Posts Tagged ‘ideo’

This Is a Mosquito Getting Killed By a Laser

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

You’re looking at a mosquito who got taken down mid-flight by a “Death Star” laser gun designed by Nathan Myhrvold. The malaria-carrying pest never saw it coming, but you can watch everything happen over and over again in this video.

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Windows Phone 7: First Videos

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

As we see in this first ever video, the Windows Phone 7 interface is filled with simple, beautiful animations not so dissimilar to the Zune HD. UPDATE:

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How Will Xbox Live Work on Windows Phone 7?

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

4de9c098957game1 How Will Xbox Live Work on Windows Phone 7?Apple may have the iPhone, but the iPhone doesn’t have the Xbox. Today, Microsoft leveraged their most compelling entertainment asset, the Xbox 360, into Windows Phone 7 Series. But what does this mean, practically speaking?

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McGraw-Hill CEO Confirms Apple Tablet With iPhone-Style OS

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

6c8fc6d124tablet McGraw Hill CEO Confirms Apple Tablet With iPhone Style OSWell, this had to happen eventually: someone from an Apple tablet partner—McGraw-Hill’s Harold McGraw III—has confirmed the tablet’s coming tomorrow, that it’ll run an iPhone-style OS, that it’s “terrific”, and that he’ll probably never work with Apple again.

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The Complete Guide to Setting Up Your New Xmas Smartphone

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

c8fcadceeaes 11 The Complete Guide to Setting Up Your New Xmas SmartphoneThe moment you unpackage a new smartphone is a magical one. Don’t let the moment right after that, when you realize that it’s practically useless out of the box, cancel that out. Here’s everything you need to know:

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Thermaltake Level 10 Chassis Review: Can BMW Change PC Design?

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

da4f0fee5800x 03 Thermaltake Level 10 Chassis Review: Can BMW Change PC Design?PC Perspective’s reader Craig Mullaney scored the first review with the Thermaltake Level 10 computer case. And the site was kind enough to share it with us, in full, here. Spoiler: it’s as ridiculously awesome as we’d expect:

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Most Popular Free Windows Downloads of 2009

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

5cc311ef75win dl Most Popular Free Windows Downloads of 2009We’ve featured hundreds of free Windows applications over the course of 2009 that we hoped might bolster your productivity, workflow, or your PC usefulness in one form or another. Here’s a look back at the most favourite Windows downloads of the year.

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100 Years of Failure: 10 Technologies We Were Promised But Never Got

Monday, December 14th, 2009

5bea62e72fme nyc 100 Years of Failure: 10 Technologies We Were Promised But Never GotIn Your Flying Car Awaits, author Paul Milo discusses “robot butlers, lunar vacations and other dead-wrong predictions of the 20th Century.” Here are 10 calamitous tech failures. Even the ones that did make it aren’t anything like their original visions.

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Most Popular Top 10s of 2009

Friday, December 11th, 2009

28d133c29dollage Most Popular Top 10s of 2009Every weekend, we comb our memories and archives to compile 10 useful items addressing a specific topic you may have forgotten about, or just happen to be excellent. Here are the 20 list(icle) posts that evidenced the most favourite in 2009.

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Achievement Chore: She Plays For Gamerscore, Whether It’s Fun Or Not

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

fb506b8515crutop Achievement Chore: She Plays For Gamerscore, Whether Its Fun Or NotIt’s 9 p.m. and I’ve lost my fifth straight game of Madden NFL Arcade to the same person, apiece time by 30-0. My opponent has a gamerscore of more than 165,000. But it’s not because she’s good at football.

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