This Fluid Fly-By Video Is the Most Astonishing View of Earth I’ve Ever Seen [Video]
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This weekend NASA published an awesome time-lapse flyby of planet Earth taken from the International Space Station. Awesome, but jerky—until now. Someone interpolated the original frames to achieve this smooth as silk motion film. It'll leave you stupefied. More »
Yahoo! Releases Official Flickr App For Android
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If there weren’t already enough ways for people to share and browse photos on the web, then Yahoo! just filled the gap with the release (finally) of their very popular Flickr service in form of an Android application. Users can upload or snap new photos directly into the app, comment on others, view friends’ activity, and then share it all with the world. We are still trying to figure out why this took so long to create, but we are happy to see it arrive.
Features:
• Share photos only with the people you want to with easy privacy settings.
• Full screen browsing and slideshows for your photos, your contacts photos or any of the public photos from the global Flickr community.
• Share the story behind your photo with titles, descriptions, comments and tags.
• Keep your track of where you took your photo by keeping your location data automatically through geotagging.
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MakerBot’s Turtle Shell Racers cruise around our offices (video)
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MakerBot's Turtle Shell Racers may well be just the ambassador that the world of 3D printing needs. The toy football-sized RC cars are proof positive that the devices can turn just about anything you can imagine into reality. There are certain limitations, of course, like the fact that the objects printed can't be larger than five inches in diameter. The Shells' creator circumvented that admitted shortcoming by assembling the products out of small pieces that snap together. Check out more hands-on impressions and a video with the racers after the jump.
Gallery: Turtle Shell Racer hands-on
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Gunpoint hands on: an intelligent indie spy thriller—with breakable glass
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Tom Francis writes for PC Gamer, and he's creating Gunpoint in his spare time. He is apparently doing this just to make the rest of us feel bad about not crafting tense, enjoyable indie games for our own enjoyment. This is his first game, and he's had to teach himself how to code. Francis' goal may be to make James Franco appear lazy.
Gunpoint puts you in the shoes of a spy with preternatural jumping abilities, and it's your job to break into a series of buildings, steal files from a computer, and then escape. You can jump on top of the guards to knock them out, or grab them and go through a window to deliver a killing blow. If they see you, they pull their gun and shoot you dead. This unforgiving mechanic is one of the joys of the game.
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Revolights keep you safe while riding at night
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Bicycling at night can be a potentially hazardous endeavor for several reasons, but primarily because well, it’s dark. Inattentive drivers, weather, and other factors aside, the most important thing you can do to keep yourself safe is to ensure that you can see and that you are seen by others.
Revolights, an invention put together by [Kent Frankovich, Adam Pettler, and Jim Houk], is an ingenious way of accomplishing both of those things. The ring-shaped system attaches to nearly any bike tire, and includes LEDs that shine like a car’s head and taillights. A magnet attached to the bike’s fork triggers the onboard microcontroller to light only 4 LEDs at a time, letting persistence of vision take care of the rest.
We think it’s a great idea, and clearly others do as well. With nearly a month left on their Kickstarter page, they have nearly doubled their initial funding goal.
Check out the video presentation on their Kickstarter page to get a better look at the Revolights project.
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How To Raise Four Million Pounds of Fish a Year—in Virginia [Monster Machines]
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The demand for seafood in America is booming, to be sure—unfortunately, the ocean's fish stocks aren't exactly doing the same. So how does one meet this overwhelming demand for meat? Farming fish, obviously. Lots of them. More »
RealVNC demos BIOS-based server at IDF 2011 (video)
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Holy crap... this is awesome. Having been spoiled by enterprise grade lights-out solutions, I've always wanted this for regular hardware.
VNC (Virtual Network Computing) is one of the of oldest remote desktop solutions around, and while its RFB (remote framebuffer) protocol can require a little more bandwidth than the competition, it's long been praised for its broad cross-platform support and elegant simplicity. Last year, RealVNC teamed up with Intel to incorporate a bona fide VNC server (using hardware encryption native to vPro chipsets) into the oldest bit of PC firmware -- the BIOS. As such, you can securely control a remote computer's BIOS, mount a disk image, and install an OS from the comfort of your living room halfway across the globe. The future is now -- you're welcome. Take a look at RealVNC's IDF 2011 demo in the gallery below and our hand-on video after the break.
Gallery: RealVNC BIOS-based server
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BASE Jumping off Cliffs Never Looked So Scary Awesome [Video]
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The maniacs at Melbourne Skydive Centre are still falling off things with style. I've only ever gone cliff-diving once, and it was nothing like this. This looks shades of terrifying and exhilarating that I can hardly imagine. More »
Portal is free on Steam until September 20
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While the cake may be a lie, the fact that Valve is giving away free copies of Portal is certainly real. From now until September 20, Steam users can download and install either the PC or Mac version of the classic puzzle game.
These Daredevil Bridge Climbers Are Out of Their Bloody Minds [Video]
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These kids think that climbing the cables of the Moscow Bridge in Kiev is a lot of fun. And they are probably right. I'm freaking out by just looking at the video. [Thanks Karl!] More »
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