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Celebrate Valentine’s Day With Star Trek Cookies

Posted: 10 Feb 2014 06:00 AM PST

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Now here’s something unique. Let’s change the classic Valentine’s Day chocolate for much more inspired Star Trek cookies.

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The Semi Sweet Designs team has created an incredible tutorial so we can prepare our own Valentine’s Day cookies, themed after the Star Trek saga.

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The cookies have patterns representing the uniforms of the many, different characters in the Star Trek The Next Generation series, but also, there’s a couple that you can add phrases, to personalize them even more for your beloved. Isn’t that romantic?

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Source: Nerdgasmo

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LEGO Movie Poster Becomes a LEGO Set Itself

Posted: 10 Feb 2014 05:00 AM PST

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In a move that reminds us very much of when Capcom created Street Fighter 2: The Movie: The Game, LEGO is doing a little exercise in recursion.

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LEGO are such a lucky company. There is an upcoming LEGO movie that needs promoting, and turns out that the best productions are coming from the fans anyways. This is the work of DarthNick, a diorama completely made off of LEGO based off of the movie poster for The LEGO Movie. Confusing? Not really, it’s the movie poster remade with blocks. The diorama is being displayed at a movie theater, but will move to a LEGO store afterwards, because this deserves to live forever.

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Source: Technabob

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Chromecast Hack Enables Streaming Online Audio to Home Stereo Systems

Posted: 10 Feb 2014 04:30 AM PST

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Streaming online radios to a home audio system can be done in several ways. One option is to spend $250 on a Sonos system that streams music wirelessly over Wi-Fi, while the other option implies a Chromecast and a $10 adapter.

When Google launched Chromecast back in July, it opened the doors for new ways of streaming audio and video to TVs. Basically, what this little HDMI dongle did was make dumb TVs smarter. Mainly, it mirrored content from smartphones and tablets and thus allowed entire families to enjoy online music and videos on a much larger screen. Among the sources of the streamed content, there are Netflix, YouTube, Google Play and the Chrome browser. There is a tiny tiny problem, though. Listening to online radio requires turning on the TV, or it did require that until now. Janko Roettgers from GigaOM used a $10 HDMI to VGA adapter to turn Google’s dongle into a networked audio adapter.

The secret is to find an HDMI to VGA adapter that also has an audio port for 3.5mm jacks. It is known that the HDMI standard enables transport of audio and video over a single cable, hence the need for an audio port. After purchasing such an adapter, things get a lot easier. All you need to do is plug the Chromecast dongle and an audio cable into the adapter, and connect the VGA plug to a notebook or computer running the Chrome browser with the Chromecast plugin. Alternatively, you can connect to the Chromecast wirelessly from an Android or iOS smartphone or tablet or a notebook with the Google Chrome browser and Chromecast plugin.

Next, you need to find a compatible Internet radio app such as Pandora, Rdio, or Songza, and hit Play on the Chromecast icon. The best thing about all this is that you don’t need to keep a TV on to listen to online music. On top of that, you can switch off the device from which Chromecast is streaming music. It goes without saying that you can switch stations or jump to the next song, but this differs from one Internet radio app to the other. Overall, this is a nice hack that enables you to stream online music to your home stereo system with a minimum investment.

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STICKO, The Ultimate Sticky Phone Mount Is Here

Posted: 10 Feb 2014 04:00 AM PST

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We’re all dependent on our smartphones, nowadays, but finding a solution so they will stay visible and safe in places like cars can be quite hard. Luckily, STICKO will soon be among us.

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Most phone mounts are more trouble than they’re worth. They tend to be big, bulky, and cumbersome, while at the same time lack design and are not very portable. STICKO is a new idea (already funded in Kickstarter, but with a few days to go still!) that aims to fix all this, while giving you a place to always be able to mount your phone.

STICKO can go with its users anywhere they go, but it’s also incredibly easy to both stick and unstick while feeling safe at the same time, providing both portability and safety, the two things you should prioritize when trying to find a mount. Also? It looks quite great, if we may say so. Learn more about it in the video below these lines.

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Devotec Fuel Claims to Be the World’s Smallest Phone Charger

Posted: 09 Feb 2014 11:30 AM PST

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“Size doesn’t matter,” or at least that’s what Devotec, the developer of the world’s smallest phone charger, seems to think.

Measuring just 3.3cm x 2.3cm x 1.3cm (half an inch thick, 1.3 inches long and 0.9 of an inch wide), Devotec Fuel Micro Charger is an emergency source of energy that can be at hand at all times. Its inconspicuous size makes it perfect as a keychain, and even though it does not really compare to high-capacity power banks, Fuel can save you when the phone’s battery gets depleted.

The 220mA battery found inside Fuel should keep the phone alive for 20 to 30 minutes of talk time. Using the screen would cause the battery to drain even faster, and this is why Fuel should only be used for making calls. As an alternative, Fuel is said to offer up to a couple of hours of stand-by time. The three indicator LEDs will let you know if the power is on, if it’s charging or fully charged. You should also know that this micro charger comes with an On/Off switch and the battery holds the charge for one month.

One thing that I like about its design is that it connects directly to the phone, thus making additional cables unnecessary. The aluminum casing is shaped like a jerry can, and using it is as simple as removing the cap and plugging the microUSB nozzle into your smartphone. Given the connector, it won’t be able to charge iPhones or iPads, but it shouldn’t have any problems powering most Android, Samsung, LG, Sony, Motorola, Nokia or Blackberry smartphones.

While it does not require any cables to charge the smartphones it connects to, charging the tiny gadget itself does ask for a microUSB cable. Most people already have the one that came with their phones or tablets, so that really shouldn’t be a problem.

Fuel can be purchased from Firebox for £24.99 (or roughly $41). At this price, you can get proper power banks, but those are heavier, take up more room, and are generally more cumbersome. It’s up to you if you prefer small dimensions over a higher capacity, and it only depends on your needs if Fuel is right for you. Still, instead of a boring keychain, I would rather have one of these attached to my keys.

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