File this under: creative R/C planes. Basically, “an 8-foot wingspan R/C aircraft [was] festooned with six lengths of 5-meter LED strips powered by three battery packs.” Video after the break.
Isn’t it amazing what you can do with a radio-controlled plane and 1800 LEDs? Watch the night flight of Walter Colby’s Lanzo Record Breaker.
Samsung unveils the Propel Pro, a new business phone that’s packed with features. Including: a full keypad, Wi-Fi, “GPS, stereo Bluetooth, 3-megapixel camera and a 2.5-inch screen with 320×320 resolution.” Continue reading for one more picture.
WinMo 6.1 runs fine on the phone. It’s not blazing, but it hardly lags. The hardware itself looks beautiful , and I’ve always been a sucker for squarish, slider phones.
[via Gizmodo]
Google aims for energy efficiency with their web servers, that’s why “everything has been planned for optimum power use, from the 1AAA shipping containers (sporting over a thousand servers each) that make up the core of its operations, to the servers themselves.” Video after the break.
This design is said to boast a staggering 99.9 percent energy efficiency, as opposed to a standard centralized UPS setup which at best would only score 95 percent.
[via Engadget]
Before GMail, Google Docs, and even the first version of Google, there was Google Classic. Unsurprisingly, these hand-delivered search results take approximately 30-days to reach you.
This has a decidedly ’40s-’50s aesthetic, but still it would have been considered an incredible service to fill out a post card with a research query and in a month or so, receive a packet of sourced information from around the world on your topic, for free.
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According to the ScrewAttack team, “one of the best things about gaming, the power up has had it’s hits and misses.” They include: Mega Man 2’s Metal Blade, Contra’s Spread Gun, and Metroid’s Screw Attack. Video after the break.
Currently at $30,000 on eBay, this Lamborghini Gallardo is “is laid out for some well-heeled Alistair to put back together again — the only thing is you’ll need to find a new engine, driveline, suspension, interior, and electronics.” Auction page. Click here for first picture in gallery.
Or, you could just pick up the innards of a Mustang and make the inverse of the Tractorri — the Mustardo, perhaps?
Yes, the mechanical heart shown in this commercial was made “entirely from Sony gear, including parts from BRAVIA TVs, Blu-ray players, VAIO laptops, Cybershot cameras, PS3s, and even the odd Walkman.” Continue reading to watch.
As much as we’d like this to be a still from a new, secretly-in-development Cronenberg movie, it’s actually an image of the nightmare-inducing mechanical heart that stars in a new series of Sony ads.
Brick master Ricardo Oliviera used a countless number of LEGO pieces to build “a mini-theater that can actually project film on its minuscule screen.” Continue reading to see it in-action.
While its three-frame-per-second frame rate isn’t quite the traditional 24fps of film, it’s way-cool nonetheless.
[via Dvice]
Google has unveiled a new GMail Autopilot feature that basically takes care of all those “you’ve won something” messages. Simply let Autopilot “read a sampling of your conversations (more than 100 is ideal), then adjust a few simple settings and it will do the rest.” Project page.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve been meaning to update my resume, I remember hearing something about Google opening a moonbase a little while back.
[via OhGizmo]
Squeez Bacon from ThinkGeek “requires no preservatives or other additives; each serving is as healthy as real bacon, and equivalent to 4 premium slices of bacon.” Video after the break.
You can put it on sandwiches, pizza, pastas, bacon, soups, pies, eat it hot or cold, substitute it for bacon in your recipes, or even eat it right out of the tube like we do! If it’s edible, it’s better with Squeez Bacon.
[via ThinkGeek]