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This amazing contraption you see here is a time machine. Before you get too excited, you should know that it doesn’t actually work, but that doesn’t make the feat any less awesome. That’s because it’s actually an incredibly detailed scale model of a fictitious time machine, created by a professional film and TV model maker.

This one-of-a-kind model took Steve Howarth over 1500 hours during a two year period to build, and it looks amazing. It’s made from perspex and styrene, and set onto a formica MDF base. The thing is loaded up with tiny LEDs to illuminate the scene, and even has sound effects and speakers built in.

The model is currently for sale over on Etsy, with an asking price just north of $17,000(USD).While that may sound like a lot, I think the guy who built this deserves more than $11 an hour for his time and materials. Plus, the lucky buyer will get film rights for a story which goes along with the time machine.

Here’s a fantastic short for you sci-fi fans: Record/Play, directed by Jesse Atlas, is a short film that covers time travel, love, changing fate, war, memories and cassette tapes. It’s slow building yet tense, you’re itching to see what new wrinkles each play of the tape will bring.

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An Iranian businessman has cited what was deemed to be impossible all this while – that he has managed to invent a time machine, and he certainly did not need a DeLorean to help him achieve his goal. In fact, this businessman said that he could fast forward up to 8 years into the future, but how about turning the clock back? Known as Ali Razeghi, he is also a Tehran scientist, and has gone about registering “The Aryayek Time Traveling Machine” with the state-run Centre for Strategic Inventions.

This particular device will not be able to physically send you into the future it seems, but basically is a high tech fortune telling machine. In order to see what the future has in store for you, his device will take readings from your touch, before feeding that through a set of complex algorithms in order to “predict five to eight years of the future life of any individual, with 98 percent accuracy”. I wonder whether there is even an earth around 8 years down the road, if Iran and North Korea starts to send their nukes on a holiday on foreign soil.

I find Razeghi’s comments hilarious, as he said that “the reason that we are not launching our prototype at this stage is that the Chinese will steal the idea and produce it in millions overnight.” Will the communist party come knocking on his door in the middle of the night? And you thought that April Fool’s Day was already over.

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Netgear is giving its home networking the same sort of tuneup going into the fall that you’d give your car — not a complete overhaul, but enough to keep it running in top form. Headlining the pack, the N750 Premium Edition router you’re looking at above upgrades the original N750 through a better ability to play with others: the dual-band WiFi hotspot’s ReadyShare file access expands to the cloud, while its USB support now envelops Apple’s AirPrint and Time Machine as well as TiVo Storage. Media sharing mavens also get their own, more specific add-ons. The Powerline Media Extender can pipe audio (and USB printing or storage) over a 200Mbps link, with a major emphasis on AirPlay streaming; the N900 4-port WiFi Adapter is a slightly less exotic, 450Mbps wireless-to-Ethernet bridge for multi-device home theaters. If Netgear’s refresh is tempting enough to prompt a trade-up, you can snag the N750 Premium Edition immediately for $120 or wait until September and October for the respective launches of the N900 adapter for $80 and the Powerline Music Extender in its single pack ($99) or dual-device starter kit ($139) editions.

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Microsoft is still determined to explore every nook and cranny of Windows 8 on its way to the newly official October launch, and now it’s swinging its attention towards File History, its revamped approach to preserving our data. The new component supplements Windows Backup, which Microsoft admits is “not a very popular” app, and is more than a little transparent in bringing OS X’s set-it-and-forget-it Time Machine strategy to the Windows crowd. Not that we’re complaining: the same basic philosophy of getting an automatic, version-aware backup of all our personal files is convenient on any platform, especially when we can get a temporary internal safeguard while we’re on vacation. The differences in platforms have equal rewards and drawbacks, however. File History provides more control over backups than its Apple counterpart, including frequency (finally!) and backup age, but it can’t be used to backup whole apps like with a Time Machine drive. As always with these in-depth Windows 8 explorations, there’s much more to see at the source, so click on through if you’ve ever been worried about deleting a file by accident.

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Microsoft details Windows 8 File History, takes us through a Time Machine originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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