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will.i.am to give Curiosity a Mars premiere of latest track

, Aug 27th 2012 Discuss [0]

Rapper will.i.am is no stranger to musical stunts, but premiering his latest track on Mars courtesy of the Curiosity rover is perhaps the oddest so far. The outlandish artist will reveal his newest record, "Reach for the Stars," on Tuesday, August 28, NASA has confirmed, as part of an educational event discussing interplanetary transmissions at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. Read The Full Story

Cat Immersion Project creates crowdsourced kitty cocoon

, Aug 7th 2012 Discuss [0]

Here's something Google's Glass can't do: create a virtual tent of cats for those times when you can't be around your favorite furball. The Cat Immersion Project is the bizarre and brilliant DIY handiwork of the staff at the Seattle Children's Hospital, projecting photos of more than 3,000 cats into a tented space - complete with purring sound effects - so that 16-year-old cancer patient Maga Barzallo Sockemtickem could get her dose of felines despite being in protective isolation. Read The Full Story

Curiosity rover tags Mars with Morse tire tracks

, Aug 6th 2012 Discuss [0]

NASA's Curiosity rover may not look like an urban menace, but the robot explorer will in fact be steadily tagging the Martian surface as it trundles, leaving a name-check of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory back home. The clandestine graffiti is thanks to part of the rover's visual odometry system, John Graham-Cumming points out, which tracks the marks left by a series of asymmetrically arranged holes in the wheels. The position of those holes, however, isn't random: in fact, it's Morse Code. Read The Full Story

Higgs boson up for spoof sale as retailer opens subatomic shop

, Jul 4th 2012 Discuss [0]

With the Higgs boson - or something that looks a whole lot like it - now identified, retailers have wasted no time in throwing the elusive subatomic particle up for sale. UK online retailer Ebuyer has led the charge, with a spoof listing for the banging boson promising delivery on May 29 20129. Read The Full Story

Google Glasses stunt demo dive video released

, Jun 28th 2012 Discuss [0]

Google made keynote history at IO yesterday, skydiving Google Glasses into the venue with the help of a team of stunt bikers and rappellers, and now the company is sharing some behind-the-scenes details. Unsurprisingly, an extreme-sports demo like that requires some practice, and Google has released a video of some of the test jumps Project Glass accompanied, which you can see after the cut. Read The Full Story

Google Project Glass goes skydiving at IO in best demo stunt yet

, Jun 27th 2012 Discuss [0]

Google has demonstrated a Google+ Hangout beamed from Project Glass, with company co-founder Sergey Brin interrupting Vic Gundotra’s keynote presentation to share live footage from skydivers overhead IO. “This is one of the things we’ve been experimenting with Glass, the ability to really share” Brin said, “we’ve shown photos but this is something we haven’t tried” as the two Glass-sporting skydivers leapt from a blimp flying above San Francisco.

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Squishy musical madness as your sofa becomes a speaker dock

, May 25th 2012 Discuss [0]

Convergence, you have reached your pinnacle. DFS has taken furniture and iPod audio docks to their logical, mashed-up conclusion with the Trophy Cuddler Audio Sofa, a two-person chair for those who daren't snuggle without musical accompaniment. Read The Full Story

Intel goes tiger dancing in bizarre Ultrabook promo

, May 16th 2012 Discuss [0]

Intel's ultrabook marketing strategy has taken a turn for the bizarre, with the chip company looking to a dancing moon tiger - and, at a recent Japanese press event, a group of 100 backup dancers - to push the MacBook Air rivals. While in North America and Europe, Intel has generally been focusing on how thin ultrabooks are, without necessarily sacrificing power, in Japan a somewhat more unusual campaign has rolled out. Check out the videos after the cut. Read The Full Story

Glove One: Talk to the hand, ‘cos the Nokia ain’t listening

, May 8th 2012 Discuss [1]

If you've ever held your hand to your head, thumb and pinkie outstretched, and mouthed "call me" across a crowded room, then Glove One is the phone for you. The handiwork of Bryan Cera, and resembling a cross between a Michael Jackson stage costume and Iron Man's suit, Glove One builds a voice-only phone into a glove with buttons along the inside of the fingers. Read The Full Story

Samsung memory ads lampoon lag (but do they swipe at Apple too?)

, May 8th 2012 Discuss [6]

Samsung's advertising team is at it again, this time coming up with some would-be virals pushing the company's memory, but already the firm finds itself at the point end of Apple-bashing accusations. The trio of clips focus on the frustrations caused by memory bottlenecks: freezing, batteries draining in short order, and persistent loading balls. It's the latter, though, that has market watchers questioning who, exactly, Samsung's target is. Read The Full Story

Gorilla undergoes surgery for broken jaw at human hospital

, May 7th 2012 Discuss [2]

A gorilla named Motuba that lives at the Omaha Henry Doorly Zoo got into a fight sometime last week and ended up with a broken jaw. Motuba is a 27-year-old silverback gorilla and zoo officials believe that Motuba likely got in a fight with the younger gorilla seeking a more dominant position in the tribe. No one witnessed the fight. Read The Full Story

This man made snack-time suck

, May 4th 2012 Discuss [8]

Light the torches and sharpen the pitchforks; the man who made bags of potato chips so darned difficult to open has confessed his wicked crimes. Engineer John Spevacek made the bizarre admission this week, 'fessing up to being "that guy" who decided bags of chips should be sealed more strongly after complaints that the bags had been popping when shifted from high to low pressure in transit. Read The Full Story
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