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2011-04-01T11:15:00.000-07:00

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2011-03-31T11:19:00.000-07:00

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in “All Wet”

2011-03-30T13:23:00.000-07:00

Walt Disney’s original cartoon star. I often wonder what the pop culture landscape would be like if he had not been taken away from Disney.

Kinect hacked to work with PlayStation 3, plays Killzone 3 badly

2011-03-21T08:02:00.000-07:00

Microsoft's Kinect, the fastest-selling gadget ever, has now been hacked to work with the PlayStation 3.

The Kinect isn't directly plugged into a PS3, though (that would be too awesome). Instead, it's plugged into a conventional PC laptop, where PrimeSense's first-party drivers are used to interface with Kinect. The data from Kinect is then converted into a format that the PS3 can understand, and output directly to the console using using diyps3controller, which lets the laptop USB controller interface with the PS3.

There's a video of the developer logging in and playing Killzone 3 on his PS3 using the Kinect after the break. Well, attempting to play Killzon 3, we should say. It seems like the hack has a little way to go before it's actually usable...

The Last App For The Cloud

2011-03-17T13:46:00.000-07:00

Updated: Thanks! Tweet

Curves

2011-03-12T01:44:00.000-08:00

redandjonny: My favorite Tree on Hoth

2011-02-28T11:57:00.000-08:00

Awesome Bacteria Soap Will Keep You Nice and Clean

2011-02-17T05:40:00.000-08:00

By Jimmy Rogers (@me)
Contributing Writer, [GAS]
Valentine’s Day is over, but it’s never a bad idea to stock up on gift ideas for that geeky girl or guy in your life. I just discovered these while browsing Etsy and HAD to share them with the [GaS] community!

These were crafted by Houston-based CleanerScience. As a microbiology researcher, I can tell you they might fool me if you laid them out on my lab bench – they even have the streak marks on them. Of course if they were left open, I’m sure the Apple or Grapefruit scents might give them away!
Even better, here are a couple of “cultures” that will glow in the dark (for fun, or a surprise during a power outage):

So let your geeky sweety know you care with a stack of E. coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and others! Their selection gets extra points for including many less-well known organisms that people might work on in their labs!
P.S. – They also have some neat mini-soaps that look like red blood cells (erythrocytes)!

[CleanerScience's Etsy page]

Photo

2011-02-08T09:17:00.000-08:00

gabulous:This gif is perfect.PRESS PLAY AND LOOK AT...

2011-02-06T12:04:00.000-08:00

This gif is perfect.

PRESS PLAY AND LOOK AT THE GIF.

$30,000 My Keepon Robot On Sale Soon—For $40 [Robots]

2011-02-02T05:05:00.000-08:00

True, it's not the exact robot that initially cost a large percentage of your house, but the My Keepon toy-robot can still recognize music beats and dance in rhythm—so he's doing better than me, at any rate. More »

Ducati Desmo Photography Collection

2011-02-02T02:17:00.000-08:00

The Desmo photography collection features sixteen unique photographs in which Elizabeth Raab has approached and juxtaposed the abstract qualities of the organic and mechanical forms, highlighting the perfection and emotion in design of iconic Ducati motorcycles.

The shots explore the relationship between the designed and the natural. The lines of the mechanical body reflecting the lines of the organic form it was designed after. The unique color palette of the motorcycle extends from the frame of the bike to the features of the model. The model is in an extension of the bike herself. Desmo

Dell Inspiron One 2305 (Blu-ray)

2011-02-01T06:16:00.000-08:00

The Dell Inspiron One 2305 (Blu-ray) ($1,099 direct) is an all-in-one desktop PC with a touch screen, Blu-ray, and competitive performance numbers. While it's not going to usurp the HP TouchSmart 310 ($1,159 direct, 4 stars) of its Editors' Choice, the Dell Inspiron One is certainly a viable alternative—especially if you're looking for a primary media-center PC.
Design & Features
The Inspiron One (Blu-ray) has a 23-inch widescreen with a 1,920 by 1,080 resolution, which means full 1,080p HD viewing. Its frame is made of black plastic that was designed to resemble brushed wood. The rest of the chassis is silver-colored, except for the transparent stand. The desktop is raised high enough that there is a gap to slide the wireless keyboard underneath—a welcome feature when in want of desk space.

