Will It Blend? iPad Edition
Does it blend? Yes, but first you need to smash the screen and bend the thing in half so it will fit into the blender.
The iPad Is (Just) Television 2.0
The iPad has touched a nerve in the geek community. Judging by comments on Wired.com and elsewhere, many people are outraged that Apple would try to foist a less-capable, dumbed-down device on an unsuspecting public. Thanks to clever marketing, these people point out, Apple has persuaded us to spend
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Database migration.
I spent way too much of last Sunday figuring out how to import over 300 articles from my database of published articles into WordPress, to make it easier to find and manage all that work. Those articles are now visible in the published work category here in my blog. I also switched this site to […]
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Minscul Mini
Minscul Mini, originally uploaded by dtweney. Neatly sidestepping any debates about spelling.
Polyamorous Headset’s Got Love for Xbox, iPhone and Skype
Review of Astro’s A30, a multipurpose headset descended from the company’s popular A40 gaming headphones.
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You Could Easily Swallow This 32-GB MicroSD Card
Two — no, three — things in life are sure: Death, taxes, and the fact that storage manufacturers will continue to cram ever-more ridiculous quantities of memory into tinier packages. SanDisk announced a new 32-GB microSDHC card on Monday, effectively doubling the maximum storage capacity of the tiny
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The Woodstock of Physics
1987: Thousands of physicists crowd a ballroom at the New York Hilton for a hastily arranged marathon session on high-temperature superconductivity. The event generates so much excitement that it is later referred to as the “Woodstock of Physics.” Discovered in 1911, superconductivity is a phenomeno
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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 Lab, but this one’s worth a brief mention. Let’s leave aside Cisco’s breathless hype (it will “forever ch
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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 Monday night, pop band OK Go recruited a gang of very talented engineers to build a huge, elaborate Rub
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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 and an amateur tinkerer, not a trained scientist or engineer. When he h
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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 their e-readers or smartphones for reading on the go. The new feature, reported in
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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 the boots leatherlike rigidity, while keeping them lightweight (about
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