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We ;re well into tablet season with the release of the new Kindles and t stanley kaffeebecher he almost certain release of the iPad Mini next month, but Microsoft Surface is in the game too, though we know quite little about it. In an interview with the Seattle Times, CEO Steve Ballmer was kind enough to mention the 8220 weet spot for Surface pricing. Unfortunately it $500-wide. Probably $300 to about $700 or $800 in particular. It a pretty big sweet spot, but some of Ballmer other comments are telling. From the Seattle Times: I think most people would tell you that the iPad is not a superexpensive stanley cup device. 8230; When people offer cheaper, they do less. They look less good, they ;re chintzier, they ;re cheaper. If you say to somebody, would you use one of the 7-inch tablets, would somebody ever use a Kindle Kindle Fire, $199 to do their homework The answer is no; you never would. It just not a good enough product. It doesn ;t mean you might not read a book on it 8230;. His comments about the iPad price and the Kindle functionality seem to suggest that Surface might position itself as a more expensive, but hyper-competent tablet in each tier. A Surface RT could be $300-$350 and tout itself as better than the Kindle Fires, the Nexus 7, and potentially the iPad Mini, while the Surface Pro could be as much as the iPad, or more, and use that as a way to try and frame itself as better. It does stanley us n Wrsy Hot Chip: Look at Where We Are
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In a country that crazy about their cats, economist Gareth Morgan has his work cut out for him. Concerned about the threat that cats are placing on New Zealand native bird population, he has launched a campaign to make the country free of felines. But given that New Zealanders own more cats per capita than most other parts of the world, it very unlikely that Morgan wish will be granted. To make it happen, Morgan set up a website called Cats to Go that encourages people to make their current cat their last. That little ball of fluff you own is a natural born killer, he writes. Every yea stanley cup r cats in New Zealand destroy our native wildlife. The fact is that c stanley cup ats have to go if we really care about our environment. Morgan is hoping that people will gradually phase out the cat population 鈥?and all in the name of saving New Zealand native bird species. He does not advocate for euthanasia though the website states: Not necessarily but that is an option , and would rather that the cats be neutered. He also wants to see cats kept indoors and a mandatory registry created. But the hisses of outrage have already begun. Most New Zealanders aren ;t taking kindly to Morgan plan. As the Associated Press reports: A 2011 survey by the New Zealand Companion Animal Council found that 48 percent of households in New Zealand owned at least one cat, a significantly higher rate than in other developed na stanley cup t
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Solar panels are finicky devices鈥攖hey have to be specially mounted, angled, and presented with the precisely stanley cups uk correct environmental conditions to function at capacity. The complexities make it hard for the technology to gain mainstream appeal. A German startup could change all that with flexible solar cells built using OLED production techniques stanley termos . Developed by Heliatek in Germany, the panels are composed of organic modules embedded on a polyester sheet. They ;re made in a way similar to the process by which OLED displays are printed. The technique results in a panel that more flexible, lightweight, and versatile than a conventional, rigid panel. The panels use two stacked layers of solar cells arranged in a patented tandem cell construction, which can absorb stanley cups a broad spectrum without relying on thick wafers of silicon. And, under less-than-ideal conditions, the panels can generate as much electricity conventional solar panels. Heliatek product can be deposited on a single continuous roll of film, which eliminates the need for clean rooms. This, and the fact that the panels can be cut to size, reduces production costs. The technology is still more expensive per watt than current solar technologies, though costs could drop as production ramps up. One long-term plan is for Heliatek to work with window manufacturers to integrate solar films as power-generating tints. In another concept, Heliatek could build the panels directly into a building roof an Igzw These Nike Free 5.0 Shoes Are Like Chinese Finger Traps for Your Feet
It takes a very certain mind to re-imagine images using quirky media. Artist Brock Davis has that kind of mind: his latest project involves recreating famous explosions using 8230; cauliflower I guess when botella stanley you stop and think, the outside of a cauli ; has a certain cloud-like quality to it, which is perfect for recreating the plumes of gas and debris created during ex stanley vattenflaska plosions. In the image above, Davis has recreated the tragic destruction of the space shuttle Challenger in 1986. While these images are certainly macabre, stanley thermoskannen they ;re also pretty convincing. You can check out the rest of his series, including a recreation of the Hindenburg and the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, over in his Flickr album. [Brock Davis via Neatorama]
