Tuesday, April 15, 2014

drag2share: A Clever Lamp Without a Bulb That Still Projects a Classic Silhouette

Source: http://gizmodo.com/a-clever-lamp-without-a-bulb-that-still-projects-a-clas-1563425159

A Clever Lamp Without a Bulb That Still Projects a Classic Silhouette

You can buy light bulbs with every kind of color temperature, brightness, and finish you can imagine these days. So the need for a lamp shade to diffuse, soften, and direct their light is all but unnecessary—unless you yearn for that classic lamp silhouette. In that case, this LED lamp from YOY design is a clever compromise.

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drag2share: This Frozen Grinder Ensures You've Got Fresh Herbs All Year Round

Source: http://gizmodo.com/this-frozen-grinder-ensures-youve-got-fresh-herbs-all-y-1563366401

This Frozen Grinder Ensures You've Got Fresh Herbs All Year Round

Unless you live in a place where snow and winter never show their ugly faces, a year-round garden is out of the question. But if your green thumb results in a surplus of herbs during the summer, you can always freeze them in this handy grinder that keeps them fresh and easy to serve during those frozen snowbound months.

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drag2share: A Rare Genetic Mutation in These Siblings Makes Them Immune to Viruses

Source: http://gizmodo.com/a-rare-genetic-mutation-in-these-siblings-makes-them-im-1563452687

A Rare Genetic Mutation in These Siblings Makes Them Immune to Viruses

Viruses are incompetent but smart little things. Unable to make proteins on their own, they hijack ours for their own nefarious purposes. But what if we gave the viruses broken proteins? An incredibly rare genetic disorder in a brother and sister pair does exactly that, making them immune to many classes of viruses—and suggesting new possibilities for antiviral treatments.

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drag2share: This Intricate Creature Skitters Across Your Desk On 3D-Printed Legs

Source: http://gizmodo.com/this-incredibly-complex-beast-skitters-over-your-desk-o-1563539822

This Intricate Creature Skitters Across Your Desk On 3D-Printed Legs

As a genre, "desk toys" are usually pretty corny, from Newton's Cradle sculptures to creepy meditation balls. But these tiny creatures—which are miniatures of the giant self-propelled sculptures designed by Dutch artist Theo Jansen—are anything but.

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drag2share: Here's Amazon's phone: six cameras and a 4.7-inch screen

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/15/amazon-phone-pictures/

Rumors of an Amazon-made phone are nothing new, but today the rumors enter reality more firmly: what you see above is what BGR claims is the Amazon's first phone. "Whoa, that's super ugly!" you might be saying. Cool it, that's just an enclosure around the device itself preventing prying eyes (like our own) from seeing the actual design. The good news is we can still learn a few things about the device without the enclosure removed: five cameras up front (reportedly a sixth out back) and a trio of buttons along the left side handle power and volume. The screen is reportedly of the 4.7-inch variety -- which lines up with previous rumors -- and puts Amazon's first phone on the same scale as Motorola's Moto X (among others).

Before we move on, we should probably address that whole six cameras thing, huh? Well, the rear one is a standard phone camera for taking photos, and apparently one of the five on the front is also just a standard camera. The four other face cameras, though, are apparently for something especially unique: the phone's 3D interface. All those cameras reportedly enable the phone to track the position of your head and where you're looking, thus enabling glasses-free 3D from any angle. BGR says the four face cams are low-power infrared sensors.

So, what's powering that effect besides cameras? 2GB of RAM and an unnamed Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, apparently. Rather than going 1080p, the handset is also said to push 720p (also similar to the Moto X).

If that's not enough, the report also says that a less flashy, more affordable version will arrive this year as well. That's two Amazon phones potentially leaked without Amazon acknowledging or even teasing either. Don't expect shock on our faces when an ambiguous event invite shows up in the next few weeks.

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