Dan Seitz Dan Seitz is a semi-professional nerd (he'll have to code a homebrew game for the NES before he goes pro). He grew up fiddling with video game systems, computers, cameras, and other technology you should never hand to an eight-year-old if you want it back in pristine condition. Currently, he lives in Boston with his girlfriend, her cat, a Shih Tzu, and far too many objects with processors.
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One of the biggest problems on the road is distracted driving. Believe it or not, idiots yakking on their cell phones and fiddling with the radio are officially a bigger risk on the road than your buddy who always tries to drive home after drinking a dozen shots in an hour. Texting while driving is ...
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We really don’t know why camera makers keep kidding themselves, especially people who make tiny little cameras. People are using them to shoot porno, guys. You may as well embrace it. It’s not like morally upright types are rushing out to buy tiny little cameras to hide on their person and film everything other people ...
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If you’ve ever been skiing, you know one of the little annoyances is your goggles. You need them because otherwise you’re pretty much blind, but you also have to strap them to the back of your head. Leave it to the Germans, specifically sporting goods maker Casco, to solve this problem. With magnets.
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Scientists are so adorable in their naive belief in things like “wearable computing”. Their sincere belief that we’d be caught dead in a skintight jumpsuit because it charges our phone is just so cute. But that hasn’t stopped them from developing clothes that can charge your phone, for some reason.
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Marathon runners take shoe weight pretty seriously, for obvious reasons: the lighter the shoe, the easier it is on the runner. But Nike was also faced with a few problems, like the fact that socks aren’t known for their structural integrity. So they decided to basically make a knit shoe, complete with sole, to deal ...
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Google Flights is an incredibly useful search tool. Just find the airport you’re near, look up the city you want to go to, and it spits out a list of all possible round trip flights to your destination. Especially if you need a flight right away: choose your time flying out, choose your flight flying ...
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The Nook Tablet is a lot better than the Kindle Fire. For one thing, Barnes and Noble doesn’t care if you root the Nook Tablet. Well, they do, but unlike Amazon, they haven’t been trying to force customers to only run their software. In fact, the Nook being easily hackable made it our favorite cheap ...
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HDTV is a wonderful thing for dozens of reasons, not the least of which is that we can finally get more detail on our local anchorwoman’s cleavage. But it also means we can cram cable tuners and descramblers into smaller and smaller boxes, and more of them. Hence, the Ceton Infinitv-4
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Most people who ride a bike to work are normal human beings. OK, they’re a bit more fit than the rest of us: they ride a bike to work. But they don’t think it makes them magical or perfect. In fact, if you’re being killed on gas, look into bike commuting: it saves you a ...
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Soon, cruise control might take on a whole new meaning, at least in Nevada: the state has just approved rules for robocars.
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DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), if you’re not familiar, is the government’s mad science division. No, seriously; all the crazy strange stuff, from invisibility cloaks to computer controlled cockroaches, that you hear about? DARPA. Oh, also, they invented modern computers and the Internet.
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