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- Pro Tip: Fruit Roll-Ups Make Solid Flash Gels
- World’s First Flexible Microprocessor Made With Organic Semiconductors
- Sweet History Of QWERTY Poster With Dismantled Typewriter
- Clock Clock Is A Clock Of Clocks
- The Creditor Carbon Fiber Money Clip Knife Keeps Your Money Safe
- Nintendo 3DS Now Available In Japan
- Oh My God, OS X Lion Finally Lets Mac Users Resize Windows From Any Side
- Cool Video: Robot Teams Collaborating On Navigation And Targeting
- Cause And Effect: Xoom Causes Galaxy Tab To Drop Price
- Apple Patent Would Put Touch-Sensitive Buttons On MacBook Cases
- Hacked: Motorola Xoom Already Rooted
- Apple Shares Lion With Security Experts – This Should Be Good
- “HiDPI” Mode In OS X Lion Suggests Retina Desktop Displays Are Forthcoming
- Updated: Apple And The BBC To Co-Host iPad 2 Release Event?
- Consumer Reports Confirms Death Grip In Verizon iPhone
- Countdown To Next Call Of Duty Has Begun
- Digital Economy Act Critics Propose Plan B, Would Put Onus Back On Copyright Holders To Prove Guilt
- Battlefield 3 DLC Maps Confirmed: Wake Island Returns
- PS3 Hacker: The Only Way I’ll Stop Is If Sony Kills Me
- LIVE: Ask Me Anything About The Motorola Xoom, 12pm-1pm Eastern
| Pro Tip: Fruit Roll-Ups Make Solid Flash Gels Posted: 25 Feb 2011 07:40 PM PST
The lesson here isn’t really that Fruit Roll-Ups are awesome photography accessories, but that creativity doesn’t end in the composition or post-work. A photographer should be ready to improvise, use what they’ve got, put himself and his camera at risk if it means getting the shot. It’s for this reason that I dislike studio photography and big setups. I think there are control issues going on there.
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| World’s First Flexible Microprocessor Made With Organic Semiconductors Posted: 25 Feb 2011 07:15 PM PST
This week at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, European researchers showed off the world's first flexible microprocessor made with organic semiconductors. Right now, processing power is similar to what was found in the 1970′s, but the advantage is that the processor is flexible. What’s so good about the research is that it can lead to fully bendable displays and sensors; something we could begin to see in clothing, gadgets and biomedical applications. The bendable conducting plastic contains only 4000 transistors (todays, have hundreds of millions). You can imagine what this could bring. [via slashgear]
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| Sweet History Of QWERTY Poster With Dismantled Typewriter Posted: 25 Feb 2011 06:30 PM PST
This one is actually a poster, designed by Hyejung Bae, telling the story of QWERTY, from its origins in the 1800s to the mutations and new typing paradigms of the next century. It’s a bit too much type for my taste in a poster (typographical specimens get a pass on this), but the artful arrangement of the bits making up a traditional typewriter might look good on your wall. If you scroll all the way down on the artist’s page, there are some pics of just how messy it is to take one of these things apart and photograph it. I’ve got a couple sitting around my apartment, but I think I’ll keep them in one piece for now. [via NotCot]
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| Clock Clock Is A Clock Of Clocks Posted: 25 Feb 2011 06:00 PM PST This timepiece/piece of art is made by Humans since 1982, a Stockholm design studio apparently composed of people my age, and that seems to specialize in clock-based clocks. I can imagine having this around would be quite mesmerizing, though I don’t think I’ll have to worry about that, since they only are making five.
[via LikeCool]
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| The Creditor Carbon Fiber Money Clip Knife Keeps Your Money Safe Posted: 25 Feb 2011 05:30 PM PST
Designed by John Kubasek, the Creditor carbon fiber money clip knife can keep you and your money safe from theft. The minimal design is really neat, and looks great. The material makeup is carbon fiber and titanium. By pressing down on the side of the handle, a 6-inch knife appears. A knife/money clip; great idea, right? Except when you try to make it past the TSA. Price is $200, don’t expect any price cuts. [via uncrate]
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| Nintendo 3DS Now Available In Japan Posted: 25 Feb 2011 04:53 PM PST
Our Japanese readers are probably waiting in line, and so won’t be reading this, but the rest of you might want to take a few minutes to peruse our 3DS tag and check out the latest news, launch titles, design secrets, and so on. 1UP is also going over the launch in more detail, since they’re… you know, a games site.
