Amongst the awesome technology on Russian tycoon Roman Abramovic’s 557-ft Eclipse is an anti-photo shield that is designed to thwart attempts to capture his billion dollar baby on CCD.
The system detects the CCDs in digital cameras and fires off infrared lasers to render paparazzi camera rigs useless; film cameras should be fine though. Aside [...]

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Wayne Eyre built this monstrous shipwrecked submarine-themed home theater, complete with “plutonium leaking torpedoes” on a budget of about NZD$100,000.

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Here’s a newsflash, Blu-ray looks awesome, really it does, it looks incredible. Don’t get me wrong, it really has to be a new release that was shot for high definition, or the results will be underwhelming, but the right title will look spectacular on a good TV, even from the cheapest player on the market.
Which [...]

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This steel version of Velcro is called Metaklett and it does some amazing stuff. Joining the “springy brush” strips with the “jagged spike” strips will allow you to support up to 35 tons at temperatures of up to 1472 degrees; great if you need to patch up a space shuttle for re-entry or hold a [...]

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IBM has filed a patent for a remote that will let all your Twitter followers and Facebook friends know what you are watching through automatic status updates. One gets the impression that there will be so many cats let out of the bag that no one will care what anyone watches anymore.
Do we really [...]

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