Hasta La Gadget!

Fans of Game of Thrones who love Daenerys Targaryen can put some really cool looking eggs in their Easter basket thanks to Jacquie LongLegs. She made her Easter eggs to look just like the dragon eggs in the HBO series.

This only makes more sense as the Game of Thrones Season 3 premiere is coming this Easter Sunday. Hopefully they don’t really hatch baby dragons, because they would eat your Easter candy for one and make a mess of your house.

You can make these super cool eggs too. She shows you how it’s done in this short video. All you need are some styrofoam eggs, thumb tacks and acrylic or spray paint.

You will have the geekiest (and pokiest) Easter basket ever. You’d better get busy.

[via Neatorama]

Didn’t get enough of the Dragon capsule launch this week? Good news, because after a day’s delay due to (now remedied, according to NASA and SpaceX) faults with three clusters of its Draco thrusters, the capsule is set to be grappled by the International Space Station at 6:31AM ET on March 3rd (tomorrow morning). If you’ll recall, the mission is mainly aimed at getting refreshed supplies and some experiments up to the space station. As an aside, NASA also notes that Dragon is still set to arrive back on earth for a splashdown on the 25th, as initially planned. If you’re up for it, NASA TV coverage starts at 3:30AM the same day and the final berthing process (actually getting the capsule connected to the ISS) should happen after 8AM — all that said, initial “orbital maneuvers” are set for 2AM, according to a tweet from Elon Musk. For more details on this stage of the mission, including those involved, blast over to the NASA source link below — and make sure you’ve got enough coffee ready.

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Via: The Verge

Source: NASA, SpaceX (Twitter), Elon Musk (Twitter)

You’ve no doubt seen plenty of video of SpaceX rocket launches on this very site, but let’s face it, nothing compares to seeing a live launch. Great news for fans of watching things slip the surly bonds of Earth: the commercial space company’s Dragon capsule is set to do precisely that atop a Falcon 9 carrier rocket at 10:10AM ET this very morning — you know, roughly half an hour from now. The unmanned rocket will deliver supplies to astronauts aboard the International Space Station. And if you’re not currently within driving distance of Cape Canaveral and in possession of the the proper clearances, you’re still in luck. You can watch a livestream of the event unfold in the source link below. And for more space action, make sure to check out the latest episode of the Engadget Show.

Update: We have liftoff!

Update 2: While the rocket liftoff seems to have gone according to plan, the company has reported a problem with the capsule. According to a tweet from Elon Musk, there’s an “issue with Dragon thruster pods. System inhibiting three of four from initializing. About to command inhibit override.”

Update 3: Miss this morning’s festivities? No worries, just hop the break to find an embedded video of the launch.

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Via: The Next Web, Space

Source: Livestream.com

It’s becoming increasingly clear that the next wave of mobile computing is going to be voice driven. Mobile assistants like Siri and Google Now are garnering plenty of media attention and earning legions of fans. Nuance, the company behind Dragon — often cited as the gold standard in voice recognition software — wants to make sure it doesn’t get left behind after pioneering the art of speaking to your computer. Dragon Mobile Assistant was the first step towards that goal, but it stuck primarily to searches and a few simple tasks. After leaving our stage here at CES, the company was nice enough to take us back to a suite where it demoed a project codenamed Wintermute. Besides throwing a bone to William Gibson fans, the project aims to make Nuance’s personal assistant truly personal and platform agnostic by building a profile of individual users in the cloud.

While clearly very much in the early stages, what we saw was none the less impressive. The mobile app, was able to easily recognize queries such as “what is the score of the Celtics game” and obey commands like “play music by the Rolling Stones.” Nuance even threw in a bit of snide, Siri-like personality — the assistant quipped about the rep being too young to listen to the Stones. That response was obviously triggered by the fact that the app knew Sean Brown, a senior manager at the company, was born well after the band’s hey day.

Continue reading Nuance Wintermute hands-on: a cross-platform, cloud-based personal assistant

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Here it is steampunk/fantasy enthusiasts. A mechanical dragon of your very own, who will burden his back with whatever you see fit to put on it. Now you can drink coffee on the back of this beast and feel like a steampunk dragon hunter.


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