15 Minutes Archive

  • Late Mate for BlackBerry screws with your clock to make you more punctual

    Late Mate for BlackBerry screws with your clock to make you more punctual

    Posted on May 21, 2010 | No Comments
    I run late. Always. The last time I remember being not-late, it’s because I thought the event started 30 minutes earlier than it actually did. I ended up only being 15 minutes early. If you’re a late person (or if you’ve seen that one episode of I love Lucy), you’ve probably heard of the trick where [...]

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  • Hotel lets patrons pedal for their supper

    Hotel lets patrons pedal for their supper

    Posted on April 21, 2010 | No Comments
    Here's a surprisingly green idea from a hotel in Copenhagen. The ultra-modern Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Towers has set up two stationary bicycles and attached them to generators, with an iPhone connected to the handlebars. Time to work for that dinner!

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  • Battlefield: Bad Company 2 sells many copies (plus bonus rant!)

    Battlefield: Bad Company 2 sells many copies (plus bonus rant!)

    Posted on March 19, 2010 | No Comments
    God almighty do I have a bone to pick with Battlefield: Bad Company 2, which I bought on release day like a mark. The game is doing quite well for EA, having already sold 2.3 million units (and projected to sell 4 million by the end of the year). So that's ahead of expectations—it's a hit, have a party. The thing that annoys me (and Matt, for that matter) is the game's implementation of checkpoints. There's not nearly enough of them, and it's infuriating. I was very close to lighting my monitor on fire last night.

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  • North Korea develops its own Linux distro called Red Star OS

    North Korea develops its own Linux distro called Red Star OS

    Posted on March 5, 2010 | No Comments
    If you guys weren't terrified of North Korea by now, here's more evidence that the country is absolutely nuts: they've developed their own Linux distribution! It's called Red Star OS, and we can thank a Russian student for unearthing it for us. I now fully expect to see knee-jerk reactions like, "Down with Linux!" even though that makes no sense at all.

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  • Oh my sweet Cthulhu! Nokia has something big about to go down

    Oh my sweet Cthulhu! Nokia has something big about to go down

    Posted on January 20, 2010 | No Comments
    Who knows what’s going on over in London right now but there are a few blolgers chilling out waiting for Nokia to launch something huge in 19 hours. The best thing? You can embed their little countdown thinger into your own blog, thereby completing the circle of blog wonkery. Writes symbian-guru: Nokia has begun sending invites [...]

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  • In Pictures: CES – the “E” stands for “EXCITEMENT”

    In Pictures: CES – the “E” stands for “EXCITEMENT”

    Posted on January 6, 2010 | No Comments
    Taken during Samsung’s press conference. The guy with the LG enV spent most of the time tap-tap-tappin’ away, while Drowsypants in front of him tried to fight off about 15 minutes of head drooping before finally slipping into a serene, dream-like state.

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  • Legend of Zelda cartoons now on Hulu

    Legend of Zelda cartoons now on Hulu

    Posted on December 18, 2009 | No Comments
    Whelp! There goes everyone’s Friday. You can now catch 13 episodes of The Legend of Zelda on Hulu (if you’re in the US). You’ll recall that the show ran every Friday on The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! and, for many of us, eclipsed the actual Mario episodes in coolness. The episodes are 15 minutes long. [...]

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  • Stocking Stuffer: PowerGenix NiZn rechargeable batteries

    Stocking Stuffer: PowerGenix NiZn rechargeable batteries

    Posted on December 10, 2009 | No Comments
    There’s a fine line between giving regular batteries as a gift and giving rechargeable batteries as a gift. Giving someone regular batteries is a dumb gift. Might as well give them a sheet cake. Either way, the gift is a consumable and doesn’t last long. Rechargeable batteries, on the other hand, last quite a bit longer.

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  • yFrog Launches Twitter Clients For BlackBerry And Android

    yFrog Launches Twitter Clients For BlackBerry And Android

    Posted on December 10, 2009 | No Comments
    yFrog, an image and video sharing site for Twitter, is furthering its mobile strategy by launching both BlackBerry and Android apps. Yfrog for Blackberry lets you Tweet text, images and video to Twitter, view tweets, search Yfrog, view followers and people you’re following, and view messages and mentions The Android app is more feature-rich, and lets you Tweet text, images and videos, view Tweets, mentions and followers, and search Twitter. You can also download multiple files at the same time, and upload videos up to 15 minutes long with high quality video encoding. And GPS location will be included with every upload.

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  • First review of New Super Mario Bros. Wii gives the game a 9.2 (and guess from who that number’s from!)

    First review of New Super Mario Bros. Wii gives the game a 9.2 (and guess from who that number’s from!)

    Posted on November 10, 2009 | No Comments
    Super Mario Bros. Wii doesn't come out here in North America for another five days, but, for whatever reason, it comes out in Australia in two days! That explains why you can find the world's first review (nearest I can tell) on IGN Australia. The Web site gave the game a 9.2 (I swear, these decimal point reviews are 100 percent absurd), but I think it's safe to conclude that the game is, indeed, fun, which is really all you can ask for.

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  • Dash Cam does up to 48 hours of 720×480 recording

    Dash Cam does up to 48 hours of 720×480 recording

    Posted on October 2, 2009 | No Comments
    I bet that on your daily commute to work you've often thought to yourself, "Man, this is EXCITING! I wish other people could see what I see! Cars! Billboards! More cars! A truck!" And while standard dash cams work well for run-of-the-mill vehicular lifecasting, their relatively low resolutions and short recording times make for a less than desirable compendium of your transportational adventures.

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  • Tokyo Game Show: Metal Gear Solid – Peace Walker (2 videos)

    Tokyo Game Show: Metal Gear Solid – Peace Walker (2 videos)

    Posted on September 25, 2009 | No Comments
    One of the biggest titles of this year's Tokyo Game Show is certainly Metal Gear Solid - Peace Walker for the PSP. And it's all about multiplayer. I was able to play the game with a friend (in co-op mode) for about 15 minutes and it completely rocked (the game was playable for the first time). In fact, up to four players could play at the same time (and some TGS guests did).

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  • Apple announced many things today. Here’s what you missed (if that’s even possible).

    Apple announced many things today. Here’s what you missed (if that’s even possible).

    Posted on September 9, 2009 | No Comments
    A small, California-based company by the name of Apple had an event today where it unveiled many new things. In case you were AFE (away from Earth) for the past few hours, here's what you missed.

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  • Do all your phreaking before you turn 18, kids

    Do all your phreaking before you turn 18, kids

    Posted on August 25, 2009 | No Comments
    Please turn your attention to Rolling Stone, where an article about a blind, lonely phreaker is currently tearing up the charts. That is to say, it's an article worth your time, certainly better than refreshing drudgereport.com for the thousandth time in a day.

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