Vintage game enthusiasts have a reason to rejoice. Soon you’ll be able to play your favorite Nintendo games of yesteryear on your Android platform smartphones with a cool new converter case that looks like the handheld devices from days gone by. Find out who makes it and when it’s slated for release.
The investigation
into a death that occurred while a Tesla Model S driver was using Autopilot has filled the internet with dystopian-sounding headlines. Self-driving car driver died for the first time after crash in Florida. Self-driving Tesla was involved in fatal crash. But this was not a “self-driving car” that killed its “driver.” This was a human driving a semi-autonomous car. And this points to why fully autonomous vehicles
are the only types of self-driving cars that make sense on our streets. Ever.
This week, Sony announced the pricing and availability for some new Ultra HD 4K televisions, of which there are three models in a total of five sizes. The highest end of the bunch, the XBR-X800D, brings with it HDR support while the XBR-X750D and the XBR-X700D will both gain HDR support later this year through a firmware update. In addition, … Continue reading
Karma Go users can finally setup a private network if they so wish, but it’ll cost extra. The feature arrives with Karma’s newly announced ‘Premium Features,’ a pay addition to one’s monthly data subscription that enables support for a passphrase. Once added, the hotspot will only be accessible to those who have the password (just like any other WiFi network), … Continue reading
Facebook has announced that it is shutting down its news-reading app Paper. The application was introduced in 2014 as an alternative to the main Facebook app, featuring a sleek layout with a complete focus on showcasing articles — rather than status…
Farewell, young spacecraft. The European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe has been surveying Comet 67P (or Churyumov-Gerasimenko) for the past 12 years, and on September 30th it will crash into the space rock and end its mission. Rosetta is nearing the o…
The last set of headphones that we saw from Bang & Olufsen were the Beoplay H7s, a set of over-ear wireless headphones that offered up passive noise isolation features. Essentially it felt like a bigger pair of Beoplay H8s just without noise cancellation technology. Now if you aren’t a fan of headphones, don’t worry as Bang & Olufsen have you covered.
The company has recently announced the Beoplay H5. These are a pair of wireless earphones which as you can see from the photo, has a considerably smaller footprint. The earphones will feature a 6.4mm speaker, a small electromagnetic transducer, and have been tuned to create the signature B&O Play sound.
There will be an accompanying app that allows users to control the earphones wirelessly, like adjust the tonality, sound staging, and so on. The app also allows users to monitor the battery life of the earphones. The earphones can be stored by clicking them together magnetically, which in turn will also power them down.
It packs a 100mAh battery that will provider about 5 hours of use. These earphones do not come cheap as they are priced at $249, but they are small and stylish and wireless, so if these qualities matter to you, then the earphones will be available for purchase via B&O’s Amazon store.
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If you use a mechanical keyboard or if you have researched mechanical keyboards, chances are you might have heard of Das Keyboard in which some of their models have been favored by StarCraft gamers. The company has recently announced their latest keyboard in the form of the Das Keyboard 5Q.
Right off the bat as you can see in the video above, the 5Q is unlike other Das Keyboards we’ve seen in the past. For starters it looks very different and finally brings about LED lighting to its keys, something that we’re sure Das Keyboard owners have lamented about the lack of in the past. However the biggest change is the fact that the 5Q is a cloud connected keyboard.
What this means is that users can set it so that information from the web can be streamed onto the keyboard. For example you can set it so that certain groups of keys will glow for certain things, like to track your stocks, or on auction websites to notify you when someone outbids you, and so on. The idea being that the ambient lights on the keyboard means that you won’t have to keep checking your screen as the keys lighting up will already tell you what’s going on.
Of course at the end of the day, the 5Q is still a Das Keyboard at heart. This means mechanical switches but instead of the typical choice of using Cherry MX switches, Das has opted to create their own which they’ve dubbed the Gamma-Zulu, which according to them was developed together with Omron, a keyboard switch manufacturer from Japan.
