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Kinect meets Swarovski crystals, gaudiness ensues (video)

Hey, you know that Kinect thing that Microsoft recently launched and hasn’t been heard of since ? Well, it’s such a boring and useless creation that somebody had to try and spruce it up. Enter DS Styles, with a bag of 5,000 Swarovski crystals and the courage to use them. The result of that coupling has been the (quite literally) unmissable concoction you see above — a Kinect that will blind you first, then record your clumsy reaction for posterity second. And it only costs $632, what a steal! Continue reading Kinect meets Swarovski crystals, gaudiness ensues (video) Kinect meets Swarovski crystals, gaudiness ensues (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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Fragrance Jet II receives video demonstration, still looks like a terrible idea (video)

Ah, those zany Keio University researchers trying to recreate Smell-O-Vision , do you want to know what they’re up to these days? They’re still trying, of course, but now they’ve taken the opportunity to demonstrate their hardware — which uses basic inkjet printer tech to fire off very short bursts of fragrance — to tech lovers in Japan while still tweaking and refining it. Primarily aimed at helping healthcare professionals in assessing a patient’s sense of smell , the Fragrance Jet II has a high degree of control granularity, permitting the varying of both intensity and duration of a scent, which in turn can provide a very accurate measurement of a given person’s olfactory acuity. A mobile prototype has also been trotted out (pictured above), hinting at the possibility of eventually shrinking these modules to fit inside cellphones and thus leading us to an awesome future of customizable “incoming call fragrances.” Awesome indeed. Video after the break. Continue reading Fragrance Jet II receives video demonstration, still looks like a terrible idea (video) Fragrance Jet II receives video demonstration, still looks like a terrible idea (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 15 Dec 2010 06:54:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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Misa Digital’s stringless Kitara goes up for pre-order: $849 for a truly unique musical instrument

Remember the Misa Digital Guitar ? Well, it’s called the Kitara now, it’s taken on a fresh lick of paint, and it’s ready to be pre-ordered now for an April delivery. The Kitara discards old fashioned strings and has you strumming along on a multitouch display instead, populating the fretboard with a litany of buttons that modify the aural output from your digital input. It has an onboard synthesizer, but the real magic will happen once you plug it into your own audio equipment and start experimenting. Basically, it’s like the Kinect of electronic music — just needs a few inventive souls to harness its potential properly. They’ll need fat wallets too, mind you, as turning this invention into a viable product has meant a lofty $849 starting price in the US. See a video demo and the full Kitara press release after the break. Gallery: Misa Digital Kitara press images Continue reading Misa Digital’s stringless Kitara goes up for pre-order: $849 for a truly unique musical instrument Misa Digital’s stringless Kitara goes up for pre-order: $849 for a truly unique musical instrument originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 15 Dec 2010 04:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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AirPlay video streaming from iOS devices hacked into Macs (video)

Hey Mac home theater users, listen up — your AirPlay wishes have come true. TUAW’s very own Erica Sadun has developed a free (ad supported) 0.01 alpha hack that lets your Mac play host to AirPlay video streamed off of iOS devices. Right, just like an Apple TV. And as long as you’re skirting official support, why not install the free AirVideoEnabler app onto your jailbroken iPod touch, iPad, or iPhone to stream video from even more applications than Apple currently allows. Works for us. Everyone else can check the video after the break. Continue reading AirPlay video streaming from iOS devices hacked into Macs (video) AirPlay video streaming from iOS devices hacked into Macs (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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Real-time 3D face reproduction demonstrated on video

Eager to be freaked right on out? If so, head past the break and mash play. There, you’ll see a recent demonstration by Tohto C-Tech, where a 3D camera setup was used to capture a person’s face and then reproduce it on a monitor (in 3D, no less) in real-time. We’re told that an undisclosed GPGPU setup was used to pull it off, as typical CPUs just weren’t quick enough to render the final product on their own. The camera setup actually captures the face from two different viewpoints, enabling the sides of the face to be shown in addition to the front. We warned you that copious amounts of freaky were involved. Continue reading Real-time 3D face reproduction demonstrated on video Real-time 3D face reproduction demonstrated on video originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 15 Dec 2010 01:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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Google fires Nexus S into space, invites tenuous Galaxy S analogies (video)

How are you killing the time until the Nexus S finally goes on sale ? Google’s answer to that question has been a typically outlandish affair, involving seven Nexi , a collection of weather balloons, and another quest to see how much can be learned from a humble smartphone’s sensors when they’re shot to the edge of space. Yes, the Mountain View madmen fired a week’s worth of their latest and greatest smartphones through the Earth’s atmosphere, hoping to test both the durability and the information-gathering skills of the onboard compass, gyro, and accelerometer, while dedicated GPS modules were installed in each “shuttle” (made out of styrofoam beer coolers, if you can believe it) to help recover the cargo on its return to terra firma. So far, only six of the phones have been recovered — might this be another of Google’s crazy puzzles? A treasure hunt for an Android fallen from heaven? Video after the break. Continue reading Google fires Nexus S into space, invites tenuous Galaxy S analogies (video) Google fires Nexus S into space, invites tenuous Galaxy S analogies (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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Daito Manabe’s sensor-based drum machine might actually melt your face off

