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- One Can Of A Vague Sense Of Unease, Please
- Bondi Digital Unveils Eye-Popping Playboy HDD
- Microsoft Have A Touchscreen Keyboard In The Works
- MyGene Testing Allows People To Discover Their Potential
- NASA Rolls Out High Tech Space Plane For Vague Reasons
- T-Mobile UK To Offer Subsidized iPad
- US Government Seizes BitTorrent Sites
- Windows Phone 7 Jailbreak, Microsoft Responds
- Pirate Bay Appeal Lost, Founders Get 6.5 Million Fine And Jail Time
- Designer Finds Way To End Scourge Of Pigeon Poop
- Russia Vows To Terminate Space Trash
| One Can Of A Vague Sense Of Unease, Please Posted: 27 Nov 2010 10:00 AM PST If you’re the type who wants a little more cheek in canned goods and other household items, then better shop at Hoxton Monster Supply one of these days.
We’re not exactly sure what the above tastes like—or if there’s anything inside it at all-but the entire effect and old world charm (say, late nineteenth century) has us in stitches. Apparently these fear themed cans have a dozen odd variants, each describing that most loathsome emotion with a clever selection of words and phrases long unused today. A Vague Sense of Unease? Right. If you want a broader selection of gastronomic shockers, go to this Flickr page for a look at what else is on the shelves at Huxton. The pickled jars are a scream—Maiden’s Hair? We’d love to have a few of these lying around the house even if we’d never actually put the ontens in our lunch sandwich. (But who knows? Maybe.) But strange canned goods and gross pickled stuff is not all that’s on sale at Huxton. The geek-at-heart can marvel at their online selection of novelty edibles like (our favorite) zombie fresh mints, thickest human snot jam, and old-fashioned rain jam for the gross-minded. You might also want to purchase a wrench for neck bolts. For Frankenstein. Via Jkr This is a post from Geeky Gadgets, who bring you the latest Gadgets and Technology News. |
| Bondi Digital Unveils Eye-Popping Playboy HDD Posted: 27 Nov 2010 09:45 AM PST Not just an HDD bearing the iconic bunny logo, but a digital archive of every Playboy magazine published since 1953.
We. Are. Not. Kidding. Every single issue of Playboy since day dot. Not only does this appeal to lad mag devotees out there but all red-blooded males (and open-minded females) with a sense of history as well. It’s Playboy, people, and Bondi Digital just threw each issue inside a special 250gb hard disk drive. Considering its awesome bonus content, this hard drive deserves a special place in your, er, collection—of hard drives. Yes, don’t you collect hard drives like we do? Alas, a good thing must always have a catch. The catch here is it costs $300 and if you live outside the US someone else has gotta mail it to you. That someone else could be a trusty relative, but they might keep this for themselves, which is plain terrible. If you cannot trust your fellow man, we suggest getting in touch with an aunt or a distant trustworthy friend-of-a-friend. They might be more understanding and less scheming. Then again, they might also get their hands on this, be offended for one reason or other, and throw it away. Or maybe give it to their husband or nephew. But of course, we know you won’t give up if you really want to own one. Via Reghardware This is a post from Geeky Gadgets, who bring you the latest Gadgets and Technology News. |
| Microsoft Have A Touchscreen Keyboard In The Works Posted: 27 Nov 2010 09:12 AM PST Reports have confirmed Microsoft’s quest for the ultimate touchscreen keyboard thanks to a November 25 patent application. Unlike Acer, Nokia, and a bunch of others who’ve tried, Microsoft intends to create a newfangled typing interface that actually has texture. Tall order, you say?
While the technology won’t be applied on laptops and handheld devices, Microsoft’s newest patent is expected to be a game-changer once it comes to life in the near future. How does it work? It’s all a matter of pixel sized shape-memory plastic. Activated by UV light, which has cells underneath the touchscreen they rest on, the shape-memory plastic is arranged in a grid pattern. When ready for use, they “stick out” like a hologram, begging to be poked. This innovation is expected to alter the current practice of touch sensitive controls. Rather than contort our fingers, shape-memory plastic allows us to manipulate physical (or near physical) controls by giving us the merest sensation of familiar keyboard contours. But the big question remains whether, contrary to Mirosoft’s plans, a similar technology will bless handhed devices soon. It’s just such an obvious marriage of convenience. Imagine your tablet embedded with one. For some people, typing on a tablet these days is rather, uh, tedious. Think of that tedium gone once there’s a UV-activated keyboard right at your fingertips. Via Dvice This is a post from Geeky Gadgets, who bring you the latest Gadgets and Technology News. |
| MyGene Testing Allows People To Discover Their Potential Posted: 27 Nov 2010 09:05 AM PST Do you know your true self? Are you capable of extraordinary athletic feats? No? Maybe? Then quick, get tissue sample from the side of your mouth and mail it to MyGene’s Sports Gene Test.
