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Omnidirectional Treadmill: The Ultimate FPS Input Device?

Posted by on April 22, 2013 No comments

MojoKid writes “The concept of gaming accessories may have just been taken to a whole new level. A company called Virtuix is developing the Omni, which is essentially a multidirectional treadmill that its creators call ‘a natural motion interface for virtual reality applications.’ The company posted a video showing someone playing Team Fortress 2 and using the Omni along with the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. You can see in the video how much running and movement this fellow performs. With something like the Omni in your living room, you’d likely get into pretty good shape in no time. Instead of Doritos and Mountain Dew, folks might have to start slamming back Power Bars and Gatorade for all night gaming sessions.”

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Belkin Ultimate Keyboard Case Gives Logitech A Competitor For The Best iPad Keyboard Crown

Posted by on April 8, 2013 No comments

IMG_6707Keyboard cases for iPad are many and multiplying, but at this point it’s a question of refining the best concepts, not creating dramatically different devices. The Belkin Ultimate Keyboard Case for iPad is a great example, taking a lot of cues from the massively popular Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard Cover for iPad and folio style designs to create a solution that might be as near as perfect as tablet typers can get.
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Galaxy S4 would be the ultimate iPhone, says analyst

Posted by on March 16, 2013 No comments

Samsung’s new Galaxy S4 would be the “ultimate smartphone” if it ran Apple’s iOS and accessed the Cupertino, Calif. company’s app ecosystem, a clearly-impressed analyst said today. Others, however, dismissed the idea.
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Capcom wants Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate sales to take off in the U.S.

Posted by on March 3, 2013 No comments

Capcom hopes to increase the popularity of its Monster Hunter game series in the U.S. The franchise has been and still is one of the most popular in Japan. Throughout the world, the Monster Hunter game series has sold over 22 million copies, but the majority of the sales occurred in Japan. There have been

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The ultimate gall of a heartless iPhone thief

Posted by on January 27, 2013 No comments

A Brooklyn thief steals an iPhone from a girl. In turn, a smarter person steals the phone from him. So the first thief reports this theft to the police. Um? [Read more]


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Netflix vs. the world: Everyone pays for the ultimate video, expert says

Posted by on January 23, 2013 No comments

At the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show, Netflix announced Super HD, an immersive theatrical video format that even competes with Blu-ray discs. But there’s a costly catch.


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The ultimate bug-out bag revealed at SHOT show

Posted by on January 17, 2013 No comments

Zombies? Natural disasters? Whatever apocalyptic event you fear, Gerber’s GO Bag can keep you secure.


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Ultimate Ears’ new ultimate: The Personal Reference Monitor

Posted by on November 11, 2012 No comments

The Logitech UE Personal Reference Monitor in-ear headphones are the first of their kind, with a design that’s custom-molded to your ears and a custom-tuned sound! [Read more]


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Ask Slashdot: The Search For the Ultimate Engineer’s Pen

Posted by on November 1, 2012 No comments



First time accepted submitter Laser Dan writes “I’m an engineer (robotics) who can’t seem to find a pen that satisfies me. Most of my writing is just temporary “thinking notes” on random bits of paper, like diagrams, flowcharts, equations etc, but pens always seem to have one or more of the following issues: 1. They write too thickly — I write very small, and when I start adding extra details to diagrams it gets even smaller. A line width of about 0.2-0.4mm would be good. 2. The ink bleeds, making the lines thick and unclear. 3. The ink is slow to dry or the tip grows blobs of ink, causing smudges everywhere. 4. The first line drawn is not fully dark, as the ink takes a short distance to get going. 5. The lines drawn are faint unless you press hard (I don’t). I have been given several fancy pens (Parker etc) over the years but they all suffered from problems 1, 3 (blobs), 4 and 5. I’m considering trying a Fisher space pen, but it looks like even the fine cartridge writes rather thickly. Have any fellow Slashdotters found their ultimate pen?”

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The ultimate dead spot? QR codes on headstones offer a digital legacy

Posted by on October 7, 2012 No comments

The death care industry has gone digital.




