How to Build an Igloo (book review) by Kevin Kelly @ Cool Tools - the book is available at Amazon.
A wonderfully illustrated guide to making snow shelters. How to build with snow, how to work with snow rather than against it, and what not to do. Amazingly informative, succinct and fun. This book is the kind of expert you dream of.
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Original post by Phillip Torrone
If you’re like me, you won’t have heard of Arduino. Outside this sphere of ignorance there’s a whole lot of artists who not only love Arduino, but are passionate about it too.
If you’re in the “What the hell is Arduino?”, this book gives you a good guide to what it it and what can be […]
Original post by Steve Kennedy
In yesterday’s instalment, we loved the Ricoh, Panasonic and Lumix. Read on for our conclusion today of the best high-end digital compact cameras.
Original post by Mike Slocombe
In Part One of our search for the hottest high end digital cameras, we finished by looking for something to beat one of our favourites, the Olympus XA.
That camera was the Ricoh GR, which, like the XA, offered a fixed, wide angle lens in a compact package.
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Join us in our never ending quest to find the perfect, high end digital compact camera.
Original post by Mike Slocombe
In Part One and Part Two we worked our way through some of the best smartphones on the market.
LG K𑑞 Secret
Looking way slick with its carbon fibre battery cover and tempered glass display, the Secret is a neat sliderphone packed with a ton of multimedia gizmos wedged into its slimline frame.
There’s a 5MP […]
Original post by Mike Slocombe
A review of How to Build With Grid Beam @ The Citizen Scientist. Sheldon writes-
How to Build With Grid Beam is a guide to a clever and flexible system of construction for a wide range of home-built projects, from storage units to work spaces to furniture, vehicles, and structures. The system relies on the use of “sticks” or beams of square tube steel or aluminum or wood with holes placed at regular intervals along the length of each stick. Using lag bolts or other fasteners, these sticks can be assembled quickly and easily into structures that are quite robust and easily adapted and reconfigured. And when you are finished with a project, you simply disassemble the project and use the components for something else. By using adapters and add-ons, most of which can be found in hardware stores, industrial supply houses, or fabricated in even a modestly-equipped shop, the system can be expanded to encompass a staggering array of applications.
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Original post by Phillip Torrone
Is Blackberry’s first touchscreen an iPhone killer?
Original post by Mike Slocombe
Filed under: Laptops
Hey guys / gals, check this out. Best Buy is practically admitting that it is just now starting to “gather insights from customers and work with manufacturers to design products that address [consumers’] needs.” In a rather odd release, the big box retailer is announcing two new laptops that’ll be exclusive to its store: the 14.1-inch Toshiba Satellite E105-S1402 and the 13.3-inch HP Pavilion dv3510nr. As for the former, expect a 1.2-inch thin frame, WXGA (1,280 x 800) panel, backlit keyboard, DVD burner, 5.5-hours of battery life and an $1,199 price tag. The HP (shown after the break) will include a LED-backlit WXGA display, up to 4-hours of battery life, inbuilt webcam and precisely the same retail price. Eventually, Best Buy is hoping to expand the Blue Label series to other product lines, though there’s no word on where to find these elusive input cards that it’s supposedly using to pick and choose wares.
Continue reading Exclusive HP / Toshiba laptops first in Best Buy’s Blue Label lineup
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Original post by Darren Murph
Cowards Anonymous writes “NASA’s Center for Computational Sciences is nearly tripling the performance of a supercomputer it uses to simulate Earth’s climate and weather, and our planet’s relationship with the Sun. NASA is deploying a 67-teraflop machine that takes advantage of IBM’s iDataPlex servers, new rack-mount products originally developed to serve heavily trafficked social networking sites.”
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DynaSoar writes “NASA astrophysicists have discovered what they claim is something outside the observable universe exerting an effect on the observable. The material is pulling clusters of galaxies towards a region of space known not to contain sufficient matter to create the effect. They can only speculate on what the material is and how space might differ there: “In these regions, space-time might be very different, and likely doesn’t contain stars and galaxies (which only formed because of the particular density pattern of mass in our bubble). It could include giant, massive structures much larger than anything in our own observable universe. These structures are what researchers suspect are tugging on the galaxy clusters, causing the dark flow.”"
