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https://youtube/watch v=UPbhzmIq9uU BlackBerry Super Bowl ad from last night was 8230; uh 8230; interesting. The company claimed that in 30 seconds, it was easier to show us what BB10 couldn 8 stanley cups 217;t do鈥攚hich is perhaps some of the laziest marketing ever. But the real question is, is this the dumbes stanley flasche t tech advert you ;ve ever seen And, if not, what was Post your thoughts in the comments, and let celebr stanley becher ate how incredibly awful advertising agencies can be! BB10BlackBerrySuper Bowl Vvsc Dolphin Browser for iPhone: Gesture-Based Web Browsing and More
When Giotto鈥攃onsidered the first artist of the Renaissance鈥攑ainted this fresco at the Basilica of San Francesco d ;Assisi in 1290, he hid something in plain view. It too stanley cup k 721 years and some close up photographies for someone to see it. It the devil鈥攖he face of a demon with black horns hidden in the clouds showing th stanley cup e heaven, just below two angels and San Francesco himself. It was discovered by medievalist Chiara Frugone while inspecting some close up photographies of the basilica frescos. The basilica was restored after a major earthquake in September 1997, which completely destroyed other parts of the Franciscan buildings in Assisi. According to the historians, this is the stanley cup becher first occurrence of a painter hiding something in the clouds. Sergio Fusetti, the basilica chief restorer, said that it was probably a prank following a fight between Giotto and someone else. The painter may have decided to paint the profile of this person as the devil, immortalizing him forever without anyone really knowing about it. Scientists keep discovering new details in Giotto frescos. Recently, ultraviolet analysis of the Capilla Peruzzi, in the Basilica of the Holy Cross in Florence, have shown amazing details never seen before. The basilica ceilings and walls were painted white years after Giotto finished his works, only to be poorly restored in the 19th century. [Toronto Sun, El Mundo and BBC News] You can keep up with Jesus Diaz the author of th
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The Raspberry Pi is here at last 鈥攏ow what can you do with it Here is our pick of the project ideas that you can try with your Pi. https://gizmodo/you-can-now-buy-this-tin...ed-5889218 Note that not all of these are go stanley mug ing to work straight of the bat. The Raspberry Pi is brand new and will require some fiddling to get working properly. Give it a week or so however, and we reckon there will be several pre-packaged installers available for you to use if you lack the skills or time to try these yourself. Make a Media Center The Raspberry Pi may only be tiny, but it has enough graphical oomph to play HD video. A stanley water bottle dd some USB storage or a network share and you can run a full blown media center app, as this demo of the free XBMC media center running on an early test model clearly shows. Raspbmc is a project to build a special version of XBMC optimised for the awesome Raspberry Pi that supports DNLA, AirPlay and 1080p video playback. There is no downloadable code yet, but with a real Pi in his hands, the developer should be able to make speedy progress and coders stanley cup from the full XBMC distro are chipping in too. Simple network storage Chuck a big ol ;USB drive into the Pi and turn on Samba file sharing in the Fedora Remix that comes with it and boom, you have an instant ish network storage device. At its most basic, this is a handy server to stick on your home network from which you can grab music, video, documents or whatever else is too big to fit on your Xyey Google Glasses Aren t Buyable Until 2014. Does that Mean Never
Thanks to Steve Jobs, it way more likely that you learned about his death from a smartphone than a newspaper, but editors all over the world paid tribute to Jobs ; impact with impressive and often sentimental front pages. This front page from Jobs ; home, Palo Alto, California, calls attention to his status as a powerful thought-leader and innovator, while other papers reference gourde stanley the creativity of his product designs or his iconic personality. It somehow fitting that like great individuals before him, Jobs has been t stanley cup reated to homages in newsprint and ink鈥攅ven if he spent most of his life switching the world over to bits. We pulled some of our favorite front pages off the daily round up of more than 800 over at the Newseum. Click expand on the bottom right