Friday, September 06, 2013

Can You Identify a Mystery Cocoon Which Has the Whole Internet Stumped?

Source: http://gizmodo.com/can-you-identify-a-mystery-cocoon-which-has-the-whole-i-1262186274

Can You Identify a Mystery Cocoon Which Has the Whole Internet Stumped?

Usually, throw the internet an image of something you can't identify and it's only a couple of minutes until you're bombarded with people pointing out how dumb you are. Not so with this mystery cocoon, though—because nobody can work out where it comes from.

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Visualizing Published Science as Forming Galaxies

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Visualizing Published Science as Forming Galaxies

Scientific research is published by the bucketload every single week—to the extent that it's virtually impossible to keep up with. So this neat way of visualizing published papers as growing galaxies is particularly fun—and useful.

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LG's 77-Inch Curved OLED Ultra HD TV Is a Monstrous Beauty

Source: http://gizmodo.com/lgs-77-inch-curved-oled-ultra-hd-tv-is-a-monstrous-bea-1262576842

LG's 77-Inch Curved OLED Ultra HD TV Is a Monstrous Beauty

Currently, the biggest curved curved ultra-high resolution OLED TV tops out at a mere 55 inches—but LG is shaking things up with this monstrous 77-inch creature.

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Alcatel OneTouch Hero hands-on

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/05/alcatel-onetouch-hero-hands-on/

Alcatel OneTouch Hero handson

Okay, you have to admit: there might actually be something to this whole large smartphone business, started by Samsung two years ago at this very trade show. Not only has the trend not gone away, nearly every major OEM is hopping on the bandwagon. Alcatel OneTouch is interested in joining the party, and it's entering the field with a doozy aptly called the Hero, a 6-inch behemoth with a full HD (1,920 x 1,080) display and a few tricks up its sleeves. It's relatively easy on the hands, with a curved back and a decent thickness of 8.5mm. In fact, compared to the Acer Liquid S2 (another 6-inch smartphone announced at IFA), it's 6mm narrower, 7.5mm shorter and 0.5mm thinner -- great news, especially since we felt pretty comfortable with the S2 during our hands-on.

In many parts of the world, Alcatel OneTouch is still an unknown, despite the fact that the manufacturer has a reputation for pushing out up to a dozen handsets at one time. While this is still very much the case this week, we've noticed that the company has put a much higher amount of focus on quality. The Hero doesn't remind us of a cheap KIRF or knockoff phone. Instead, we came away much more impressed with the phone's look and feel than we originally expected. Continue past the break for more of our thoughts and the Hero's features.

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Velodyne vQuiet active noise-canceling headphones (ears-on)

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/05/velodyne-vquiet/

Velodyne vQuiet active noisecanceling headphones earson

Velodyne is a name closely associated with subwoofers, but the company also knocks-out portable audio gear, too. The vQuiet, as you may have guessed, is Velo's first pair of active noise canceling headphones -- hopefully ensuring that your jams are more listenable on the rowdy floor of a busy trade show. In our very short time with the gear, we found that Bob Dylan's quiet-voiced bootlegs were a little more audible with the head wear activated than not. Of course, we'd rather spend a little more time with them before making a final judgment, but until then, the vQuiet will arrive more generally in October for $299 -- offering you a choice between them and the ever-present Bose sets that you see during those long-haul flights.

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