Tech and Amusing Stuff

This ad for the ‘86 Camaro may be a contender for Most 80s Car Advertisement Ever

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“Google Earth is once again changing the world or, more specifically, they’re changing the way swastika-shaped buildings are built. The Navy is spending upwards of $600,000 to modify a 40-year-old barracks that, when viewed by satellite imaging programs like Windows Live and Google Earth, looks like a giant swastika.”

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The chinese copy just about anything that comes out in the world of electronics, the Wii is no exception.[digg=http://digg.com/hardware/The_Chntendo_Vii]

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Mitsubishi Electric and ANC Sports Enterprises teamed up to install the four center-hung, 25-foot by 14-foot Diamond Vision systems at the home of the Washington Capitals, along with over 1,000 linear feet of LED fascia to display scrolling info, but only 1,280 by 736 pixels.

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Yes yes, friends. The day has finally arrived. Apple dropped a new iPhone firmware revision, bringing the official software notation up to version 1.1.1. This new software brings a host of changes and upgrades. Here’s a rundown of some of the more significant changes:

• iTunes Wi-Fi music store
• Louder speakerphone and receiver volume
• Home button double-click functionality
• Double-tap spacebar to intelligently insert period and space
• Apple Bluetooth headset battery status now appears in iPhone Status bar
• Support for TV Out
• EDGE/GPRS can now be manually turned on and off
• Adjustable alert volume

Apple elegantly states they have “discovered that some of the unauthorized unlocking programs available on the Internet may cause irreparable damage to the iPhone’s software. If you have modified your iPhone’s software, applying this software update may result in your iPhone becoming permanetly inoperable” For now, if you’ve “modified” your iPhone, we suggest you wait and see what the word is before updating. Although, the new features look oh-so-good! If you do decide to hit the update, let us know what happens!

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“While it’s a “beautiful and breakthrough” product, as Wall Street Journal columnist Walt Mossberg wrote in his influential review of the touch-screened smart phone, it simply isn’t worth its initial $599 price tag—a fact that Apple CEO Steve Jobs all but admitted earlier this month.

“This is life in the technology lane,” Jobs said of his decision to slash the iPhone’s price by $200.

You might have thought such capitulation would send shivers down Apple investors’ spines. Indeed, after it had surged to a record high of $146 a share in July, rumors that the iPhone wasn’t selling like hotcakes sent the stock down by nearly 10 percent after Apple’s price-cut announcement. (It was off by twice as much during the stock market’s mid-August swoon.)”

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Wednesday, 9/26 at 10:30 Japan time is when preorder will officially start. The official preorder brochures will be available to customers on 9/26, at which time the front fascia will be unveiled.

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Who will win………….

“Roush is following up its 427R* tuner Mustang with a successor obvious to any follower of Mustang history. It’s the 428R*, an homage to the 428 Cobra Jet mustang of 1968-1970. Limited to 200 vehicles, the 428R* sports 435 horsepower and 400 lb-ft of torque, by way of Roush’s ROUSHcharger supercharger setup, done up in chrome powdercoat. Other engine-bay jewelry include billet radiator and intercooler caps, oil cap, and strut tower caps. The package also includes modified front and rear shocks, front and rear springs, front and rear sway bars, jounce bumpers and an anti wheel-hop kit, along with 18-inch cast wheels. Expect the 428R* at Ford dealerships in October 2007.”

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If you have $1.5 million spare change you can buy this Titan 1 nuclear missile base on eBay today. Located in central Washington, the 57-acre Larsen Air Force Base Titan ICBM launching complex 1A complete with 16 underground buildings including three 160-feet missile silos.

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“The iPhone soundly bested both the Nokia N95 and HTC Touch in a recent usability test by Perceptive Sciences, a Texas-based usability consulting firm. The test, which was designed to be as objective as possible, asked ten people who had never used any of the three devices to perform simple tasks, such as setting the phone to vibrate, making a call, saving a phone number to the contact list, sending a brief e-mail, and taking a photo. Completion times for each task were recorded and compared; based on these results and the scientists’ observations, a score of between one and five was awarded. Overall, the iPhone received a score of 4.6 out of 5, compared to the HTC Touch’s score of 3.4 and the N95’s score of 3.2. “Testers were [typically] about twice as fast doing specific tasks on the iPhone, which is pretty remarkable,” said senior research scientist Tom Thornton. The iPhone was triumphant in all but one of the five testing categories, losing to the Nokia N95 in “Functionality.”

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