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Turn Your E-Waste into Stylish Furniture
Posted by Mike Yawney on January 29th, 2012 View Comments
If you own a computer there’s a good chance you have a drawer or box somewhere filled with old parts. Keyboards, mice, cables all packed away collecting dust. Designer Rodrigo Alonso must have had the same problem, only he found a creative way to use them; turn them into furniture.
Alonso takes a wide assortment of e-waste and turns them into what he calls N+ew Seats. He takes everything from everything from CDs to keyboards and combines them with an epoxy. The end result is what you see above, a unique chair which acts like an electronic time capsule.
The Chilean artist has made a few different models. In some he has chosen to keep the epoxy transparent while in others he added a hint of colour to give a dramatic effect. Check out some of the other samples below.
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Wii U Controller to include NFC Technology
Posted by Mike Yawney on January 27th, 2012 View Comments
Nintendo’s latest quarterly report didn’t paint a very rosy picture for the company. Profits were down 61 percent from the last quarter, a scary sign since Christmas is traditionally a good time for videogame companies. But Nintendo’s President Satoru Iwata told investors not to panic. The Wii U is just around the corner and Iwata promises it will pack a punch, sporting new technology we haven’t seen in consoles to date, including near field communication.
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Latest COD Map Pack a Little Too Elite?
Posted by Sean Taylor on January 26th, 2012 View Comments
Membership has its privileges, we suppose. But the latest Call Of Duty DLC may be stretching that concept a little far. That is, at least, even according to it’s own EULA.
It turns out that the Call Of Duty Elite map pack that recently became available is locked down to only one profile on the console, says multiple users on various COD forum threads. Which means, if your bro or sis wanted to use the maps packs to boost their own gamerscore, it looks like they’re SOL.
Even under the conditions of the download, “You can use this item on the first Xbox 360 console you downloaded it to. Access to this item will also be granted to all users on this first console.”
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Canadian Teens Send Lego Man into Space
Posted by Mike Yawney on January 26th, 2012 View Comments
A couple of Canadian teens are making headlines across the country and around the world after a video they posted on YouTube went viral.
Mathew Ho and his buddy Asad Muhammad came up with a plan to attach a Lego figure to a weather balloon and launch them high into the atmosphere. The pair was inspired by similar projects in the US – so they decided to go ahead with it.
Now they have the video to prove it can be done!
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Netflix Considers Streaming 3D Content, Continues to Invest in Canada
Posted by Mike Yawney on January 25th, 2012 View Comments
Netflix has announced its 4th quarter results for 2011 and the news was better than expected. Despite having a rough year south of the border, Netflix managed to gain 220,000 new streaming customers bringing the total to 21.67 million with 1.9 million customers in Canada.
The company was quick to point it made a significant improvement in content for Canadians with the addition of tier one movies such as Black Swan, True Grit and Rango. It also maintained the prospect for growth is exciting enough to continue pushing for tier one titles for Canada which will eat up the prospects of making any sort of profit in our country. In fact Netflix doesn’t expect to begin making money in Canada until at least Q3 of this year.
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NASA Releases “Most Amazing, Highest Resolution Image of Earth Ever”
Posted by Mike Yawney on January 25th, 2012 View Comments
Two years ago NASA released “Blue Marble”, a high resolution image of Earth created from thousands of pictures taken from its Terra satellite. Now, two years it has released yet another version, this time at a much higher resolution.
Blue Marble 2012 was created using images from NASA’s new Suomi NPP satellite. Using the satellite’s Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite instrument NASA was able to capture an 8000 x 8000 pixel image of our planet.
NASA is calling it the “most amazing, highest resolution image of Earth ever.” What do you think?
You can download a larger version for your desktop at the link below.
[Flickr]
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Next Xbox to be Six Times More Powerful?
Posted by Mike Yawney on January 25th, 2012 View Comments
No one is sure just what Microsoft will call the next generation Xbox, but the folks over at IGN claim to know a bit about the console’s insides.The website claims the console will pack a GPU based on AMD’s 6000 series of chips and will be six times as powerful as the current Xbox 360 with 20 percent greater performance than Nintendo’s forthcoming Wii U console.
IGN also claims the chip will go into production by the end of the year, with developer kits handed out shortly after.
Microsoft is expected to talk about the console at this year’s E3 in June.
[IGN]
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Apple Posts Highest Quarterly Revenue and Earnings Ever
Posted by Mike Yawney on January 25th, 2012 View Comments
This really should come as no surprise however the numbers truly are staggering. Apple has just announced its first quarter earnings for 2012, reporting $46.33 billion in total sales with $13.06 billion earnings.
In the last 14 weeks of 2011 (first quarter of the 2012 fiscal year) Apple sold 37.04 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 128 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. iPads were just as popular as ever with 15.43 million sold during the quarter, a 111 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. And Mac computers are certainly gaining more market share as 5.2 million were sold, a 26 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter.
The only disappointing news for Apple related to the iPod. While Apple sold 15.4 units that represented a 21 percent decline from the same quarter one year ago.
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You’ve Got A Week Before Facebook Timeline Is Manditory
Posted by Sean Taylor on January 24th, 2012 View Comments
It’s time to start dredging up the past because the FB Timeline feature isn’t just a feature anymore; it’s going to become your new profile page as of January 31.I say ‘dredging up the past’, because any of those old breakups, unfortunate ‘party excusions’ (a.k.a. vomit in the hair) and otherwise awkward social situations (“Sean just checked in at Don’s Dildo-rama”) could be splashed across your profile page for anyone out there to see. So it’s time to do some editing now before you regret it further down the road.
For anyone out there who hasn’t been exposed to it, Facebook Timeline is an online chronology of your Facebook experience. So going back to the day that you first signed up to the social network platform, FB Timeline gives you a snapshot of your posts, updates, pictures shared and pretty much any activity you’ve had with the site on a daily, monthly or yearly basis. You’ve probably seen some friends who switched over right away, but now everybody is going to be in the same boat at the end of the month.
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McDonald’s Tracking Thieves with DNA Spray
Posted by Mike Yawney on January 24th, 2012 View Comments
I never would have pegged McDonald’s as being a popular target for thieves but apparently it’s a big deal in Australia. So much in fact the fast food chain is turning to a high tech solution to help catch criminals.
Mickey D’s down under are installing DNA spray devices above the door in all of their restaurants, covering thieves in invisible DNA solution which glows under black light. Each restaurant has its own unique identifying liquid which lasts up to 6 months on clothes and two weeks on skin.