of images to see more. Hate galleries View as one page. Steve Jobs Remembered On the Front Page The Daily News鈥擯alo Alto, CA [Newseum] The San Jose Mercury News鈥擲an Jose, CA [Newseum] The Chicago Tribune鈥擟hicago, Il [Newseum] RedEye鈥擟hicago, Il [Newseum] Diario de Pernambuco鈥擱ecife, Brazil [Newseum] United Evening News鈥擳aipei, Taiwan The Examiner鈥擲an Francisco, CA [Newseum] The Star Advertiser鈥擧onolul stanley spain u, Hi [ via Newseum] The Ledger Independent鈥擬aysville, KY [ via Newseum] The Bismarck Tribune鈥擝ismarck, ND [ via Newseum] The New York Times鈥擭ew York, NY [ via Newseum] A Gazeta鈥擵it贸ria, Brazil [Newseum] Diario do Comercio鈥擲ao Paulo, Brazil [Newseum] The Bakersfield Califo
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Each April first, Think Geek taunts us with their fake April Fool Day products. While nothing will ever top the Tauntaun sleeping bag, this year imaginary product list includes a big-mouthed Mon Calamari, an inflatable captain chair, and the chance to smell like Daenerys Targaryen. I ;m convinced that the April Fool Day products have been less a gag and more a market test to see which products the public will dema stanley quencher nd. So what will it be this year I know more than a few people who would like Minecrat marshmallows in their Easter baskets, but that inflatable Enterprise chair would look great in my living room. Edit: ThinkGeek emailed to let me know that the captain chair is real. Excellent. [Think Geek] Star Wars Admiral Ackbar Singing Bass: Plays the cantina song and shouts It a Trap! Sure to delight one person in the household and drive everyone else bonkers. Star Trek Inflatable Captain Chair: Maximum weight 120 lbs, so this one only for the petite captains in your life. Free Shrugs T-shirt: Because if you ;re giving it a stanley website way, you might as well advertise it. Minecraft Marshmallow Creeps: For people who prefer pixels to bunny ears. Skyrim Electronic Dragon Shout Hoodie: Perfect for when you spot those pesky dragons overhead. Technomancer Digital Wizard Hoodie: Lights and sounds let you pretend you ;re casting 10 different spells. Game of T stanley tumbler hrones Fire and Blood Perfume: Smell like Zrlo The Stoner Channel: People Getting Twisted, Pond Weed, and James Brown Doing the Beverly
Microbial fuel cells may well be the next black or at least brown gol stanley water bottle d. But to tap those anaerobic reserves, we ;ll need a power station that can run on carbon-rich gas. Something like the DFC-3000 fuel cell鈥攊t turns biogas into power 2200 for homes and their hydrogen cars. stanley vaso https://gizmodo/new-microbial-fuel-cells...to-5891157 Welsh Physicist William Grove patented the first fuel cells back in 1839. A fuel cell is composed of an electrolyte sandwiched between a fuel source something to produce hydrogen and an oxidant. The cell oxidizes the fuel at the anode and draws electrons to the cathode via an external circuit stanley quencher . When the electrons reach the cathode, they recombine with the hydrogen and push ions across the electrolyte and complete the circuit while producing carbon dioxide, water, and a few other trace chemicals. Since these cells are self-contained generators with few moving parts capable of operating without combustion, they are ideally suited for remote areas that are otherwise inaccessible to main power grids or for on-site power for large institutions like hospitals, universities, and utilities. NASA has even employed fuel cells in numerous probes and satellites. Molten Carbonate Fuel Cells MCFC are a hardy variation of the technology. MCFCs were patented by William W. Jacques in 1897 and were developed further by Lawrence Livermore Labs. The heat a lithium potassium carbonate salt until it melts. In the molten state, the carbo
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Just when it seemed like we knew all the dangers of climate change, science has to go and throw us this curveball. Warmer temperatures make lizards ; brains stanley mugs develop di stanley us fferently. Last thing we need is some newly super-intelligent lizards judging us. That the finding of researchers at the University of Sydney in Australia, who tested how rising temperatures affected the intelligence of the tiny lizard species known as the three-lined skinks. Over the last couple of decades, the average temperature of a skink nest has risen three degrees Fahrenheit, despite the females ; attempts to dig deeper nests that will shield their young from the warmer temperatures. Those nest temperatures are