Posts Tagged ‘Video’

January 26, 2012 Off

Mario Is Too Mainstream [Video]

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Jumping around, stomping squat bad guys, rescuing maidens–it’s all in a day’s work for members of the jumping platformer club. For the curious, the characters that make an appearance are Super Mario, Tim (from Braid), Shadow Boy (fro…

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January 26, 2012 Off

New York planetarium to host 200-player space game tonight (video)

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Got plans for this evening? Cancel them now, and do everything you can to sneak into New York’s Museum of Natural History. Because tonight, the museum’s planetarium will play host to a 200-person space game, courtesy of Brooklyn’s Babycastles arcade….

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January 25, 2012 Off

Quantum dots could increase fiber optic bandwidth up to 10 times (video)

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Nothing screams World of Tomorrow quite like quantum dots. Alongside the possibility of paint-on solar cells, the technology could also multiply optic fiber bandwidth by up to ten times. The Photonic Network Research Institute at NICT has been able t…

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January 25, 2012 Off

AT&T unearths Jim Henson’s 1963 Robot short for Bell

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AT&T has released some real gems from its videos archives over the past year, but it’s truly outdone itself this week. It’s dug up a rarely-seen short film titled Robot that Jim Henson made for Bell in 1963, which was intended to explain computers…

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January 25, 2012 Off

Insert Coin: 50-Dollar Follow Focus

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In Insert Coin, we look at an exciting new tech project that requires funding before it can hit production. If you’d like to pitch a project, please send us a tip with “Insert Coin” as the subject line. If you’ve watched HD video footage captured by a …

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January 25, 2012 Off

Majestic Orbital View of Storms over Africa with a Milky Way Backdrop [Video]

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This beautiful time-lapse footage was taken on December 29, 2011 as the International Space Station passed over central Africa… ISS Passes Over Stormy Africa (w/Milky Way) [via Geeks are Sexy] Quick Digital Makeup Tips To Make Yourself Look …

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January 25, 2012 Off

Belfry brings Stocks and Weather, other native iPhone apps to jailbroken iPads

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Rounding out the honeymoon period with that freshly jailbroken iPad 2? Well now we have some new apps for you to play with, and you may already be acquainted. iOS hacker Ryan Petrich’s most recent project, dubbed Belfry, lets you install stock iPhone …

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January 25, 2012 Off

Kinect and Windows Phone combine to create holographic game engine (video)

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If your life is anything like ours, it’s in sore need of more pseudo-holographic helicopters. Fortunately, YouTube user programming4fun has come up with a solution, using Microsoft’s Kinect beta SDK and a Windows Phone handset. The system, pictured a…

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January 25, 2012 Off

Windows 8 adds sensor support, will be the PC to turn, turn, turn

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Microsoft is slowly turning its stalwart desktop OS into a mobile powerhouse. The company just keeps rolling out improvements and features for Windows 8 aimed at really making upcoming tablets competitive with their Android and iOS-based market mates….

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January 25, 2012 Off

The Engadget Show 29: Red Cameras, MakerBot and the coolest gadgets of CES 2012

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Consider this one last hurrah for CES 2012. Sure, we’ve happily left the Las Vegas Convention Center in the rear view mirror of the magical mystery Engadget trailer, but there’s still plenty to talk about. We kick things off with a recap of Apple…

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January 25, 2012 Off

Arduino hack gives a second screen to Android phones, isn’t very useful (video)

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Who knows why tech tinkerers do what they do. We’re just happy to see those idle hands try the untested. Like this latest Arduino hack from modder Michael of Nootropic Design, who’s seen fit to rig a 16 x 32 LED matrix up to an Android phone for use a…

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January 24, 2012 Off

Canonical bringing HUD to Ubuntu 12.04, company’s assault on menus continues

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Canonical — shepherd of the popular Linux distribution Ubuntu — generally doesn’t rock the boat with its LTS releases, but things are going to be different this time around. With 12.04LTS the company is taking its assault on contextual menus to the …

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January 24, 2012 Off

Tokyoflash Kisai Optical Illusion watch is more than meets the eye, smells like teen spirit

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Back in the mid-90s, Magic Eye had a brief reign as the monger of stereogram cool — you know, those hidden 3D images you could only see with crossed vision. While the flames of that mini-craze mercifully died out, it appears some diehard, grunge-era …

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January 24, 2012 Off

Ice Cream Sandwich gets ready for its closeup, would like to thank Kinect for big screen break (video)

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Using Microsoft hardware to augment Android? Surely, you can’t be serious? Well, confounding as this may be, it is indeed true… and don’t call us Shirley. All fanboy-ism and Airplane! references aside, this Kinect hack (yes, another one) manages to …

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January 24, 2012 Off

Augmented reality makes Thundercats packaging way cooler than the toys themselves

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What happens when the toy packaging becomes more exciting than the toy itself? It’s an interesting experiment that’s now seeing the light of day courtesy of Bandai’s new Thundercats and Ben 10 toys, which come to life through a smartphone screen via A…

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