On the side of the Inspiron One (Blu-ray) are a few easy-access ports and buttons, including volume and brightness controls, 2 USB 2.0 ports, an SD card slot, Blu-ray player, and audio-in and -out. In the back are 4 more USB 2.0 ports, HDMI, VGA, composite video, S/P DIF, TV Tuner, and Ethernet. It would have been nice to have seen some future-forward external expansion ports like eSATA or USB 3.0. But USB 2.0 will suffice for most of your external hard drive needs—though the data transfer speeds will not be as fast. The Inspiron One does come with 1TB of space that should be able to contain all your multimedia files.
The touch interface that comes with the Inspiron One (Blu-ray) is the "Dell Stage," and while I enjoyed some of the added games and apps, I felt like it was a completely separate experience. The Dell Stage is essentially a dock bar that sits on the Windows 7 desktop and you can launch touch apps from there. In comparison, the HP TouchSmart 310 has a whole interface dedicated to touch that you can launch on top of Windows 7. I would have liked to see something more advance than a toolbar with no app store, but maybe version 2.0 will have more to offer.

Specifications

Type: Mainstream, All-in-one, Digital Entertainment System
Processor Family: AMD Athlon II X4
RAM: 8 GB
Storage Capacity (as Tested): 1000 GB
Graphics Card: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470
Primary Optical Drive: Blu-Ray Disc
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium

Performance
The Dell Inspiron One (Blu-ray) comes outfitted with a 2.4GHz AMD Athlon II X4610e processor, 8GB of DDR3 RAM, and an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470 graphics chipset. With these components, the Inspiron One (Blu-ray) scored well on our PCMark Vantage test (5,354), which measures overall computing performance. Compared with the HP 310 that sports a slightly faster 2.5GHz Athlon II X4 615e processor, it scored 656 points less than the Inspiron One (Blu-ray). The HP310, however, bested the Inspiron One (Blu-ray) by mere seconds in our Handbrake video encoding test (2:56 HP, 3:03 Dell), Cinebench R11.5 (2.82, 2.7), and Photoshop CS5 (6:42, 6:56).
The Inspiron One (Blu-ray) is no 3D powerhouse, but it faired well in our 3DMark Vantage test (6,572). However, it ran Lost Planet 2 at a slideshow pace of 11 frames per second (fps) on Middle quality and it couldn't even run our Crysis test. Your gaming experience is probably going to be limited to games like Starcraft II, World of Warcraft, and Farmville.
The Dell Inspiron One 2305 (Blu-ray) has all the performance to make it a decent all-in-one desktop, but a touch PC must have the added features to make the touch-functionality worthwhile. As it stands the HP TouchSmart 310 has the better applications coupled with its multi-touch screen.
BENCHMARK TEST RESULTS
Check out the test scores for the Dell Inspiron One 2305 (Blu-ray)
COMPARISON TABLE
Compare the Dell Inspiron One 2305 (Blu-ray) with several other desktops side by side.

