Geeky Gadgets - Newsletter

Writer: Desire, Anticipated Fun are Reasons Why People Wait in Line
Startup Offers Cost-effective Solar Cell Production at Half the Price
File Transfer Made Easier Through Facebook’s Pipe
Pin Lights for a Safer Campsite
Rechner is World’s First Gesture-based Calculator App
Robots Break World Swimming Record
Biplane Could Be Key to Faster Supersonic Travel
OMGPOP’s Draw Something Tops The Charts
Snail Turned Into Organic Battery
Scramble with Friends now Available for Android
Sony Smart Outlets Will Charge You And Your Devices
Smithsonian’s Art Of Video Games Exhibit Now Open
Robothespian Sings “Singing In The Rain”
Google Nexus Tablet To Retail For $149?
Lenovo Laptops To Reject Third-Party Batteries, Starting In May?

Writer: Desire, Anticipated Fun are Reasons Why People Wait in Line

Posted: 17 Mar 2012 10:08 AM PDT

How does waiting in line become worth it? A BuzzFeed staff derives a formula, albeit a very personal one, based on her previous queueing experiences.

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Original Story Writer: Desire, Anticipated Fun are Reasons Why People Wait in Line

Startup Offers Cost-effective Solar Cell Production at Half the Price

Posted: 17 Mar 2012 10:08 AM PDT

Alternative energy sources, while sustainable in the long run, are often dismissed due to the costly building and manufacture of tools. Now here’s a speck of hope for solar energy: a startup goes public and claims that they can produce solar cells for about half the price of the ones currently in the market.

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Original Story Startup Offers Cost-effective Solar Cell Production at Half the Price

File Transfer Made Easier Through Facebook’s Pipe

Posted: 17 Mar 2012 10:08 AM PDT

Now we have more excuses to do “work” on Facebook. File transfer is coming to Facebook early next week though a new app named Pipe.

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Original Story File Transfer Made Easier Through Facebook’s Pipe

Pin Lights for a Safer Campsite

Posted: 17 Mar 2012 10:07 AM PDT

Now we need not fear the deep dark outdoors. With Pin Lights, your tent stakes can double as lamp posts too. Ingenious.

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Original Story Pin Lights for a Safer Campsite

Rechner is World’s First Gesture-based Calculator App

Posted: 17 Mar 2012 10:05 AM PDT

Taking after the idea of swipe keyboards on touch devices, a fresh-from-the-box iOS calculator app allows you to do just that with your numbers.

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Original Story Rechner is World’s First Gesture-based Calculator App

Robots Break World Swimming Record

Posted: 17 Mar 2012 10:01 AM PDT

Four robots called the PacX Wave Gliders broke the distance world record when they swam over 3,200 nautical miles or 5,926km across the Pacific Ocean.

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Original Story Robots Break World Swimming Record

Biplane Could Be Key to Faster Supersonic Travel

Posted: 17 Mar 2012 09:57 AM PDT

Commercial supersonic travel has long been out of the market, ever since the Concorde stopped its services in 2003. Nine years later, the findings of a group of university researchers may just lead to cheaper, quieter, and more fuel-efficient supersonic travel.

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Original Story Biplane Could Be Key to Faster Supersonic Travel

OMGPOP’s Draw Something Tops The Charts

Posted: 17 Mar 2012 09:57 AM PDT

Everyone is Drawing Something as OMGPOP’s “Draw Something” lead the list of most used Facebook apps. This is a shocking breather from all the Zynga apps regularly on top.

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Original Story OMGPOP’s Draw Something Tops The Charts

Snail Turned Into Organic Battery

Posted: 17 Mar 2012 09:55 AM PDT

That slow and steady cyborg snail may have just enough juice to win the race.

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Original Story Snail Turned Into Organic Battery

Scramble with Friends now Available for Android

Posted: 17 Mar 2012 09:54 AM PDT

While there are already a lot of play-with-friends game apps available for both iOS and Android, every Zynga release is much anticipated, as it will surely be social and addictive by nature. Having said that, Scramble with Friends by Zynga is now available for Android users!

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Original Story Scramble with Friends now Available for Android

Sony Smart Outlets Will Charge You And Your Devices

Posted: 17 Mar 2012 08:16 AM PDT

With all of our countless gadgets and devices, the one thing that we always need is power. Our gadgets are charged, drained and charged again in an endless cycle. Sony has some ideas about that and they aim to make money too. By charging you for charging directly from the outlet.
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Original Story Sony Smart Outlets Will Charge You And Your Devices

Smithsonian’s Art Of Video Games Exhibit Now Open

Posted: 17 Mar 2012 07:59 AM PDT

Some snobby museum patrons may disagree, but the fact is that video games are an art form. And thankfully, more people are realizing this. The Smithsonian sees them as art and rightly so. They have opened the Art Of Video Games exhibit today.
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Original Story Smithsonian's Art Of Video Games Exhibit Now Open

Robothespian Sings “Singing In The Rain”

Posted: 17 Mar 2012 07:31 AM PDT

Aside from in movies like Star Wars, we humans don’t have many fast paced adventures with robots by our side. Mostly we see robots on the internet, where we watch them do all kinds of crazy things. In this case the robot is Robothespian and he recently spent some time in Lyon France at Lyon's Innorobo fair, where he sang the song “Singing in the Rain”.
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Original Story Robothespian Sings “Singing In The Rain”

Google Nexus Tablet To Retail For $149?

Posted: 17 Mar 2012 07:14 AM PDT

We already know that Google chose ASUS to produce their upcoming "Nexus tablet." And we know that the 7-inch tablet could arrive as early as May. Now we have some new information that contradicts earlier reports that said the device would retail for $249-199. It looks like the target price is now $149-199.
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Original Story Google Nexus Tablet To Retail For $149?

Lenovo Laptops To Reject Third-Party Batteries, Starting In May?

Posted: 17 Mar 2012 06:55 AM PDT

Third party batteries are great for the consumer since they are cheap compared to your laptop manufacturer’s brand. Unfortunately, for companies like Lenovo, this means that they miss out on your money. According to a source, as Lenovo is refreshing its ThinkPad Edge mainstream laptop line, bringing Intel’s new Ivy Bridge processors and some USB 3.0 ports in a lighter design, it looks like they will also be the first of the company’s laptops to feature a “Battery Safeguard.”
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Original Story Lenovo Laptops To Reject Third-Party Batteries, Starting In May?

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