What the Australian lab does is run the Sports Gene Test, which analyzes 18 gene variants for exercise and fitness information. What for? To map out your overall prowess as an athlete/would-be athlete. MyGene wants to use its research for the benefit of the sporting community so that serious sportsmen will know what they’re good at and where they come short. But due to the controversy surrounding gene testing the service is only open to people 18 years old and above. So please don’t send your kid’s DNA sample expecting news that he/she is a genius or a superb physical specimen. (Isn’t this oddly reminiscent of that movie Gattaca?) Even the head honcho scientist at MyGene sets the same boundaries: “We don’t feel 100 per cent comfortable with the potential for a child to be discriminated against based on their genotype.” To keep their research neutral and protect the customer’s dignity, MyGene makes sure it works with anonymous submissions. Don’t send them your name and biographical info; all they need is an address to mail back their findings. Via Dvice This is a post from Geeky Gadgets, who bring you the latest Gadgets and Technology News. |
| NASA Rolls Out High Tech Space Plane For Vague Reasons Posted: 27 Nov 2010 08:59 AM PST We run a significant number of space related stories here at Geeky Gadgets every month and for good reason: it’s the final frontier, right? Below is a story about NASA’s latest scramble for a working piece of equipment at a time when the agency isn’t as endowed with generous funding compared to previous administrations.
If you’ve been scrutinizing the pic above, rest assured those aren’t the Autobots racing down a desert highway to battle the evil Decepticons. Nuh-uh, it’s just a plain harmless convoy heading to the Mojave desert to unload its flying cargo according to NASA’s wishes. The two X-34s being trucked are pioneer robot aircraft developed throughout the 90s and successfully tested ten years ago, then zip. Nada. They were left in an Air Force hangar, from where they got moved to a bombing range until the present. So why are they being dusted off and brought back to NASA? Basically a lack of options: NASA badly needs a viable (and cheap) spacecraft for whatever future missions it has in mind. Said missions could be in sync with the growing space tourism industry which calls for light, compact aircraft that can re-enter the atmosphere without a hitch. If NASA plans on commercializing this hunk of barely used equipment, then godspeed to them. Let’s hope a decade of disuse hasn’t reduced the X34′s performance capabilities. Since this article is about fast high altitude aircraft, is anyone thinking of Kenny Loggins’ “Dangerzone” from the Top Gun soundtrack? Via Gizmodo This is a post from Geeky Gadgets, who bring you the latest Gadgets and Technology News. |
| T-Mobile UK To Offer Subsidized iPad Posted: 26 Nov 2010 10:41 PM PST We have heard this week from a number of UK mobile phone operators that they will be offering a subsidized iPad with a monthly data plan in the UK. Orange, Three and Vodafone have all said that they will start to offer a cheaper iPad when you sign up to a monthly contract, now UK mobile operator T-Mobile has announced that they will be offering a subsidized iPad in the UK.
T-Mobile have been sending out emails to existing customers, letting them know that they will be able to purchase an iPad at a reduced price if they sign up to a monthly data contract. None of the four companies have as yet announce how much they will be selling the iPad for, and there are still no details on how much these monthly data plans will cost. The only company who has so far confirmed that it will not be offering a subsidized iPad in the UK is O2, we suspect they will be waiting for the launch of the iPad 2 before they announce this. via 9 to 5 Mac This is a post from Geeky Gadgets, who bring you the latest Gadgets and Technology News. |
| US Government Seizes BitTorrent Sites Posted: 26 Nov 2010 10:04 PM PST The US Government has seized a number of sites in the US related to copyright infringement, one of the sites seized is a BitTorrent search engine called torrent-finder.com. If you visit the site, you will see the following message (pictured below), which shows that the site has been seized by ICE and Homeland Security Investigations.
The seized site doesn’t host any torrent files, and has no torrent tracker, it also list no copyright works, unless someone searches for it, the site is in effect a search engine, similar to Google, albeit specifically for BitTorrent files. The owner of the site told the guys over at TorrentFreak what happened to the site when it was seized by the US Government. "My domain has been seized without any previous complaint or notice from any court!" "I firstly had DNS downtime. While I was contacting GoDaddy I noticed the DNS had changed. Godaddy had no idea what was going on and until now they do not understand the situation and they say it was totally from ICANN," A number of other sites were also seized in the crack down by the Department of Homeland Security. via Gizmodo This is a post from Geeky Gadgets, who bring you the latest Gadgets and Technology News. |
| Windows Phone 7 Jailbreak, Microsoft Responds Posted: 26 Nov 2010 09:33 PM PST Yesterday we told you about a new unlock tool for Windows Phone 7 called ChevronWP7, the tool lets Windows Phone 7 users load applications onto their smartphones without going through the Windows Phone 7 marketplace. Microsoft has now responded to the release of the tool, and as you would imagine, the response is very similar to that of Apple, when the first jailbreak tool was released for the Apple iPhone.