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The next-generation iPod touch fell into analyst Tim Gideon’s hands yesterday, right after he so entertainingly live-blogged the Apple press conference. And he slaved away till the wee hours testing it out. What’s his conclusion? “While the second-generation iPod touch is very similar its predecessor, it has enough extra features, like Genius playlists and excellent games from the Apps Store, to maintain its standing at the top of the PMP heap.”
Get the rest of the details of Tim’s review at PCMag.com.
Original post by Carol Mangis
While audio analyst Tim Gideon slaves away at PC Magazine’s comprehensive review, it’s time for some armchair analysis.
Of late, regardless of what Apple announces, a gray haze of ennui envelops the Apple faithful. And there is some cause for concern: why does the Zune’s implementation of Wi-Fi seem so sophisticated by comparison? Why was there no subscription service? Is the Touch/iPhone platform a true gaming device, or just a dumping ground for dumb apps?
All petty complaints, in my opinion. Sure, what Apple announced was no surprise. And there was no “just one more thing”. But the company listened to its customers, revamped the nano, and offered a few more updates to the Touch. My verdict: not impressive, but not a disappointment, either.
What did you think? And after you’re done telling me, be sure and wander into the Zune versus iPod thread
Original post by Mark Hachman
Microsoft has made a point over the last few years of attempting to steal some of the thunder (and market share) from Apple each time the Cupertino company makes announcements in the world of iPods. True to form, Redmond announced refreshes to its Zune line the night before Apple’s “Let’s Rock” Event.
So now that the dust has started to settle, how do the players compare? Check out some of the vital specs, after the jump.
–Both player lines now cap out at 120GB. In Apple’s case, the Classic gets the prize–the flash-based iPod Touch currently maxes out at 32GB.
–The Flash-based Zunes and the iPod Nanos go head to head in terms of price and capacity: Both offer 8GB and 16GB versions for $149 and $199, respectively.
–Both companies upped the recommendation ante. The Zune will make recommendations based on your listening history and offers new “expert” programmed Zune channels. The iPod, meanwhile, offers the Genius feature via iTunes 8, and now gives users the ability to make quick on-the-go playlists via a new pop-up menu
–As with the iPod touch, Zune users can now download songs via built-in Wi-Fi
–The Zune now ships with two new games: Hexic and Texas Hold ‘em. Apple, meanwhile, introduced a number of new App Store games, including Spore Origins, Real Soccer 2009, and a Need for Speed Undercover, all demoed at today’s announcement.
Original post by Brian Heater
Microsoft has made a point over the last few years of attempting to steal some of the thunder (and market share) from Apple each time the Cupertino company makes announcements in the world of iPods. True to form, Redmond announced refreshes to its Zune line the night before Apple’s “Let’s Rock” Event.
So now that the dust has started to settle, how do the players compare? Check out some of the vital specs, after the jump.
–Both player lines now cap out at 120GB. In Apple’s case, the Classic gets the prize–the flash-based iPod Touch currently maxes out at 32GB.
–The Flash-based Zunes and the iPod Nanos go head to head in terms of price and capacity: Both offer 8GB and 16GB versions for $149 and $199, respectively.
–Both companies upped the recommendation ante. The Zune will make recommendations based on your listening history and offers new “expert” programmed Zune channels. The iPod, meanwhile, offers the Genius feature via iTunes 8, and now gives users the ability to make quick on-the-go playlists via a new pop-up menu
–As with the iPod touch, Zune users can now download songs via built-in Wi-Fi
–The Zune now ships with two new games: Hexic and Texas Hold ‘em. Apple, meanwhile, introduced a number of new App Store games, including Spore Origins, Real Soccer 2009, and a Need for Speed Undercover, all demoed at today’s announcement.
Original post by Brian Heater
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