likely to only get hotter as global temperatures continue to increase. And while climate change often works to upset the fragile conditions that species need for reproductive success, hotter temperatures could be a positive boon for skinks, as eggs develop differently in response to warmer temperatures. First, eggs grown in hotter conditions tend to create a more equal gender balance 鈥?in cooler temperatures, more males are born because they are more likely to survive cold winters than females. But more importantly, the hotter skinks appear to be much smarter than their cooler counterparts, as Sydney researcher Joshua Amiel discovered with two sets of eggs he stanley mug had incubated, one at 60 degrees and the other at 72. Science explains what happened next: When the skinks were a few w Cnbp Behold Your 2016 Cyborg MLB Starting Lineup
https://youtube/watch v=yQO4_URGyCo Every family has a Thanksgiving tradition. Some do potluck, some oven roast their bird, and some just dunk them in a vat of boiling oil. Unfortunately, that latter tradition also forebears another time-honored holiday repast鈥攕tructural fires. Here are some of the most destructively-impressive turkey tragedies of Thanksgivings past. This is what happens when you stuff a 14-pound turkey with ice cubes, then drop stanley quencher it five feet into a vat of 450 degree oil and finally remember to twist the camera right-side up . Remember to always use baking soda to put out a grease fire. Water just spreads it around the cabana. Shoul stanley cup d the oil be on fire to start That doesn ;t seem right. You had me at EXPLODING TURKEY FIREBALL! but it ; stanley mug s always smart to use a pole鈥攗nless, of course, you aren ;t particularly attached to that hand. The Naval Air Station, Whidbey Island Fire Department proves that you can, in fact, be too prepared when attempting to put a dead bird in a hot pot. https://youtube/watch v=qvlHH7dX7_c The Gwinnett County Fire Department would like to remind you to fully thaw that turkey before submersing it so they won ;t have to pull you from the blazing inferno that you just started. https://youtube/watch v=y40VHx_O_5Y That it, lean waaaaaay over that pot of flaming oil, see if it ready yet. Because, really, who needs facial hair At 1:56 mark to watch him remember his safety gear鈥攂e
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Cool it with the hashtags, don ;t post obsessively, and follow the rapper Rick Ross鈥攁ccording to a new stanley cup short movie from filmmaker Casey Neistat, these are the rules of the road on the old Instagram highway. Neistat gushes over Instagram. It reminds him of those old yellowing photo albums that documented his life as a child, and what it has on other social networks is that it simply about the images. No words are really necessary. But more than a visua stanley mug l love letter, the video is a good guide on how to use Instagram prop stanley cup erly. And how not to annoy the hell out of your friends and followers. [The Clearly Dope] Casey NeistatInstagramSocial networks Mcqh Would You Wear a Google Smartwatch That Looked Like This
Set top boxes aren ;t exactly mobile tech, but Samsung has unveiled its new one at this year Mobile World Congress. The HomeSync aims to work with your mobile devices and serve has a hefty little Android-powered box for all your media. A 1TB box. Running Android Jelly stanley cup becher Bean version unspecified the HomeSync will let users push apps, games, and other media to the an HDTV. No one actually saying Google TV here, but the box will have access to the Google Play store, and can push all that goodness through to your TV at 1080p through its HDMI 1.4 connection. Inside, the HomeSync has an 8GB SSD for OS and basic storage and a gig of RAM, but behind that sits a massive 1TB hard drive that should be enough to satisfy even the most ardent digital pack-rats. Samsung has no illuisions that one person would endeavor to fill that space or should endeavor , so the HomeSync ca stanley cup n support up to 8 different accounts, each of which gets its own little slice, separate from the others, complete with encryption if you want. The HomeSync will be available in the US sometime April 2013, but there no world on how much it ;ll cost, or whether or not it can handle streaming protocols like Miricast, so don ;t lay down all your judgement quite yet. But if nothing else, it bound to be the spiffiest 1TB hard drive out there. [CNET] stanley vaso AndroidSamsungStreaming
