Kick Ass Archive

  • Meet the Ozone Trace, a mouse pad from the sky

    Meet the Ozone Trace, a mouse pad from the sky

    Attention to detail is a character quality that most people live without. Even most companies lack it. However, there are some times when you see a new product that just takes detail to the next level. If you can appreciate such craft, then check out this mouse pad.

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  • Here It Is: Google’s Kick-Ass Chrome Speed Test Video

    Here It Is: Google’s Kick-Ass Chrome Speed Test Video

    Yesterday, we noted that with its newest release of Chrome, Google wanted to show us how fast it is rather than just tell us how fast it is. To do that, they made a Rube Goldberg-ian video showing how fast web pages load in Chrome. Yesterday, we got the making of the video. Today, we get the video itself. And yes, it’s awesome. Watch below. This is a web page loading at 2,700 frames per second. Here’s what Google says about the video:

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  • CrunchGear PSA: Go see Kick-Ass

    CrunchGear PSA: Go see Kick-Ass

    Kick-Ass is everything Watchmen was not: funny, human, and welcoming to non-comic nerds. Go see it. Excellent stuff.

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  • KICK-ASS the movie might actually be a kick-ass movie

    KICK-ASS the movie might actually be a kick-ass movie

    Watch the trailer inside and tell me that you don't want to see the movie. Yeah, you can't.

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  • The new Canon 1D Mark IV can shoot incredible 1080p video and here’s the proof

    The new Canon 1D Mark IV can shoot incredible 1080p video and here’s the proof

    The Canon 1D Mark IV is finally official, all 16MP, 1080p video shooting of it. The $5000 DSLR is packed with the very best of from Canon. In their usual fashion, DPReview has more info than you probably wanna know about the camera. Besides, you already know that it's kick ass. But remember the dude that shot the first video with the 5D Mark II. Yeah, Canon hooked up with him to do a short with this camera and the results are amazing. Click through to see what I mean.

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  • Contest: 5 Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles zombie tees

    Contest: 5 Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles zombie tees

    Remember those wicked RE: The Darkside Chronicle Zombie tees that Capcom was giving away at Comic-Con earlier this year? We didn’t make it to San Diego either. But because we kick ass, the fine folks at Capcom have hooked us up with five zombie tees to give away.

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  • Munster inhales fumes of prophecy, foresees Apple TV TV

    Munster inhales fumes of prophecy, foresees Apple TV TV

    Gene Munster of 1313 Mockingbird Lane and Piper Jaffray is positing that because the Apple TV isn’t doing so well that Apple will soon sell a TV with Apple TV features built-in, an idea so ludicrous that it caused me to spit out my Metamucil. Let’s look at his reasoning: the Apple TV is “losing ground” [...]

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  • Gallery of The Meanest and Lamest Supercomputers

    Gallery of The Meanest and Lamest Supercomputers

    Going on Royal Pingdom’s latest gallery, there are two schools of supercomputer design. First, we have the kick-ass, retro-future Death Star category, which includes the The Connection Machine 5 (above), a machine so cool-looking that it actually had a minor role in the movie Jurassic Park. It wasn’t just flashing lights, though. The CM-5 had [...]

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