Apr 05
Google is readying a renewed attempt on the living room with Android TV, leaked internal documents suggest, ditching the ill-fated Google TV and trying to put content rather than individual … Continue reading
Apr 05
This week in Tech Reads: coal, animal actors, wasteful government spending, and more!
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Apr 05
Did you guys know there is a Gizmodo subdomain where you can go for all things photographic? Yep! It’s called Reframe, and it’s where you’ll find additional coverage of gear, techniques, news, and all kinds of great stuff related to the crafts of photography and videography.
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Apr 05
The Verge just revealed that Google may venture into set-top TV devices with the as-yet-unannounced Android TV. Quoting internal documents, the report indicates Google is planning a device like Roku
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Apr 05
A lot of stuff happened this week, whether it was new streaming TV devices being revealed or a new superhero sequel’s debut. From a tearjerker time capsule story to a day at the World’s Strongest Man competition, we’ve gathered our best stories of the week right here for you. It’s a Saturday brunch buffet of the week’s best writing!
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Apr 05
Last February Blizzard and deviantART held a Diablo III: Reaper of Souls fan art contest. The winners of the contest have now been announced. Diablo III Art Director Christian Lichtner had the honor of picking the winners. He chose Kuzinskiy Andrey and his barbarian-centered piece New Evil as the grand prize winner.
deviantART member TheRafa bagged second place. In Among the Dead, TheRafa featured the new Crusader class about to engage the Reaper of Souls himself, Angel of Death Malthael.
Yong Jun Cho aka nixell won third place with his badass Monk art, Fist of Conviction. This is actually my favorite among the three.
Congratulations to all the winners! You deserve your epic loot. Use this waypoint to deviantART to check out what Christian had to say about each winning artwork, and be sure to admire them in their full resolution on their respective artists’ pages. I highly recommend looking at the other submissions as well.
Apr 05
Guy Build Space Shuttle on His Roof
Posted in: Today's ChiliWhat do you do when you just want to get off of this big blue marble we call Earth? Well, you can call NASA and try to hitch a ride to the International Space Station. Or you could build yourself a replica of the Space Shuttle on your roof. One man in China did the latter.
According to Chinese site Xinhuanet, a 60-something year-old farmer in Guangdong province built this space shuttle replica. Naturally he put it on top of his house. I guess the idea is that if he ever takes off, that house will burn up and erase all traces that he was ever here. Good plan.
This replica makes the house stand out for sure. I wonder if the neighbors love it or hate it. I’m sure it does wonders for his property value.
[via Kotaku]
Apr 05
We came, we saw, we barked orders into a phone. Though Microsoft’s annual developer conference is technically called “Build Windows,” we actually spent far more time at this year’s event playing with handsets — almost no PCs, come to think of it….
Apr 05
Carolina Ferrari, Ilaria Vitali and Mengdi Xu designed Diffuse, a lamp designed to make laptop screens easy on the eyes in two ways. Diffuse can provide complementary ambient light or it can compensate for a dark environment with a soft white light. It’s Ambilight and F.lux in one.
Diffuse consists of a felt diffuser and a wooden box containing its electronics, which are mainly an Arduino Uno, two RGB LED strips and a light sensor. The box also houses a 12v rechargeable battery and a switch between the “Eye Pleasure” and “Eye Relief” modes. The felt diffuser attaches to the box via two magnets.
To use Diffuse, you just connect it to your laptop via its USB cable, turn it on and select which mode you want to use. In Eye Relief mode, Diffuse’s light sensor will analyze the brightness of the area immediately behind your screen. The lamp’s LEDs will then emit a white light to balance the brightness of your screen and your surroundings. To use Eye Pleasure mode you also need to install an application on your laptop. The application will read the average color of your screen in real time and relay it to Diffuse, which will then match the given color.
Sit back, relax and check out the Diffuse Team’s website for more on the lamp.
Apr 05
I am quite sure that many of us have heard the expression “Money cannot buy happiness”, but it certainly can do a whole lot to lift up one’s mood, as well as help us roll back the years in terms of bringing back the memories of the past. With the $2,500 Genuine Good Humor Ice Cream Cart, you can be sure that those who have had pleasant childhood memories of the local neighborhood ice cream cart will be able to identify with this bad boy.
The Genuine Good Humor Ice Cream Cart happens to be the real deal which was made by Worksman Cycles, where it was first produced for the Good Humor company more than 75 years ago. A quartet of brass bells were made by the original manufacturer, The Blevins Bell Company, and they will hang from the handlebar which happens to be a memorable iconic feature that attracted children by the dozens to street corners in America’s growing suburbs after World War II. This purchase would arrive in the original color scheme of a blue frame and white cabinet without losing any of its heavy-duty construction capability. What ice cream are you going to put inside though?
[ The Genuine Good Humor Ice Cream Cart rolls back the years copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]
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