April 2012
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Ten famous landmarks using 8-bit Google Maps
In case you missed it yesterday, Google Maps played a really good practical joke on the world with their NES 8-bit Google Maps April Fools prank. Although it’s not April Fools day any longer, I went again to check it out some more and see that it’s still up.
I am not sure how long it will stay up for, but it’s worth checking out, in particular if you are into nostalgic things...
March 2012
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This robot dog has an iPhone for a face
It’s a smart pet, and is controlled using an iPhone. The robot dog’s face appears on the iPhone screen, with it’s respective app running which you can control the dog using hand gestures and the iPhone’s front facing camera. According to MacRumors, the robot dog will have over 100 different expressions giving it a real pet-like experience. Not only will it be pet-like,...
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All your Facebooks belong to Glitchr
Glitcher is a Facebook user that exploits the biggest social networking site in the world by using different script tricks and symbols called diacritics stacked upon each other to create chaos on his Facebook wall. It’s a bit of an art form if you ask me, and his skills display through his posts which really add some much needed flavor to Facebook which can be stagnate at times. via...
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Megaupload founder says the military and govt had...
Not only did Kanye West like Megaupload, so did the U.S. Military and the U.S. Government. They loved it so much, that the founder of Megaupload is now talking about it trying to clear his name saying that they had well over 15,000 accounts on the site that was taken down in January on a huge copyright indictment from the federal government. According to Kim Dotcom the founder of Megaupload, in...
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Video of a giant solar tornado big enough to...
The tornadoes here on Earth can exceed 150 mph and are treacherous, destroying everything in it’s path. Now just imagine a tornado that is 186,000 mph! That is what happened on the Sun, and researchers were able to capture it all on video. This monstrosity of a tornado was seen on the Sun’s surface which consisted of gases that ranged somewhere between 90,000 and 3.6 million degrees...
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A mind blowing time lapse video of the stars and...
This time lapse video is taken from the NASA Space Station using imagery compiled by NASA’s Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. It’s an amazing video, and well worth the watch for a view that is so rarely seen.
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The Galaxy Note, so easy even an elephant can use...
This video is too cute, and a great piece of viral marketing for Samsung and the new Galaxy Note. In the video, Peter the elephant plays with the mobile device, and even appears to be dancing when he hears the music that he plays with this trunk. At the end, Samsung makes sure to put “Bigger is Better”, which is touted by Samsung due to the large size of the device, which is in between...
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This guy is making over $1k a day spamming...
I think I need to change professions, because this guy is making a buttload of money doing some shady, yet legal work. The Daily Dot interviewed one person, who using a network of spam bots has created a lucrative business from the new social pinning network. The spammers name is Steve, and of course he declined to give his last name. He is a self-taught spammer, so this isn’t his first...
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I wish that Tumblr had custom 404 error pages
I love Tumblr, how customizable it is and being able to do almost anything possible with it. It really makes it the best blogging platform around, and for that I am grateful. Not to mention all the wonderful people on Tumblr, which adds the social experience to it making it even better than one can imagine. There are a few things that I wish Tumblr had, with custom 404 error pages being one of...
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Connecting prisoners at San Quentin to the world...
San Quentin State Prison may be one of the most infamous prisons. It’s home to some of the most hardened criminals around and is notorious for having a culture of violence. It’s moniker: “The Arena.” With all the infamy that comes out of San Quentin, also comes life experience. A group at San Quentin is working on a new program to connect prisoners to people outside of the...
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Lamborghini concept is a cross between the...
In this Lamborghini Ferruccio concept created by Mark Hostler, he incorporates a “stealth” design and applies it to the Lamborghini giving it a very futuristic and vicious look and feel with drastic lines and sharp corners. Although I won’t say I am a big fan of this look, the stealthy Lambo looks very fast.
The concept is also designed specifically for a 5.0-L V12 engine with...
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Facebook claims the word "book" as their trademark...
I don’t know how much more ridiculous this can be. Facebook in their updated Terms of Service now lays claim to one of the most common words in the English language - “Book”. Yes, you read that correctly. If you use Facebook, you are agreeing to their Terms of Service when you sign up and each time you login. Not only does Facebook assert the word book through their updated...
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Impossibility in it's purest form
The Penrose triangle is an impossible object, which an optical illusion that has a two-dimensional figure which is interpreted as a projection of a three-dimensional object, although it is not geometrically possible for such an object to exist; whew. Martzi Hegedus took this illusion as inspiration, and created a typeface based around it called Frustro that it out of this world. via, source
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Social Networking dominates time spent online in...
comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, released its annual report on key digital trends in Latin America. With the report, it shows that the online population of Latin America has gone up 16% from last year, up to 129.3 million visitors online. As part of the digital boom that is happening in Latin America, Facebook is playing a significant role. Facebook is leading as the...
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If there's a chance you will be racially profiled,...
The Emergency Alert & Personal Protection app (eAPP) is an app that is being developed based on a new demand. The app is being created due to new laws across the country and has a simple but important concept, which can be applied to various situations. The concept is to be able to open the app on your mobile device and with one swipe, notify contacts that you are being arrested or in some...
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Microsoft gets it's own pimped out ride
There’s only one place that I know that really knows how to “pimp” your ride, and that’s West Coast Customs. WCC gained a higher level of fame after their TV series on MTV Pimp My Ride aired in the 2000’s featuring guest host/rapper Xzibit; where WCC was notorious for doing over the top and outlandish custom car modifications. So when Microsoft wanted to do something...
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Watch as this camera sees around corners using...
If you can’t see an object around a corner with your own eyes, how do you expect a camera to be able to see and photograph an image of a hidden object? Scientists at the MIT Media Lab have figured out just how to do this. It’s called ‘ultrafast time-of-flight imaging’. Using a special camera that is able to shoot lasers, the camera is able to recover hidden objects by...
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Surprise: Newspaper readership is in a severe...
In an annual report from the State of the Media, it shows that audience growth in media consumption has gone up in every sector except print. Newspapers are actually down -4%. Obviously the winner here is the digital space, with online growth up 17.2%. Television is still hanging in there, with actual positive growth in 2011. In the graphic below, Poynter shows just how much the web is...
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Buy your own Star Wars TIE fighter on Craigslist
Ok, so maybe you can’t buy a real Star Wars TIE fighter on Craiglist, but you can get the next best thing. Someone in Olympia, Washington is selling a 1/3 scale replica of a TIE fighter. It’s 8x8x8 feet and built out of wood. If you have $150 and are near Olympia, it’s all yours. nice catch via Neatorama
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The birthplace of Silicon Valley (rare photos)
Long before companies like Google, Apple and Twitter, there was one company that started a technology revolution in Silicon Valley, California. The company created by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, which you might know as Hewlett-Packard (HP) started in a place that you may never have thought of. Raymond Wong from DVICE was able to capture some rare photos of the “HP Garage”, which is...
