31
Jan
It seems that the winter finally wants to show teeth to us. Has the January been too warm
(approx. 4 degrees over the average meridian), so are temperatures rarely breaking the
-10 degrees barrier in the upcoming days. Metereologists say it isn’t too uncommon for
February to be that cold, however it is uncommon after such a warm January.
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30
Jan
There are things that cannot correlate with each other. And in the internet your words can
always be read by people you’d better not wanna face. In this case a young couple from
UK has used twitter to fork out some black humor and celebrate their holidays by
“destroying” the USA and “exhuming” Madonna. Their holidays wne into a horror trip!
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January 30, 2012Netspark
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29
Jan
It seems as if Nintendo plans an own Online store for the WiiU. This way, Nintendo follows
the steps of Microsoft and Sony. Talking about the XBox. The new XBox 720 should be more
powerful (30 times) as the XBox 360 and 6 times more powerful as the WiiU. However
the sale of used games will be prohibited so that your game is tied to your console.
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28
Jan
It seems, the economy rating won’t ever come to a silence andrest. This time, the US
rating agency Fitch has lowered the ratings for Spain, Italy, Cyprus, Belgium and Slovenia.
Cyprus has been hit very hard as they have BBB- which means that they’re only one rating
step away from junk rating. Although these news being published, the Euro didn’t loose.
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27
Jan
…how ironic to see that again a man got confined for a rather harmless
crime (DWI). The man got incarcerated into isolation confinement and
was not allowed to consult an attorney at law nor a doctor. Even worse:
He was not even allowed to take his depression-easing medicine.
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26
Jan
On the ISE 2012 in Amsterdam, Benq will show its brand new laser beamers. With its
revolutionary BlueCore Light Engine, the beamers will have a common durability of
20’000 hours and a light output of approximately 2000 ANSI Lumen. Thus being
able to be used in daylight environment. A contrast of 80’000:1 sounds good too!
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25
Jan
In this case a young man tried to do some balancing act on a gym ball! Is
holding the balance on it a challenge for itself, he doubled the fun and tried
to to exactly this on a balance beam. If you can remember your times in
gym class, you may remember that balancing on these is hard enough.
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24
Jan
I really like impressive videos. This video is a timelapse series about Yosemite
Park. Nature “filmed” with a professional camera looks real beautiful and
moving, too! A young team has made effort to take the timelapse series and put
the pictures into a really nive video scenery. Watch for yourself and enjoy!
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23
Jan
What sounds near impossible to you, seems to have come true because of the endurance
of an amateur craftsman. His idea was to enhance a simple LED nightlight from Ikea with
a bluetooth controller and make it controllable with his android phone. Doesn’t work?
It sure does. And on his blog, you get the source code and instructions for your ideas!
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22
Jan
What seems almost impossible to believe, has happened now. AMD has been
involved into trademark violation. Arctic Switzerland AG has claimed rights
to the trademark “Fusion” for their likewise-named power supply series. As
AMD has not shown reaction to Arctic’s concerns, lawsuits have been filed.
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21
Jan
After a big uproar about PIPA worldwide, the US Senate has set out the ballot for the
PIPA law that would have led the internet into more and more censoring than now.
The most actual case of protest has come from the english Wikipedia, who has blacked
out it’s site for 24 hours between Wednesday and Thursday. With success ans you see now!
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20
Jan
Usually I don’t do many reviews on gadgets and hardware. In this case I could not resist
to tell you about an item one could desperately need when the cell phone squeaks and
begging for power. You all know that crappy situation: You’re out for party etc. and you
want to show your friends some cool stuff. What happens? No more battery!
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January 20, 2012Netspark
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20
Jan
Today, Megaupload has been officially reported to be busted by the FBI as MPAA, RIAA
and mayor labels have claimed for big losses due to copyright violations, Megaupload has
probably done. Several persons have been taken into custody for further audition.
According to the lawsuit, the media industry claims for $500 million.
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19
Jan
The traditional photo film maker and pioneer in the film industry has finally
filed for insolvency. With the 9th negative fiscal quarter, all financial reserves
have been used up. Promoted sales of patents do different companies have not
been as successful as hoped. Kodak however tries to still keep up business.
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18
Jan
According to the blog entry from yesterday (read here), Wikipedia has indeed
put Wikipedia into blackout. Where you would usually see the main page of
Wikipedia, there’s now a black page criticizing the new legislation about SOPA
copyright and the attempt to put the free internet “behind bars”.
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January 18, 2012Netspark
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17
Jan
How do these words relate, you ask? Well… it sems as if the mayor members of
the Copyright Association have finally decided to push thorugh the SOPA.
SOPA stands for Stop Online Piracy Act and in this Act, there are several points
to censor the internet in many ways. Not only in the USA but worldwide!
