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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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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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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