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Final Fantasy Ultimate Box collection heading to Japan

Posted by on September 4, 2012 No comments

Square Enix has pulled the veil off the Final Fantasy 25th Anniversary Ultimate Box, a massive collection spanning most of the main series. Sadly, spin-off titles such as Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles and Final Fantasy Tactics seem to be missing from this compilation, but all of the main series games to Final Fantasy XIII are

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Logitech teases new Ultimate Ears lineup, says it’s bringing ‘power to the music’ on August 29th

Posted by on August 27, 2012 No comments

Logitech teases new Ultimate Ears lineup, says it's bringing 'Power to the Music' on August 29th

Having most recently introduced products like its water-friendly K310 washable keyboard and that TV Cam HD, Logitech’s now apparently prepping a fresh Ultimate Ears portfolio for all sound lovers out there. Via its UE page on Zuck’s social network, the company’s teasing a plethora of products with some rather suppressive shots that don’t quite tell us what’s on the other end, though we can slightly see new headphones and speakers will be the focus of the main ‘Power to the Music’ event in a couple of days — or August 29th, to be exact. For now, it looks like we’ll have to keep wondering, but you can get a better hint for what to expect by tapping on the Facebook link below.

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Color Printing Reaches Its Ultimate Resolution

Posted by on August 12, 2012 No comments



ananyo writes “The highest possible resolution images — about 100,000 dots per inch — have been achieved, and in full-colour, with a printing method that uses tiny pillars a few tens of nanometres tall. The method could be used to print tiny watermarks or secret messages for security purposes, and to make high-density data-storage discs. Each pixel in these ultra-resolution images is made up of four nanoscale posts capped with silver and gold nanodisks. By varying the diameters of the structures (which are tens of nanometres) and the spaces between them, it’s possible to control what colour of light they reflect. As a proof of principle, researchers printed a 50×50-micrometre version of the ‘Lena’ test image, a richly coloured portrait of a woman that is commonly used as a printing standard (abstract). Even under the best microscope, optical images have an ultimate resolution limit, and this method hits it.”

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Daisey Cutter: The Ultimate Apple Fanboy, Mike Daisey, Is Back With An Slightly More Realistic Show

Posted by on July 30, 2012 No comments

Screen Shot 2012-07-30 at 11.21.15 AMMike Daisey, noted fabulist, is back at his original theatre in DC, The Woolly Mammoth where he is holding encore presentations of his debunked – and now slightly rewritten – show about working conditions at Foxconn. Gone are the guards with guns, the fake crippled man who touched the totemic iPad, and the real/fake translator named Cathy. Daisey replaced those stock characters with a bit of self deprecating humor and, as far as I can tell, a few, clearer facts.

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ULTIMAte hack: Nexus 7 hooks up with external USB storage, floppy drive for retro-gaming

Posted by on July 22, 2012 No comments

ULTIMAte hack Nexus 7 hooks up with external USB storage, floppy drive

There’s only so much kit you can cram into a sub-$ 200 tablet without pushing past the price ceiling. And for Google’s Jelly Bean-blessed Nexus 7, corners were definitely cut, leaving users without a handy microSD slot for expansion and rear-facing camera. But where there’s a will, there’s the XDA and its community of developers to remedy the situation. As you can glimpse from the photo above, an enterprising forum member by the handle of c0m47053 devised an interesting workaround for the slate’s lack of expandable storage and then some. Using the StickMount app available on the Play store, which allows users to mount/dismount mass storage devices, he was able to connect the ASUS-made tab to a USB hub and hook it up to a keyboard, mouse and, most amusingly of all, a floppy drive — to play Ultima on DOSbox, of course. It goes without saying that a feat of this kind requires root access, but thankfully that’s what Mountain View made the Nexuses for.

