Prague’s 15th Century Clock Gets a 21st Century Light Show [Video]

Posted on 14th October 2010 by admin in , clock, hd, pixel, video | Tags: , , , , , , , ,

The Astronomical Clock in Prague’s Old Square displays not only time but sunrise, sunset, zodiac, mean revolutions of the moon, and a whole bunch of other crazy stuff. It recently celebrated its 600th birthday with this incredible projected light show.

It’s been a while since New York had a good UFO panic. Today, New Yorkers were frozen in their tracks by what must have been a swarm of aliens searching for the most expensive cigarettes in the Universe. (Or balloons.) More »


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UFOs (Or Balloons) Attack Manhattan! [Video]

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Next Year There Might be Powermat Phones That Charge Wirelessly Without Cases [Charging]

True, you can charge some phones now without buying a special inductive-charging case (via their swappable batteries ), but Powermat wants to work with manufacturers to put the technology into phones from the get-go.

Sure, there are plenty of painting apps for iOS already, but Remote Palette has a neat twist—it connects an iPad and iPhone so the iPad can be used as a canvas, and the iPhone as the color palette. More »


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Use an iPhone as a Color Palette and an iPad as the Canvas With the Remote Palette App [Video]

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Japanese Scientists Teach World’s Creepiest Robot to Sing [Video]

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Meet HRP-4C, a singing “divabot” who mimics human singers’ facial expressions and breath patterns . What a beautiful song she’s singing! We can’t wait to hear it again, in the nightmares we will have about her and her creepy corpse eyes

Meet HRP-4C, a singing “divabot” who mimics human singers’ facial expressions and breath patterns. What a beautiful song she’s singing! We can’t wait to hear it again, in the nightmares we will have about her and her creepy corpse eyes. More »


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Japanese Scientists Teach World’s Creepiest Robot to Sing [Video]

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One City’s Police Force is Tweeting Every Incident for 24 Hours [Twitter]

Posted on 14th October 2010 by admin in , government, hd, pixel, us | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Twitter’s often used for passive-aggressive means, but a British police department is taking on the government in a 24hour-long display of how overworked they really are, by tweeting every single call they receive. 6hours in, that’s over 700 potential crimes. More »

Even though not all of you will understand what “superhydrophobic carbon nanotubes” actually are, everyone will appreciate this video of water droplets shot at varying frame-rate speeds of up to 3,500fps. Except for Martians, perhaps. More »


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What Happens When Water is Dropped Onto Water-Repelling Carbon Nanotubes? [Video]

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Sony’s NEX Cameras Now Support Auto Focus When Using A-Mount Lenses [Cameras]

The brilliant thing about Sony’s NEX-3 and NEX-5 cameras is that they’re compatible with the company’s A-mount lenses (when using the $200 LA-EA1 Mount Adaptor). Thanks to a firmware update, there’s now AF support when using these lenses, plus users can customize the soft-key settings and maintain the aperture settings when recording video. [ Sony ] More »

The brilliant thing about Sony’s NEX-3 and NEX-5 cameras is that they’re compatible with the company’s A-mount lenses (when using the $200 LA-EA1 Mount Adaptor). Thanks to a firmware update, there’s now AF support when using these lenses, plus users can customize the soft-key settings and maintain the aperture settings when recording video. [Sony] More »


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Sony’s NEX Cameras Now Support Auto Focus When Using A-Mount Lenses [Cameras]

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