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Spock meets NASA’s Enterprise for final flight

, Apr 27th 2012 Discuss [0]

NASA this week has delivered the next of several shuttles from their now-complete program, this most recent perhaps being the most famous in its name and history: The Space Shuttle Enterprise. This particular shuttle was never actually flown into space, instead reserved for test missions vital to the success of the NASA shuttle program. This shuttle was named after the popular 1960's Star Trek Original Series ship, the Starship Enterprise, and was greeted at its birth and here at its final resting place by no less than Mr Spock himself! Read The Full Story

Space shuttle Endeavor flight deck is festooned with buttons

, Mar 8th 2012 Discuss [0]

The flight deck of NASA's now retired space shuttle Endeavor is certainly not the place for a pushbutton Bobby. The buttons you see in this picture are a small part of the switches, toggles, blinking buttons on the flight deck of the retired shuttle. I don't see how the flight crew would keep track of all those buttons and what they do. I have a hard time remembering what key on my keyboard I bound a macro to. Read The Full Story

Garmin Fit app hits iPhone and Android, plus ANT+ dongle

, Oct 25th 2011 Discuss [3]

Garmin has launched a new iPhone and Android fitness app, Garmin Fit, allowing exercising smartphone users to track their progress while running or jogging. Fit is a $0.99 download, and automatically syncs with Garmin's Connect online portal to keep a record of goals and share workouts with contacts. Meanwhile, the ANT+ iPhone Adapter spotted clearing the FCC earlier this month has also been made official, priced at $49.99. Read The Full Story

SpaceX breaks ground on launch site for Falcon Heavy rocket

, Jul 15th 2011 Discuss [3]

This month marked the last flight of the Space Shuttle fleet and while NASA is on hiatus from putting things in space using the shuttle, the private space industry is moving on. SpaceX has announced that it broke ground yesterday on the launch site for its massive Falcon Heavy lift rocket. The massive rocket is the most powerful since the rockets used to heft astronauts into space in the Apollo days. Read The Full Story

SlashGear Science Week in Review, May 6th 2011

, May 7th 2011 Discuss [8]

This week in science, we know that computers can drive us crazy at times, but can a computer actually be made insane itself? Apparently so. We have a schizophrenic computer that may actually help us understand the disease in humans. Plus, a couple of other crazy ideas: robotic cat ears controlled by brainwaves, and a DIY stylus for operating your smartphone (or other touchscreen device) with your nose. We also have space news, a new way to use wind power, and a healthy dose of robots. Continue past the cut for all the science goodies.

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SlashGear 101: Spaceflight

, May 2nd 2011 Discuss [4]

It’s said that what’s so amazing about spaceflight is that how fast man has accomplished it. It took less than 60 years from the time that the Wright Brothers stretched their wings at Kitty Hawk to when Yuri Gregarin became the first man to orbit the earth. Less than nine years after that, Neil Armstrong to that one small step, putting man on the moon by the end of the decade. Since then, manned space flight has be confined to low earth orbit, but man has reached far outside it’s solar system with various unmanned probes which have reached the boundaries of interstellar space. So what is spaceflight, how risky is it and is it worth the billions spent every year by taxpayers? This SlashGear 101 will answer some of those questions.

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Shuttle X50V2 Plus touchscreen barebones gets Atom update

, Apr 22nd 2011 Discuss [0]

Shuttle's X50V2 barebones all-in-one PC has had another refresh, with a new Atom processor to replace the previous model's D510. The updated Shuttle X50V2 Plus now packs Intel's 1.8GHz dual-core Atom D525, paired with GMA 3150 graphics and support for up to 4GB of DDR3 memory. Up front there's still the same 15.6-inch touchscreen running at 1366 x 768. Read The Full Story

Sprint Overdrive Pro 3G/4G hotspot due March 20

, Mar 18th 2011 Discuss [2]

Sprint has updated its portable WiMAX hotspot, in the shape of the Sprint Overdrive Pro. Offering both 3G and 4G connectivity, the Overdrive Pro boosts the number of simultaneous supported clients to eight (up from five on the original Overdrive) as well as coming in at a lower price. Read The Full Story

Astronauts finally pull Robonaut 2 out of storage

, Mar 17th 2011 Discuss [0]

Poor old R2 made the trek to the ISS aboard the space shuttle last month after being crammed inside his storage crate for months on end. R2 or Robonaut 2 as his full name goes is the robot built by NASA and GM to study the interaction of people in space with robots. GM is using the project to develop technology for more safety in vehicles and on assembly lines here on Earth. Read The Full Story

SlashGear Week in Review – Week 12 2010

, Mar 21st 2010 Discuss [0]

Welcome to the latest edition of the week in review here at SlashGear. Tons of new gear popped up last week, so let's get right to it. We spied some pics of new WinPo 7 handsets from LG, Asus, and Samsung early in the week, the devices looked very cool. Read The Full Story

Shuttle XPC X50V2 all-in-one updated: Atom D510 & fanless

, Mar 16th 2010 Discuss [0]

It's been a while since Shuttle outed their XPC X50 Barebones all-in-one, and so it's about time that they updated it.  Rather than rework the case and change the color, the new Shuttle X50V2 Barebone has Intel's latest Atom D510 processor, paired with the NM10 Express Chipset, but also gets completely passive cooling and halved power consumption. Read The Full Story

Apple iSlate – Irrefutable evidence that’s the name of the new tablet

, Dec 25th 2009 Discuss [6]

Yes, it’s Christmas but this Apple rumor is too juicy to wait. It’s true; Apple’s tablet may indeed be called iSlate! MacRumors discovered via historical evidence that Apple purchased the domain name iSlate.com from Data Docket, Inc. in 2007. Mark Monitor manages domain names for many companies, including Apple. Even though the true identity of the domain name was set to private, there was a small window where Apple’s ownership info was exposed and then changed back a few weeks later. iSlate.com doesn’t point anywhere for now, but there are lots of speculations of Apple announcing a tablet early 2010.

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