PopSci's Guide to The Best New Kids' Toys for Adults
From Toy Fair 2011, a dozen amusements for grown-ups
This time every year, PopSci spends a couple of enjoyable days scouting out the blinkingest, fastest, smartest, most glee-inducing
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Samsung Uncorks De-Bezeled UN65D8000 TV, Laptop/Tablet Hybrid, Sexy Skinny Blu-Ray Deck and More
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A Dishless Future: New Flat Antennas Can Work As Satellite TV Signal Receivers
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God's Number Revealed: 20 Moves Proven Enough to Solve Any Rubik's Cube Position
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19.02.11
Samsung Uncorks De-Bezeled UN65D8000 TV, Laptop/Tablet Hybrid, Sexy Skinny Blu-Ray Deck and More
All the worthwhile highlights from Samsung's CES press conference
Samsung's CES press conference is usually the most lavish, and this year seems to be no different. Check out an up-close look at Samsung's standout new gear here, including their best new TV
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A Dishless Future: New Flat Antennas Can Work As Satellite TV Signal Receivers
Satellite dishes as we know them - both the huge ones that require a corner of the backyard and the more modern, compact variety that mount on rooftops - could be on their way out. A grad student at the Netherlands' University of Twente has devised a new
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New USB Speakers Store Unused Power to Augment Audio from Portable Amps
Most of us keep our music on our computers and our computers are increasingly mobile, but there's a disconnect between the ability to store large amounts of music on a laptop and the portability of said laptop: laptop speakers aren't worth playing music on. But a clever
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Flight attendant meltdown recreated by Hong Kong TV station
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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God's Number Revealed: 20 Moves Proven Enough to Solve Any Rubik's Cube Position
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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Rumour: New iPod touch to have a front-facing camera
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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Corning expands its capacity for making near-indestructible LCD screens
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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Intel unveils the 50Gbps future of internal computer data transfer speeds
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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NASA introducing "Moonbase Alpha", a 3D game set on the moon
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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Flight attendant meltdown recreated by Hong Kong TV station
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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A Dishless Future: New Flat Antennas Can Work As Satellite TV Signal Receivers
Satellite dishes as we know them - both the huge ones that require a corner of the backyard and the more modern, compact variety that mount on rooftops - could be on their way out. A grad student at the Netherlands' University of Twente has devised a new
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Opinion: Should You Buy An iPad?
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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Although It's Been Said Many Times, Many Ways: The iPad is the Future
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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Tired of Looking at the Yard? Turn Two HDTVs into a Magic Window
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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Intel unveils the 50Gbps future of internal computer data transfer speeds
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...
God's Number Revealed: 20 Moves Proven Enough to Solve Any Rubik's Cube Position
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...
Corning expands its capacity for making near-indestructible LCD screens
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...
New USB Speakers Store Unused Power to Augment Audio from Portable Amps
Most of us keep our music on our computers and our computers are increasingly mobile, but there's a disconnect between the ability to store large amounts of music on a laptop and the portability of said laptop: laptop speakers aren't worth playing music on. But a clever
Read more...
The iPad's Closed System: Sometimes I Hate Being Right
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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Opinion: Should You Buy An iPad?
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...
Although It's Been Said Many Times, Many Ways: The iPad is the Future
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...
Corning expands its capacity for making near-indestructible LCD screens
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...
The iPad's Closed System: Sometimes I Hate Being Right
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,
Read more...
The Best of Toy Fair: Santa's Workshop Comes to NYC
See our gallery for a look at the future of toys
Say the word "toy" to a techie, and
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Toshiba Cell TV Converts All Video to 3-D With Playstation 3's Processor
When it comes to their home entertainment gear, Toshiba loves to do two things: stick Cell
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Suma 3-D Controller Lets Your Grab Onto Your Games
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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Warner Bros.Wants You to Buy Blu-rays in Movember
Expand your Blu-ray library and support a worthy cause
The hairy-upper-lip festivities that
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Panasonic Sweetens Home Theatre Purchases with Blu-ray Rentals
Buy a Panasonic home theatre and receive a year?s worth of Blu-ray rentals
The silly season
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Foxtel Download Benefits PC Users
Foxtel subscribers are set to receive an attractive value-add
Pay TV isn?t what it used
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