Αν θεωρείτε τον εαυτό σας φανατικό οπαδό του Star Wars, ήρθε η ώρα να αγοράσετε ένα …αληθινό lightsaber. Ο λόγος για το LaserSaber (copyright reasons!) που αποτελεί μία όσον το δυνατόν πιο αληθινή έκδοση του lightsaber!

Ο βαθμός της αληθοφάνειας φαίνεται και από το γεγονός ότι μπορείς να πάθεις ατύχημα με μη προσεκτική χρήση του, από τραυματισμό μέχρι τύφλωση! Η τιμή του ξεκινάει από 100 δολάρια. Επιπρόσθετα όμως πρέπει να υπολογίσετε και το κόστος του laser που ξεκινάει από 300 δολάρια. Για περισσότερες λεπτομέρειες λοιπόν μπορείτε να δείτε το παρακάτω βίντεο!

Apple has announced the iPad 3, here's everything you need to know about the new tablet.

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Ονομάζεται Nokia Lumia 610, είναι το μικρότερο αδερφάκι των Lumia 900,Lumia 800 και Lumia 710. Τα τεχνικά χαρακτηριστικά του Lumia 610 περιλαμβάνουν έναν επεξεργαστή στα 800 MHz, μνήμη RAM στα 256 MB, μια οθόνη 3,7 ιντσών με ανάλυση 480 x 800 pixels με προστασία από Gorilla Glass, η κάμερα του είναι στα 5 Megapixels και [...]

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by www.pestaola.gr at Windows 7 Update Shutdown, κλείσε το PC χωρίς την εγκατάσταση ενημερώσεων

Η Microsoft ενημερώνει τα Windows 7 μέσω του Windows Update, για να διορθώσει κενά ασφαλείας του λειτουργικού, να εγκαταστήσει νέες εκδόσεις οδηγών και εφαρμογών κλπ. Τις περισσότερες φορές η διαδικασία εγκατάστασης των ενημερώσεων δεν απαιτεί κάποια ενέργεια από τον εκάστοτε χρήστη και ολοκληρώνεται αυτόματα, ωστόσο υπάρχουν περιπτώσεις, όπως κατά την εγκατάσταση κρίσιμων ενημερώσεων του λειτουργικού, [...]

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By any means, this is certainly far from being one of the biggest changes Gmail's ever seen -- still, it's one that's likely to make a few tasks a wee bit easier for you. Inside the recent tweaks, Google added a new quick access trait that makes contact details -- such as phone numbers -- show up automatically in search results within your cherished G inbox. Additionally, the Android-maker has improved the Google+ integration (again), now allowing folks to narrow down conversations from specific Circles in the search box (you know, something like Circle: Awesome Engadget editors). Google says the changes will be rolling out over the course of the day, but in the meantime, you could always check out what exactly happens behind Gmail's closed doors.

Google's latest Gmail tweaks bring contact info to search results, enhanced Circle integration originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 16 May 2012 18:52:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

by www.pestaola.gr at iOS 6 έρχεται πιθανότατα τον Ιούνιο

Πληθαίνουν οι αναφορά για το iOS 6 που αναμένεται κάποια στιγμή τον Ιούνιο 2012, κατά την διάρκεια του WWDC 2012 στα μέσα του μήνα. Δεν είναι σίγουρα τι θα περιέχει το νέο iOS 6, μόνο ενδείξεις και πληροφορίες υπάρχουν σχετικά με την αντικατάσταση του Google maps και την δημιουργία νέων λειτουργιών και δυνατοτήτων στο iCloud. [...]

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Google Docs has a lot going for it as an office or writing tool, and we imagine the Research sidebar, which appears to have recently launched on the suite, will help bolster its popularity. After selecting Tools > Research or using a shortcut, Docs will bring up a sidebar, letting you either type in a term or right-click one in the document to research it. It's a bit more than a glorified search bar, though. Snippets of the web results can be added to the document itself, images can be dragged and dropped, and the tool will automatically generate citations to credit whatever you've used. You can even limit the image search to Creative Commons-licensed free results.

In the short term, this will probably lead to some terrible grade-school...

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Lenovo unveiled a blitz of refreshed ThinkPad laptops today, each sporting a redesigned keyboard and Intel Ivy Bridge chips, but it had one surprise in store: the ThinkPad X1 Carbon. As you'd guess, the carbon stands for carbon fiber, that exceptionally desirable material that manages to simultaneously be thin, light, strong, and stiff, and thanks to Lenovo's carbon fiber chassis, the company's crafted a 14-inch laptop that weighs just three pounds and is 18 millimeters thick at its thickest point.

Despite all that, it's got a surprisingly deep backlit ThinkPad keyboard, and both a smooth trackpad and an eraserhead pointer with real mouse buttons for each. There's a pair of full-size USB 3.0 and 2.0 ports, a Mini DisplayPort socket, a...

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It's 2012 and it's safe to say that a lot of us are done being impressed by big-budget Hollywood CG. But jaw-dropping technical wizardry is still alive and well in the demoscene, where rather than vying for a spot on the next Pixar film, highly skilled coders are creating real-time audiovisual demonstrations that compile snugly into 4-kilobyte executables.

"Hartverdrahtet" (above) is the worthy winner of Assembly 2012's 4k demo competition, rendering a procedurally-generated universe of fractal landscapes using a file the size of your average Word document. Demosceners often build custom software to make their productions as economical as possible. The author, Demoscene Passivist, says the demo took around two months to complete and...

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The Toy Story films are some of the most cherished animated movies ever made, but the second part of the trilogy almost disappeared for good — and it was all because of a bad backup. According to Pixar's Oren Jacob and Galyn Susman, during development someone ran the rm* command on the drive where all of the Toy Story 2's files were being stored, essentially erasing about a year's worth a work in 20 seconds. Even worse, the team soon realized that the backup files they had made were actually bad, leaving them with no copies whatsoever. Or so it seemed. Luckily, Susman had a copy of the film on her computer at home, which ultimately saved the day. Though the it's a charming tale — and one that's at least a few years old — it still...

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Mockup of thinner 15-inch MacBook Pro design (left) compared to current design (right)

While many have speculated that the new 15-inch MacBook Pro will pickup the design from the late-2010/mid-2011 MacBook Air, sources familiar with the prototype units say that this is untrue. Instead, the new 15-inch MacBook Pro is described as being an ultra-thin version of the current MacBook Pro. Basically, the prototype design is a thinner, yet more robust, version of the late-2008 design. It has no tapering like the MacBook Airs.

Mockup of port layout on thinner 15-inch MacBook Pro

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.

A few weeks ago, Switched On noted the challenges that even wildly popular, highly penetrated devices such as MP3 players and portable GPS devices have faced in the era of the converged device. Some of these devices, such as digital cameras, still hold on because of genuine advantages such as better image quality or optical zoom. For others devices, though, such as MP3 players and portable GPS devices, the grim news is that one of the main reasons consumers use them is to save smartphone battery life.

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