vision, without clunky technology, is finally getting closer to reality. Researchers at University of Michigan have developed a prototype using graphene to embed into a contact lens or smart
phone camera lens.

Get Your Xbox 360 Bundle From Amazon For $830

This article was written on January 29, 2006 by CyberNet.

Get Your Xbox 360 Bundle From Amazon For $830

Amazon is selling an Xbox 360 Pro Warrior Bundle for $829.91 on behalf of GameStop. Even though it is not very cheap, it is still a good deal because it comes with:

  • 6 Games – Perfect Dark Zero Collector’s Edition, Dead or Alive 4, Need for Speed Most Wanted, Madden NFL 06, NBA 2K6, Condemned
  • 1 additional wireless controller
  • 1 Xbox 360 Play and Charge Kit

So if you have been waiting for the Xbox 360 you may want to get it soon because they are currently shipping this in less than 1 business day!

Get The Bundle Now — In Stock!

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