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Soon after the Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch was released last year, reports of its dismal performance in the market started circulating. This lead many to believe that the company might launch its smartwatch’s successor earlier than intended. Alongside the Galaxy S5 last month Samsung did launch its new smartwatches, the Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo. Ahead of their release later this month, the original Samsung smartwatch has received a major price cut in Canada.

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Galaxy Gear Price Drops Significantly In Canada original content from Ubergizmo.

Tilt-shift photography wasn’t invented to transform real world scenes into small scale models, but who’s complaining? Here are 15 faked miniatures, by you .

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Leaked from today’s 404 episode:

– Seven people around the world collectively possess a set of keys that can dismantle the Web.

– Turn your Instagram pics into real photos with the Lifeprint.

– Skirmos system levels up laser tag with open-source Arduino microcomputer.

– Almost time to panic: 95 percent of the ATMs in the world run on Windows XP.

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There are all sorts of things you can do with a flying drone aircraft or quadcopter carrying a camera. You could do the obvious and chase your dog or cat around the house. You could have it follow your significant other around to make sure they’re not causing trouble.

One thing I would not have thought of doing with a camera-packing drone is send it into the caldera of an active volcano. I would expect the hot gas and flying molten lava to destroy the drone in short order. I would be wrong, at least in this instance. Recently, Shaun O’Callaghan’s DJI Phantom quadcopter drone carried a GoPro into an active volcano on Tanna Island in Vanuatu.

You can see in the video that lava and gas are flying everywhere and going all around the camera and drone. I can’t believe the thing survived, but Shaun says the drone says no harm came to it or the camera during filming.

[via DroneHire]

It has been over three decades that Snoopy and the rest of the dysfunctional Peanuts gang have appeared on the silver screen, but this fact has not stopped the Peanuts ensemble to go against the grain in 2014. Peanuts, a comic strip created by the late Charles Schulz, has staying power even until today thanks to newspaper syndication, MetLife commercials, reruns of classic TV specials (A Charlie Brown Christmas) and a viral video once in a while. Throughout all these, Charlie Brown, everyone’s favorite beagle Snoopy, and gang have been depicted in a 2D environment, but the new Peanuts film that is tipped for a 2015 release from 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios would arrive in 3D goodness.

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Peanuts 3D Set To Grace The Silver Screen In 2015 original content from Ubergizmo.