holy_calamity writes “MIT and Georgia Tech researchers are teaching small robotic aircraft some impressive stunts. MIT’s RC plane’s can take off and land from vertical perches (video), while the Georgia Tech helicopter can land on slopes of up to sixty degrees, by flipping backwards into freefall as it lands (video).”
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Here’s a first: shooting dice made of keyboard keys. Though they may look cool, we can’t imagine actually trying to use them in a game. Click here for one more picture.
Slap on some simple rules and BAM, youÂ’ve got yourself a game. So the next time you come across a group of people shootinÂ’ dice […]
Master cardstacker Bryan Berg has built the world’s highest playing card skyscraper — stands 25-feet tall. Video after the break.
Bryan Berg, cardstacker extraordinaire, tries to take down his world-record setting card tower with a leafblower. But it’s made up of so many damn cards he barely puts a dent in it before the blower flames […]
The DOCKEY is a nicely engineered, small tech-accessory for those road-warriors with mini-USB devices. It replaces the ‘factory-supplied’ cable, allowing you to sync and charge a multitude of devices, including but not limited to the Blackberry, HTC, and many types of cellphones.
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Original post by Dave Rees
Oakley gives us an inside look at their R&D facility, located in Orange County, CA. They show just how durable their sunglasses are by shooting steel balls and dropping weighs on the lenses. Video after the break. Click here for first picture in gallery.
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holden writes “Ian Goldberg, leading security researcher, professor at the University of Waterloo, and co-creator of the Off-the-Record Messaging (OTR) protocol recently gave a talk on protecting your IM conversations. He discusses OTR and its importance in today’s world of warrant-less wire tapping. OTR users benefit from being able to have truly private conversations over […]
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union nations clinched a deal late on Friday to fund an ambitious satellite navigation project to rival the U.S. Global Positioning System using unspent cash from the EU budget, a presidency spokesman said.
Original post by Kevin Purdy
DECS writes “Last winter, RDM detailed why Microsoft’s iPod Killer would fail miserably. This year, the site argues, Microsoft will fail again, but for a new set of reasons. It is not obvious that the company has figured this out itself. ‘Microsoft doesn’t seem to learn from its mistakes in consumer electronics very well. When […]
ScentCone writes “The Telegraph covers a New Scientist report about two US cosmologists who suggest that, a la Schrodinger’s possibly unhappy cat, the act of observing certain facets of our universe may have shortened its life . From the article: ‘Prof Krauss says that the measurement of the light from supernovae in 1998, which provided […]
OK, so…we went on a little mission trying to find the LG Voyager this morning. It is practically sold out everywhere, and believe us when we mean everywhere! We literally called over 100 + Verizon Corporate stores looking for the phone just to see how it was selling, and if you’re still looking for one, […]
