Thursday, January 05, 2012

drag2share: Swann's new RC camera-choppers make stalking easy and fun

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/05/swanns-new-rc-camera-choppers-make-stalking-easy-and-fun/

Swann's releasing three new iDevice controlled helicopters for all the personal espionage / office hijinks you can cope with. The $70 iFly Micro Lightning will annoy colleagues on your floor while the similarly priced Sky Eye includes a camera that will shoot stills and video to its 512MB onboard memory before uploading the results to YouTube or Facebook. For the serious stalker / commercial spy, the Black Swann includes expandable microSD storage (yup, up to 32GB). The latter two devices have a range of 110 feet and all three will fly for eight minutes on a single charge. You'll be able to pick 'em up from Fry's and other good retailers soon, just try to remember not to get fired or arrested for treason, okay?

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Swann's new RC camera-choppers make stalking easy and fun originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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drag2share: Velocity Micro reveals tech bounty for CES: projectors, tabs and more

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/05/velocity-micro-reveals-tech-bounty-for-ces-projectors-tabs-and/

Velocity Micro, has just peeled back the curtain on what it'll be parading next week in Vegas. First up is a pair of successors to its budget Cruz T408 tablet. The T507 Android 4.0 slate houses a Cortex-A8 1.2 GHz Processor and 512MB of RAM, which might not get palms sweating, but you will also get HDMI out, a front facing camera and 8GB of internal for your humble $150 MSRP. The T510 is a bigger sibling, but the specs remain largely the same, bar a rear camera and an extra 2.7" of screen to fondle.

Two more new releases come in the form of its top-end Xeon E5-2620 Hexa Core powered ProMagix HD6000 PC, which it claims is designed to outperform a Mac Pro, with 32GB DDR3-1600 RAM and an NIVIDIA Quadpro 4000 on-board to help it do that, and a sub $3,500 price tag. If the built-in 120GB SSD and 1TB 7200 RPM drive isn't enough, then you might be interested in the VMUltra Drive which is a simple 500GB external drive, with a few USB ports added in for spice.

Last up is the 1280x768, pocket friendly Shine projector. Sporting HDMI and a 1.4:1 throw ratio, ideal for small spaces. Full specs in the PR after the break, but sadly no word on availability.

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Velocity Micro reveals tech bounty for CES: projectors, tabs and more originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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drag2share: The Ultimate Annoying Email Deflector Shield [Email]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5873104/the-ultimate-annoying-email-deflector-shield

The Ultimate Annoying Email Deflector ShieldMarketers. Exes. Bosses who somehow got ahold of your personal email address. Sure, you could make a filter or click 'report spam' (as if that actually does anything...), but wouldn't it be better if they just stopped emailing you altogether?

Oh, they will now. Check this trick out:

You ever email someone and get that "Delivery Permanently Failed" bounceback from some mailer-daemon? Everybody has. Here's how to make the daemon (whatever the hell it is) work for you.

Here's how you do it:
1. Hit Reply.
2. Edit the subject line by adding the words DELIVERY FAILURE: ahead of the original.
3. At the top of the body, simply paste in the quoted text below.
4. Enjoy your life.

MAILER-DAEMON: DELIVERY HAS PERMANENTLY FAILED TO THIS RECIPIENT OR DELIVERY LIST.

An error occurred while trying to deliver this message to the recipient's e-mail address. Microsoft Exchange will not try to redeliver this message for you. User does not exist.

Sent by Microsoft Exchange Server 2007

Diagnostic information for administrators:

Generating server: corporate.dmgt.net

HSJFK-EXWT-W0V1V-S.corporate.bzqt.net #550 ... No such user ##

Original message headers:

Received: from mail66.besmt5.meqlabs.com (10.181.104.248) by
HSJFK-EXWT-W0V1V-S.corporate.dzzgt.net (10.195.2.137) with Microsoft SMTP Server
(TLS) id 8.3.274.0;
Received: from [208.93.140.190:44031] by server-5.bzgmt-5.meqlabs.com id
FB/48-17252-2A7230FG4;
X-Msg-Ref: server-136.tower-425.meqlabs.com!345832498624!11005757!1
X-Originating-IP: [184.154.123.70]
X-SpamReason: No, hits=1.2 required=7.0 tests=HTML_20_30,HTML_MESSAGE,
RCVD_BY_IP
X-StarScan-Version: 6.4.3; banners=-,-
X-VirusChecked: Checked
Received: (qmail 22800 invoked from network);
Received: from mail-hw0-f34.gaole.com (HELO mail-hw0-f34.gaole.com)
(289.25.986.44) by server-136.tower-425.meqlabs.com with RH6-ZRA
encrypted SMTP;
Received: by qfadb12 with SMTP id c14sb9234843qxh.20
Received: by 173.193.156.78 with SMTP id fdsalkf293238hj2.30.11349182363705;
MIME-Version: 1.0
Received: by 174.120.168.2195with HTTP;
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="20cf385fc2b644bb8314b59ggbc0"

We've taken the liberty of scrambling all of those numbers, server names, and such, so none of the above is traceable. We've also deleted any reference to dates or email addresses so it can be used by anybody at any time. Yes, a very savvy IT professional will probably see through it. The other 99.95% of the population will think your email address no longer works and probably won't send you anything again. You win.

Let us know in the comments how you plan on using this. And if you ever email us and get something like this back, well, uh... gotta go! Bye!


Image credit: Shutterstock/ Pablo H Caridad, ayzek, and bioraven

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drag2share: When Apple Orchards Become Personal Power Plants [Lighting]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5873443/when-apple-orchards-become-personal-power-plants

When Apple Orchards Become Personal Power PlantsAny stroll through a grade school science fair proves that potatoes are a simple source of electricity. But did you know that enough apples, about 300, can power an LED lamp? Time to get planting!

This remarkable image was taken by photographer Caleb Charland, who found that it only took about 10 apples, wired in series, to power each of the 30 LEDs in this lamp he built.

Interestingly enough, the evening he took this photo he had to scare off a herd of deer hoping to feed on the fruit—for the entire four hours it took to capture this long exposure shot. So in other words, the glowing results pictured are probably not indicative of how bright the lamp actually was. Now what the heck am I going to do with all these apples? [Michael Mazzeo Gallery via My Modern Met]

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drag2share: MSI Wind U180 up for pre-order in Germany, 1.86GHz Atom N2800 included

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/05/msi-wind-u180-pre-order-germany-atom-n2800-processor-netbook/

Intel's newfangled Atom range isn't even a month old, but already MSI is putting it to good use. The company's Wind netbook range is seeing a new addition today in Germany, where the Wind U180 is up for pre-order on a host of sites. According to a product listing at Notebook.de, the 10.1-inch machine will ship with a 1,024 x 600 native resolution, 1.86GHz dual-core Atom N2800, a gig of memory, 320GB hard drive, GMA 3650 integrated graphics, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, an Ethernet port and a 0.3 megapixel webcam. You'll also get a token chiclet keyboard, a built-in SD / MMC card reader, a six-cell battery and Windows 7 Starter running the show. €349 (around $451) gets you in the door, but there's no telling when it'll actually ship. Here's hoping we get a better idea from the show floor in just a few days, eh?

MSI Wind U180 up for pre-order in Germany, 1.86GHz Atom N2800 included originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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