Who needs cover shots and voiceover when you can digitally re-create the moment? That's what staff at a Hong Kong TV station must have thought when they heard about the US flight attendant who made a hasty exit from his aircraft following an incident with a passenger this week.
Steven Slater,
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The world has waited with bated breath for three decades, and now finally a group of academics, engineers, and math geeks has discovered the number that explains life, the universe, and everything. That number is 20, and it's the maximum
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It’s that time of year when the lead-up to the traditional early-September new iPod announcement from Apple is heating up. This results in various theories, rumours and a liberal dash of misdirection as to what we can all expect to hear from the big Apple. There were recent rumblings that
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Regardless of where you fall in the Plasma versus LCD screen-preference debate, it’s difficult to deny the popularity and progression of the LCD display. But perhaps the scariest reality of owning an LCD screen—even scarier than the dreaded appearance of dead pixels—is physical damage
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As any astute computer owner would know, particularly those who are of the gamer variety, there are many possible bottlenecks when it comes to getting the most out of your computer hardware. Video cards, random access memory (RAM) and hard drives are but a few of the main hurdles to super-efficient
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A meteor strikes, damaging solar arrays and life support systems, and as you watch the billowing dust cloud move ominously toward your lunar camp, you have to restore critical systems and oxygen flow. Starting July 6, a new NASA video game will let you save the day, in
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Apple's iPad was finally launched yesterday to eager Australian crowds yesterday, with numerous media reports of enormous crowds being piled up outside
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In an unprecedented breach for a notoriously secrecy-obsessed company, what appears to be a late-stage prototype of a next-generation iPhone has surfaced in the wild
In an unprecedented lapse for one of the world's most secretive companies, Apple has lost control of
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Electronics giant Panasonic yesterday unveiled its 3-D TV lineup for 2010, a launch it describes as its “biggest ever”. But while competitors such as Sony and Samsung are rolling out their 3-D offerings with LCD displays, Panasonic is sticking resolutely to plasma – or what it’s now
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Tired of waking up in the morning only to find yourself in the same lame place you woke up in yesterday (and the day before that)? Winscape is a DIY project for you: install two HD plasmas in faux window frames that display whatever scene
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Apple's iPad was finally launched yesterday to eager Australian crowds yesterday, with numerous media reports of enormous crowds being piled up outside
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After a weekend using the iPad, I've realised I'm not interested in hedging my reaction to it with careful considerations of its lack of a USB port or webcam. It's not every day, or every year or maybe even every decade that we're able to see a piece of technology that takes a familiar human
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Who needs cover shots and voiceover when you can digitally re-create the moment? That's what staff at a Hong Kong TV station must have thought when they heard about the US flight attendant who made a hasty exit from his aircraft following an incident with a passenger this week.
Steven Slater,
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As any astute computer owner would know, particularly those who are of the gamer variety, there are many possible bottlenecks when it comes to getting the most out of your computer hardware. Video cards, random access memory (RAM) and hard drives are but a few of the main hurdles to super-efficient
Read more...
Tired of waking up in the morning only to find yourself in the same lame place you woke up in yesterday (and the day before that)? Winscape is a DIY project for you: install two HD plasmas in faux window frames that display whatever scene
Read more...
The director of hit television series, House MD, has revealed via Twitter that the season finale of the latest series was filmed entirely on a Canon 5D Mk II DSLR camera. We’re not sure if this is part of a directorial stunt or pre-arranged marketing activity between Canon and the makers
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The world has waited with bated breath for three decades, and now finally a group of academics, engineers, and math geeks has discovered the number that explains life, the universe, and everything. That number is 20, and it's the maximum
Read more...
Regardless of where you fall in the Plasma versus LCD screen-preference debate, it’s difficult to deny the popularity and progression of the LCD display. But perhaps the scariest reality of owning an LCD screen—even scarier than the dreaded appearance of dead pixels—is physical damage
Read more...
A meteor strikes, damaging solar arrays and life support systems, and as you watch the billowing dust cloud move ominously toward your lunar camp, you have to restore critical systems and oxygen flow. Starting July 6, a new NASA video game will let you save the day, in
Read more...
In an unprecedented breach for a notoriously secrecy-obsessed company, what appears to be a late-stage prototype of a next-generation iPhone has surfaced in the wild
In an unprecedented lapse for one of the world's most secretive companies, Apple has lost control of
Read more...
Apple's iPad was finally launched yesterday to eager Australian crowds yesterday, with numerous media reports of enormous crowds being piled up outside
Read more...
After a weekend using the iPad, I've realised I'm not interested in hedging my reaction to it with careful considerations of its lack of a USB port or webcam. It's not every day, or every year or maybe even every decade that we're able to see a piece of technology that takes a familiar human
Read more...
Regardless of where you fall in the Plasma versus LCD screen-preference debate, it’s difficult to deny the popularity and progression of the LCD display. But perhaps the scariest reality of owning an LCD screen—even scarier than the dreaded appearance of dead pixels—is physical damage
Read more...
Remember that groundbreaking Apple Super Bowl ad from 1984? The one where the woman throws a hammer at Big Brother, signifying a new era of freedom that would be ushered in with Macintosh? My, how times have changed. Here we are more than 25 years later and the despotic,
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See our gallery for a look at the future of toys
Say the word "toy" to a techie, and
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When it comes to their home entertainment gear, Toshiba loves to do two things: stick Cell
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While everyone is busy thinking the future of video-game interfacing is Microsoft's Project Natal, UK-based Cambridge Consultants decided to change the way controllers interact with our hands. The Suma is a pliable, 3-D controller that senses how and where your hand
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Expand your Blu-ray library and support a worthy cause
The hairy-upper-lip festivities that
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Buy a Panasonic home theatre and receive a year?s worth of Blu-ray rentals
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Foxtel subscribers are set to receive an attractive value-add
Pay TV isn?t what it used
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