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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

Sea Shadow stealth boat goes up for auction

, Apr 30th 2012 Discuss [3]

The US Navy is auctioning off the stealth boat that provided the inspiration for the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, though the buyer must break the ship down for scrap rather than stage any clandestine raids. Sea Shadow was a 1983 project into marine stealth technology that, for almost ten years, covertly sailed the oceans without nary a blip on radar screens. However, after hopes of donating the ship to a museum failed, the Navy decided scrapping it was the only way to dispose of it. Read The Full Story

Samsung denies staging “Wake Up” anti-Apple flashmob

, Apr 27th 2012 Discuss [75]

Samsung has denied any involvement with the “Wake Up” flashmob staged outside an Apple Store in Australia, despite suggestions that it was an escalation of the company’s anti-iPhone campaign. Reported earlier this week, the flashmob saw dozens of black-clad men and women holding “Wake Up” signs converge outside of the Sydney Apple Store. However, ”Samsung Electronics Australia has nothing to do with the ‘Wake-Up Campaign” the company told SlashGear today.

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Android Instagram prompts iPhone ire

, Apr 4th 2012 Discuss [20]

Instagram for Android could've been a vast, sharing love-in between original iOS and new Android users, but platform rivalry has reared its head once more and the fanboys are out in force. Released yesterday after several months of teasing, the new Android version of the app prompted outpourings of disgust from iPhone users, Android Community reports, taking to Twitter under the #teamiphone banner. Read The Full Story

Forget Air Display: turn your Kindle DX into a second screen

, Apr 3rd 2012 Discuss [2]

If Air Display for the iPad caught your fancy but you have a Kindle DX rather than Apple's tablet, how about turning that E Ink ereader into a secondary screen instead. Arguably a whole lot less practical for general use, the nonetheless clever hack detailed by TinyApps involves jailbreaking the Kindle DX and then using a VNC viewer to set it up as a remote screen for your Mac. Read The Full Story

Titanic director tweets from ocean’s deepest point

, Mar 26th 2012 Discuss [0]

Titanic director and deep-sea diving enthusiast James Cameron has tweeted from the bottom of the ocean's deepest point, down 36,070 feet in the Marianas Trench's Challenger Deep, and promising unseen footage of the inhospitable region. Cameron's dive is the first single-person attempt ever, with the director squeezing himself into a bullet-shaped submersible capable of withstanding the 15,969 PSI pressures. Read The Full Story

Zombie mall promises movie-style undead battle

, Mar 25th 2012 Discuss [5]

With the necessary skills to fend off the zombie menace still absent from most school curricula, it's time to take matters into your own hands and make sure your loved ones know how best to handle the undead. Taking place at an abandoned, soon to be demolished shopping center near London in the UK, the Zombie Shopping Mall Experience is a £119 ($189) masterclass in being chased by brain-hungry hoards and keeping them at bay, albeit with airsoft guns and movie-grade special effects. Read The Full Story

DIY Birdman soars like an albatross

, Mar 21st 2012 Discuss [9]

"Up in the air, Junior Birdman!" A Dutch inventor has successfully created a pair of human-scale bird wings that, thanks to a DIY control system using Wiimotes among other things, allowed him to fly around 100m. Enthusiast Jarno Smeets mimicked the wing design of an albatross, with wings crafted from kite fabric and the flyer's own flapping efforts amplified by motors. Read The Full Story

Pirate Bay Torrent drones could soar over piracy rules

, Mar 20th 2012 Discuss [0]

High-profile torrent site The Pirate Bay has threatened to take its content to the skies, with the perhaps tongue-in-cheek suggestion of GPS-controlled wireless drones that could automatically host nodes. The site's odd suggestion is using low-power, compact computers like Raspberry Pi, guided by GPS and connected using cheap wireless systems, floated "some kilometers" so that takedowns will need to involve physical destruction by planes. Read The Full Story
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