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All Hail The Hyetis Crossbow, The 41-Megapixel Smart Watch From Outer Space

Greetings, Earthling. I come bearing glad tidings of the Hyetis Crossbow, a smartwatch with built-in mechanical movement and a 41-megapixel “life camera” designed to record your every motion and...

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If You Watch One Partially Cacophonous NES Player Piano System Video Today,...

The folks at RoboBand have created a robotic band that plays the soundtracks to famous Nintendo games using a Raspberry Pi, a Yamaha Disklavier, and a robotic drum kit. The system took the audio...

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Watch Startup Bathys Creates An Atomic Clock For Your Wrist

While this watch may look goofy as all get-out, rest assured it holds an important spot in the history of timekeeping. It is one of the first “atomic” clocks that is accurate to a second every thousand...

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Today In Dystopian War Robots That Will Harvest Us For Our Organs

Welcome to our continuing series featuring videos of robots that will, when they become autonomous, hunt us down and force us to work in the graphene factories of Mars. Below we see Wild Cat, a fully...

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Today In Dystopian War Robots That Will Harvest Us For Our Organs

Welcome to another rousing edition of TIDWRTWHUFOO! Today we feature three exciting robots that will change our lives as we know them by eventually threatening us with violence if we don't “Move along,...

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Kickstart This Oscilloscope Watch To See Your Hardware Beat To The Beat Of...

Some day, archeologists will look back on our civilization and wonder why we had so many smartwatches. Case in point: the Oscilloscope Watch by Gabriel Anzziani is a wild little bit of gear that adds...

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KlearGear Goes Into Social Media Lockdown After It Charges Customers For...

KlearGear, a sort of ThinkGeek for folks who don't value good web design, is in trouble. The company recently rose to prominence when they charged a customer $3,500 for posting mean social media...

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YourFreeProxy Is Caught Installing A Toolbar That Mines Bitcoin On The Sly

Today in “Things Your Tech Service Shouldn’t Do” we present YourFreeProxy from Mutual Public AKA We Build Toolbars, LLC. The company, which offers proxy servers for routing around firewalls and...

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Yes, It’s Real: Tim Draper Gives Details On Ballot Initiative To Make Silicon...

Silicon Valley is no stranger to unusual ideas, and today the world got to witness another: noted investor Tim Draper is proposing a ballot proposition to split California into six separate states....

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The Bathys Atomic Watch Is Heading Towards A Crowdfunded Future

Bathys, a boutique watchmaker based on Kauai, Hawaii and run by one determined man, first announced their wild Cesium 133 atomic watch in October. Now, a few months later, the company is nearly ready...

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Conan Goes Extreme With His GoPro Cameras

In honor of CES and just because, here’s a cute video for you. It’s not quite Citizen Kane but in this exciting video Conan O’Brien attaches GoPro cameras to objects around his studio… with some...

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Now The Rich Can 3D Print Their Own Cup Holders For The Tesla Model S

As you whiz down the highway from LA to Las Vegas in your Tesla Model S, your Bluetooth humming, your Google Glass flashing messages from VCs trying to get into your next round, wouldn’t it be nice to...

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What Happens To California If Silicon Valley Became A State, In 7 Charts

At least one wealthy tech investor wants to encourage California’s latent separatist tendencies and slice California into six different states, including one State of Silicon Valley. Per California...

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Wearables Attack! Huawei Announces A Fitness Band That’s Also A Bluetooth...

Your fitness band got into my bluetooth headset! No, your bluetooth headset got into my fitness band! Stop! You're both right! In what I suspect will be a minor blip in the interstitial wearable world,...

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TSA Reportedly Demands To Inspect Man’s Luggage For Bitcoin [Updated]

Davi Baker wasn't quite sure how to comply with the TSA's demands to inspect his bags for Bitcoin. Baker had found himself in a testy exchange with airport security personnel during an enhanced...

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Bitcoiners, Police Yourselves

This is a short post because it's important but not worth belaboring. This morning, CryptocoinsNews posted a piece on Leah McGrath Goodman. Goodman posted a Facebook update essentially telling her...

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If You Look At One Picture Of 3D-Printed Chicken Today, Make It This One

You like chicken. You like 3D printed stuff. Why not slam them together to make the ultimate in 3D printable model food? How does that sound? Cool, right? I thought so. So what's going on here: some...

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BlackBerry Sued An Executive Who Defected To Apple

The story goes BlackBerry senior vice president for software Sebastian Marineau-Mes resigned from his post in late December 2013 after Apple offered him a position as vice president of Core OS. But...

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Build Your Own Makerbot-Inspired Robotic Tattoo Machine

I actually checked to see if today was April Fool's but, seeing as how it wasn't and seeing as how it would be quite simple to recreate this cool piece of hardware, I figured we could check it out....

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The Jaquet Droz Signing Machine Signs Papers Mechanically So You Don’t Have To

High above a scorched Earth, in a sleek yacht tethered to the tip of the Terra Two spindle, Chancellor Herman Worthy was doing paperwork. His cleaner bots were all asleep and his assistant, a lithe...

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