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  • iFixit Breaks Down the Mac Mini

    iFixit Breaks Down the Mac Mini

    Posted on June 16, 2010 | No Comments
    Our friends at iFixit have taken the new Mac Mini apart to show us it's insides. From the looks of it, it was a pretty easy break down, with not too many parts inside. And, it looks just as good inside as i does out - in true Apple fashion. Here are the highlights:

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  • DIY: Multi-stage water rocket

    DIY: Multi-stage water rocket

    Posted on October 29, 2009 | No Comments
    rocketI know, I know. Water rocket. Whatever, right? Been there, done that, it's cool and all, but it's kinda like the diet coke & mentos thing. It's been done to death. Well, this ain't your daddy's water rocket, let's put it that way.

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  • Slab-Like iPhone Case Hewn From Solid Metal

    Slab-Like iPhone Case Hewn From Solid Metal

    Posted on July 15, 2009 | No Comments
    Every morning my inbox is almost full of pitches for various iPhone cases. Gel skins and anodized pictures of sock monkeys are today’s offerings. They are almost always humdrum, and usually virtual clones of one another, probably all starting life in the same Chinese factory. But the Exovault is different, and not just because no PR [...]

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  • Preyro robot experiment could enable robots to better mimic animals, kill us all

    Preyro robot experiment could enable robots to better mimic animals, kill us all

    Posted on June 1, 2009 | No Comments

    It's kind of strange, really, how we can see just how near the end is, yet these so-called geniuses employed within the realm of academia are totally oblivious to their own evil deeds. Take cognitive science professor John Long, for instance, who is currently conducting a Preyro robot experiment in a Vassar College lab that intends to "allow robots to mimic animals far better than before." To him, he's just hoping to study evolutionary patterns in order to better understand how certain tweaks to things like fins and tails affect performance in the place we call reality. Though, there's a very real possibility that this research could accelerate the impending robot apocalypse by at least a score. Oh, what we'd give to be incognizant of the truth.

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