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You Built What?!: A Compact Mechanical Crossbow With the Precision of a Laser

Last October, after hurting his knee playing hockey, Patrick Priebe was holed up in his apartment near Cologne, Germany, with nothing to do. He was sitting at his computer, staring at his keyboard, when the “Y” key caught h...
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Gadgets
 

DirecTV iPad app adds (some) TV and film streaming ‘Everywhere’ (Update: beta)

After adding live TV streaming facilities to a DirecTV iPad app final fall, a association is expanding a underline currently by pulling an ascent that lets viewers watch video (but no live TV, yet) even when they’re divid...
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Interactive Game of Thrones calm comes to HBO Go iPad app

ENGAGE ON THE GO WITH GAME OF THRONES® SEASON 2 GROUNDBREAKING INTERACTIVE VIEWING EXPERIENCE AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY ON HBO GO® LAUNCHES FOR THE FIRST TIME ON THE iPAD®, APRIL 1 New York, N.Y., Mar 29, 2012 – On Apr 1, Game...
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Popular Science
 

Test Drive: The 2012 Fiat 500 Abarth

Fiat says its catchphrase “small but wicked,” applied frequently to the new 500 Abarth, was coined for the Abarths of the 1960s, and while we think that may be apocrypha, it definitely holds true for the 2012 model. This ca...
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G is for geek: kids get ABC for today’s world Alpha-beta learning

JESSICA SUTTON A Palmerston North couple’s “geeky” children’s alphabet book is getting international attention, with more than 1500 copies sold and 2000 iPad and iPhone apps downloaded. A for apple and B...
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Prometheus Blu-ray Details Revealed

Disc 4 (Alien): Audio commentary by Ridley Scott, Dan O’Bannon, Ronald Shusett (prod. exec.), Terry Rawlings (assembly), Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton and John Hurt Audio commentary b...
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Guillermo del Toro Talks Pacific Rim 2 and More

Even though Pacific Rim will be Guillermo del Toro‘s first film in five years, he has attached himself to numerous projects both for movies and television.  Just to name a few that are still in development hell, he’s attac...
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Why Alastair Reynolds Doesn’t Do Star Trek Physics

Alastair Reynolds likes to keep his sci-fi grounded in reality. Photo: Barbara Bells British author Alastair Reynolds is at the vanguard of the current generation of hard science fiction authors — writers whose fabulous adven...
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Popular Science
 

Is Homeopathy Really As Implausible As It Sounds?

The new British minister of health has recently become the target of scorn and mockery, after a science writer with The Telegraph noted that he supports homeopathy, a branch of alternative medicine most health experts view as q...
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Games
 

Today’s other news: Left 4 Dead 3 could happen, no one’s working on Borderlands 3

On the list today is word from Valve’s Chet Faliszek that he’d like to make Left 4 Dead 3, word from Gearbox’s Randy Pitchford that the focus remains on Borderlands 2, and – surprise – another example of Gearbox-brand...
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Popular Science
 

NASA’s Newest Engineering Challenge: How To Change A Light Bulb

Astronaut insomnia is somewhat legendary at NASA, with astronauts popping sleep pills with regularity and averaging only six hours of sleep a night, far less than the eight and a half hours they’re technically allotted. This ...
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Jeff Nathanson Writing Pirates of the Caribbean 5

Disney sure loves them Caribbean and pirates because the studio has set in motion the fifth Pirates of the Caribbean movie, something we all expect to happen sooner or later. Variety reports Catch Me if You Can screenwriter Jef...
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Geek Products
 

Multi-Color LED Lighting Kit

Lazy home decorators, rejoice! When you get a new place, it’s pretty exciting. Maybe it’s your dorm room, the first time you’ve lived away from your parents. Or your first apartment, paying rent that’s t...
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Movies
 

Star Wars Or Star Trek: JJ Abrams Needs to Pick a Side

I was shocked to see the reports that J.J. Abrams had been recruited to direct the planned Star Wars sequel. Unlike Christopher Rosen, I’m still hoping that the news is wrong, and that Abrams is just the latest target of ...
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Robert Pattinson Talks THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 2; Watch the 20 Minute Press Conference or Read the Transcript

Since the release of the first film, the Twilight phenomenon has just continued to grow exponentially.  With the highly anticipated final installment, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, hitting theaters on November 1...
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Star Trek’s Klingon goes boldly into pop culture

LOS ANGELES — Why learn French when you could learn Klingon? The language created more than 30 years ago for the Star Trek race of long-haired warriors has moved boldly into pop culture where few other alien tongues have...
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Dota 2 Diary: How to learn a hero in two hours

Water: essential I’ve played 183 hours of Dota 2. Some of you will be saying “Whoa dude, that’s time you could have spent making a mean batch of marmalade.” Others will be saying “Rofl, l2play noob.” But Dota 2′s ...
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Popular Science
 

Fox News Claims Germany Has More Solar Power Than U.S. Because It’s Sunnier There

In this segment of Fox Friends, called “Pulling the Plug: The Dim Future of Solar Power,” co-host Gretchen Carlson asked asked Fox Business reporter Shibani Joshi why Germany has been able to generate so much more s...
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Movies
 

Riddick Set Photos and Synopsis Posted

Following a proxy prolongation shutdown in 2011, a third installment in a Chronicles of Riddick array – that Universal is now strictly referring to as simply Riddick – has begun filming once again. Vin Diesel is behind in b...
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New Batch of Wrath of a Titans Images

Share Tweet Email Following adult on that really cold new “Wrath of a Titans” trailer comes a new collection of images from a anticipation epic. Check them out, won’t you? A decade after his drastic better of a grievous K...
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Games
 

Warface trailer showcases classes and massive mech suits

A free to play team shooter built in CryEngine 3 is actually a pretty exciting prospect, even before you factor in the giant mechs. If Warface is fast and accessible enough it could beat Call of Duty a its own game, providing a...
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Movies
 

Angelina Jolie’s Maleficent Adds Seven More

Share Tweet Email Share Tweet Email After a prolonged delay, looks like things are unequivocally rolling on a Angelina Jolie-fronted Sleeping Beauty film “Maleficent” now. The film, set to be destined by Robert Stromberg, h...
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Bradley Cooper is an American Sniper

Hollywood’s stream run on all-things Navy SEALs-related continues, with Bradley Cooper appropriation a film rights to a non-fiction book “American Sniper: The Autobiography of a Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History...
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