Source:PcMag

How to Buy a Business Printer

2011-02-01T06:12:00.001-08:00

Of all the ways you can slice and dice printers into categories, the most significant distinction is between printers meant for the home and those meant for the office. Here are the key questions to ask as they apply to office printers.
Do you need a single-function printer or an multifunction printer (MFP)?
Consider whether you'd rather have separate devices for faxing, copying, scanning, and printing versus a single machine that does it all. At a minimum, an MFP combines a printer and scanner and works as a copier as well. For an office MFP, you'll probably want one that also works as a standalone fax machine. Advantages of MFPs include cost and space savings, as well as integration of some features.
On the other hand, single-function printers are optimized for certain tasks that your business may require. Laser printers for general office use are usually faster than comparably priced MFPs. Photo and graphic arts studios will certainly want a high-end photo printer, and probably a single-function scanner as well. Road warriors may also want to get a portable scanner, for scanning business cards or receipts while away from the office. Of course, buying a specialized device doesn't preclude you from getting an MFP as well.
If you decide you want an MFP, you might also want to look for an e-mail feature, which is potentially more useful than faxing. Most often, that means the AIO will launch an e-mail message on your PC and attach a scanned document. Some AIOs can e-mail scanned documents directly, however, and a few offer both choices.
Finally, if you are getting an MFP, you should demand an automatic document feeder (ADF) so that you can fax, copy, scan, or e-mail multipage documents with minimal work. ADFs also generally handle legal-size pages, even if the flatbed is limited to letter size.
Do you really need color?
If you never print anything but letters and monochrome documents, there's no reason to spend money on color. When considering whether you need color, though, keep in mind that many color lasers can print at high-enough quality to let you produce your own advertising handouts and trifold brochures. If you tend to print only a few hundred copies of this sort of output at a time, doing it yourself can save substantial amounts of money compared with printing small quantities at your local print shop.
How big a printer are you comfortable with?
Just because something is called a desktop printer doesn't mean it's small enough that you'd want it on your desk. Even a printer with a small footprint can be tall enough for you to feel as if it's towering over you. Be sure to check out the size.
How are you going to connect?
Most printers designed for the office include both USB and Ethernet ports, but you may prefer a wireless connection, particularly in a home office. Keep in mind, though, that if you have a wireless access point on your network, you can print wirelessly from your computer to any printer on that network, whether the printer itself offers a wireless connection or not.
What level of output quality do you need?
Printers vary significantly in output quality. Check out text, graphics, and photos separately, since high quality for one kind of output doesn't necessarily mean high quality for the others.
For office use, you probably want the kind of crisp, clean edges for text and line graphics that you can only get from a laser printer. But consider also whether you need graphics and photos that are merely good enough for internal business use, or whether you need high-enough quality to print your own marketing materials.
How much speed do you need?
If almost everything you print is one or two pages, you probably don't need a fast printer. But if you print a lot of longer documents, speed is more important. In that case, be sure you're judging speed by actual throughput. Most importantly, note that you can't compare claimed speeds for inkjets with claimed speeds for lasers. As a rule, laser printers will be close to their claimed speeds for text documents, which don't need much processing time. Inkjets often claim faster speeds than more expensive lasers, but don't live up to the claims.
How much do you print?
Figure out how much you print by how often you buy paper and in what amounts. Then pick a printer designed to print at least that much.
Unfortunately, this isn't as simple as it could be. Contrary to what most people think, a printer's maximum monthly duty cycle isn't the maximum you should be printing. It's the maximum you can print without damaging the printer. Some manufacturers state a recommended maximum in addition to a maximum duty cycle. For those that don't, you can follow the (very rough) rule of thumb of picking a printer whose maximum duty cycle is at least three times the number of pages you print per month.
Also consider input capacity. The rule of thumb here is to pick a printer with enough capacity to let you add paper no more than once a week.
There are other paper-handling issues, too: Check the minimum and maximum paper size. And if you need to print on both sides even occasionally, make sure the printer has an automatic duplexer. (Many small-business printers, even light-duty models, now include one as a standard feature.) Keep in mind, too, that the more people are in your office, the more you may benefit from things like a stacker or sorter, to keep the print jobs separate from each other. Also consider whether you can benefit from a finisher to handle things like stapling and hole punching.
How much does it cost?
Finally, be sure to check out the running cost and total cost of ownership. Most vendors will tell you the cost per page. To get the total cost of ownership, multiply the cost per page by the number of pages you print per year, then multiply that by the number of years you expect to own the printer, and add the initial cost of the printer. Compare these totals for any printers you're considering, and you may well find that you'll save money in the long run by buying the more expensive printer. Once you're armed with that information, you're ready to pick the best choice for your office.

Source:PcMag

Super Meat Boy patched on XBLA, new levels to follow

2011-02-01T06:10:00.000-08:00

If you envision Microsoft's nebulous certification process as a sadistic Super Meat Boy level -- some lava pits here, a few saw blades everywhere -- you may understand why a tiny weakling of a file, less than 1MB in size, spent over 3 months attempting to survive the gauntlet unscathed. Yes, the Super Meat Boy patch, which should cover up all of the squishy protagonist's oozing faults (including that auto-save glitch), is now available on Xbox Live Arcade. Just launch the game to download it automatically.

With the XBLA version corrected, Team Meat can continue pushing new content to "Teh Internets," the in-game hub that hosts free, downloadable levels. Indie developer Gaijin Games is constructing a level pack for Commander Video, and Michael "Kayin" O'Reilly -- indefensibly evil creator of I Wanna Be The Guy -- is making some Kid-unfriendly levels. Team Meat's Edmund McMillen says that a pack remixing Super Meat Boy's best bits is also on the way. "We also have a few other devs lined up but we want to space level updates out a bit," he tells us.

The game's level editor and level portal will be live on Steam "as soon as possible," he adds, and "we will also have a few cool bits of info about the future of SMB around that time as well." So ... that's a lot of incoming levels. When you've conquered all of them, it'll be time to concern yourself with a different kind of certification -- that of your inevitable insanity.
Source: Team Meat (Twitter)

Animatrix Jue vs Thaddeus: Is it the best animation video?

2011-02-01T05:57:00.000-08:00

PRINCE vs ASSASSIN

2011-02-01T05:28:00.000-08:00

This Is Sparta!!!

