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Pinball Machines Were Sneakier Than You Think [Retromodo]
There's a great read over at Cheap Talk about how digital pinball machines changed the industry, back when there still was an industry. They were big tables where you flick a ball around, but they were smarter than you think. In the olden days of pinball, there wasn't much to adjust. Free game score …
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Pinball Machines Were Sneakier Than You Think [Pinball]
There's a great read over at Cheap Talk about how digital pinball machines changed the industry, back when there still was an industry. They were big tables where you flick a ball around, but they were smarter than you think. In the olden days of pinball, there wasn't much to adjust. Free game score …
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The Rock Explains How NASA Helps Our Rock [Nasa]
Cross promotions sometimes don't make much sense. I've got nothing against Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson for agreeing to pitch NASA to youngsters, but really, there are better ways to capture youth attention. The Rock just wants to make sure we remember that NASA's responsible for the rubber soles on ou …
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If the Xperia X10 Partners Up, It'll Be With AT&T [Xperiax10]
Anyone hoping to see the Sony Ericsson X10 on T-Mobile, look away now or you'll be sorely disappointed. Phandroid noticed that the American version of the X10 won't support the necessary frequencies to connect to T-Mobile's network. Yup, even though the specs page lists support for UMTS/HSPA 800/850 …
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Here We Go Again: Camera Equipped iPod Touch This Spring? [Rumor]
Just when you thought you could forget about the elusive bugger, rumors about an iPod Touch with a built-in camera start up again. The latest report points to a Spring 2010 refresh that will finally include a video camera. The latest rumor reads like it's August all over again, but it does have one …
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Here We Go Again: Camera Equipped iPod Touch This Spring? [IpodTouch]
Just when you thought you could forget about the elusive bugger, rumors about an iPod Touch with a built-in camera start up again. The latest report points to a Spring 2010 refresh that will finally include a video camera. The latest rumor reads like it's August all over again, but it does have one …
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Put Good Looking Game Controllers On Your Tree [Design]
If you really want to put video game controllers on your tree, please hang these up. They're a much better option than dangling your filthy old Saturn controller by its cord. [Ponoko via Technabob]
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Apple Denying Support to Smokers? [Apple]
The Consumerist is reporting that two Mac users were denied AppleCare coverage because the owners were smokers. Not because the computers were damaged by second hand smoke, but because of OSHA regulations. According to separate reports, Apple denied coverage for two users in 2008 based on the fact t …
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Magic Mouse Drivers for Windows Now Available [Apple]
Magic Mouse owners lusting for multi-finger gestures on a PC can stop wishing. Some good ol' fashioned hackery pulled Windows drivers from the latest Bootcamp update. You can grab them here, report back with results. [Uneasy Silence, thanks Dan!]
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The World’s Largest Earthquake-Safe Building [Architecture]
The new terminal at Istanbul's Sabiha Gökçen Airport is the world's largest earthquake-safe building. You're looking at the over two million square feet of scaffolding that support it, all resting on top of giant geological roller skates. Instead of being built on top of the soil, the whole structur …
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Gifts for Retro-holics Who Yearn for the Old Days [Giftguide]
Are you trying to find a gift for one of those crazies who's always going on about the superiority of vinyl, or who dresses like a character on Mad Men? Here are some ideas for the retrophile in your life. BTW, if you hate the gallery format as much as the Grinch hated Christmas, click here. Leica …
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3D Scanning, a Webcam's Latest Trick [Cameras]
We've seen cameras do all kinds of crazy things. DIY 3D photography, augmented reality, and now this demo by Qi Pan shows how an ordinary webcam can model objects in 3D. I'm in no position to discuss the amount of technical wizardry in play here, but I do think the interface is really great. Look at …
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Robot Polar Bears: Less Dangerous Than Real Bears, For Now [Robots]
Instead of replacing the St. Louis Zoo's deceased polar bears with live ones, zoo officials put robots up in their place. This slightly-better-than-average yard display will surely be remembered as the humble beginning of the robot bear uprising. The robot polar bears are part of the zoo's holiday e …
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Robot Polar Bears: Less Dangerous than Real Bears, For Now [Robots]
Instead of replacing the St. Louis Zoo's deceased polar bears with live ones, zoo officials put robots up in their place. This a slightly-better-than-average yard display will surely be remembered as the humble beginning of the robot bear uprising. The robot polar bears are part of the zoo's holiday …
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Wired for the Apple Tablet [Apple Tablet]
We still don't know what the fabled Apple Tablet actually looks like, or if it even exists, really, but this concept magazine reader from Condé Nast gives us a glimpse at what to expect from tablet apps. Turn down your volume before hitting play, loud techno music awaits. Down? OK, good. Now let's l …
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How Do You Hide From the Internet? [Internet]
Wired writer Evan Ratliff spent 27 days in constant fear of getting caught as a small army of amateur and professional investigators hunted him. He had a bounty on his head and the Internet nipping at his heels. Vanish, a combination of a manhunt and an experiment, began at 5:38 pm on August 14, 200 …
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Windows 7 Sales Are Great (Just Like Vista Sales in 2007) [Flashback]
March, 2007: Windows Vista's initial sales are great, "more than doubling" those of its predecessor, Windows XP. Flash forward to November, 2009: Windows 7 initial sales are 234% higher than Vista's. Those numbers sound awfully similar... What does this all mean? To be honest, not all that much&mdas …
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My Dream Coffee Cup is Now Reality [USB]
Unlike T.S. Eliot, I can't measure life out in coffee spoons. I tend to lose the darn things. That's exactly why this self-stirring, self-heating, USB-chargeable coffee cup is the stuff my caffeine-deprived daydreams are made of. Brando calls it the USB Whirl Wind Warmer Cup and it's all too lovely. …
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Earth's Weather Like You Have Never Seen It Before [Science]
newVideoPlayer("/gizmodo-clouds.flv", 500, 375,""); This video shows Earth's weather from August 17 to August 26, 2009. It also shows how beautiful this planet is, and how insignificant we are. It was created at a 7-kilometer resolution with NASA's GEOS-5 atmospheric general circulation model. The G …
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OK, Now I'm Nervous About the Large Hadron Collider [Blockquote]
I used to think that nothing would happen with the Large Hadron Collider. I even made fun of the nutters saying it's going to destroy the world. After reading CERN Director for Accelerators's latest statement, I'm not so sure: The LHC is a far better understood machine than it was a year ago. We've …
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