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Armatix Gun: Watch That Trigger

By Gaurav KheterpalWhen you have a gun in your hand, people often advice you – ‘Watch that Trigger’. Armatix decided to take that advice literally and came up with a watch that controls your gun. Wearing a stylish wrist watch i…

[ More ] February 1st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Gadgets |

FOSS CAD and 3D Modeling Software?

Paul server guy writes “I work at a privately funded, open source, manned, return to the moon mission — Yes really, and Yes, we really are going to put man (and woman) back on the moon. Since we are open source, we want all of our tools to be,…

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Jobs calls Adobe lazy, calls Google on the their “bullshit”

Ahh Steve. You can always be depended on to serve up a healthy dose of crazy. It’s just fortunate that people put up with your own special brand of crazy that no other CEO could put up with. For example, at a company wide Town Hall, Steve Jobs had s…

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Deep Basektball Team Owner Thoughts

So says Mark Cuban, opining about the potential for children’s entertainment and media consumption with the iPad. The man owns a basketball team and was on Dancing with the Stars, people. Technology…

[ More ] January 31st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Gadgets |
 

Why the Wii Won

Practically everyone knows that the Nintendo Wii easily outsells competitors from Microsoft (Xbox) and Sony (Playstation 3), making it a clear winner of the “7th-generation” console wars. A source of minor amazement on its own, analyzing…

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Japan Will Start 3D TV Programming This Summer

An anonymous reader writes “Japan HD TV operator Sky Perfect will start 3D programming this summer, with focuses on live events and sports events. As more Hollywood movies are shot in 3D, and 3D TVs are expected to come onto the market in the very n…

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Give Space a Chance, Says Phil Plait

The Bad Astronomer writes “A lot of pundits, scientists, and people who should know better are decrying the demise of NASA, saying that the President’s budget cutting the Constellation program and the Ares rockets will sound the death knell of manne…

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Study finds people want more from their Kindles, less from their newspapers

This may come as a surprise to you (although probably not, you smart devil), but it turns out that plenty of people are dissatisfied with their current e-reader options — according to a recent study conducted at the University of Georgia. The study…

[ More ] January 31st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Gadgets |

Solutions For More Community At Work?

CrunkCreeper writes “I work at a tier-2 hosting company (SAP, web servers, Citrix, databases, etc.). I started working at this location two years ago in January. The company had anywhere from 20-30 other employees, and now we are just over 100. Peop…

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VisualBoyAdvance turns your Palm Pre into a Game Boy emulator

A certain UK bank operates a delightfully dorky advertising campaign whose slogan is “we give you extra.” Well, in the case of mobile software communities, that’s exactly the case. From jailbroken iPhones to PS One-emulating HD2s to multitouch-enabl…

[ More ] January 31st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Gadgets |