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Lechal smart shoes use haptic feedback for navigation
Slash Gear - 25 Jul 2014 01:55
India is poised to be the launchpad for the proliferation of so-called smart shoes, with the company Ducere Technologies preparing to launch its new connected insoles and shoes called Lechal. With these products, wearers...
Poop-powered flamethrower can shoot out gigantic 30-foot flames
Gizmodo - 25 Jul 2014 02:21
This poop-powered flamethrower is like the old high school trick of using farts to light fireballs, only on a much more epic scale. The key to creating 30-foot flames from poop, apparently, is grinding the poop into a su...
Watch: Rob Zombie's French Revolution, for Assassin's Creed
Slash Gear - 25 Jul 2014 23:39
Teaming up with The Walking Dead co-creator Tony Moore, Rob Zombie and Ubisoft have created an animated short showing the brutality of the French Revolution. In support of Assassin's Creed: Unity, of course, this film is...
Game of Thrones blooper reel is more fun to watch than the actual show
Gizmodo - 25 Jul 2014 23:40
Sometimes you just need a good laugh after you watch Game of Thrones. You need to see Lannisters act goofy and White Walkers fall off their horses and see beautiful actors screw up their lines. Here's the blooper reel fo...
English giant fart machine is so loud they heard it in France
Gizmodo - 25 Jul 2014 22:50
Well, he did it! That crazy genius of Colin Furze did it. The biggest fart machine ever created was a resounding success: He fired the giant butt at France from Dover, England, and it was reportedly heard across the Engl...
Android Wear app lets you control a Tesla Model S
Slash Gear - 25 Jul 2014 22:30
Android Wear represents a new frontier for mobile, just as Tesla Motors represents a new direction for automobiles. If you've got one of each, a new app will let you control much of your Model S features right from your ...
Microsoft unleashes 'Settlers of Catan' on the web
Engadget - 25 Jul 2014 23:38
Microsoft has something of an extracurricular activity: When it's not releasing Office for iPad or updating Windows, it has a habit of helping other companies build websites. Its latest project is a web version of Settle...
Raspberry Pi Temperature Controller
The Gadget Flow - 25 Jul 2014 07:00
This is a Rapberry Pi plate that allows controlling and logging temperature. This is a board(plate in Raspberry Pi language) that allows reading the temperature through a thermocouple sensor and controlling 2 external lo...
Missile launch looks like hilarious fail until you see what happens next
Gizmodo - 25 Jul 2014 06:38
When I started to watch this video I thought "oh, that's funny, a failed missile launch." Obviously, it didn't fail at all. That's exactly how the nuclear-capable anti-submarine missile RPK-2 Viyuga is launched: Just thr...
Wet Computing Could Put a Terabyte in a Tablespoon
Gizmodo - 25 Jul 2014 00:00
We live in a world of physical computing. Solids and silicon store all our tweets, texts, and selfies, but what if the traditional ways of computing underwent a phase change?
There Are Officially Too Many Apps, And Nobody Is Making Money
Gizmodo - 25 Jul 2014 23:30
The new American Dream was going so well: drop out, make an app for sending emojis that disappear after 5 seconds, and collect your check. But it turns out the app gold rush is broken for almost everyone.
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Gizmodo - 25 Jul 2014 23:24
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Google Translate is enlisting the help of the 'Community'
Slash Gear - 25 Jul 2014 23:15
If you've used Google Translate, you know things sometimes get lost in translation. It's sometimes hard to know just what may work linguistically, so Google has created a Translate Community page to enlist your help. You...
Lightning can be heard halfway around the world via radio
Gizmodo - 25 Jul 2014 23:00
Lightning, as we know, is an awesome burst of energy. When lightning strikes, some of that energy can be converted into radio waves that then zip through space along Earth's magnetic field, so that lightning in Alaska ca...
Verizon to start throttling data on unlimited LTE plans
Engadget - 25 Jul 2014 22:49
Out of the many trappings US carriers have in common, throttling speeds for heavy data users is certainly one of them. So, accordingly, it's not surprising for Verizon to confirm reports that it will soon start slowing t...
Windows Phone charged by Apple - and Potato
Slash Gear - 25 Jul 2014 22:36
The world's largest battery has been made using "Organic Charging" - made out of copper wiring, nails, apples, and potatoes. You'll see a Nokia Lumia 930 in white as well as a Nokia Wireless Charger attached to a rigged-...
Airplane passenger captures cool shot of lightning striking the ground
Gizmodo - 25 Jul 2014 22:35
Gina Hyams was in a Southwest airliner circling the Denver airport when she captured this beautiful shot of a pink lightning striking the fields of Colorado surrounded by rain.
How 3D Printing Is Making Better Movie Monsters
Gizmodo - 25 Jul 2014 22:21
Cinematic special effects have come a long way since Jason and the Argonauts. What once required dedicated and labor-intensive filming sessions can now easily be generated in near-lifelike quality by modern CGI. But Luma...
These Scarves Are Printed With the Outlines of Cities Aglow at Night
Gizmodo - 25 Jul 2014 22:20
We've all seen the glowing fingerprints of cities after dark: Manhattan as an orderly grid, London a sprawling mess bisected by the winding Thames, the ring of Paris's arrondissements. The patterns are recognizable but a...
The Nenrin Mini Healing Speaker will improve your health, but deplete your wallet
Coolest Gadgets - 25 Jul 2014 22:14
Some sound can be therapeutic for us, while others can drive us insane. For example, would you rather listen to a dripping faucet or a cat purring? Music is what we choose to listen to most often, and there are a myriad ...
Declassified: The Government's Secret Plan For a Military Moon Base
Gizmodo - 25 Jul 2014 21:52
More than 50 years ago, before man had ever stepped foot on the moon, the U.S. government hatched a plan whose ambitions were exceeded only by its total unfeasibility: A secret, self-sustaining, Soviet-shaming military m...
SpaceX's Elon Musk wants to visit 'fixer upper planet' Mars
Slash Gear - 25 Jul 2014 21:45
Now that NASA has shuttered their own shuttle program, and Russia is being Russia again, how are we going to get to space? One popular option is SpaceX, which is currently testing re-usable rockets. Currently unmanned, S...