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NHK, a major Japanese broadcaster, plans to have a full 8K TV broadcasting service in place by 2020. That’s when the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics take place. On the other hand, the consumer market hasn’t even fully embraced 4K yet. 4K TVs aren’t something one would commonly find in most homes, and even broadcasters are yet to switch to 4K broadcasting full time. Despite all that, NHK says that it will have a 8K TV broadcasting testing service in place by 2016.

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8K TV Broadcast Testing In Japan To Begin By 2016 original content from Ubergizmo.

Chances are pretty good that you would have already made up your mind as to whether you would settle for the Samsung Galaxy S5 or not when it is finally made available to the masses. Well, if you have yet to make a decision, perhaps you would be interested to read our hands-on review of the flagship smartphone during the time we spent with it at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, late last month. AT&T subscribers would be pleased as punch to hear that pre-orders for the Galaxy S5 will begin tomorrow, and shipping for all pre-orders are set to commence sometime in early April.

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Samsung Galaxy S5 Pre-Order On AT&T Announced original content from Ubergizmo.

The very talented musician Imogen Heap and her colleagues at Mi.Mu are working on a glove that will allow you to make music by moving your fingers and hands. Think Minority Report, but instead of flipping screens around your movements create sounds. Air drumming is about to be legit.

Mi.Mu has an input and output board called x-OSC that connects the glove to a computer or multiple computers over Wi-Fi. It also has an accelerometer, a gyroscope and a magnetometer. Along with the flex sensors on the glove itself, the system can detect “the orientation of your hand, the “flex” of your fingers, your current hand posture (e.g. fist, open hand, one finger point), the direction (up, down, left, right, forwards, backwards) of your hand [and] sharp movements such as drum hits.”

You can map one or more of these movements to control music software with the help of Mi.Mu’s own application, which converts your movements to OSC or MIDI. This means you can use the glove with any software that can handle those two files. The video below shows Imogen performing (!) a song using only two Mi.Mu gloves to control the music:

As you may have noticed, the glove allows the wearer to activate multiple tweaks or sounds at once. You can also use gestures to switch between your saved mappings, which should reduce the number of movements you have to memorize for a given performance.

Pledge at least £1,200 (~$2,000 USD) on Kickstarter to receive a Mi.Mu glove as a reward. Hopefully in a few years the glove will be affordable enough, so we can wash away all the hate and society can start advancing.

[via Gadgetify]

There’s a common misconception that Thor’s hammer was forged from a dying star. It wasn’t! It was forged inside of one, ya dummy. But just for fun, what would happen if Thor’s hammer actually had been forged from a neutron star’s demise?

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