Four Minutes Archive

  • Hey, Google: Check out this ultra-fast book scanner

    Hey, Google: Check out this ultra-fast book scanner

    Wikipedia says Google is using a special camera that's able to scan books at a rate of 1,000 pages per hour, which doesn't sound bad at all (I am talking about Google Books of course, the company's online collection of digitized books ). But now a team at the elite University of Tokyo has announced the development of a device that can scan a 1,000-page book in four minutes.

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  • Google making it possible to print public domain books

    Google making it possible to print public domain books

    Google has been very much about saving out of print books by moving them into a digital format over the last seven years. This has been a part of their Google Book Search project, which involved pulling books out of libraries and scanning them in, and thus preserving them forever. Of course, some people prefer a hard copy, and now that's going to be a possibility as well, at least at some locations.

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  • 8-bit Trip: Stop-motion LEGO + Nostalgia + Chiptune

    8-bit Trip: Stop-motion LEGO + Nostalgia + Chiptune

    If this video doesn’t warm the swollen-shut cockles of your adult heart, then you didn’t grow up in the eighties. I, for one, was awash in a sea of Atari, NES, LEGO, and Pac-Man. The stop-motion footage in this video apparently took 1500 hours to put together, which is pretty amazing considering the final product [...]

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  • Review: Wahl Lithium Ion All In One Trimmer

    Review: Wahl Lithium Ion All In One Trimmer

    Sometimes exotic dancers fall in love with clients. Likewise, sometimes bloggers buy the products they write about. This is one of those stories (blogging, not exotic dancing). Two weeks ago I wrote a post about Wahl’s lithium ion electric razor. Shortly after writing said post, I bought one. I shave maybe once every two weeks and usually [...]

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  • Optimum Online Ultra, one month later: Hope you plan to P2P a lot

    Optimum Online Ultra, one month later: Hope you plan to P2P a lot

    It's been about a month since I subscribed to Optimum Online Ultra, the fastest Internet service in the country—sorry, Peter. Consider this a predictable, rubbish explanation of how my Internet habits—nay, my life!—have changed as a result of having a 101 megabits-down/15 megabits-up connection.

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  • Wahl electric razor packs lithium ion battery

    Wahl electric razor packs lithium ion battery

    WahlWahl claims to be the first to the lithium ion party when it comes to electric shavers and on behalf of people who shave once a month because we never leave the house, let me be the first to say thanks.

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  • Wahl Reboots Male Grooming with Li-Ion Trimmer

    Wahl Reboots Male Grooming with Li-Ion Trimmer

    The batteries in electric shavers suck. Charge-times are better measured as large fractions of days than as hours, you can’t use them while they are charging and, even when full, they don’t last long. Wahl’s new trimmer tries to fix this, and Wahl is so proud of the battery technology that it has put it in [...]

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