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The Olympics are full of beefy men and women throwing heavy things long distances. That just good televisi stanley cup on. But which event takes the most power to compete in MinutePhysics broke down the numbers for the world records in the shot put, javelin, discus, and hammer throw stanley cup . Spoiler: It called the hammer throw. What did you think was stanley bottle going to win [YouTube] MinutePhysicsOlympics Ajgq The kind of cloud that s most often mistaken for a UFO
After a close encounter with Death sickle during a car accident in 2005, Tanya Vlach lost her left eyeball. Not content with any old prosthetic replacement, she wants the Kickstarter community to fund a totally Terminator-style cyborg eyeball. Having appealed to WIRED magazine founder Kevin K stanley cup elly, engineers flocked to her call for ideas, and provided her with a list of features she should be looking for. Well, if you stanley us ;re going to kit out your body with a high-t stanley botella ech bionic eye, you may as well aim high, right Personally, I ;d love to be able to take geotagged photo simply by blinking my eye, or to capture 720p video on the fly. Hoping to raise $15,000 for her new eye, Vlach has already received over $5,000 worth of funding from supportive fans. And if you happen to stump up five grand, you ;ll be awarded with your very own souvenir bionic eyeball. You know 8230;just in case. [Kickstarter via LA Times] CameraCamerasHealth
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The new iPhone 4S is a world phone. Sounds pretty awesome right You and your iPhone 4S circumnavigating the globe. Calls from tiny cafes in Pairs. Texts from the mighty mountains of Macchu Picchu. It going to be beautiful right Sure, if you can a stanley quencher fford it. That new iPhone 4S world phone is gonna bleed you dry sucka. World Phones like the iPhone 4S contain CDMA and GSM radios and allow you to make a call from almost any network in the world. For example, if you ; stanley thermobecher re on Sprint or Verizon CDMA network, you can still take your iPhone 4S to GSM heavy Europe and make calls. Woohooo stanley cups right Yeah, not so much. Having a world phone doesn ;t mean you can grab any ol ; SIM card and throw it in your phone. The carriers still lock your phone to their network while at home and when you ;re traveling, they rely on their international partners. Their very pricey international partners. These partnerships are money printing machines for the carriers. Typical call charges range from $.99/min to $1.29/min for major European and Asian countries. Tiny little Morocco can cost as much as $5.99/min on Sprint network. Data is criminally expensive. AT 038;T and Verizon offer data packages. For $50 AT 038;T offers 125MB. A paltry 150MB will cost you $75 on Verizon. Sprint charges $.019/KB which adds up pretty quickly, and T-Mobile charges $15/MB. These companies aren ;t just charging a premium, they ;re ripping you off while your away from home Wjmm A Year With the Cheapest Unlimited Phone Plan You ve Never Heard Of
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Twitter just got more GIF-friendly, by introducing Vine, a new video-sharing service for clips that are six seconds or less. Vine is an iOS app that captures both motion and sound. Transla stanley cup tion: GIFs MP4 files that you can tweet. Yes, there are similar apps in high supply that already exist. The obvious question is why isn ;t Vine just integrat stanley website ed on Twitter stanley cup usa Since Twitter bought Vine, we ;re going to assume that will be the case eventually. For now it just a fun new GIF making app that plays nice with your tweets. [App Store via Vine, Twitter] iPhone AppsTWITTERVine Jbbg Google Music to Labels: With or Without You
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With all the marvelous text-to-speech and speech-to-text technologies currently in our midst, it surprising to realize just how few of these devices actually serve as assistive devices 鈥?particularly for the h stanley website earing-impaired. But a new invention from a group stanley cup spain of Ukrainian students is set to change all that: They have developed a glove that can translate the movements made by sign language into speech. Called EnableTalk, the gloves are stanley cupe fitted with flex sensors, touch sensors, gyroscopes and accelerometers 鈥?as well as solar cells to increase battery life talk about attention to detail . It has a built in system that can translate sign language into text and then into spoken words