Believe it or not, this isn’t the first time that Daito Manabe has used some electrical stimulation in a face-twisting musical experiment , but he’s taken things one big step further with his latest project. As before, this rig creates wild facial twitches controlled by music (not the other way around), but it also includes a second set of sensors that allows another person to tap on a virtual drum kit and send the (hopefully) willing subject’s face into a fit of synchronization. All of which is, of course, better seen than explained — check it out in action after the break. [Thanks, James] Continue reading Daito Manabe’s sensor-based drum machine might actually melt your face off Daito Manabe’s sensor-based drum machine might actually melt your face off originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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Megyn Kelly Blames Democrats’ ‘Class Warfare Narrative’ for Arsonist in Cape Cod

Click here to view this media The hackery over at Fox just never stops. With the economy in the tank and millions of people out of work and fed up with what’s going on in America — the rich getting richer and income disparity we haven’t seen since the Gilded Age — someone gets fed up enough to start lighting rich people’s homes on fire, and of course it’s all the Democrats’ fault. Their sin, in Megyn Kelly’s eyes, is having a “class warfare narrative”. Obviously no one in the Democratic Party is advocating for people to go out there and burn down rich people’s houses. Kelly is ridiculous as she attempts to paint any Democrats who have been honest about the fact that there is class warfare going on, and the fact that the upper class is winning it, as the cause for civil unrest. Pointing out what’s painfully obvious already to the people suffering is not what causes someone to lash out like this. The suffering is. That, or just straight-out mental illness or both, which we won’t know until they catch the suspect[s]. In the meantime, of course, “Fair and Balanced” Fox anchors are free to speculate as wildly as they like. Kelly rounds out her coverage with telling her viewers to go check out Bernard Goldberg’s op-ed, which I already posted about here: Bernard Goldberg Attacks Senator Sanders and Calls for ‘Big Bronze and Granite Monument’ to Honor the Rich Yeah, that’s the ticket, Megyn. I’m sure reading that op-ed will just turn around every American who didn’t realize that their biggest economic problem is that they weren’t building enough monuments to rich people. h/t Media Matters and here’s more on the arson from The Boston Globe. Arson suspected in 2 Cape Cod incidents : State fire officials are investigating a connection between two separate incidents of arson in two Cape Cod towns, authorities said yesterday. In both instances, someone apparently left messages at the scene condemning wealthy people, officials said. State Fire Marshal Stephen D. Coan said evidence found at both locations has led investigators to believe they might be connected. “There is some commonality to both incidents,’’ Coan said. “There was offensive graffiti that was written and very visibly displayed at both sites.’’ On Nov. 24 at around 3:30 a.m., fire crews responded to Boulder Brook Road in Sandwich, where a heavy fire ripped through an unoccupied home and garage that was still under construction. Coan said State Police assigned to his office and personnel from the Sandwich police and fire departments concluded the blaze was intentionally set, based on physical evidence found. More than a week later in Barnstable, someone attempted to burn down a residence on Trotters Lane in the Marstons Mills section, Coan said. Barnstable police Detective John York said authorities discovered incendiary devices at the home, and someone had spray-painted expletives on the fence. A similar message was found at the house in Sandwich. York said the incendiary devices, which officials would not describe in detail, appear to have burned out before setting the Barnstable home on fire Dec. 2. “Fortunately, no one was injured in either incident,’’ Coan said. He declined to say how investigators determined the incidents to be arson, citing the ongoing investigation. Coan urged anyone with information about either incident to call the state’s 24-hour arson hotline at 800-682-9229.

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Andy Rubin’s full D: Dive Into Mobile interview video posted

Android boss Andy Rubin almost always makes for an entertaining interview, and his appearance at AllThingsD ‘s D: Dive Into Mobile conference in San Francisco last week was certainly no exception. The introduction of Android 2.3 Gingerbread and the Nexus S were the official news items of the day, but Rubin took the opportunity to showcase the next version of the platform — Honeycomb — running on a prototype Motorola tablet that no one had seen before. He also runs through a breakdown of Android’s business model (hint: it’s profitable), muses about video calling, and gives us a look at that crazy new 3D-capable Google Maps app. Follow the break for the footage. Continue reading Andy Rubin’s full D: Dive Into Mobile interview video posted Andy Rubin’s full D: Dive Into Mobile interview video posted originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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Voyager 1 will exit solar system soon, is so close to the void it can taste it

Endurance: it’s important in every race, including the space race, even though many pundits would argue that it kind of fizzled a long time ago. Thirty-three years prior to now, NASA ‘s Voyager 1 began its journey to check in on the outer planets. It accomplished that goal in 1989, and has since moved on to bigger and better things — you know, like leaving the solar system . Ten billion miles away, Voyager 1′s Low-Energy Charged Particle Instrument is spitting out “solid zeroes,” which means it’s not detecting any more outward movement from solar winds. The heliopause (read: the official edge of the solar system) is just a few short years away for the radioactive-powered spacecraft, which is frightening to think about regardless of your experience in Space Camp. What will happen once it enters interstellar space? We’re not sure, but we’re trying to set up radio comms with its earth-bound synthesizer progeny for some kind of freaky space jam. We’ll keep you posted. [Image courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech] Voyager 1 will exit solar system soon, is so close to the void it can taste it originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:52:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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