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Archive | July, 2008

Water on Mars

Thursday, July 31, 2008

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NASA reports that the Phoenix Mars Lander has officially found water on Mars. The sample, called “Wicked Witch”, “will continue to be analyzed over the course of the coming weeks as data trickles in.” Click here for first picture in gallery (panorama of Martian landscape). The team has also decided to extend the mission to the [...]

PS3 XBox Controller

Thursday, July 31, 2008

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Ben Heck has done it again, and this time he shows off a nifty PS3 Xbox controller hack. Basically, it’s a “wired 360 controller shoehorned into a DualShock3 shell, complete with green LEDs.” Click here for first picture in gallery. Ben says it works great, rumble included, but that there’s no headset connector and the L2 [...]

Emirates First Class

Thursday, July 31, 2008

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In addition to private cubicles, Emirates first class passengers will now have a full-sized shower room at their disposal. Click here for one more picture. In any case, even if the two of you squeezed in, you would be allowed to bathe only for five minutes so that the rest of the 14 First Class passengers [...]

Soul Calibur 4 - PS3 vs Xbox 360 Comparison

Thursday, July 31, 2008

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GT’s latest graphics comparison video pits the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of Soul Calibur 4 against each other. Continue reading to watch.

Feature: The World’s Largest Indoor Waterparks

Thursday, July 31, 2008

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Indoor wave pools are the highlights of these gigantic indoor waterparks, amongst a variety of waterslides and tubes. Continue reading to see more. Click here for first picture in gallery.

Hard Drive Design

Thursday, July 31, 2008

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Hard drive design goes artistic with Meinos’ latest offerings. These external USB hard drives are “hand-assembled at their studio, using a custom acrylic case (complete with dual cooling fans) covered with a precisely applied vinyl wrapper of one of their designs.” Click here for first picture in gallery. While the cases aren’t cheap ($250 US without [...]

Tuned Mass Damper

Thursday, July 31, 2008

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Located on the top of One Rincon Hill in San Francisco, this liquid tuned mass damper is “an enormous storage tank and it’s full of water - at maximum capacity, approximately 100,000 gallons of the stuff.” Video after the break. well, one rincon hill’s water tank is a different technology designed to battle a similar problem. [...]

2009 Subaru Impreza WRX

Thursday, July 31, 2008

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The 2009 Subaru Impreza WRX features a number of upgrades, including a “retuned 2.5-liter boxer four-pot producing 265 hp and 244 lb.-ft. of torque ? a 41 hp and 18 lb.-ft. increase over the outgoing model.” Click here for first picture in gallery. The suspension has been revised to include stiffer springs, uprated dampers, upper strut [...]

Steel Sculptures

Thursday, July 31, 2008

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Not your standard steel sculptures, these were laser cut into “intricate catepillars, dump trucks and concrete mixers.” Click here for first picture in gallery. Belgian artist Wim Delvoye’s gothic construction vehicle sculptures show what a world after the industrial revolution could have looked like if it was shaped by the same minds that put gargoyles atop [...]

Gears of War Xbox 360

Thursday, July 31, 2008

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This could quite possibly be the best Gears of War Xbox 360 case mod we’ve ever come across. Sporting an “intricate sculptural Gears of War logo, complete with a skull and gear that glows in an ominous red light up when the console is on.” Video after the break. Click here for first picture in [...]