I played a lot of beer pong and flipper in college. It was fun, but it got a little unsanitary when people forgot to wash the balls after each throw. Drinking beer with whatever filth is on the table or floor is disgusting. My alma mater had a huge contingent of engineers and quite a […]
I played a lot of beer pong and flipper in college. It was fun, but it got a little unsanitary when people forgot to wash the balls after each throw. Drinking beer with whatever filth is on the table or floor is disgusting. My alma mater had a large contingent of engineers and quite a few of them were in my fraternity, which makes me wonder why none of them thought of this contraption made by some nerds at WVU. Maybe it was the searing hot crab boil we poured on them, I’m not sure, though.
Anyway, this is why we’ve nerds. The first two and a half minutes are boring, but the last minute or so is pure eye candy. I’m getting one of these when I get my own place. Maybe we’ll get one for the next CrunchNetwork party!
via Geekologie
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Yesterday we brought news that the PC version of Mass Effect would have a DRM feature that would phone home every 10 days to make sure you weren’t playing with a pirated copy. It’s a sucky system and people were upset. EA, though, listened to us bloggers and other gaming fans and has announced that when […]
Yesterday we brought news that the Computer version of Mass Effect would have a DRM feature that would phone home each 10 days to make sure you weren’t playing with a pirated copy. It’s a sucky system and people were upset.
EA, though, listened to us bloggers and other gaming fans and has announced that when the game ships it won’t have the craptastic DRM system. There will still be some, sure, but it’ll be far less restrictive and far more fair.
Well done, EA.
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The patent shown is for an aircraft to be powered off the ground using a plasma technology. Subrata Roy, a University of Florida aerospace engineer, proposes the existing technique of passing a magnetic wave through a conducting fluid can produce a force strong enough to lift an aircraft off the ground. Granted, the example in the patent is only 15 cm, and attempts by others haven’t gone particularly well. But with phrases like magnetohydrodynamics being thrown around, I keep flashing back to the space travel scene in Contact and getting excited. Subrata Roy must be a poet. [WIPO via Ubergizmo]
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The class action lawsuit brought against Apple for PowerBook and iBook power bricks with the potential to spark has been settled. If the final approval for the settlement goes through, Apple will pay $25 to $79 to customers who “bought an adapter made by Apple or another company to replace a failed one.” [LA Times, pic from Don Ramsey]
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New Jersey’s WFMU (arguably one of the ideal radio stations in the country) is now streaming to iPhones and iPod Touches via a web app.
As it’s a web app and not a full blown application, it’s available to everyone - including all twelve people who still haven’t jailbroken their iPhones. The stream comes in two flavors: 128k for streaming over a WiFi connection, and 32k for EDGE. You can also listen to a number of the station’s podcasts.
While continuous streaming solutions (e.g. iRadio, MobileScrobbler) have been available on jailbroken iPhones for a while, WFMU is the first to offer a radio stream to vanilla devices.
To tune in, point your iPhone or iPod Touch to http://iphone.wfmu.org/
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With all the talk of going green this year, South Koreans are using their cell phones to save on the use of small slips of paper that can mount up. Retailers are sending coupons, gift certificates, motion picture tickets and other such things to a customer’s mobile phone. The message sent to a customer has a picture of a barcode that can be scanned by the retailer.
“People can actually receive products from places just by showing their phones,” Ryu Mina, a spokeswoman with mobile service provider SK Telecom.
Sending barcodes to mobile phones isn’t new. Companies in South Korea started text messaging those cryptic numbers and bars about six year ago. Many people thought the messages were span and deleted them. But this technology has finally caught on with Koreans in their 20s and younger.
It is easy to misplace or forget a slip of paper, but for many of us the cell phone has become another appendage. The mobile barcode has a lot of potential for advertisers, retailers and customers, but hasn’t taken off anywhere. Maybe South Koreas can breathe some life into this idea for other countries.
Via Mobilecrunch
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