2011-02-01T05:25:00.000-08:00

Videos of stick figure fighting - Xiao Xiao 3

2011-02-01T05:19:00.000-08:00

Animator vs Animation 2

2011-02-01T05:07:00.000-08:00

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Ice Age 4 Teaser

2011-02-01T04:59:00.000-08:00

Ice age teaser.

Intel's mSATA SSD 310 reviewed: a pint-size performer through and through

2011-01-30T11:18:00.001-08:00

The forecast for speedy, razor-thin laptops is looking pretty sunny right about now, because it seems Intel's SSD 310 truly does bring the power of a full-sized solid state drive on a tiny little board. Storage Review and The SSD Review thoroughly benchmarked the tiny 80GB mSATA module this week, and found it performs even better than advertised -- easily tearing through 200MB / sec reads and 70 MB / sec writes -- which put it slightly behind Intel's legendary X25-M series but well ahead of the company's X25-V boot drives. While we're still not seeing Sandforce speeds from Intel's tried-and-true controller and 34nm silicon and they might not make Toshiba's Blade run for the hills, we can't wait to test it out in some new Lenovo ThinkPads when they integrate the SSD 310 later this year. Oh, by the way, that big green board up above isn't the drive. It's actually the tiny one on top.

Source: Storage Review, The SSD Review

Toshiba Dynabook Qosmio T750 laptop has a lid that changes color on both sides

2011-01-30T11:17:00.001-08:00

It's been a long time since we used a laptop that had a monochromatic display -- it was a giant white block of a thing that is not missed -- but flip around just about every laptop we use today and you find a backside that stubbornly refuses to change color no matter the light that hits it. Is that a problem? Not really, we think it's quite fine since we're not often staring at that bit, but for Toshiba such tedium simply won't do, so it's introducing the Dynabook Qosmio T750 with a color-shifting lid. Turn it in the light and it shifts and shimmers, just like the chameleon paint tuners have been using on custom rides for decades. Here, though, we're told it's done with multiple layers of film, no paint at all. Oh, the inside? A 2.66GHz Intel Core i5-480M, 4GB of DDR 3 memory, and a 15.6-inch, 1366 x 768 display that's LED backlit -- which is also capable of displaying multiple colors, in case you're interested.
Source:RegHardware

Olympus XZ-1 reviewed: $499 for sweet simplicity

2011-01-30T11:16:00.000-08:00

We had a feeling the Olympus XZ-1 would be a winner, and Digital Photography Review seems to think so, too -- it called the 10 megapixel, full-manual point and shoot "the best photographers' compact currently available" at the end of a thorough review. Most of the praise was heaped on that F1.8-2.5 Zuiko lens, providing an "unbeaten combination of range and brightness" whose potent, detailed low-light performance was practically enough to cancel out the publication's worries about the lack of a adjustable noise reduction setting. Though the publication admitted that the camera lacked the customization of certain Micro Four Thirds cousins, it didn't miss most of the advanced controls, preferring the streamlined menus and manual dials for easy access to common adjustments. (Battery charging over USB and a dedicated movie button were also deemed nice touches.) In fact, the only major ding DPReview had for Olympus was the complete omission of auto exposure and autofocus locks for focus-and-recompose shooting, but if you're willing to snap shots using Olympus's 11 AF points and aren't looking to tote a set of expensive interchangeable lenses around, this might be the one. Dive into our source link to find out for sure.

Source:DPReview

Sanho announces new HyperDrive line-up, still enough storage for your Frank Zappa discography

2011-01-30T11:15:00.000-08:00

Surely you remember Sanho's HyperDrive lineup -- ya know, the only portable HDD that plays nicely with the iPad? Well, if you don't dig the $249 entry level price, you're in luck. The company just announced a bunch of new HDDs for you to take with you and your iPad on that road trip you've had planned for years. As we saw at CES, the new drives no longer sport the QVGA color display or the CF and SD card slots -- instead, the black case has two mini USB ports and a power socket. The HyperDrive doesn't come with the traditional AC adapter but instead a USB-to-DC cable and the user-replaceable battery will allow up to 40GB of transfers on a single charge. And if you're wondering why there's two USB ports, we really couldn't tell you. Perhaps if you choose the right port while connected to your PC and enter the Konami code, unicorns and fairy dust will pop out of your screen -- wishful thinking, we know. The HyperDrives ship in March (pre-ordering is available now) with prices starting at $99 for a bring-your-own-drive housing, 1TB for $349 and various sizes in-between. So, if your photo/video library is worth accessing at all times, well, props to you. Press release is after the break.