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Vision 32 Arcade Machine Holds 140 Classic Arcade Games
6 Most Useful Gadgets to Take Camping
Twitter Rumoured to Be Buying SoundCloud
Nomad 883 3D Printer Teaches the World a Lesson in Crowdfunding
Google’s Own Driverless EV Ditches the Steering Wheel, Brakes and Gear Shift

Vision 32 Arcade Machine Holds 140 Classic Arcade Games

Posted: 29 May 2014 07:00 AM PDT

A dream machine. That’s exactly what the Vision 32 is, an arcade machine that can hold 140 arcade games and do so much more!

Oh how it would nice to own an arcade. Possibly the dream of almost every kid growing up during the 1980s and early 1990s – I know it was dream of mine until I realized how quickly the business fell right under it and how much it would cost to run one.

Even if you were to own a private collection, then you've got to worry about space (arcade machines take up a lot of it) and the rest of the lousy headaches that come with owning arcade equipment. Thankfully all those headaches are, and can be, resolved by owning this Dream Arcade's Vision 32, a machine loaded with 140 classic games all played on a beautiful 32″ high-def LCD.

You couldn't hold that many games in a one house, but with the Vision 32 you can hold the likes of Missile Command, Joust, and tons more in the space of just one machine. The Vision 32 also runs off a Windows XP computer with a 3.0GHz Pentium 4 CPU, 1GB RAM, 80GB hard drive, CD-ROM drive, and Ethernet port, making it quite easy to add more arcade titles if need be.

Plus the Vision 32 has all the necessary joysticks, buttons, and a trackball (all nicely backlit for late night gaming sessions) to play those games. It even has a hidden keyboard that can be used to turn the Vision 32 into uh, well, a computer, and do a little web browsing, Twitter checking, or music playing – yup, it does that too.

The Vision 32 can be had for $2,699 (USD), which for a short time is being discounted $500 off its regular price. Not bad for an arcade machine – an ultimate one if I did ever see – that I'm sure my 10-year-old self would dream of having.

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6 Most Useful Gadgets to Take Camping

Posted: 29 May 2014 06:00 AM PDT

Going camping is about getting in touch with nature, but in our technological advanced age, there are some things we can’t do without, and these gadgets that mostly take care of our smartphones and tablets are becoming more and more of a must.

Bracketron Xolar3000 Solar Battery and Charger for USB

This isn’t your multi-use gadget. The Bracketron Xolar3000 ($49.99) can charge up a phone, MP3 player or tablet thanks to three power modes: 5v/1amp for smaller devices, 5V/2amp for tablets and 9V/1amp for larger devices like a portable DVD player, or even a USB powered notebook like the HP Chromebook 11. The solar charger charges in about 9 hours of direct sunlight.

Gerber Gear Steady Tool Multi-tool and Tripod for Smartphones

The Gerber Gear Steady Tool ($64 direct or $39 from Amazon) is your modern all-in-one pocket knife that includes 12 functions that includes a blade, bottle opener and wire cutters, but also provides a camera or cell phone mount so you can get better pictures from your outdoor experience.

LifeProof Cases for Phones and Tablets

Getting your smartphone wet is one of the biggest problems of being outdoors, and the LifeProof Nuud ($89.99) case for the iPhone 5s protects from drops and water. The phone can be submerged under water and it won’t get wet, but the screen isn’t covered in plastic: There’s pressure gasket around the glass so that the screen stays uncovered.

Powerbot USB Charger

Using the power of cooking to also charge your really important stuff like tablet and smartphone? Using thermoelectric power, it converts temperature difference into electricity without any moving parts according to the website.

Pyle Audio Rocket Torch Bluetooth Water Resistant Speaker

The Pyle Audio Rocket Torch PWPBT30 ($97.99 retail, but on sale for much less) is a bluetooth water resistant speaker but also a flashlight, and because of its weight (just one pound) is easy to carry around. It’s also an FM radio, a mini-SD card slot and an auxiliary input for plugging in other audio devices without Bluetooth.

ASUS S1 LED Pocket Projector

For those who simply can’t go through their camping trip without watching a movie, there is this gadget, the ASUS S1 LED Pocket Projector is perfect, hooking up to an iPhone with a Lightning to HDMI port, or an Android phone that uses HDMI output.

The projector will throw a 41? display onto a screen at a distance of three feet, or one meter with a resolution of 854-by-480 with a battery that should last you one movie, although you’ll have a charger which well help you make it a night of binge watching if nature is too boring.

Hat Tip: Gottabemobile

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Twitter Rumoured to Be Buying SoundCloud

Posted: 29 May 2014 05:00 AM PDT

Twitter's CEO Dick Costolo gestures during a conference at the Cannes Lions

As more and more people choose to stream their music, Twitter is reportedly looking to buy Berlin-based company SoundCloud.

When it comes to music, times have certainly changed. Like the transmission of photos (via Instagram and Facebook) and letters (via email and social media posts) before it, more and more of the music that we listen to is being listened to by way of the Internet, with digital downloads increasingly becoming the preferred medium over CDs and the even more aging media of vinyl records. A key place that people go to listen to music for free is YouTube, as people choose to watch music videos via the video streaming service, but for the times when you don't have the bandwidth for videos and don't want to continuously select your playlist, people go to SoundCloud and now, Twitter are rumoured to be buying the Berlin-based company.

