John Brownlee

The New Machiavelli goes USB

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10-Nov-2008
        

As part of the Blood on Paper exhibition, which gave artists a book and then asked them to customize it, Richard Shed took a sixty year old Penguin Classics copy of The New Machiavelli, digitized each pages and placed it on its...

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Windows 7 coming mid 2009

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07-Nov-2008 361 related
        

So there you go: Microsoft's promising Windows 7 by mid-2009, with pre-configured PCs hitting by the Holiday Season. That means summer will have two big OS releases on both side of the camp: Snow Leopard for Macheads and...

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Ocarina iPhone app has Legend of Zelda mode

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07-Nov-2008 7 related
        

The Smule Ocarina app for the iPhone would be worth the 99 cents even if didn't boast a Zelda mode: it turns your iPhone into a musical reed instrument, where playing is accomplished by the fingering of digital valves...

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Sound and Vision rounds up the best speakers in nearly every class

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07-Nov-2008 2 related
        

Sound and Vision Magazine have put together an overview of the best speakers in nearly every class. It's a bit infuriating to browse — whoever decided to do a buyer's guide to high-end speakers as an image slideshow with 10...

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Heidi Klum Guitar Hero Ad, Unplugged and Unclothed

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07-Nov-2008 3 related
        

Technically, an ad for Guitar Hero: World Tour featuring a toy plastic guitar is well within the remit of Gadget Lab. When it features Heidi Klum managing to strip and stroke the axe at the same time, it's an early...

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Heidi Klum channels Risky Business for Guitar Hero: World Tour

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06-Nov-2008 43 related
        

If nothing else, Heidi Klum's advertisement for Guitar Hero: World Tour is both erudite and intellectually challenging. Still, I can't help but wonder: how is Heidi playing Guitar Hero without once looking at the screen?...

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Overclock your DS Lite with the XCM Hyper Gear case

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06-Nov-2008 5 related
        

The XCM Hyper Gear replacement case for the Nintendo DS Lite really isn't going to do anything for you unless you need to overclock your DS for homebrew purposes (for example, to run an SNES emulator) and it will cut the bottom...

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The Delorean wing of the Datamore Porte HDD enclosure

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06-Nov-2008 9 related
        

There are not many taut boners to be had when perusing external hard drive enclosures, but LaCie's latest at least makes a stab at something you'd actually cast your eyes upon fondly as it sat upon your desk. The Datamore Porté...

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iPhone 2.2 getting direct podcast downloading

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06-Nov-2008 28 related
        

You can now pretty much consider it confirmed: Apple's iPhone 2.2 update will allow direct downloading of podcasts to your iPhone or iPod Touch. That explains why the Podcaster app was rejected from the App Store a few months...

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A Wall-E and EVE of staggering awesomeness

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06-Nov-2008
        

Ignoring the slightly disconcerting subtext of a father and son dressing up as Pixar's post-apocalyptic robot lovers, the Eve and Wall-E Halloween costumes of Anthony and his son are the best things I have ever seen. Eve and...

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