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3DRudder Feet-Controlled 3D Controller
The Gadget Flow - 12 Dec 2014 08:59
Price: $130 The 3DRudder is a revolutionary feet-controlled 3D navigation and motion controller. The device is used while seated, all the user has to do is simply rest their feet on it. To move forward the user tilts the...
Magic ultrasonic cutting machine perfectly slices sandwiches in half
Gizmodo - 12 Dec 2014 07:14
It never occurred to me to wonder who or what cuts those soul crushing pre-packaged sandwiches that I always find myself eating at an airport, but now I know: it's one of these magic machines. The cutting arm seeks out w...
NASA Has Some Beautiful New Maps Of Saturn's Moons
Gizmodo - 12 Dec 2014 05:32
Back in the 1980s, NASA's Voyager spacecraft made a brief flyby of Saturn's moons, providing us with a tantalising glimpse of new worlds. Now, the Cassini mission has finished the job, providing us with high-resolution, ...
The Pentagon's New Non-Lethal Mortars Seem Like a Very Good Idea
Gizmodo - 12 Dec 2014 00:52
An estimated 174,000 civilians have died in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Who knows how many of these casualties could have been prevented if the United States and its allies were using deadly weapons, especially in den...
The Fineck is a necklace activity tracker this is all fun and games
Coolest Gadgets - 12 Dec 2014 23:30
We always talk about how we want to go get a massage, but it takes a year or two and measurable pain to make us go through with it. Our posture from using our phones, sitting at desks for hours on end, and sitting in a c...
Miniature trip around the world makes me want to leave this town at once
Gizmodo - 12 Dec 2014 23:16
Watch this excellent video that New Zealand-based production house Cirkus made for Airbnb. The detail and aesthetics are worthy of a Henry Selick movie or one of those precious vignettes from a Wes Anderson movie. 60 sec...
You Can Now Be Identified By Your Shaky Camera Footage
Gizmodo - 12 Dec 2014 17:38
You might want to think twice before illegally filming the next concert you go to--at least using a body-worn GoPro or Google Glass. Even if we don't realize it, we all move in our own unique way. It's like a fingerprint...
Steam auction on hold after users find exploit, pilfer online currency
Engadget - 12 Dec 2014 14:31
Valve's Steam Holiday Auction was supposed to bring users together to swap community items and bid on games, but things seem to have gone horribly wrong. The idea was to acquire Steam "gems" by trading cards and other ob...
Researchers Will Be Allowed to Study Police Body Camera Footage
Gizmodo - 12 Dec 2014 14:30
Earlier this week, President Obama proposed $263 million to improve law enforcement, including $75 million for a Body Worn Cameras Partnership . Now, it's been announced that university researchers will be provided acces...
Weber
The Gadget Flow - 12 Dec 2014 08:59
Price: $25 Magnetic Decanter Dryer dries and polishes the insides of wine decanter, carafes and vases. Spot-Not decanter dryers consist of two main parts: an absorbent cloth that is inserted into the decanter and a dryin...
The Apple Store will now let you buy stuff online with PayPal in the US and the UK.
Gizmodo - 12 Dec 2014 06:26
The Apple Store will now let you buy stuff online with PayPal in the US and the UK. Along with the new payment option, Apple is also promoting PayPal Credit, which lets you pay for that shiny new MacBook in interest-free...
Seeing speed climbers shoot up a wall is like seeing Spiderman
Gizmodo - 12 Dec 2014 02:58
The guy on the left set a new world speed climbing record, scaling the wall in about 5.6 seconds. His name is Danyl Boldyrev and he's from the Ukraine but I'm pretty sure that's Peter Parker on steroids. I mean he basica...
FCC approves $1.5 billion funding increase to upgrade school broadband
Engadget - 12 Dec 2014 23:46
Schools depending on the FCC's E-Rate program to update their internet infrastructures are about to get a little more help: the Federal Communications Commission just gave the program an additional $1.5 billion in fundin...
Wearable Air Quality Sensors Could Help Us All Breathe Easier
Gizmodo - 12 Dec 2014 23:35
Imagine if you could locate the healthiest route for your afternoon jog, the fresh airiest one that would keep you from breathing the pollutants that cars barf out into the atmosphere. It might change every day as these ...
7 Stoney Gifts for the Cannabis Connoisseur
Gizmodo - 12 Dec 2014 23:20
Now that weed is legal in two states and medically acceptable in 18 others, gifting Doritos and Visine to the stoner in your life isn't nearly as clever as it was back in 2004. Here are seven presents that are worth thei...
The Big Picture: Galactic collision provides amazing X-ray light show
Engadget - 12 Dec 2014 23:01
'Tis the season for holiday light shows, and two galaxies about 130 million light years from Earth got together to put on a display of their own. NGC 2207 and IC 2163, both part of the constellation Canis Major (the Grea...
You don't want a Facebook Dislike button
Slash Gear - 12 Dec 2014 22:53Harrison Ford Says Blade Runner 2 Script Is Best Thing He's Ever Read
Gizmodo - 12 Dec 2014 22:50
Get excited! Director Ridley Scott recently told MTV that Harrison Ford absolutely loves the script for the upcoming Blade Runner sequel. So much so that Ford apparently called it the best thing he's ever read. Let's hop...
Rumor: Chromebooks are about to get bigger
Slash Gear - 12 Dec 2014 22:39
We see a lot of leaked info pass through our hands, but not too much of it is Chrome OS related. Despite outpacing the PC, Chromebooks go relatively unnoticed until launch. The latest rumor is that Chromebooks will get a...
Inside the Vast Tunnels of Europe's Biggest Infrastructure Project
Gizmodo - 12 Dec 2014 22:30
It's a vast understatement to say that Crossrail, London's newest subway line, is big. It's massive: 23 miles of huge tunnels below an ancient city, dug by a team of 10,000 workers, to form the city's biggest transit pro...
Here's what our readers are saying about the Moto 360
Engadget - 12 Dec 2014 22:15
When Android Wear was announced back in March, we asked our readers in a poll which of the first two launch devices they wanted: the Moto 360 or the LG G Watch. The Moto 360 won hands down, by a three-to-one ratio. That ...
Another Torrent Site Has Resurrected the Pirate Bay
Gizmodo - 12 Dec 2014 22:10
The popular torrent site Isohunt just launched a new fully functional website--oldpiratebay.org-- that lets you search through the Pirate Bay archives. This is a little bit silly, since Pirate Bay's archives have been pu...