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January 17, 2012Netspark
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16
Jan
Drinking beer is usually no art or challenge whatsoever. In this case, the guy
decides to sip down three bottles of beer in under 40 seconds. If you think,
that’s all, you’re wrong because as a special challenge, he doesn’t use his hands
to open the bottles or hold them while drinking.
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15
Jan
As time goes by, even transportation advances. Faster, bigger, more luxurious.
That’s what the transportation is aiming for. The Costa Concordia, that has hit gound at
Giglio island, is one of the most modern luxury liners that have been built. Nearly one
billion dollars expensive, that ship was able to hold 6000 passengers and 2000 crewmen.
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14
Jan
It’s been awited for so long and the rumors start to roll around. the iPad 3 is,
besides the iPhone 5 one of the items, Apple fans are waiting for. Rumors
spread that in March, Apple could release the new iPad 3. A product show
is awaited for February 24th, the birthday of Steve Jobs.
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13
Jan
In this case, a concrete buffer has gone berzerk after someone has lost control
over the handle of the machine. The result looks spectacular, funny but also
dangerous. The problem is that such a concrete buffer is heavyweight and not
easily taken down when spinning around. They finally got it down anyways.
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12
Jan
This guy had a great idea how to automatize the flip of a newspaper page.
Just with the sip of his coffee mug, he starts off a big chain reaction and finally
the page is turned. Although I prefer a less destructive way for turing a page…
However the idea is nce and the video is nicely made. But watch for yourself.
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11
Jan
Okay, you all know about FullHD. Nothing much to explain here. Quad FullHD
with a resolution of 3840×2160 pixels is about to come to us (also known as 4k)
BBC and NHK think, that Quad FullHD isn’t satisfying enough for the upcoming
London Olympic games in 2012. SHV (Super Hi-Vision) is the answer!
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11
Jan
While in Goms, Switzerland the snow already stacks up to 2.5 metres, one
would think, it’s unbelievable. In Japan, however, the mountains and the ocean
weather streams allow much higher snow records. up to 15(!) metres the snow
may pile up there and the streets are still passable. You don’t believe it?
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January 11, 2012Netspark
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10
Jan
The CES has opened their doors in las Vegas some days ago and interesting
items have already been shown. So has Victorinox, manufacturer of the
legendary swiss army knife, shown a prototype of a 1TB-USB-Knife.
HP shows it’s Envy 14, a 14-inch-size Ultrabook, Huawei a 6.2mm thin phone.
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January 10, 2012Netspark
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10
Jan
This guy thought: “Hey let’s do some copier prank” and promptly completed
his task. However he didn’t calculate several things in and so, his prank went
into a big disaster. First, he didn’t think of the load weight the copy glass
might carry and second, he underestimated his own weight.
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09
Jan
People need thrill, people need excitement. Our today’s fun activities allow
exactly this. But what happens if even the most secure technic begins to fail
for no known reason. The following video shows a 22-years-old australian
woman who survived a 350 ft plummet into Zambezi river.
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January 9, 2012Netspark
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08
Jan
The weather in Switzerland could not be more different. While
villages in higher regions are almost cut off from the rest of the
country due to heavily snow-blocked roads, in other regions a
storm called “Andrea” brought rain and heavy winds.
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07
Jan
A team of engineers at the University of Illinois has developed a self-healing system that
restores electrical conductivity to a cracked circuit in seconds. Led by aerospace
engineering professor Scott White and materials science and engineering professor Nancy
Sottos, the researchers published their results in the journal Advanced Materials.
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06
Jan
The CES is just a few days ahead, but Broadcom already announced to release
WiFi-chips that are compatible to the all-new 802.11ac standard. So what does
that mean to you as customer? The first thing is that the fastest WLAN-routers
and dongles can handle 450 Mbit/s at most which means 50-80 Mbit in real.
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January 6, 2012Netspark
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06
Jan
Driving can be difficult and yes, policemen can be annoying too if they pick
you out for no obvious reason. But totaling your car and possibly endangering
other’s lives isn’t an option then! The driver of the car in the following video didn’t
care about anything and drove into the traffic jam recklessly and totaled his car.
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January 6, 2012Netspark
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05
Jan
Comets can be rarely seen and in the past, there were not many pics or even videos
available. However in the change of time, more and more equipment makes it possible
to catch these rare moments when extraterrestial events occur, such as falling stars.
A brasilian observatory has put such a timeshifting video online for your pleasure.
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04
Jan
It seems as if LG wants to bring new excitement into homecineasts’ homes
At least the newest addition of LG will let the hearts of many of us beat faster:
With a diamenter of 55 inches, a thicknes of only 4mm and a weight of about
15lbs (7.5 kg) the TV sets new records.
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