The Das Keyboard 5Q is currently on Kickstarter trying to raise funds, so if you’d like to lend a helping hand, you know where to go. The keyboard has a retail price of $229 but early birds can get it for as low as $139.
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Earlier this year, Japanese carmaker Honda announced that they would be recalling 2.2 million of their cars due to an issue with its airbags which are manufactured by Takata. However it seems that isn’t the end of the story. US regulators the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has advised more than 300,000 Honda owners in the US to stop driving their cars.
This is based on new tests as it was discovered that the airbags used had a 50% chance of exploding upon deployment on impact. This is versus the 1% chance found in other airbags. According to the NHTSA, the affected models include the 2001-2002 Honda Civic, 2001-2002 Honda Accord, 2002-2003 Acura TL, 2002 Honda CR-V, 2002 Honda Odyssey, 2003 Acura CL, 2003 Honda Pilot.
So if you are driving any of these models, it has been advised that you should stop driving them and get them looked at by Honda. With airbags meant to save lives in the event of an accident instead of killing or injuring its occupants, this is obviously something that drivers will want to take a look at ASAP.
The NHTSA said in a statement, “The risk posed by the airbag inflators in these vehicles is grave, and it is critical they be repaired now to avoid more deaths and serious injuries.” In the meantime Honda has since dropped Takata as its airbag supplier.
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If the goal is to cause both sides of the political spectrum to quiver and twitch and shiver and shake like a raccoon clinging to the outside of a cement mixer speeding through a railroad yard, just casually throw out the term, “gun control,” and step back. The left considers all guns the reprehensible tool of warriors, criminals and primitives, while in most of red state America, the definition of gun control is using two hands and hitting the target.
Then some addled- brained, flippo- unit actually uses those techniques to take out a bunch of innocent people, and the blowback starts with a debate about how big our guns should be, further restrictions on who can purchase them and whether we need to know the identity and shoe size of the purchasers.
Yes. Indeed. You bet. We do. For crum’s sakes, you need to present identification to apply for a card to take a book out of a library. Admittedly, in the right hands, a book can be more dangerous than a gun, but they hardly ever put holes in people’s bodies that the blood leaks out of way too quick.
With increasing frequency, these body counts shoot north into double digits, which triggers a discussion of banning these high- powered, personal weapons of destruction. For a minute. Then the Republicans kowtow to the perverted wishes of their cruel masters, the NRA, which thinks the best way to avoid school shootings is to ban schools.
This same NRA commanded their lapdogs to prevent research into gun- related deaths. That’s right, Republicans have refused to allow the funding of government- related, gun- death research. Which is a shame, since America has a surplus of raw data. You could say we are dead solid center of the gun- related death universe. It’s like talking about sandwiches in Philadelphia but prohibiting any mention of the cheesesteak. As Holland is to tulips, the USA is to gun deaths.
In the wake of these horrific tragedies, conservatives then predictably go straight to the handbook of NRA generated talking points to say the same things over and over. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families.” “None of this would have happened if the gay Hispanic dancers were armed.” “Assault weapons can be used as legitimate hunting rifles.”
Really? That’s your argument? Because, okay, it makes a sort of sense. You can also use a chainsaw to cut butter. Might get a little messy around muffin time. Come to think of it, a hand grenade will signal the end of recess. Doorbells can be rung with 12- pound sledgehammers. Once.
They’re called “assault weapons” for a reason. They’re not “tucking kiddies into bed” rifles. They’re for assaults. Yes, the Second Amendment guarantees a well- regulated militia the right to bear arms, but at the time our Founding Fathers were talking about citizen- soldiers wielding one- shot muskets, not terrorist- wannabees brandishing HK MG4s capable of shooting 800 .45 caliber bullets in under a minute with a range of a half a mile.
Hunting weapons? Seriously? What are you hunting? Tanks? A herd of triceratops? Can you imagine someone putting a full clip into a deer at 30 yards? You’d end up with venison jerky. In noun and verb forms. Jerky being the operative word here.
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