Hasta La Gadget!

Upuaza Touryou likes to have fun with Amazon boxes. He previously built a model temple out of them. So it only makes sense that now he has built a tank. An amazing, remote controlled tank of a Type 97 Chi-Ha, which was used by the Imperial Japanese Army in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

Despite only costing him 1,500 yen (~$15 USD), it took two months to complete. It has tons of nice detail and is quality made all the way. The man is a wizard with an X-Acto knife. A paper model of this quality is impressive enough, but this thing is actually remote controlled and moves around.

This is the best way ever to recycle those Amazon boxes.

[via Kotaku]

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Investors Have Low Expectations From iPhone 6 [Analyst] original content from Ubergizmo.

Sprint today rolled out invites for the press. It has scheduled an event on April 29th. The invite reads “hear it for yourself,” this has led to speculation that the carrier might be gearing up for the full-fledged launch of HD Voice. The invite doesn’t specifically mention what this event is going to be about though. Sprint CEO Dan Hesse will be present at the event.

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Sprint HD Voice Launch May Take Place On April 29th original content from Ubergizmo.

Here is some guaranteed nostalgia for you. Follow the life of a Game Boy in this wonderful animation: watch it get assembled in a factory and packaged for an excited kid and see it get played by youthful thumbs and then eventually be tossed away by a teenager. It’s every toy’s story. Throughout its journey you’ll see all the childhood gadgets you miss playing with and many more you wish you had owned. Where did all these toys go?

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Whenever iOS and Android are compared, there’s one major point that goes against Google’s mobile platform, that’s fragmentation. On iOS, Apple controls when updates are rolled out. Since its the only company making iOS devices, it doesn’t have to deal with various OEMs and keep an eye on their customizations. Its a totally different story on Android, where OEMs and often carriers are responsible for delaying updates. Take Android 4.4 KitKat for example, it was released last year, but only powers north of 5 percent of all Android devices. “Android Silver” could be Google’s answer to fragmentation.

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Google Aims To End Fragmentation With ‘Android Silver’ [Rumor] original content from Ubergizmo.