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Darth Vader Inspired Watch
The Gadget Flow - 22 Sep 2015 08:02
It’s your chance to explore a new force in the world of watches with this Darth Vader Inspired Watch. With 350 individual parts, 4 time belts, 4 microstep motors and 313 electrical contacts, this makes a power-packed t...
'Hoverboard' is a self-balancing one-wheel skateboard
Slash Gear - 22 Sep 2015 23:15
A new skateboard-like vehicle has been introduced, this one simply called "Hoverboard". Before you get too excited, know this -- it, like other "hoverboards", doesn't levitate. It does, however, move a bit like we imagin...
Volkswagen readies $7.4bn fund to cover 11m car diesel cheat
Slash Gear - 22 Sep 2015 16:43
Volkswagen's emission woes continue, with the company conceding that its diesel dodge impacts 11 million cars worldwide. In a statement today, the automaker revealed that cars - including those under its own badge, and s...
Welcome - Home Security Camera with Face Recognition by Netatmo
The Gadget Flow - 22 Sep 2015 08:01
Smart home gadgets are the new way of protecting your indoor life and Welcome by Netatmo is another example of excellence from that sector. It is a revolutionary smart home security camera that has been designed with fac...
India backtracks on making you store secure chats in plain text
Engadget - 22 Sep 2015 23:15
The Indian government has a history of freaking out over internet security only to tone things down later on, and it's not about to stop this pattern any time soon. Officials have withdrawn the draft of an encryption pol...
NASA says new wing design proves successful in wind tunnel
Slash Gear - 22 Sep 2015 20:05
Researchers from two different NASA aeronautics centers teamed up to study and confirm that an old, unused wing design could help future aircrafts be much more efficient. The wing configuration, based on designs from the...
Wire Fruit Bowl by Block
The Gadget Flow - 22 Sep 2015 08:00
Single piece of steel wire goes behind the making of this outstanding Wire Fruit Bowl by Block. The design is undoubtedly innovative and perfect to showcase your collection of fruits on the tabletop. It's functional as w...
Scenelapse - 360° Time Lapse Camera Device For Your GoPro
The Gadget Flow - 22 Sep 2015 08:00
If you're into shooting panorama views and video shots pretty often with your GoPro, the Scenelapse can be a wonderful accessory for you. It is a rotating time-lapse device which can spin up to 360-degree in 60 minutes. ...
Wink owner Quirky files for bankruptcy, IoT platform up for sale
Slash Gear - 22 Sep 2015 18:11
Quirky, the parent company of smart home/internet of things (IoT) platform Wink, has just announced a filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy following ongoing debt and other financial troubles. The corporate announcement, shar...
VW woes worsen: EPA widens investigation, US starts criminal probe
Slash Gear - 22 Sep 2015 04:23
They say when it rains, it pours and for Volkswagen, that might be a lot more than a downpour. It is hardly surprising to see how the German car maker's problems with its TDI turbodiesel engine aren't ending with just an...
Gawker Lawsuit: Scumbag Pill Price Gouger Stalked and Harassed Ex-Coworker's Entire Family | io9 A H
Gizmodo - 22 Sep 2015 23:56
Gawker Lawsuit: Scumbag Pill Price Gouger Stalked and Harassed Ex-Coworker's Entire Family | io9 A Hundred Years After This Man's Death Scientists Confirmed He Was Murdered | Jalopnik Your Guide To Dieselgate: Volkswagen...
Instagram monthly active users hits 400-million
Slash Gear - 22 Sep 2015 23:50
The team at Instagram have announced that they're now working with more than 400-million monthly active users. Up from 300-million monthly active users nine months ago, Instagram appears to be growing at an increasingly ...
We Could Have Discovered Climate Change As Early As the 1940s if We Had Just Looked
Gizmodo - 22 Sep 2015 23:35
The signs of global warming are hitting us over the head today -- if you'll remember, the fire and drought -ridden summer of 2015 was the also hottest in recorded history -- but how long has our planet actually been feel...
Star Wars Episode VII Tie Fighter BT Speaker looks menacing
Coolest Gadgets - 22 Sep 2015 23:00
We have seen our fair share of Bluetooth speakers with a Star Wars theme before, such as this Stormtrooper Bluetooth speaker, and all of them happen to be crafted from decent materials and offer performance that would ke...
Arctic Dinosaurs Discovered in Icy "Lost World"
Slash Gear - 22 Sep 2015 22:53
While paleontology is done in warm climates today, some of the most interesting dinosaur bones reside northward, in the Arctic. In the Prince Creek Formation of Alaska, a team of researchers has discovered a sort of "los...
NASA co-developing astroid-shooting space shotgun
Slash Gear - 22 Sep 2015 16:00
The idea of guns that can operate in space may sound like a ludicrous sci-fi fantasy, but once NASA gets involved, it all becomes legitimate experimental research. It has been revealed that the space agency is working wi...
Entry-level Lumia 550 could have an iris scanner
Slash Gear - 22 Sep 2015 12:30
Lumia smartphones are like Samsung smartphones. They are a dime a dozen, covering a wide range of hardware specs and prices. While the mobile worlds still awaits the promised high-end Windows 10 Mobile devices that will ...
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument will 3D map the universe
Engadget - 22 Sep 2015 09:02
The quest to better understand our known universe took a step in the right direction today with the U.S. Department of Energy approving "Critical Decision 2," authorizing the building of components for the Dark Energy Sp...
Google asks academia to help advance Cardboard VR research
Engadget - 22 Sep 2015 08:04
Google announced its Cardboard VR headset basically as an afterthought at the end of its 2014 I/O conference, but since then the platform's grown into a viable means of experiencing virtual reality. Much like its peers h...
Playdate: Racing into action with 'Skylanders Superchargers'
Engadget - 22 Sep 2015 23:30
If you have an undying love of weird monsters, action-adventure video games, expensive collectible toys and wacky vehicles, you've come to the right place: Tim Seppala and I are about to play Skylanders Superchargers. Th...
1TB PS4 lands in the US, but it's in an ugly 'Black Ops 3' bundle
Engadget - 22 Sep 2015 22:55
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but orange and grey is so last season, every season. The 1TB PlayStation 4 officially arrives in North America on November 6th in a specially designed Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 bundl...
The history of the treadmill reveals that it was basically a torture device
Gizmodo - 22 Sep 2015 22:39
The treadmill is a time stopping torture machine that was made to remind us all of how we'll never be in as good a shape as we want to be and how we'll never be even half way good at estimating how many minutes have pass...