using a text-to-speech engine. And the entire system can work over Bluetooth enabling smartphone connection. The project was a finalist at Microsoft Imagine Cup held in Sydney Australia, created by the QuadSquad team. Writing in TechCrunch, Frederic Lardinois explains more: The team has built a number of prototypes and tested them with sign language-users in the Ukraine. The idea for the project, said team member Osika Maxim, came from interacting with hearing-impaired athletes at the groups ; school. The few existing projects that come close to what EnableTalk is proposing generally cost around $1,200 and usually have fewer sensors, use wired connections and don ;t come with an integrated software solution. EnableTalk, on the other hand, says that the hardware for its pr Bklp 22 James Bond Movies Are Your Shaken-and-not-Stirred Deal of the Day
If driving up to a campsite and setting up a tent is too much roughing it to endure, this tent/truck chimera is just what you need to enjoy the great outdoors without sacrificing the amenities of a cabin. The Beer Moth operates stanley taza out of Inshriach House in Cairngorms National stanley uk Park, Scotland. It accommodates two guests so long as they aren ;t children as well as pets. As Canopy and Stars describes the vehicle/domicile, Walter, the creator of the Inshriach Yurt, has truly excelled himself in his seemingly never ending quest for a renovation challenge. Having liberated this 1956 Conmer Q4 from the Manston Fire Museum in Kent and wrestled it back to Inshriach House, he has quite literally raised the roof by a foot . Then he laid an oak parquet floor rescued from a Tudor mansion, salvaged snooker table slate to make a hearth and a fire escape for a staircase. The Beer Moth now also sports a completely over the top Victorian double bed stanley cup , the door from one of the now presumably a little drafty cottages at the farm, and the former back wall of the doghouse. The mahogany plinth has been replaced with a wood-burner, the inexplicable stuffed squirrel has vacated the premises, and the cutting edge of unusual places to stay has been an immediate hit with its first fortunate and slightly bemused guests. The Beer Moth is available for lodgers and rents for about 70 pounds sterling a night. [Canopy and Stars via Neatrorama]
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Bad puns aside, this is actually pret stanley italia ty cool. NASA has set up two webcams in the cleanroom of Goddard Space Flight Center, where engineers are busy assembling the James Webb Space Telescope 鈥?the deep space imaging apparatus stanley termohrnek that will allow us to see farther into space than ever before. The cameras update every sixty seconds, so we ;re not talking live, streaming video; but tune in between 8:00 and 16:30 EST Monday through Friday, and you ;re liable to spy some activity. According to NASA: One piece of hardware you can keep an eye out for is the flight ISIM Structure, a large, b stanley tumblers lack, square, latticed box. This structure will hold Webb science instruments and will sit behind the 6.5 meter mirror. The test versions of several of our instruments are also sometimes visible in the cleanroom. I really hope these snapshots are being catalogued somewhere. That way, in the future, somebody can go through and create a time-lapse of the JWST assembly. That would just rule. [Via NASA] Top image by David Higginbotham via NASA AstronomyAstrophysicsNASAScienceSpace Hgje Gonorrhea is becoming untreatable
As far as dangerous playthings go, trampolines rank right up there with lawn darts and three-wheel ATVs. But for whatever reason they ;ve managed to avoid banishment, at least until this questionable modular trampoline system starts spraining ankles and snapping wrists. The Trampolin Modulus system is composed of various standalone trampoline shapes that can be combined to create a larger course. Kind of like a giant slot car track that will have kids flying off in all directions, instead of scale model cars. For some reason even the people behind the Red Dot Design Awards thought that having kids race each other on a bouncy trampoline course was a great idea, giving t stanley spain he company an honorable men stanley water bottle tion for its creation. And presumably it can also expect a flood of gift baskets from emergency rooms and c stanley cups linics around the world, thanking them for an influx of kids requiring medical attention. [SMB Seilspielgerate GmbH via Gizmag]
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