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• This $2 Million Leica Lens Comes With a Benz for a Case

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  While Leica is known for its high quality cameras and lenses, the company doesn’t really have a name for delivering value for money – might that be changing. When Qatar’s Prince Saud bin Muhammed Al Thani ordered a custom-built Leica APO-Telyt-R 1:5.6/1600mm, the company took the interesting step of creating a custom-fitted four-wheel-drive Mercedes-Benz to carry it. That may sound absurd, but given that the lens is four feet long and weighs in at a [...]

   

• One2Touch NFC Keyboard Aims to Put Auto-Correct Fail Websites Out of Business

  In Computers, Technology

  

  Strip down your favorite smartphone and what do you have- A phone with email. But what good is the ability to reply to important emails if you have to be in constant fear of auto-type failing you miserably and causing more harm than good? And sure, you may be a wiz on the touchscreen keyboard, but inevitably you will misspell something so why take the chance? So now Elecom has a solution: the One2Touch NFC [...]

   

• Washable Keyboard Helps You Remove….Stuff….

  In Computers, Technology

  

  There are a few problems with keyboards these days.  First off, when you’re….um….when you’re eating, you drop crumbs under the keys, where they often live eternally.  Next, after you’ve…..you’ve ah….touched things……like uh……like shopping carts at the grocery store, you’re hands get very dirty, and I’d be shocked if you told me you wash your hands before touching your computer.  Then when you…….oh man…..when……ok, when you make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, your hands get [...]

   

• Lenovo does bad with final ICS release, and are one-upped by Cyanogenmod 10

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  Lenovo, better known for their incredibly inexpensive hardware, have recently released an official Ice Cream Sandwich build for their K1 Android pad. The much requested and several times delayed -it came over two months late- update though, requires a full memory wipe of the K1, and does not include the necessary Google Apps including Google Play Store, Gmail, etc. Also, did I mention that in the same release statement, Lenovo declared the K1 as an end [...]

   

• New Lunar Lander Self Terminates With Impressive Explosion

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  This video shows a next generation lunar lander experiment going horribly, horribly wrong. The Morpheus craft had just completed its 20th successful test when NASA decided to cut the rope and see what it could do. For seven seconds it took to the air, then it dipped to one side and crashed to the ground. One thing led to another and the experimental green fuel (methane and liquid oxygen) with which they were working ignited… [...]

   

• Claw Machines Are Actually Full of Carny Shenanigans

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  If you ever blew a fat stack of coins trying to win something out of a claw machine, you are definitely not alone. While I know of one person who could consistently pull prizes out of them (he had great hand-eye coordination and always went for lighter prizes), most people came to the realization that they were probably rigged and that playing them amounted to throwing away their money. It turns out that they were [...]

   

• Urbanana Concept Brings Quality Bananas to Urban Areas

  In Concept, Design, Technology

  

  Anyone who has ever lived in a tropical or sub-tropical region has probably had the pleasure of eating a decent banana. It is pretty hard to get anything other than the bland Cavendish variety anywhere else, but if the people behind the Urbanana concept have their way, that may change. Urbanana is a highly-automated vertical greenhouse that has been specifically designed for Paris. The greenhouse has a controlled climate and uses artificial lighting to maintain [...]

   

• 99$ Android based gaming console coming our way: OUYA!

  In Concept, Design, Gaming, Geeky, Technology, Toys

  

  I wish we had an “I can’t wait to get my sweaty hands on it” category to classify this one into. OUYA kickstarter company sees Nintendo’s upcoming WiiU, the Sony PS4 and the Microsoft XBOX 720, and raise them with a 99$ Android console. The real kicker though, isn’t so much that the startup has gathered over 3 million dollars in pledges in just over three days, or that they offer a 10.000$ pledge with [...]

   

• TP-Link WR1043ND vs D-Link DIR815 review

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  I’ve recently had a little fun with these two routers, the TP-Link WR1043ND and the D-Link DIR815. Both offer similar specifications except that the D-Link unit sports a Dual Band radio that can use 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz whereas the TP-Link ‘only’ sports the 2.4Ghz band, but the TP-Link has 4 LAN Gigabit ports and the D-Link’s 4 ports are only 10/100 (fast ethernet.) First round: Setup Initial setup is a breeze on both devices, I [...]

   

• Behold, an Expensive Energy Drink in a Self-chilling Can

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  West Coast Chill has a clever marketing gimmick on their hands with this self-chilling can – whatever is inside it could taste like week-old garbage water and people would buy it to try out the cooling mechanism. How does it work? You push a button on the underside of the can and wait 3-5 minutes for it to reach 30-degrees (Fahrenheit obviously) and drink it. If you have nothing better to do, you could watch [...]

   

• This Umbrella Will Charge Your Phone and Boost Its Signal [Booster Brolly]

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  Vodafone’s Booster Brolly is an umbrella that uses on-board solar cells and a micro antenna to charge your phone and boost its 3G signal. The umbrella, which is sadly just a prototype at the time of writing, is the result of a collaboration between Vodafone and University College London. There are 12 silicon solar cells integrated into the canopy; together they provide enough juice to run the signal booster, an LED flashlight and a USB [...]

   

• Wheelmate Laptop Steering Wheel Desk Let’s You Type and Drive Comfortably

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  I know, who’s going to update your power animals blog if you don’t?  And with a full-time job and a two hour commute, updating often gets overlooked.  Now you can blog, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pintrest, Fancy, Flickr, and check all your favorite sites comfortably all while sitting in rush-hour traffic with the new Wheelmate Laptop Steering Wheel Desk!  Whether on the go or sitting in the parking lot of the TJ Maxx where your ex [...]