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  • Oh look, POP247 video game, Blu-ray vending machines trickle into the UK

    Oh look, POP247 video game, Blu-ray vending machines trickle into the UK

    Posted on December 16, 2009 | No Comments
    Would you buy a video game out of a vending machine? I certainly would, if only to avoid the phony human contact thrust upon me at GameStop. So these POP247 whiz-bangs are great. Too bad I've never seen one here.

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  • Space adaptive HUMANITARY INVENTION detects things and then calls you about them

    Space adaptive HUMANITARY INVENTION detects things and then calls you about them

    Posted on November 20, 2009 | No Comments
    So picture this: You are tasked with watching a volcano And you're totally like out to lunch one morning and the volcano explodes. You're like FUUUUUUUUUUU! With the HUMANITARY INVENTION you'll never be away from an exploding volcano! This device, which consists of a Piezoelectric system that pushes a rod out of a box. You are then supposed to put a phone next to said box. The phone will then call you and you can be totally like "OMG MY DISTANT PHONE IS CALLING ME! WOW!"

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  • An asteroid almost smashed into Earth, and we only knew about it 15 hours before it happened

    An asteroid almost smashed into Earth, and we only knew about it 15 hours before it happened

    Posted on November 12, 2009 | No Comments
    Did you hear the news? An asteroid passed within 8,700 miles of the planet on Friday. The craziest thing is that scientists only knew about it 15 hours before it flew by. So if you have any confidence that this planet is safe from giant space objects smashing into the surface, possibly destroying all life in the process, well, think again.

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  • Google Street View in trouble in Switzerland

    Google Street View in trouble in Switzerland

    Posted on September 15, 2009 | No Comments
    Looks like Google Street View is in the news again today, but for all the wrong reasons. A Swiss agency has threatened to sue Google because it hasn't taken to proper privacy considerations into effect, saying that “many images are problematic and insufficiently anonymous.”

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  • EA’s Dead Space Extraction for the Wii slated for September launch

    EA’s Dead Space Extraction for the Wii slated for September launch

    Posted on May 28, 2009 | No Comments
    Ahead of E3, EA announced earlier today that Dead Space Extraction for the Wii will ship to retailers on September 29 in North America and on October 2 in Europe. If it’s anything like the original Dead Space then I’ll be waiting in line to get Extraction for the Wii. Developed at EA’s award-winning Visceral [...]

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