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Zen Advanced Key Organiser
The Gadget Flow - 22 Jan 2015 08:59
Zen Advanced is a light weight, customisable, multi-function key organiser. With the philosophy of "Do more with less" our goal with Zen Advanced was to integrate useful everyday features and tools into one easy to use p...
Man Who Claimed to Be The Inventor of the Jetpack Dies
Gizmodo - 22 Jan 2015 02:35
Justin Capra, a Romanian inventor who claimed to have invented the first functional jetpack, died on Monday at the age of 81. Capra used to say that he built his jetpack in 1956, well before Bell Aerosystems' 1961 unteth...
EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 SuperSC Review with Benchmarks
Slash Gear - 22 Jan 2015 16:01
This week NVIDIA brings heat with the GTX 960 graphics card family. The unit we're having a peek at today is an EVGA GeForce GTX 960 SuperSC, working with clock speeds of 1279MHz Base and 1342MHz Boost, a brand new set o...
Twitter's "While You Were Away" feature arrives for all
Slash Gear - 22 Jan 2015 05:28
If you follow a lot of people on Twitter, keeping up with all of the tweets can be hard, particularly if you take a small break from browsing them. At the beginning of this month, Twitter began slowly introducing a featu...
Japanese craftsman creates perfect sci-fi ship replicas using just paper
Gizmodo - 22 Jan 2015 02:15
This is one of the most amazing craftsmen I have ever seen. He doesn't only make the exterior of his sci-fi ships using just paper but also the guts! The level of detail is amazing--some look like perfect resin models bu...
Microsoft HoloLens will take NASA scientists to Mars -- virtually
Slash Gear - 22 Jan 2015 01:45
Microsoft's HoloLens is a pretty neat concept, and already showing a lot of promise. Via a headset and virtual environment, we'd be able to do all kinds of things like assemble or design something to be 3D printed, and i...
How NASA Plans to Explore Mars With Microsoft's Holographic Goggles
Gizmodo - 22 Jan 2015 00:35
During Microsoft's demo of its fascinating holographic headset HoloLens today, the company barely mentioned the coolest way it's already using it: to develop software with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory that will let s...
Use Ratings Preview For Smarter YouTube Browsing
Gizmodo - 22 Jan 2015 23:55
There's an awful lot of content out there on YouTube and sorting the wheat from the chaff can be a serious undertaking. One way of making your video browsing smarter is to install the unofficial Ratings Preview extension...
Apple apparently hasn't solved the smartwatch battery life problem
Engadget - 22 Jan 2015 23:53
Everyone has been waiting hear just how long Apple's smartwatch will last on a charge. Well, we'll have to wait for confirmation, but current rumors don't suggest there's any reason to believe that Cupertino has solved t...
VW, BMW & ChargePoint to build electric vehicle charging stations
Slash Gear - 22 Jan 2015 23:39
Now that most major auto manufacturers are producing electric cars, we can look to the next phase of the plan: infrastructure. Save for Tesla, we've not heard too much about charging stations implemented in a big way. To...
Dealmaster: Get a Lenovo Z50 laptop for almost 50% off!
Ars Technica - 22 Jan 2015 23:30
Get a Core i7-powered laptop for just $599!
Amazon will stream 'Transparent' for free this Saturday
Engadget - 22 Jan 2015 23:18
Fresh off its two Golden Globe wins, Amazon is streaming all ten episodes of its Transparent original series for free this weekend. Starting at 12:01AM ET until 11:59PM PT Saturday, you can watch via Amazon's Instant Vid...
Barrett Brown Will Spend 5 Years In Jail Hacking-Related Offenses
Gizmodo - 22 Jan 2015 23:07
A federal judge just sentenced journalist Barrett Brown to 63 months in prison and ordered him to pay nearly $890,000 in restitution for charges related to the 2011 hack of Stratfor Global Intelligence. Brown's supporter...
Office 2016 will hit desktops later this year
Engadget - 22 Jan 2015 22:41
At its Windows 10 event yesterday, Microsoft spent some time showing off how its universal apps would provide a similar experience across devices. Office was certainly part of that conversation, and today, the folks in R...
Report: The Apple Watch Will Only Last 2.5 Hours With "Heavy" Use
Gizmodo - 22 Jan 2015 22:36
We've heard rumors for some time that Apple's been less than pleased with the purported battery life of its upcoming Apple Watch. And now, it looks as though it has plenty of reason to be worried. According to a new repo...
Where Have All the Google Play Edition Devices Gone?
Gizmodo - 22 Jan 2015 22:17
This week, Google polished off the last remaining Google Play edition smartphone in its online store, The HTC One (M8). The device has been scrubbed from the "devices" main page, but you can pull up the smartphone with a...
Internet activist Barrett Brown sentenced to five years in prison
Engadget - 22 Jan 2015 22:03
After already having served 28 months in detention, U.S. District Judge Sam Lindsay has sentenced journalist and supposed Anonymous spokesperson Barrett Brown to five years behind bars for acting as an accessory after th...
Frill Shark "living fossil" found alive in Australia
Slash Gear - 22 Jan 2015 22:01
It's time again to cover your kids' eyes and make certain you don't have a heart condition, because the animal you're about to see is terrifying. This is the Chlamydoselachus anguineus, or "Frilled Shark", so named for i...
Verizon CFO: carrier is a 'leader', won't follow T-Mobile's data sharing
Slash Gear - 22 Jan 2015 21:56
T-Mobile's data rollover plan is -- well, it's awesome. Quickly, AT&T followed suit with their own limited scheme, but T-Mobile is the champion of data rollover, plain and simple. Verizon is the king of carriers here int...
Show Us Your Handwriting
Gizmodo - 22 Jan 2015 21:47
For most of us, typing supplanted the pen and pencil years ago--nowadays, anything longer than a thank you note feels odd to write on real paper. Sadly, the keyboard is taking the great, weird eccentricities of handwriti...
Aaaand Windows RT is dead.
Gizmodo - 22 Jan 2015 21:35
Aaaand Windows RT is dead. Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 10 won't be coming to either of the Surfaces that run RT, though an update that offers some of the features will. It's Windows Phone 7 all over again. But h...
HTC One M9 pics, specs leaked anew; more power, megapixels [Update]
Slash Gear - 22 Jan 2015 21:33
The incoming HTC One flagship -- which we all assume is the One M9 by name -- is seeing leaks spread around the web of late. Today is no different, and we're now getting a pretty good look at what the next HTC flagship m...