Heather Heron Designs Durable Accessories with Army Surplus Fabrics (Photos)
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Heather Heron’s California Street Laptop Sleeve. Photo: Heather Heron In her second collection for Environment Furniture –don’t miss her first –California-based designer Heather Heron has mastered the art of repurposing. Using mainly vintage Swedish army fabrics, Heron has constructed street-smart laptop sleeves, flouncy pleated and structured clu… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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World of Warcraft is a lot of things to a lot of people, a whole lot of people, but it’s never been much of an immersive gameplay experience — casting Plague Strike doesn’t seem all that unholy when it’s triggered by frantically tapping a key on a keyboard. Moving an arm would be at least a bit more involving, and with the Flexible Action and Articulated Toolkit, or FAAST, from the USC Institute for Creative Technologies, that’s just what you can do. It’s basically a software layer over your Kinect , built over OpenNI , that recognizes a skeleton and enables about 20 different motions to be mapped to key presses. This means you can lean forward to walk, raise your right arm to perform an action, and then sit down to take a breather after all that exertion. It’s currently versioned .03, so don’t expect miracles, but it is available for free at the other end of the source link. It’s also demonstrated below, but don’t tarry too long: guild meeting starts in five. [Thanks, Tommy] Continue reading Free Kinect keyboard emulator lets you WoW while AFK (video) Free Kinect keyboard emulator lets you WoW while AFK (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:55:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Indictment filed against nine suspects arrested by British police show major sites, London mayor, US embassy, rabbis among intended targets
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After Wal-mart , Best Buy and Amazon jumped on the digital delivery bandwagon it’s clearly evident that just offering discs for sale isn’t enough, and right on schedule Sears and Kmart are launching Alphaline Entertainment, a new venture created for the sole purpose of selling downloadable movies online. Powered by Sonic’s RoxioNow backend just like Best Buy and Blockbuster, it’s all very familiar, down to the $3.99 rent / $19.99 new release purchase pricing that we love to hate (with the Blu-ray version often on sale for less, why bother?) with plans to embed the service in a variety of connected Blu-ray players, mobile devices, TVs and more. It doesn’t appear that Sonic’s sale to Rovi or the addition of DivX to the company’s fold has affected the deal at all, but here’s hoping they plan on introducing a Blue Light Special pack-in like VUDU or Disc+ to make things a little more appealing. Continue reading Sears, Kmart launch Alphaline Entertainment movie download service Sears, Kmart launch Alphaline Entertainment movie download service originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 28 Dec 2010 07:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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* Sentence expected this week * West says guilty verdict a setback for Russia * Prosecutors have called for six more years in prison By Alexei Anishchuk and Maria Tsvetkova MOSCOW, Dec 28 (Reuters) – Russia accused the United States and European nations on Tuesday of trying to influence the trial of jailed tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, calling such efforts unacceptable and warning the West to mind its own business. In a statement, the Foreign Ministry also rejected as groundless Western officials’ suggestions that the trial of Khodorkovsky, who was found guilty on Monday of large-scale theft and money laundering, was an example of selective justice. The United States and European nations said…
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In live TV broadcast, Ahmadinejad says continuing ‘previous path’ will close the road to dialogue’
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UTJ members slam Netanyahu’s ‘zigzagging’ on controversial bill, say he behaved ‘like child who got slapped by Lieberman.’ Shas’ Yishai: PM promised coalition would reject legislation
Continue reading …Lightning photographed by superfast X-ray camera, Nikola Tesla nods with approval
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You know, we could just leave you with the image above and be done here, but its backstory is almost as cool. Researchers at the Florida Institute of Technology have built a 1,500-pound X-ray camera that can shoot ten million frames a second and then pointed it at a nearby flash of lightning to try and learn more about it. How did they know where the lightning would strike? Well, in true scientific fashion, they caused it themselves! This was done by shooting rockets into thunderstorms, with attached wires directing the flow of energy down into their target zone. The imagery produced from the X-ray sensor is actually extremely low-res — a 30-pixel hexagonal grid is all you get — but it’s enough to show that X-ray radiation is concentrated at the tip of the lightning bolt. What good that knowledge will do for the world, we don’t know, but we’re sure it’ll provide nice fodder for the next round of superhero empowerment stories. Lightning photographed by superfast X-ray camera, Nikola Tesla nods with approval originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 28 Dec 2010 07:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …By Eugene Robinson It’s been not quite two months’ time since Republicans won a sweeping midterm victory, and already they seem divided, embattled and—not to mince words—freaked out. For good reason, I might add. Related Entries December 27, 2010 Closed Door December 27, 2010 Lame Duck
Continue reading …Schiit Audio reveals gorgeous six-watt Lyr headphone amplifier, dares you to touch 11
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Just kidding. In fact, Schiit Audio won’t be responsible if you do wind it to 11 and blow the ear tips right off of your favorite canalphones. The drop-dead sexy box that you’re peering at above is the Lyr, a hybrid (tube-MOSFET) headphone amplifier that claims to have zero feedback and more power than most headphones will ever have use for. This guy’s pumping out six solid watts into 32 ohms, while loads of rivals are dabbling in milliwatts . It’s relying on JJ ECC88 tubes for the input stage and touts less than 0.1 percent THD, and it’ll be produced in the US of A using components that were also primarily sourced from American suppliers. It’s expected to start shipping in March of 2011, but those already sold on it can commit $449 to a pre-order. And before you ask — yes, the company name is hilarious. Ha. Ha. Continue reading Schiit Audio reveals gorgeous six-watt Lyr headphone amplifier, dares you to touch 11 Schiit Audio reveals gorgeous six-watt Lyr headphone amplifier, dares you to touch 11 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 28 Dec 2010 06:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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