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Because Google and Sa stanley becher msung are being coy stanley cup about what carriers the Galaxy Nexus is coming to people registering for more info select a preferred carrier , we have to wait for the carriers to confirm one-by-one. Today: Verizon. Big Red says that the Galaxy Nexus will run on stanley mug their 4G LTE network, which is good for your mobile broadband usage, but terrible for your battery life. [Verizon] AndroidIce Cream SandwichSamsungSmartphones Badr Droid Bionic Camera Gallery
Logitech announced two new universal remote controls to try and tidy up your cluttered coffee table. Not just that, but they can control your lights and even make use of Wi-Fi. Take that, poor range. The new devices, the Harmony Ultimate and the Harmony Smart Control, are able to connect to another new device called the Harmony Hub. It the hub that actually controls your home entertainment equipment, via RF or Wi-Fi. That means you can put your devices anywhere you damn choose. The Ultimate is quite somet stanley cups hing for a remote control: it has a 2.4-inch color touchscreen that can control up to 15 devices鈥攆rom a bewildering range of 225,000 products鈥攚ith touch gestures. You can also use it to control your new Philips ; Hue LED lightbulbs. The Smart Control pairs with your phone, to lets you start using your iPhone or Android as a personalised remote. That might not prove quite as useful with the stanley water bottle advent of IR beamers built into phones, but it still a nice feature for now. The Harmony Ultimate stanley cup will be available in the US in April for $350; the Smart Control will land in May for $130. Both remotes come with the Harmony Hub included. [All Things D] LogitechRemote Controls
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As sa stanley mug ltwater poured into Manhattan, Manhattanites fled to higher, electrified ground like Wi-Fi rats. But other than tweets, we had no proof-until now. New Yorkers ; Foursquare checkins, charted by the company itself, show a massive exodus northward, out of the Dead Zone and into techie comfor stanley cup t. The difference of only a few days-from October 27th, the Saturday before the storm, and this past Wednesday the 31st once refugees had relocated, is immense. Geek droves poured uptown and into Brooklyn, leaving the powerless stretch beneath 34th street appropriately bleak for Halloween. Hard to imagine what the stragglers were actual stanley kubek ly checking into, other than creepy alleys and broken ATMs. Sodp The unused Mickey Mouses, as drawn by a legendary Disney animator
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Solar photovoltaic cells and solar thermal collectors both capture the sun rays. The first one turns the light into electricity, while the other turns it into hot water for heating. They usually battle for rooftop real estate, but Naked Energy has found a way to merge them both into a single solar solution. The British company Virtu tubes stanley ca gain efficiency by operating in tandem鈥攊t teamwork, just like you learned as a kid. Inside each vacuum-sealed tube is a power-producing photovoltaic wafer. Sunlight hitting the wafer generates extra heat, which then transfers to the tube solar thermal collector using the company patented thermosyphon technology. The transfer keeps the photovoltaic cells close to their optimal operating temperature, with the shared benefit of a hot water supply that can be used to help heat a building on the cheap. In other words, the hybrid design makes a Virtu up to 46 percent more efficient at turning sunlight into energy than traditional solar stanley termoska panels. At the moment, Naked Energy is still refining stanley cup and improving the product design. Developers are working with professors at the Imperial College in London to further increase their efficiency. The company intends to create a commercially available product once it happy with the solar cell performance. [Naked Energy via PhysOrg] EnergyGadgetsScienceSolar Panels Ymxw This Must Be the Stupidest Way to Fire One of the World s Deadliest Cannons
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Director Tommy Ibsen has plans 8230; big plans. This is the first trailer for Exodus, a sci fi movie that he hopes will be the first entry in a massive multimedia franchise that will include an Exodus TV series, video games, books and more. It depends on getting a few more backers at the European Film Market, apparentl stanley cup y, but it sounds delightfully crazy: EXODUS is a story about two brothers set in a distant future, on an even more distant planet. The last of the human race lives in comfort and prosperity behind the walls of their colony, protected from the bloodthirsty and mindless giants roaming the wild. Only the rangers, a corps of elite soldiers, are allowed to stanley cup venture beyond the gates, and the young private, Elias, will do anything to become one of the chosen. For the adventure, definitely, but most importantly to prove himself to his ambi stanley termos tious mother and his older brother, Jacob, a highly decorated veteran. Jacob, however, will not allow Elias to follow in his footsteps and does everything in his power to stop him, despite his younger brother obvious talents as a soldier. Convinced that Jacob only wants to eliminate the competition for their mother esteem, Elias defies his brother will and joins the elite force behind his back. But what he doesn ;t know is that behind Jacob hard and professional exterior, the years on the battlefield have left his soul scarred and traumatized. In a last attempt to protect Elias from suffering th Xqes The Science of Orgasms
