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Just How Fast Is Cisco’s New Router? Really Freaking Fast | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
Cisco Tuesday announced a new router, the CRS-3, that it says is capable of delivering 322 terabits per second.Now, we don’t usually cover routers and similar enterprise hardware here in Gadget ...
How OK Go’s Amazing Rube Goldberg Machine Was Built | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
In music, timing is everything. When you’re dancing with an enormous machine, it’s even more important to get the timing correct, down to the microsecond.For its latest video, released on YouTube ...
Feb. 25, 1837: Davenport Electric Motor Gets Plugged In | This Day In Tech | Wired.com
1837: The U.S. Patent Office approves Thomas Davenport’s application for a patent on an “Improvement in Propelling Machinery by Magnetism and Electro-Magnetism.” We’d call it an electric motor.Davenport was a Vermont blacksmith ...
Scribd Pushes Content to Smartphones, E-Readers | Epicenter | Wired.com
While magazine, newspaper and book publishers wrestle with the logistics and technical details of publishing to the Apple iPad, Scribd has an alternative: a “send-to-device” feature that lets people send documents to ...
Lightweight Boots Shore Your Feet Up, Never Weigh Them Down
Review: Kayland Zephyr Hiking Boots Hikers usually have to choose between boots that are lightweight and boots that are protective and supportive. Kayland's Zephyrs override that dilemma with a polyurethane exoskeleton that gives ...
In the Future, One CF Card Will Hold 200 Years’ Worth of Porn | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
Someday, you’ll be able to fit as much data in a small, square CompactFlash card as AT&T carries on its entire network in a week.In theory at least, version 5 of the ...
Stormy Weather Cannot Defeat Re-Engineered Umbrella
Review: Blunt UmbrellaOn a recent stormy San Francisco day, pedestrians all around me struggled as the wind made their bodega-bought umbrellas leap like impatient leashed puppies, or worse yet, flip inside-out like ...
Sun CEO Departs in Geek Style, With a Haiku
Sun’s erstwhile CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced his retirement Wednesday night in a uniquely geeky way: With a haiku posted to Twitter. Financial crisis Stalled too many customers CEO no more Schwartz’s decision to announce ...
Sprint Leapfrogs Verizon With Fast 4G Hot-Spot Device | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
Verizon’s MiFi was one of our favorite products of 2009: It takes a 3G wireless data signal and turns it into a Wi-Fi hot spot.Now Sprint has one-upped Verizon with the ...