There’s a kind of crazy headspace that’s easy to fall into after staring at the unceasing scroll of your social media biz on a couple of screens at a time. But this? This is a wholly terrifying total immersion in the form of an installation of sights, sounds, and mind-melting mental stimulation.
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"Shoe companies are full of people who wanted to design cars," explains Jalopnik’s Jason Torchinsky in a post about this slick 1971 DeTomaso Pantera today. Nike’s own skunkworks design team had very different plans for this aging Pantera—check out their work below.
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The living room market has earned itself another contender this April with Amazon Fire TV. This device is a 4.5″ x 4.5″ x 0.7″ (115 mm x 115 mm x … Continue reading
At its BUILD 2014 conference today Microsoft announced a new move which it hopes will aid in increasing the Windows market share. The company has said that it is going to offer Windows for free on devices with screens under 9-inches, that includes phones and tablets. This comes on the heels of a recent decision to cut Windows 8.1 licensing fee by as much as 70 percent for certain OEMs, to flood the market with relatively affordable tablets and notebooks aimed at taking down the Chromebook.
Windows For Internet Of Things, Devices With Displays Under 9″ Free original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Amazon made games a big part of its Fire TV announcement today – it unveiled a dedicated gaming controller, but more importantly, announced the creation of original content for the platform through its Amazon Game Studios. Said studio is rife with talent, too, as BuzzFeed’s business reporter Matt Lynley points out on Twitter. Kotaku discovered that Amazon Game Studios has hired both… Read More
I’ll admit when I first saw this I looked around to see if it was some sort of prank for April Fools’ Day. However, it seems to be legit according to the reports out there. Why exactly does this seem to goo to be true? Well, it’s a DVR with 12 tuners. Anyone constantly fighting with other people in your home to decide who gets to record what programs, this is the DVR for you.
The device is called the VMS1100 media server and it has six integrated tuners of its own and can be combined with extender boxes to allow up to 12 shows to record at once. This makes my Dish Hopper whole home DVR with five tuners seem tiny by comparison.
The DVR has 1TB of storage space and it can be connected to up to ten TVs. You can get one if you are on the new Verizon Fios Quantum TV service. Unfortunately, a DVR with this many tuners isn’t cheap. The single box is $22 monthly; the dual setup is $32 a month, and each of the connection boxes for additional TVs costs $10 monthly. Of course, those fees are before you pay a dime for content.
[via DigitalTrends]
Yesterday, Festo unveiled a bird-inspired wind turbine, but today, the company has unveiled a new robotic creation that’s a little more recognizable. The world may not have a huge need for a bionic kangaroo—outside of Australian-themed amusement parks—but emulating the marsupial could result in robots with remarkably long endurance.
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When HTC developed the new HTC One (M8) it knew it had a dilemma. If it played it safe, and did a general all-round specification bump, it risked underwhelming the public. Conversely, by over-cooking things, and innovating for innovation’s sake, it…
Over the past few weeks there have been many rumors about Windows 8.1 update 1. The first major update for the OS has been in development for quite some time now, and Microsoft has heard customer pain points and rectified almost all of them. Today at its BUILD 2014 conference, the Redmond-based company officially confirmed that the Windows 8.1 update 1 release takes place on April 8th. The update will be rolled out to all users for free.
Windows 8.1 Update 1 Releases Free On April 8th original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Roughly 50,000 years ago, a series of horrible storms wracked northern New Zealand, burying stands of ancient Kauri trees in peat and mud—where they waited, for many, many millennia, to be rediscovered. As conference tables, apparently.
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