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| Oh My God, OS X Lion Finally Lets Mac Users Resize Windows From Any Side Posted: 25 Feb 2011 04:20 PM PST
No longer. I don’t know if this was widely known before now, but I just found out that OS X 10.7 will let you resize windows by pulling on any edge. Huzzah! My decades-long nightmare has ended!
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| Cool Video: Robot Teams Collaborating On Navigation And Targeting Posted: 25 Feb 2011 04:01 PM PST
Unfortunately I can’t embed the video here, but you can watch it at ABC in glorious 400×220 resolution. It really is a very interesting little segment. And hey, it’s Friday. You deserve it.
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| Cause And Effect: Xoom Causes Galaxy Tab To Drop Price Posted: 25 Feb 2011 03:40 PM PST
The Xoom is priced at $599.99, identical to the Galtab’s launch price. The price drop only occurs at Verizon, the same provider as the Xoom, everywhere else the Galtab is still at launch price. Let’s see if the Xoom suffers the same fate when iPad 2 comes out next week. [via tgdaily]
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| Apple Patent Would Put Touch-Sensitive Buttons On MacBook Cases Posted: 25 Feb 2011 03:03 PM PST
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| Hacked: Motorola Xoom Already Rooted Posted: 25 Feb 2011 01:38 PM PST
That didn’t take long. Yesterday, we reported that hacker @koush had successfully made the Xoom moddable by installing his ClockworkMod Recovery ROM manager. At that point root access was not achieved, but, no less than a day later he made it happen. There are detailed instructions up on his site if you want to try it out. But, be warned there are still a few limitations to the rooting; i.e. the SD card isn’t working yet. Now that the Xoom is rooted, we can expect to see a bunch of different mods. Though, it likely means non-Market apps and free Market apps. [via electronista]
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| Apple Shares Lion With Security Experts – This Should Be Good Posted: 25 Feb 2011 01:14 PM PST
Luckily Apple has had few serious threats, though as people often point out, it’s a small portion of the market and historically a more user-active one — as compared to a $400 HP desktop sitting online all day long, only being used by a homeowner to check email and a few blogs. There are millions of such computers, though Apple is gaining market share and with the success of the iPad, may present a juicy new target. At any rate, the security experts can’t comment on it just yet, but may have some interesting things to say once launch time approaches. Personally, I hope they reveal something humbling, but maybe it’ll be good news.
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| “HiDPI” Mode In OS X Lion Suggests Retina Desktop Displays Are Forthcoming Posted: 25 Feb 2011 12:45 PM PST
The trouble is that’s pretty much impossible to pull off with current display resolutions (UI elements don’t always “round off” correctly without enough pixels) — but with pixel densities now starting to push past the 200ppi mark, that’s becoming less of a problem. While true resolution independence is still a ways off, apparently, Apple’s new system could fill in the gap nicely. The developer build of Lion that hit yesterday came with fresh HiDPI mode references, suggesting that Apple may expect 200ppi+ laptop and desktop displays to become available during Lion’s lifetime — the next year and a half or so. The system is reliant on pixel doubling and asset redesign, like the move from the iPhone 3G to the iPhone 4, instead of using vector graphics or 3D rendering, meaning this is more about clarity than a real change in UI design. Could this be the next generation of Apple products — a generation based around visual fidelity? Personally, I find that extremely compelling — text and UI clarity is extremely important to me and I almost switched to iPhone just for the display (almost). It’ll be expensive, but it would fit with the current rumored plan of a double-resolution iPad in the winter. Add double-resolution Macs into the mix too, perhaps?
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| Updated: Apple And The BBC To Co-Host iPad 2 Release Event? Posted: 25 Feb 2011 12:08 PM PST
Let the speculation begin. The BBC is holding an event next week, on the same day and exactly the same time that iPad 2 is to be announced. The Apple event starts at 10am PST and the BBC event starts at 6pm GMT (which are exactly the same). If true, it looks like there could be some video chatting between the two companies from across the pond. Adding to the rumor, The Inquirer says that BBC’s event will be hosted by British actor Stephen Fry, who is known to love all things Apple and was one of the very few who got the iPad before anyone else — even American press. Electronista speculates that some sort of FaceTime could happen since there will be cameras on iPad 2. It could also have to do with the BBC’s new iPlayer app for iDevices. UPDATE: We just got the official Apple invite for those in the UK (thanks Wille W.)
