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Samsung's Galaxy SIII smartphone has arrived, to much fanfare. Samsung Asia Pacific president Gregory Lee said the new phone would help build on the company's current leadership in smartphone sales, after it sold 45 million Galaxy S II handsets. Discussion here.
If Apple is more your thing, perhaps you'd like an original Apple 1, for $180,000 or so? Sotheby's is auctioning the classic relic, handmade by Steve Jobs and his tech partner, Steve Wozniak. It was their first-ever commercial order for the computer that allowed users for the first time to use a keyboard to type letters on a screen.
Similarly, HWSecrets look back at the Apple III. The Apple III (or, more correctly, Apple ///), codenamed "Sara," was released in 1980 to be a "business" microcomputer. In this tutorial, we will take an in-depth look at its hardware and understand why it was Apple's first failure.
Asher spotted this cool video about the lost codex of Archimedes. How do you read a two-thousand-year-old manuscript that has been erased, cut up, written on and painted over? With a powerful particle accelerator, of course!
There's a new (free) indie game called StarForge, which is kind've like a Minecraft FPS. Discussion here.
Or, you could take a look at Doom 3 in virtual reality. This shouldn't be surprising to those who follow John Carmack on Twitter — he's had a recent obsession over the last six months with head mounted displays. We flew down to Dallas to check out the culmination of this newfound passion: a modified "Oculus Rift" head mounted display (Carmack gave his own first impressions back in April). This week, we were invited into the self-described "mad scientist lair" — video cables all of the place, an old Sony CRT monitor in active use next to his full PC rig, and even some used rocketry components — to test out this early prototype.
On the other side of things, Facebook and Google seem to be going towards letting you see what other people see. Imagine actors and athletes doing what they do today on Twitter—sharing their adventures from a first-person POV—except doing it with Glass. It’s pretty enticing, and if the glasses look dorky, well, we didn’t expect to find ourselves walking the world staring down into little black boxes, either.
Today's timewaster is Bullet Heaven, from flagger.
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