Logic Archive

  • Der Vuvuzela-Filter: Remove that annoying hum from World Cup games

    Der Vuvuzela-Filter: Remove that annoying hum from World Cup games

    Posted on June 14, 2010 | No Comments
    If you've watched any of the World Cup this year you'll have noticed the endless, high-pitched drone of the Vuvuzela. It's basically a really annoying horn. Anyway, a German engineer has created a Vuvuzela Filter that takes the ambient noise and removes it from an audio track. It's pretty complex - and in German - but if I watched soccer at all I'd love this to be an in-line hardware box for the removal of noise.

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  • Daily Crunch: Washed Ashore Edition

    Daily Crunch: Washed Ashore Edition

    Posted on April 13, 2010 | No Comments
    Conan gets a show on TBS Hands-On with the Kin 1 and Kin 2 [Update: Video] CrunchGear Rates the Top 10 iPad Games Medea presents the programmable vodka bottle Affordable hackintosh tablet from Axon Logic – too good to be true?

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  • iSuppli says the iPad contains about $260 worth of parts

    iSuppli says the iPad contains about $260 worth of parts

    Posted on April 7, 2010 | No Comments
    Oh, component breakdowns. How we love 'em. Let's talk about the iPad.

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  • Today in history: the flight data recorder

    Today in history: the flight data recorder

    Posted on March 17, 2010 | No Comments
    It's not entirely clear to me that March 17 is the actual birthday of the so-called "Black Box", but who am I to argue with Wired's This Day in Tech? According to them, the idea for the flight data recorder was born in 1953 by an Australian named David Warren. The first prototype was complete in 1957, and within a couple of years became a standard feature on all commercial airplanes.

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  • Apple may or may not be testing USB 3.0 controllers

    Apple may or may not be testing USB 3.0 controllers

    Posted on February 3, 2010 | No Comments
    USB 3.0 is the future and, well, Apple likes to be on the edge of technology so it only makes sense that the company would be at least looking into implementing the new interface sometime real soon. After all HP is already shipping USB 3.0 in its Envy 15 series and that can't sit right with Apple fanboys. But all we know right now comes from a Digitimes report that basically states that Genesys Logic is denying reports that its providing Apple with controllers. So yeah, we don't really know anything.

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  • Logic Wireless 150LGW projector phone reminds us of that Bolt we once saw

    Logic Wireless 150LGW projector phone reminds us of that Bolt we once saw

    Posted on December 28, 2009 | No Comments
    Remember the Bolt from CES 2009? Man, that was ages ago. If you'll recall, projector phones were actually all the rage for around 4.67 minutes at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, and ever since we've been dealt months of nothing alongside one lone ranger of something in the LG eXpo. Evidently Logic Wireless is hoping that we'll forget all about the Bolt that never shipped and instead focus on the next best thing: the 150LGW. Available for order now at Skymall (of all places), the projector phone looks significantly slimmer and more stylish than the company's first crack, and aside from the inbuilt PJ, there's also twin SIM card slots, dual cameras, an Office file viewer, quad-band GSM radio, Bluetooth and Symbian running the show. We aren't too sure we'd be willing to shell out $499 without any proof that this thing is worth its salt, but you can bet we'll be on the hunt for it once CES 2010 opens up next week.

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  • Quentin Tarantino in a Softbank Commercial

    Quentin Tarantino in a Softbank Commercial

    Posted on December 6, 2009 | No Comments
    Ah, Japan – where logic and stars go to pass fitfully into that good night. This is much better than “Suntory time,” though. via Giz

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  • Around 500,000 people watch England-Ukraine online (because that was the only way to watch it)

    Around 500,000 people watch England-Ukraine online (because that was the only way to watch it)

    Posted on October 11, 2009 | No Comments
    England lost to Ukraine yesterday, thus sullying Fabio Capello's 100 percent World Cup qualifying campaign record. While I understand that CrunchGear is quite popular in England—we get so much fan mail from Stoke!—I also understand that man of our American readers have no idea what I'm talking about, much less do they care. Au contraire, mes amis, for there is something that might interest you: the result of the online-only broadcast experiment. A toast, then, to the 500,000 or so people who watched the game.

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  • Palm’s first paid application for WebOS goes live

    Palm’s first paid application for WebOS goes live

    Posted on October 5, 2009 | No Comments
    Four months after the launch of the Pre, and just a few weeks later than we’d expected, paid application downloads for WebOS arrived today. And what application did Palm choose for their premium premier? What monster of mobile merrymaking would serve as the model for all that follow? Would it be some advanced navigation application, [...]

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  • Free Parking: Black Hat conference attacks electronic parking meters

    Free Parking: Black Hat conference attacks electronic parking meters

    Posted on July 31, 2009 | No Comments
    black hat free parkingAs we move farther and farther into the digital age, we begin to see some serious problems with an all-digital lifestyle. Take parking meters, for example. As much as a pain as it is to root under your car seat looking for loose change to feed the meter, there aren't too many ways to avoid actually putting money into a traditional meter. (Or maybe there are. I haven't bothered to investigate, since I don't currently own a vehicle.) Newer electronic parking meters, though, can be pretty easily subverted, as demonstrated at the Black Hat conference this week.

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  • Stringer calls Kotick’s threats ‘rubbish’

    Stringer calls Kotick’s threats ‘rubbish’

    Posted on July 8, 2009 | No Comments
    It’s been a tough year for Sony’s PlayStation console and the situation was slightly exacerbated when Activision’s Robert Kotick threatened to stop supporting the platform unless console prices were cut. Sony CEO Howard Stringer considered Kotick’s threats part of the business.

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  • WTF: GameStop selling Nintendo Wii bundles with rubber ducks, water guns

    WTF: GameStop selling Nintendo Wii bundles with rubber ducks, water guns

    Posted on July 3, 2009 | No Comments
    This has to be a viral campaign of some sort, but seeing as though we're on the cusp of a three-day weekend I'll bite. GameStop is selling three unusual Nintendo Wii bundles that, I don't know, belie all logic. There's the “Take a Bath With a Buddy” bundle, the “Pirate Tattoo” bundle, and the “Summer Fun” bundle. Yeah.

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  • Everyone Calm Down, You Won’t Have To Pay To Re-Download Apps On The iPhone

    Everyone Calm Down, You Won’t Have To Pay To Re-Download Apps On The iPhone

    Posted on June 12, 2009 | No Comments
    The web threw a hissy fit a couple weeks ago after some screenshots of the iPhone 3.0 beta software indicated that you would have to re-purchase apps that you had removed from your iPhone or iPod touch. But it looks like everyone can calm down now. In the latest iPhone 3.0 GM build, which went live shortly after the WWDC keynote on Monday, the ability to re-download an app you've already purchased, looks to be have been restored. The blog AppAdvice did some digging and found that the new iTunes 8.2 software apparently includes some logic which allows it to tell exactly which iTunes account is authorized for app purchases made. This is to prevent users from sharing apps by signing out of one iTunes account and into another one on the iPhone itself.

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