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Continuing on with the lifestyle releases as part of the recent acquisition of the French Football Federation as a Nike-sponsored team, Nike Sportswear release a new Dunk pack. The Dunk Low 08 “FFF” features in three colors with tonal uppers and gum-colored outsoles. Look for the pack globally through various Nike Sportswear retailers.
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Devices that pick up brain waves and translate them into mechanical action are being developed to control prosthetic limbs, robots and video games. Soon you’ll be able to control your television and phone. But now comes the BrainDriver, a car that is driven entirely by your thoughts.
It’s a new application of the brain-computer interface to allow human drivers to control their car without a steering wheel. Researchers, led by led by Raul Rojas, a professor of artificial intelligence at the Freie Universitat Berlin, use an “Emotiv neroheadset” to record brain activity in the driver. The neuroheadset is a electroencephalography, or EEG, originally developed for video games by San Francisco-based company Emotiv.
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Apple and other digital retailers are planning to offer 24-bit audio to consumers. It should be an easy sell; recording studios use 24-bit, it’s how the music was mixed, and it’s how the consumers should hear it. Right? Wrong.
24-bit audio might be the staple of recording studios, but there’s a reason it should stay there. 24-bit has a really low “noise floor” — that hum you hear if you turn a silent amplifier up really high. With 16-bit, the noise floor is slightly higher. While that might be a problem in a studio where you’re boosting sounds to be clear and loud, it’s irrelevant to the end listener who is given the fully mastered and noise-free version already. Even CDs are 16-bit, and the sonic quality of a CD is an accepted definition of consumer-worthy HD quality.
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Daft Punk won’t be walking home with an Oscar this Sunday, but Tom and Guy do have an equally impressive claim to fame: they’ll soon be able open their fridge and pull out a bottle of Daft Coke. That’s because the iconic French duo have just partnered with Coca-Cola for a specially branded version of the soda. According to Hypebeast, Daft Coke will be available starting in March, and will be produced in two distinctive colorways (silver and gold), which were inspired by the helmets worn by Daft Punk.
This marks the second time Coke has paired up with a dance-inducing outfit. In 2009, Justice got their own Coke bottle, but I guess that went the way of their new music.
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While American parents worry about their kids being on Facebook, Egyptian parents are naming their kids “Facebook” to commemorate the events surrounding the #Jan25 revolution.
According to Al-Ahram (one of the most popular newspapers in Egypt) a twenty-something Egyptian man has named his first born daughter “Facebook” in tribute to the role the social media service played in organizing the protests in Tahrir Square and beyond.
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Radiation from a mobile phone call can make brain regions near the device burn more energy, according to a new study.
Cellphones emit ultra-high-frequency radio waves during calls and data transfers, and some researchers have suspected this radiation — albeit inconclusively — of being linked to long-term health risks like brain cancer. The new brain-scan-based work, to be published Feb. 23 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, shows radiation emitted from a cellphone’s antenna during a call makes nearby brain tissue use 7 percent more energy.
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Gambling just to win silver coins can get boring. Instead, play for a perfectly crafted cocktail. The BarBot was built by a team from the hacker collective NYC Resistor as part of a hacking competition co-sponsored by the videocontent company VIMBY and the carmaker Scion.
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make your version at http://gobarbra.com
Segways are nerdy and awkward, there’s no way around it. This solowheel, a “self balancing electric unicycle” is just as nerdy as a Segway but slightly less awkward. The Solowheel only weighs 20 pounds and comes in a relatively small package and is definitely no where near as unwieldy as a Segway. Plus, it doesn’t come with the reputation of mall cops and weirdos. It’s supposed to come out in March for $1,500.
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