This year, were going to kick your socks off!
Because of our Contests (Read January 4th 2011 Post),
Gadgets, DELUXE IMAGARY GALLERY (June 2011)
Trouble Shooting Support Center (May 2011), New Blogs in
Categories, And
Way Way More!
To kick the new Awesome year of the Please enjoy our newest post from 2011!
Why scan when you can snap?
Article by Rainbow Posts, image credit by popular science.
Wouldn't it be great to get a copy of a sheet of paper in less 3 seconds, well unlike most scanners, this one has a new type of way to copy images and text, in color and in black and white -- its' technique? instead of using a slow-moving sensor bar to copy a image or text by scrolling over the documents, little by little at a time. well, the Lexmark Genesis replaced that ol' bar with a retooled camera sensor that takes the whole image in one flash. it can do that in as little as 3 seconds as what other scanners would do in as much as 20 seconds to accomplish.
Polaroid's crazy GL20 camera glasses, designed by the Haus of Gaga
By Popular science & Rainbow Posts
By Popular Science
Four stories from this week on PopSci are immortalized here in Baarbarian's illustration. Hint: there's a big rat in one of them.
The company chose CES, not next week’s Detroit Auto Show, to pull the cloth off its first all-electric offering
We’ve heard it said that electric cars make driving like using an iPhone app. It’s not true, but Ford’s choice of venue for the reveal of the Ford Focus Electric—the Consumer Electronics Show—probably won’t help change that perception.
On the bright side, that's sooner than others suggest
Interstellar travel won’t be possible for at least 200 years, according to a former NASA propulsion scientist who has some new calculations. And by then, the spaceships we would design for the trip will be obsolete. Forget cost, political will and all the other variables — simply obtaining enough energy will take until 2196, according to Marc Millis, former head of NASA's Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project and founder of the Tau Zero Foundation, which supports interstellar travel research.
All the camera-related goodies Las Vegas has to offer
In Popular Photography's gallery from CES, see everything you need to shoot the future.
This 7-inch gaming netbook packs totally customizable keys
From the annals of goofy might-or-might-not-happen CES concepts comes the Razer Switchblade, a 7-inch gaming netbook from venerable gaming accessory maker Razer. A 7-inch screen is a distinctly small size for a Windows 7 computer, and for gaming it seems particularly problematic. Razer has an interesting way of dealing with the problem of an undersized keyboard: Pop OLED screens under every single one, so you can totally change the configuration of the keyboard at will.
Less a format war and more a format argument
By Geoffrey MorrisonPosted 01.07.2011 at 4:13 pm
LG and VIZIO announced today many new models with Passive 3D. This contrasts with Panasonic, Samsung, Sony, and Sharp who all announced new Active 3D models.
The main differences are that active uses comparatively heavy and expensive LCD shutter glasses. The advantage to this method is that you can have full HD resolutions with minimal modifications to the underlying television. The disadvantages are that potential for flicker, crosstalk, and the aforementioned glasses.
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These are the gadgets and other tech that set the pace for the year that will be 2011
CES 2011, like most years, requires wading through seemingly endless piles of gadgety detritus. But buried amongst the technophilic rubble are gems: Those products that genuinely excite us, the ones that make the trip not only worthwhile but actually fun. These few gadgets and technologies will set the tone for 2011: They're embracing new ideas, whether it's ridiculously fast wireless internet, shape-shifting gadgets, or groundbreaking ways to keep us safe. CES at its best is a glimpse into the near future, and these are the products that exemplify that.
Large scale farming is a dirty business, but Taiwan’s environmental authorities have come up with a novel way to clean up it’s six-million-swine pig farming industry: a href="http://green.yahoo.com/news/afp/20110105/od_afp/taiwananimalspollutionfarmoffbeat.html">potty train the pork
. The Environmental Protection Administration has pledged to increase the number of toilet trained pigs in that country after one breeder successfully reduced the amount of waste water on his 10,000-pig operation by 80 percent by teaching his pigs to use the toilet.
After using BlackBerry's dual-core wonder, my mind was more than a little blown
BlackBerry's PlayBook tablet was announce way back in September, but this is the first time the press has been able to get their sweaty fingers all over it. I played with the 7-incher at BlackBerry's booth here at CES, and came away not just impressed, but amazed: This is a legitimate competitor to the iPad and
Motorola Xoom, and deserves a serious look from everyone, not just BlackBerry's core corporate audience.
The case for real 3D immersion, without the hokey glasses
3D glasses are a hot topic at CES 2011. Monster has been bragging about their $250 pair that works with any 3DTV. Samsung debuted their "lightest pair ever," weighing in at just one ounce. And Vizio — among others — have been touting the fact that their passive 3DTVs work with the cheap-o polarized glasses you get at the movies.
But what has really caught our attention are those that have managed to nix the eyewear all together.
Verizon's new 4G network is a huge step forward. This is how you'll experience it
At Verizon's CES press conference, we got a full look at the range of devices that'll use VZW's new 4G network (for more info on the confusing world of 4G,
check out our explainer). The phones and tablets are definitely of a type, exclusively running Android, but they all look pretty solid. They're more important because they'll be your way in to next-gen, super-fast mobile speed.
Instead of succumbing to the smartphone, this watch works with it
Phones have done a number on watches--all too many people have ditched the wristwatch in favor of just whipping out their phones to check the time. But Casio's new watch uses Bluetooth to work with phones (in particular, Android smartphones), delivering crucial information and offering some pretty sweet new features, including a "find my phone" feature and caller ID.
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The Mac App Store Interface
It’s wasn’t unexpected but for those of us running Snow Leopard on our Macs it is significant: Apple launched it’s Mac App Store today as part of an update to Mac OS X 10.6, bringing the current version up to 10.6.6. For the uninitiated, the Mac App Store is like the App Store in iTunes that lets you purchase and load software apps to peripherals like the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, but the apps are optimized to run on your computer. That’s right: Angry Birds for your desktop. The launch hasn’t been completely without glitches – some users have reported experiencing “unknown error 100” messages when navigating. But initial reviews are largely positive, accompanied by the usual smattering of negative Apple-bashing appraisals (they're not without merit; check out Lifehacker's righteous list of grievances). R
Perhaps the biggest initial pro: Apple's iLife ’11 offerings are available piecemeal for $14.99 and iWork programs (Pages, Keynote, Numbers) are available a la carte for $19.99. So if you need a word processor and you like iPhoto but don’t feel the need to create slideshow presentations or GarageBand ballads, you don’t have to pay for what you don’t use.
But naturally Apple offerings are the minority. More than 1,000 paid and unpaid apps are available at launch, ranging from the free to the pricey (among the pricier apps I saw after a quick spin around the store: Apple’s Aperture 3 at $79.99. Unsurprisingly, it was also the top grossing app at the time of this writing). The anticipated Twitter app for Mac (successor to Tweetie) is also live in the store.
You can’t download the Mac App Store, as it’s embedded in a system upgrade for Snow Leopard (sorry Leopard and Tiger users). To get it, simply run the software update function in the Apple drop down menu. When your computer finishes the post-update reboot, you’ll find that iconic Apple App Store logo (the one from the iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch) in your taskbar.
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