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• Leap Motion Makes Your Mouse and Keyboard Worthless

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  Imagine a flash drive-sized, X-Box Kinect-like device that allows you to simply move your hands and fingers around to control your computer? Seems totally insane, but ladies and geeks: let me introduce you to Leap Motion.  Developed over the past four years, this patented mathematical approach to 3D, touch-free motion sensing and motion control software is unlike anything that currently exists on the market, and 200 times more sensitive than anything that does.  It can [...]

   

• In Mexico, Wi-Fi Costs Dog Poop

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  Mexican internet provider Terra is serious about two things: Promoting their Wi-Fi service, and teaching pet owners to clean up after their dogs. I almost can’t think of a pairing more random, but I’ve got a really vivid imagination and the sense of humor of a 10 year old so I’m kind of an exception. The idea is the brainchild of ad agency DDB, who I think I need to find a reason to hire. [...]

   

• Japan’s Kirin Serves up Beer with Frozen Foam

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  Japan’s Kirin brewery has developed a novel method for keeping beer colder for longer – its latest beverage, “Ichiban Shibori Frozen Draft” comes with frozen foam. According to Kirin, the -5C foam is able to keep a beer cold for up to half an hour. They say that it also gives the beer a “cool and refreshing texture.” So how does it work? The foam is subjected to a process that Kirin has termed “frozen [...]

   

• Novel Substance Could Save Your Phone From Its Next Toilet Dunking

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  Japan’s Dakin Industries is in the process of developing a coating that can be used to protect the circuit boards of cellular phones from water. The coating, which the folks at Daikin say is environmentally friendly, is a fluorinated solvent. The components are simply dipped in the solvent and then left to dry, a process that takes approximately one minute at room temperature. A spokesman for the company explained (translation by Diginfo): This product isn’t [...]

   

• I Believe I Can Fly, Jetman Calls My Bluff

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  Meet Yves Rossy, known ’round the world as “Jetman.”   He has accomplished something that many have thought about but haven’t quite had the stones to try, and that is to become the first and only human being to actualize flight with a jet-propelled wing, which he can do for 10 minutes at a time.  Perhaps no one has ever quite dreamt up such a colorful goal, but basically the dude can fly.  10 years [...]

   

• How Much Do You Spend Per Lightbulb Over 20 Years? $60 You Say? Then Here’s Your New Bulb!

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  Figuring that I moved into my first apartment in Sophomore year of college, I guess you could say that I’m in year 17 of buying my own light bulbs.  And when I really think about the money I have invested to literally light up my life, I can’t say that any significant figures come to mind.  Tack on 3 more years and I’d say I will have spent a total of….oh I don’t know…$100 total [...]

   

• Dropcam- HD Quality Home Monitoring

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  If you have been thinking about home security recently, allow me to show you something that will put any security company’s online video monitoring to shame.  Where as some companies give you the option of setting up a camera so that you can monitor your house online or via your smartphone with a grainy picture, Dropcam allows you to do the same but with a 720 HD quality feed.   This Wi-Fi camera is simple to [...]

   

• Emperor 200 Luxury Computer Workstation: First Class Surfing and Gaming

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  Trying to break the record for most consecutive hours spent online?  Well you may as well do it in style.  And it’s a good thing your trust fund isn’t running out anytime soon because this one’s going to cost you.  The Emperor 200 Luxury Computer Workstation is like the G450 Business Jet equivalent of where ever you normally sit to surf the interwebs, but is oddly more expensive than actually chartering a private flight.  The [...]

   

• Adam Savage Describes How Credit Card Companies Shot Down RFID Episode [video]

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  Here is something that you might not know. Mythbusters had planned to air an episode on how “hackable and trackable” RFID chips are – it never saw the light of day. What happened was this: calls were made to arrange a meeting with someone at Texas Instruments and when the meeting was scheduled to happen a bunch of legal heavies from Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover explained that showing the episode would be a [...]

   

• FAA gives OK to space tourism from the USA for 2014

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  If you grew up like me, watching the Jetsons jet around in their aircrafts, commuting to work in their flying hovercars, flying them on air highways, and spend a holiday on the Moon, or Mars, or Saturn then this might jerk a tear from your eyes. Starting in 2014, space tourism will begin to spread its wings in the United States, rocket planes and spaceships to carry passengers beyond the atmosphere, similar to the suborbital [...]

   

• WD Packs 2TB Into a 2.5″ Portable [My Passport]

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  If your SSD is struggling to keep up with your storage needs then you might want to take a look at Western Digital’s updated My Passport lineup – updated to include USB 3 and a 2TB model. Two terabytes in a 2.5” package is a very impressive feat, but you are going to have to pay for the privilege of having all that space – it comes in at a hefty $250. At $130-200, the [...]

   

• D-Link DCS-932L wireless night-vision camera review

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  D-link’s pitch for the DCS-932L is that it’s a wireless night-vision camera that connects to your existing WiFi and automatically uploads stills to an FTP server when motion is detected, comes with My D-Link, an online service to keep tabs on your stuff from work, that’s supposed to be easy to use. On paper it’s all good. The reality however is quite different. First off, the camera is designed for indoor use, you cannot mount [...]