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• Video: Meet A Flying Kinect Quadrocopter
• CrunchGear Week in Review: Training Edition
• RED’s Scarlet Becomes The “Epic Light”
• The Second Day of Festivus Contest: Airing of Grievances
• Five Snack Hacks That Repurpose Empty Potato Chip Bags

Video: Meet A Flying Kinect Quadrocopter Posted: 06 Dec 2010 05:25 AM PST The video is titled, “Quadrotor Autonomous Flight and Obstacle Avoidance with Kinect Sensor” but it really should be called, “Human enslavement drone gen1.” Autonomously moving around a predetermined track and using the Kinect as a 3D radar to track and avoid objects is already complete. Weaponizing is likely in the works for the next implementation, followed by self-replication and swarm intelligence. This kicks the pants off the Kinect shadow puppets hack. [via Engadget]

CrunchGear Week in Review: Training Edition Posted: 06 Dec 2010 12:00 AM PST Here are some of last week’s stories on CrunchGear: Five Days of Festivus Contest: Win $500 To Spend On Presents TDK's Retro-Futuristic Boomboxes Look Sweet Gift Guide: The 10 Worst Toys Of The Season If This Model Train Was Much Bigger, They'd Just Call It A Train Nooka's Zub Zayu, Another Tasteful Abstact Wristwatch Five Snack Hacks That Repurpose Empty Potato Chip Bags

RED’s Scarlet Becomes The “Epic Light” Posted: 05 Dec 2010 01:45 PM PST If there was anyone out there still convinced that RED’s Scarlet was still some sort of prosumer/enthusiast camera, this should kill that notion. Jim Jannard has said in the Reduser.net forums that for their most humble camera offering, “the features have changed as has the price. I’ll update in the next two weeks.” It’s now the “Epic Light,” which reflects that it’s really just a compact and differently-spec’ed version of their new digital cinema camera. Just thought you should know.

The Second Day of Festivus Contest: Airing of Grievances Posted: 05 Dec 2010 09:01 AM PST Today is the second day of Festivus during which we will air our grievances. To recap, your in this to win a $500 gift card from Wishpond, a local shopping search system. Yesterday we learned how to put up our Festivus Pole and today we’re going to whine. Today’s task is to air your grievances against the world in general in an email to contest @ crunchgear dot com. Include “Festivus #2″ in the subject. You must complain about something. You can complain about this site or maybe you can complain about HALO: Reach or whatever you want. Just complain. Empty emails will be deleted. Good luck! Remember you must participate in every challenge every day to win.

Five Snack Hacks That Repurpose Empty Potato Chip Bags Posted: 05 Dec 2010 06:07 AM PST By potatochipscience.com You can learn how to make all of these things and more in Allen Kurzweil’s new book, Potato Chip Science. Frito-Lay's recent decision to curtail production of its deafeningly crinkly biocompostable Sun Chips bag is a blow to environmentalists, who estimate that more than a trillion square inches of snack packaging (enough for the Christos to wrap all of Singapore) end up in American landfills each year. In response to this setback, PotatoChipScience.com, a website devoted to eco-friendly snack hacks, has posted a slideshow that let's folks repurpose empty chip bags before they reach the dump. The Chipmobile. This eco-friendly racer (which comes fully loaded with pipe-cleaner struts, bendy-straw exhaust, chip lid wheels and chip bag rims) is powered by a renewable energy sources–your breath. The driver is sporting a chip foil foulard and matching foil goggles. Bag Blaster. All rockets–whether destined for the moon or the kitchen ceiling–are subject to the physical forces of thrust, drag and weight. You can confirm these basic properties of aerodynamics with little more than two empty chip bags (one for the launch pad, the other to rocket), some tape, and a bendy straw. Compass. Feeling lost? One small square of potato chip bag, a chip lid, magnetized needle, and two ounces of water can point you in the right direction. The Electric Wave. Reusing an empty potato chip bag (plus a pair scissors, a balloon and a head of hair) can be positively–and negatively–electrifying! The Hydrofoil. One drop of dish soap is all you need to give this chip ship zip. Why? Because detergent punctures the water’s invisible “skin” and that, in turn, triggers enough of a molecular wave to push the bag boat forward. Chip Bag Kite. Two wooden coffee stirrers, some double-sided sticky tape, kite string and an empty potato chip bag are all you need to confirm Bernoulli’s Principle and Newton’s Third Law of Motion.

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