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There are a plethora of geo-location-based apps that make it incredibly convenient to do friendly things, like chat with nearby peers about local hotspots or meet up with a coworker on the fly. A new iOS app called Cloak, however, utilizes services…
It’s been almost five years since Gizmodo first reported on the Thirty Meter Telescope
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The bros at Rocket Jump already impressed us once with their incredibly impressive and almost believable knife-throwing video and now they’ve done it again with this clip of nine trick shots in a row. They’re also filmed in one continuous take. It would be really impressive—if it were real.
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A built-in sprinkler system is a better way to water a garden than just standing there randomly blasting plants with a hose. And taking that idea one step further, the Droplet turns your sprinklers into intelligent snipers that only water the plants you tell them to using a focused stream—except when rainy weather already has.
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Mi.Mu gloves imbue their wearers with wizard-like musical powers.
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Grammy-winning British artist Imogen Heap says she’s always been a bit frustrated by not being able to navigate computers and mixing boards with the same fluidity other musicians can play more traditional instruments. To solve this, she’s “joined forces with the nerd underworld, creating musical gloves using new sensor technology allowing me to compose and perform music with computers in an intuitive way.”
We first reported on the gloves back in 2011 when Heap debuted them at a TED conference. Now, the artist and her team of engineers and scientists are seeking funding for their “Mi.Mu gloves” through a Kickstarter campaign seeking to raise £200,000 (about $330,000 USD) to bring the technology to the masses.
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When Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton came together to form the holy trinity of dark comedy in 1980’s 9 to 5, VHS was still relatively young. Fast-forward 34 years and your VCR (if you still have one) is likely covered in dust and cobwebs,…
This article was written on August 27, 2006 by CyberNet.
Thanks to all those who participated in our iPod Nano Giveaway sponsored by GotVoice. We’ve read through the entries and have come up with a first place winner to receive an iPod Nano as well as a runner-up to receive 3 months of GotVoice Premium service. We wanted to hear about the craziest voicemail you received and this is what we got….
1st Place Winner: Entry submitted by Jason
“I got a voicemail about 2 years ago(which i still have) that goes like this:
“Hey Jason we stole a golf cart from the University golf course and drove it back to Minneapolis. We were going to bring it by, but Rob wanted food so we took it though the McDonalds drive through. A cop arrested me and ‘Mondo but Rob ran. If he comes home tell him to put my McDonalds in the fridge, I’ll be back in the morning.”
“If anyone wants to know the golf course and where we were are about 7-8 miles away, and yes they used the bus expressway between both campuses to traverse from St Paul”
Runner-Up : Entry submitted by Ian
“Weirdest voicemail ever would have to be the one I got from a seemingly drunk Russian guy who kept talking about his lunch meats.”
“He literally called, talked like he knew me AND that I was actually on the phone with him. He’d just start off the voicemail with the following, and think Russian accent AND drunkness: “yeah so you got the pastrami? good. i’ll be dur to pick it up laters.”
“Best part of this whole voicemail is that its the honest to god truth! You can’t make this stuff up!”
We hope to do more contests in the future! We’re working on ironing out details to open it up to all of our international readers who were excluded from this contest. Again, a big thanks to all who participated and congratulations to Jason and Ian.
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According to very real and totally verifiable scientific research, we might live in a multiverse. No, really. The same research that revealed the first-ever direct evidence of Big Bang inflation
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(Credit: Farjay Studios)
There’s a class that’s seriously under-represented when it comes to video games, always the mob, never the protagonist. We are, of course, referring to the magnificent, noble bear. While the bear occasionally gets a look-in — World of Warcraft and Enviro-Bear being two notable examples — more often than not, the poor misunderstood bear is treated as an enemy to be punched.
Luckily, one brave game is attempting to redress the balance — by combining it with one of our favourite genres ever, the simulation.
“A few games in the past got it right and have been rewarded with universal praise, notably Banjo-Kazooie and Enviro-Bear, but there [haven’t] been many solid, somewhat realistic bear simulation games (if at all). That’s where this comes in,” one-man developer Farjay Studios explains on the game’s Kickstarter page. “Sure it may seem like a ‘dumb idea’ or a ‘really dumb idea’ but you can’t honestly tell me you’ve never secretly wanted to be a bear wandering around the forest. That’s just an outright lie.”<... [Read more]
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In 2010, Treehugger founder Graham Hill shrugged off his possessions, designing a high-tech microdwelling that would house all his needs in a single, small room. Now this sweet little transformer of an apartment is on the market. The price? $995,000.
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