We anticipated that people would attempt to unlock the phones and explore the underlying operating system. We encourage people to use their Windows Phone as supplied by the manufacturer to ensure the best possible user experience. Attempting to unlock a device could void the warranty, disable phone functionality, interrupt access to Windows Phone 7 services or render the phone permanently unusable. There are not details as yet on whether Microsoft will attempt to block the unlock tool with a software update, although we suspect that Microsoft will be playing the same cat and mouse game with jailbreakers that Apple has with the iPhone for some time. via Gadget Venue This is a post from Geeky Gadgets, who bring you the latest Gadgets and Technology News. |
| Pirate Bay Appeal Lost, Founders Get 6.5 Million Fine And Jail Time Posted: 26 Nov 2010 09:09 PM PST The Pirate Bay has been appealing against the previous decision of the Swedish courts for some time now, yesterday the Pirate bay founders Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde, and Carl Lundström lost their appeal in the Swedish court of appeals, and the previous ruling had been upheld. The court decided to reduce the three Pirate Bay founders jail sentences, who were all given a 12 months sentence bay in April 2009, this has now been reduced to 10 months for Fredrik Neij, 8 months for Peter Sunde and 4 months for Carl Lundström.
The fine that the three founders face has now been increased from 30 million kronor to 46 million kronor, about $6.5 million, although as yet the ruling has had no effect on the Pirate Bay website which is still running as normal. Of course the MPA had something to say about this , here is a quote from Chris Marcich, President and Managing Director of the MPA Europe. "Now that a Swedish Court has declared the operators of The Pirate Bay guilty of copyright infringement for a second time, we hope the relevant authorities will take the appropriate action to ensure that The Pirate Bay ceases its illegal activities.” Some how we just can’t see it happening, The Pirate Bay will probably be around for quite a long time, and if they are ever shut down, more sites will spring up to take their place. via Gadgetsteria This is a post from Geeky Gadgets, who bring you the latest Gadgets and Technology News. |
| Designer Finds Way To End Scourge Of Pigeon Poop Posted: 26 Nov 2010 11:25 AM PST Pigeon poop. You ever got your coat, jacket, or hair splattered by the white stuff with bits of dark green? Gross, right? If Tuur Van Balen has his way, such ‘accidents’ will be a thing of the past thanks to a special kind of feeding he developed.
Van Balen’s plan involves building special shelters—not cages, but shelters—for pigeons to congregate in so they can be fed a substance that contains a super secret bacteria. What the bacteria is we don’t know, but what it does is hilarious—it turns the pigeon’s feces into sterile detergent. In Van Balen’s own words it’s “like yogurt for humans.” What van Balen’s invention does is erase the nuisance of pigeon feces in big cities, itself an immense feat of public service. Even better, with this newfangled bird poop citizens now have a free substance for window cleaning. Wunnerful! If it works spectacularly on the digestive system of pigeons we’re wondering if the same can be done with humans. Seriously, take babies for example. Babies doodie all over the place, spreading much grossness and dismay. Now what if they’re fed with Van Balen’s formula, effectively turning their diaper destroying discharges into, well, yogurt soap? Cool, huh? Besides, isn’t yogurt easier to clean than poop? Or how about us? As in regular adults. Maybe a commercialized human-friendly dish similar to Van Balen’s can finally rid us of smelly poop and noxious farts. Except for Peter Griffin, who likes ‘em anyway? Via Dvice This is a post from Geeky Gadgets, who bring you the latest Gadgets and Technology News. |
| Russia Vows To Terminate Space Trash Posted: 26 Nov 2010 11:15 AM PST With a $2 billion nuclear-powered pod that will orbit the Earth for 15 years and rid it of debris.
The project is an initiative of Russian space corporation Energia to reduce the potential for accidents/collisions in the dark yonder above earth. But this new project whose goal is to rid space of 600 pieces of man-made debris that threaten outbound space craft and working satellites won’t (literally) get off the ground until 2020. Energia expects it to start working by 2023 and continue for 15 years. While details are next to nil, Energia’s space clean up amitions will be realized by a “pod” whose sole task is knocking out large debris out of orbit onto a trajectory where they’ll burn up in the atmosphere. If they don’t, Energia has another solution in store: an interceptor to track and disrupt the course of debris that risk crashing into the earth. It’s ambitious stuff, especially the nuclear-powered part. Unlike NASA, which seems adrift at the moment, Russia once again has its sights set on casting a shadow across the Earth from outer space. While Energia’s plans are benign, some bloggers unwilling to let go of their Cold War misgivings have raised concerns about a dual role for these new spacecraft. You know, like knocking out “enemy” satellites? Via Gizmodo This is a post from Geeky Gadgets, who bring you the latest Gadgets and Technology News. |
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