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| Consumer Reports Confirms Death Grip In Verizon iPhone Posted: 25 Feb 2011 11:58 AM PST
Just as with the previous model, the Verizon iPhone 4 suffers from the same conductive gap issues and the problems manifest when you touch the small spot between the two pieces of metal cladding.
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| Countdown To Next Call Of Duty Has Begun Posted: 25 Feb 2011 11:32 AM PST
The countdown to the next Call of Duty game has begun. Activision has been sending dogtags to people in their good graces (not us, of course), and printed on said dogtags is the URL www.findmakarov.com. Going to that site reveals a countdown timer, one that’s set to expire in a little less than five days. Presumably this will lead to the announcement of the next Call of Duty game. But as Devin said in our chartroom, you guys do know that 2011 will be the year of Battlefield 3, right? Why bother with pale imitations when the real deal is about to return? Feel free to get excited, I suppose, but this series has gone down the "meh" path since Modern Warfare 2.
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| Digital Economy Act Critics Propose Plan B, Would Put Onus Back On Copyright Holders To Prove Guilt Posted: 25 Feb 2011 10:45 AM PST
The UK is much further along with having adult discussions about Internet piracy. The result of those discussions may be controversial, such as that subset of the Digital Economy Act that requires ISPs to monitor all traffic sent over their infrastructure for infringing content, thereby exposing themselves to "you didn’t do enough to stop this" lawsuits, but at least they’re having a conversation about it. The best part of a conversation is, of course, the give-and-take. The people looking out for the content side of thing—the studios and whatnot—have already had their say, and now the other side are saying: hold on a minute. Make way for Plan B. The idea here would be to put the onus on copyright holders to prove that a site was hosting illegal content. No more capriciously saying, "This site has bad stuff, block access to it!" OK, you can claim that, but before we do anything we’re going to need to see some proof. A shocking idea, yes. How much of an impact piracy really has, who knows? There’s no accurate way of tracking it, right? Of all the BitTorrent trackers in the world, all the Rapidshare-like sites, binary groups, IRC. You’d have just as much luck trying to count each individual grain of sand in the Sahara.
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| Battlefield 3 DLC Maps Confirmed: Wake Island Returns Posted: 25 Feb 2011 10:15 AM PST
Battlefield 3 doesn’t even have a release date yet, but EA has already started talking about DLC. Sigh. It’s a bit disappointing: so many of us here (well, me, Matt, and Devin) are genuinely looking forward to the game, and we’re already being teased with offers of almighty DLC. It’s so unsettling. In any event, the first bit of DLC will be called Back to Kirland, the existence of which was confirmed two days ago. In the past few hours an EA community manager has confirmed exactly what maps will be included in the DLC. And they are: • Wake Island • Strike at Kirkland • Gulf of Oman • Sharqi Peninsula Keep in mind that Dice, the games’ developer, told Game Informer that it "learned [its] lesson" with regard to DLC, saying that it’ll release more DLC for Battlefield 3 than it did with Battlefield Bad Company 2. Oh boy. I now leave you with the Battlefield 3 teaser trailer.
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| PS3 Hacker: The Only Way I’ll Stop Is If Sony Kills Me Posted: 25 Feb 2011 09:50 AM PST
Oh dear. Sony has now sued graf_chokolo for one million euros. (Here’s the full complaint. Mind the PDF.) What’s the point? What is this going to accomplish, outside of paying for a bunch of lawyers’ holidays? Don’t let it get you too down because graf_chokolo says Sony’s saber-rattling won’t stop him from doing what he does best: hacking the PS3 to pieces. Oh, and that Sony’s only chance of stopping his work is by killing him. Hmm. I’m going to paste the entirety of graf_chokolo’s response. One thing is certain: the man is dedicated.
How does Sony, a giant corporation, fight this kind of mentality? "You should just kill me"? I don’t think you can reason with that, and certainly the threat of lawsuits aren’t going to work.
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| LIVE: Ask Me Anything About The Motorola Xoom, 12pm-1pm Eastern Posted: 25 Feb 2011 08:45 AM PST
It’s that time again: time for a live discussion of a new piece of technology LIVE. Today we’re talking about the Xoom for a full hour and I’m going to try to go through what I can and hopefully you can tell whats going on given the various limitations of the MacBook Air’s camera and the high gloss of the screen. I’ll be going over some of your direct questions and you can feel free to Tweet us with the hashtag #crunchgear, chat, or, if you’re feeling particularly Web 2.0, leave a comment. Music by Mendhoan.
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