While a figure wasn't disclosed by sources with insider information on the deal, the leak suggests that Twitter would like SoundCloud to become the 'YouTube of audio'. SoundCloud is already a popular way to discover new music from lesser known artists, as well as allowing users to access the hottest tracks from the most popular artists around and so those are two key reasons as to why the company was recently valued at $700 million, which certainly isn't a figure to sniff at. Twitter too is a rather nifty way of discovering new artists, with their social media profiles garnering interest, but by merging the two together Twitter would be able to leverage it and even make more money with promoted tweets and sponsored accounts.

That would definitely be a lucrative deal should Twitter follow through with it as despite plenty of people using Twitter, the free nature of the site means that it struggles to make money. However, on the other hand, money is also a key reason as to why the deal has yet to go through. According to additional sources "the numbers just didn't add up" suggesting that Twitter would perhaps like to haggle that $700 million figure down before both companies sign the papers.

We'll keep you posted once we know more.

Source: cnet (2)

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Nomad 883 3D Printer Teaches the World a Lesson in Crowdfunding

Posted: 28 May 2014 01:56 PM PDT

Carbide 3D launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter for the upcoming Nomad 883 3D printer four weeks ago, and with two days left, the company is happy with having raised a bit over its initial goal of $30K.

And by a bit I mean almost $450K more. Mind you, Nomad 883 is not one of those ultra-affordable 3D printers that you can get for as little as $300. Despite of that, it seemed to be an appealing enough of a solution to help the company raise that kind of money. At its core, Nomad 883 is an aluminum-framed CNC milling machine in a body made of either HDPE or bamboo, if you’re of the green head variety.

The selling point of this 3D printer is definitely its ability of using so much more than just plastic threads. In fact, it’s capable of printing using:

Wood
Tooling board
Machinist wax
Soft metals including aluminum and brass

Its positioning accuracy of more than .001″ puts it among the best 3D printers out there. The machining area of just 8″ x 8″ x 3″ may not be large, but if you need to print bigger things, you could always turn your project into smaller bits and print each of them separately.

Apollo Crowe of Carbide 3D is also taking PCB cutting into consideration, and that’s great news for DIY enthusiasts: “Some people have the need and ability to make PCB boards, so we are also working to create a pack to cater to these users, PCB Blanks and T1 style V-bits.”

The bad news is that the Early Bird spots are gone, and so are the Inventor and the Maker spots, so if you really want a Nomad 883, head over to Kickstarter and back the project with $1,999 or more. Since there’s no doubt that this 3D printer will enter mass production, if you pledged the money necessary for getting the device, expect it to be delivered in December, just in time for you to 3D print some gifts for the family, including jewelry, engraved pieces of plastic, metal or wood, lithopanes and so on.

Nomad 883 doesn’t come only with the hardware needed for getting things started, but also with the software, which is cross-platform, so you shouldn’t worry about its compatibility with your computer.

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Google’s Own Driverless EV Ditches the Steering Wheel, Brakes and Gear Shift

Posted: 28 May 2014 01:20 PM PDT

If until now the self-driving cars exhibited by the big G were manufactured by other companies and were only equipped with the sensors necessary for driving unattended, Google now intends to build a driverless electric vehicle from scratch.

The most shocking thing about Google’s own self-driving EV is that it won’t feature neither a steering wheel, nor pedals (for you to push to the metal). Oh, and if you’re looking for the gear shift, that’s gone, as well! Besides a panic button, all that this driverless wonder will include is a start/stop button.

Google is currently working on a fleet of 100 experimental electric-powered vehicles that look pretty much like the Smart made by Mercedes-Benz and Swatch, or like an ultracompact Fiat 500. To be frank, the concept is amazing, even though the design is not exactly otherworldly. If everyone used self-driving cars, there wouldn’t be any accidents of any kind, not to mention that the traffic police would be left with nothing more to do. That’s definitely a nice way to eradicate police corruption in some countries. Now wouldn’t that be amazing (especially the latter part)?

Christopher Urmson, a former Carnegie Mellon University roboticist that’s in charge of the car project at Google pointed out that “We saw stuff that made us a little nervous,” while referring to the tests the company conducted with this self-driving EV prior to showing it to the entire world.

For some people, driving is relaxing, while for others it’s quite a stressful job. Now imagine what it would be like to sit in a self-driving car while multimedia content is displayed on a gigantic screen that covers most of the dashboard.

While self-driving cars won’t take over the world anytime soon, Sergey Brin is optimistic about this new race: “Obviously it will take time, a long time, but I think it has a lot of potential. Self-driving cars have the potential to drive in trains much closer together and, in theory, in the future at much higher speeds. There is nothing to say that once you demonstrate the safety, why can’t you go 100 miles per hour?”

One can only dream that someday, in the not-so-distant future, we could have self-driving taxis that we would summon using our Android smartphones. At the end, we would pay the ride using a credit card, thus extinguishing all the debts.

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