It was a chilly night in Miami. My friends and I were sitting down in chairs in Coco Walk, Coconut Grove waiting for other friends to arrive. I remembered the shooting challenge and decided to take some shots. Shooting Summary: Camera: Samsung Galaxy S3 Focal Length: 3.7 MM Aperture: 2.6 Exposure time: 1/30 Iso: 1600 Flash Used Bumped up the contrast through instagram Rudy Castillo My photo-shoot took me all over SF, and I got many good shots, but I liked my shots of the Palace of Fine Arts due to it being bottom lit by multiple spot lights, as well as lights from inside the dome. These light sources make for some interesting shadow directions. I was going to take the shot from the other side of the pond with the fountain in the foreground, but I wanted to be as close as possible to try to capture the feeling of awe and magnificence . I did most of the work on this in Camera Raw and then the final touches in Photoshop cs6. I used a Nikon D3100, the metadata is f/8, shutter speed of 8, and ISO of 200. Matthew Singleton Over the weekend it suddenly started snowing again here in Switzerland, so I wrapped my camera in a plastic bag, got my tripod and umbrella, and went outside. This little Angel was getting covered in snow and stared at me begging me to take a picture. While the shot looked extre stanley becher mely christmassy in color, I think it works a lot better in B 038;W as the end of Winter stanley cups nears. The camera is a EOS 300D I newly repaired with a c stanley cup anon 50mm f/1.8 II l
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A few years ago Stilton released a handheld espresso maker that allowed coffee aficionados to brew up a cup of joe whenever they needed their fix. It was compact, sleek, and eve stanley italia rything the Coffee To Go machine from Trisa isn ;t. In its defense, on a single charge the stanley cup uk stanley cup considerably bulkier Coffee To Go is able to serve up 16 piping hot espressos before running out of juice. So if you can stash one in an over-sized briefcase, there the potential of being a hero to a small bus load of under-caffeinated corporate types. But with a price tag of over $540, this pricey portable percolator seems squarely targeted at the 17 people in the country who don ;t have easy access to a Starbucks just around the corner. [Trisa via Appliancist] Gadgets Siwr Razr Gaming Laptop
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After failing to secure a plot of land for his reptilian pets, a snake charmer named Hakkul released a bunch of his wrigg stanley thermos ling companions 鈥?including several v stanley deutschland enomous cobras 鈥?inside a tax office in India Uttar Pradesh state. According to the serpent tamer, he had been promised a plot to keep the reptiles, but the officials ; ongoing demands for bribes forced him to play his hand. Explained Hakkul, I am a conservationist and have been seeking the government help. Having waited patiently for so long, I had no option but to leave all my snakes in this office. Nobody was injured in this herpetological hand-off. [The Telegraph via I Heart Chaos] stanley mugs CobraPolitics Vdcx Stormtrooper Cake Gallery
Rather than just crashing web pages, Spanish anonymous members had the balls to crash the equivalent of the Oscars ceremony in Madrid today. Three members of Anonymous sneaked past extreme police and private security controls to jump onto the stage as the event was at one of its highest points, as this image shows. Pedro Almodovar, Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek were among those who assisted the awards ceremony, called the Goyas in honor of famous Spanish painter Francisco de Goya. While the award for best director was being presented, three Anonymous members wearing Guy Fa stanley mugg wkes ; masks tried to jump onto the stage from stanley cup the orchestra seats. Private security caught them before they could actually made it. Meanwhile, the Spanish film academy web page was under attack. Anonymous also published contact information of actors, actresses and directors who supported the so-called Ley Sinde, a SOPA-like law designed to kill any kind of web pages without a court order. I wonder if some Guy Fawkes would have the courage to slip through security the same at Hollywood Academy Awards. stanley quencher [El Mundo]
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According to stanley becher its first-quarter sales figures鈥攖o the tune of 37.04 million units鈥擜pple sold 377,900 iPhones every day of the 98-day fiscal quarter. The average number of children born鈥攚orldwide鈥攖allied only 371,000 new humans. https://gizmodo/apple-sells-37-million-i...on-5878957 Granted, Apple did get a hefty bump during the holidays and the birthrate is anything but static, but the fact that Apple is not only making that many in a day and also selling them is simply incredible. We thought we were setting bold bets, stanley cup 8221; said Tim Cook, Apple CEO, about demand for the iPhone, but it turns out we didn ;t bet high enough. Apparently not, given that Apple sold some 135 million iOS devices in total for the same period. [Apple via TNW via Cult of Mac] Image via the AP stanley quencher AppleBlipiPhone Byvv And now, five minutes with Felicia Day
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