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The American Military Is Deadly Serious About A Flying Humvee

GADGETS Monday, August 30 by Captain


Flying cars have been a staple of unfullfilled Sci Fi fantasies since even before The Jetsons. Now, however, with the American Military behind them, we may be flying about and then parking in no time.

The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected two companies to proceed with the next stage of its Transformer, known as TX, a fully automated four-person vehicle that can drive like a car and then take off and fly like an aircraft to avoid roadside bombs

The official spec for Transformer from DARPA has asked companies and researchers to come up with a flyable vehicle that can carry up to four people, is capable of vertical takeoff and landing and can travel without having to refuel at ranges for 250 nautical miles (with a combination of driving and flying).
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R2 D2 iPhone Case

GADGETS Friday, August 13 by Captain


How's your Friday the 13th turning out? Okay so far? Yeah, well, there's always the commute back from work.

Still, on the brighter side, the good people at the Star Wars Shop are still pumping out merch at a formidable rate, and usually, you'll find one or two items that might tickle your fancy. We think we might have found another one of those. The R2-D2 iPhone case.

Sculpted, with R2-D2 bits, it's available worldwide, which means Australian iPhone/Star Wars enthusiasts can get their hands on it. If you live in Mexico, tough titties. We're sure there's a good reason why Star Wars doesn't ship to Mexico, but we still feel sorry for them, having, as Australians, been so often denied good things from the internet.
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Interview With Creepy Robot: Immortality the Goal

GADGETS Monday, July 12 by Captain


After exhausting all attempts to get an interesting, coherent interview from Kristen Stewart, scientists have finally given up and turned to another lifeless object in the search for decent soundbites on the news.

Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to Bina48!

There are so many, many things wrong with this it's hard to find a starting point, but we'll give it a go.

First off - a female voice in a male head, with really, really bad pancake makeup, and a hideous blonde wig. Why would we watch this when we can see Kerri-Anne Kennerly each morning on TV already?
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Piratebay Hacked - User Data Exposed

GADGETS Wednesday, July 7 by Captain


What might have been obvious to some has now become obvious to millions - the user information that they've given to sites like Piratebay.org is vulnerable to hacking.

Argentinian hacker Ch Russo got into the world's biggest download site, exposing user names, Internet addresses, and (MD5) hashed password data on more than 4 million users, according to Brian Krebs, at his website, krebsonsecurity.com
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Apple Sells Two Million iPads in Two Months

GADGETS Tuesday, June 1 by Captain


Apple has just let it slip that iPad sales have topped two million since its launch on April 3.

You may have sen a few queues on Friday in Australia. As this was going on, iPads were being sold for the first time in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. If you think Australia is some kind of Apple backwater because it took so long to get released here, we're in good company. Plus, the rollout hasn't finished - the iPad will be available in nine more countries in July and additional countries later this year.
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Welcome to The Future. Welcome to The Yottabyte

GADGETS Monday, May 31 by Captain


We all know what a megabyte is and what a gigabyte is, some of us even know what a terabyte is. Hardly anyone, however, knows what a yottabyte is!

A yottabyte will be the unit of measurement that we will one day use to describe our computer hard drive space.

It is really, really big. Just can't tell you just how mind-numbingly big it is. It is as though the average PC storage was the size of a bee, and then they clumped all those bees together to form a planet slightly smaller than the Moon.
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Minority Report Science Equals Reality Again: Eyeball Reader

GADGETS Saturday, May 29 by Captain


Gesture computing just like in Minority Report is already a reality. Now the news is that a DARPA-funded team from Southern Methodist University in the US has already created Panoptes, and a new system called Smart-Iris, which, when combined, will allow a camera to zero in on a face, no matter angle or movement, then narrow right into the iris.

It's real-life Sci Fi stuff. A person walking down a street, or through a security checkpoint, or a train station, for example, could be scanned by wall-mounted cameras and they wouldn’t even notice it was happening. It's specifically designed to capture biometric information from people who don't want their biometric information captured. Down-cast or 'shifty' eyes will be no defence against being scanned by your friendly neighbourhood big brother.
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New Life Created. Satan to Return Later for Scientist's Soul

GADGETS Saturday, May 22 by Captain


Have none of these scientists EVER watched a movie? Do they NOT KNOW what will happen if they go around creating new life? Heck, the trailers for Splice should be warning enough! But noooooo, they just had to go ahead and insert synthetic DNA into a genome, thus creating an entirely new DNA sequence. In effect, new life.

We see this step as nothing but the first building block for creating a self-aware amoeba creature the size of a horse, that will come equipped with giant tentacles and a voracious appetite for flesh. It will in fact not turn out to be the digital creation of a new organism, but rather a dirty trick played out by Satan to teach this arrogant science that only God (and the Devil) can create life.
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How Much Space Do My Files Take Up?

GADGETS Tuesday, May 18 by Captain


How much trouble do you go to every day as you organise your music and video files on your computer?

Some of our readers - quite a lot. For you, this post will be laughable.

But for some of our readers - who don't know so much, the table below may come in handy.

If you're not the ultimate supergeek, you may find that sometimes your computer world is running along a little slowly, as though you're stuck on a planet where instead of the atmosphere is made of honey.

Everything oozes along so, so slowly. You just want to quit and restart. You get panicky. You realise you're wearing a red shirt...
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Control, Alt and Delete Your Thirst

GADGETS Thursday, May 13 by Captain


You may have seen these wandering around the intertubes, you may have not. A Japanese tea set in the form of Alt, Ctrl and Del keys.

It's the kind of thing that may have the committed computer-jockey jumping up and down screaming 'want want WANT!'.

It may also be the ultimate faux-irony statement from a pre-nesting hipster anxious to send vibes of 'cool' at their latest Ginsberg Howlathon.

Designed by Taiwanese design outfit MOD, they're available on the internet for you to drink from and impress with.
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