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High-Frequency Traders Are the Ultimate Hackers, Says Mark Cuban

Posted by on June 27, 2012 No comments



An anonymous reader writes “Billionaire Mark Cuban talks in an interview with the Wall Street Journal about how he thinks high-frequency trading can be quite damaging to stock markets. He goes so far as to call high-frequency traders the ‘ultimate hackers.’ He says, ‘They’re running software programs that have one goal, and that’s to exploit the trading systems as early and often as possible. As someone who wrote software for eight years and who keeps up very closely with the technology world, that scared the hell out of me. The only certainty in the software world is that there is no such thing as bug-free software. When software programs are trying to outsmart other software programs and hack the world’s trading platforms, that is a recipe for disaster. … How many times an hour are there failures across individual equities around the world because of software running algorithms battling each other for supremacy to make a profitable trade? We have no idea. It’s not a question of if or when we have meltdowns, it’s just a question of how big and where. It’s straight out of War Games. And that’s before we even get to the possibility of nefarious or sovereign hackers getting involved.’”

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Aston Martin unveils new DBS Ultimate

Posted by on May 9, 2012 No comments

Aston Martin has unveiled a new flagship sports car called the DBS Ultimate. The vehicle is available as a coupe or a Volante. Volante is Aston Martin for convertible. The Ultimate comes in three colors, including carbon black II, quantum silver, or silver fox. The cars all feature uniquely colored DBS badges and a number

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RFID to Solve Ultimate Supply Chain Management Problem: The Hajj

Posted by on March 30, 2012 No comments

If it’s good enough for WalMart and the DoD, why not apply RFID to crowd control?

Sometime this October, more than three million pilgrims will descend on Mecca as part of the Hajj, a journey that must be undertaken by ever every able-bodied Muslim who can afford it. In years to come, those pilgrims could be tracked by the RFID chips in their passports, or even an RFID wristband, say the authors of a new paper on the application of technology to the largest religious pilgrimage on the planet.







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Bring out your dead! Ultimate ‘Holy Grail’ guide comes to iPad

Posted by on March 15, 2012 No comments

This incredible collection of cast reflections, on-location photos, film outtakes, and more is a must-have for “Grail” fans. It even syncs with the new Blu-ray!
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The ultimate tips box

Posted by on February 22, 2012 No comments

Got problems with insider threats? Need help securing your wireless LAN because of employees bringing their own devices on to your network? Know how to protect your Android device?
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Is AT&T Building the Ultimate Walled Garden?

Posted by on January 12, 2012 No comments



itwbennett writes “The announcement earlier this week that AT&T joined OpenStack, was greeted with much fanfare (of the ‘woo hoo for open source’ variety). But dig into why AT&T decided to sign up for OpenStack and things get a lot more interesting. ‘AT&T is about to take on Amazon’s EC2 and S2 cloud services, and OpenStack’s technology is going to be the engine that drives it,’ writes blogger Brian Profit. ‘Leaving aside the potential problems for user privacy here–and oh, there are many to be addressed to be sure–a plan such as this would represent a stunning coup for AT&T, since they would be able to provide the one thing Apple and Google have not been able to have in their respective plans to own the entire stack: the network on which all communications must flow.’”

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The Gizmon iCA Might Be The Ultimate iPhone Camera Case

Posted by on December 30, 2011 No comments

icaThere are iPhone cases and then there are…more iPhone cases. There are probably close to a gazillion different iPhone cases available now. But none are as elaborate as the Gizmon iCA — at least none I have seen. The case — if you call it just a case — is made of 32 different polycarbonate parts, it features a conversion lens mount with additional optional lenses, and adds a working shutter button and optical viewfinder. There is even an optional faux pancake lens for additional street cred with the camera nerds. It gets better, too. No, seriously, this contraption is genius.
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Hack your monitor and 3D glasses, ensure ultimate privacy

Posted by on November 26, 2011 No comments
You’ve always wanted a bit more privacy with your monitor (porn jokes notwithstanding) and if you’re willing to tear apart a spare LCD monitor and a pair of 3D theater glasses (thanks, Dreamworks and Pixar!), you’ll get it. In lieu of a thicker tinfoil hat, Instructables‘ dimovi suggests removing the LCD’s frame, cutting out its polarized film with a utility knife before removing the screen’s film adhesive with a combination of cleaner and paint thinner and reassembling the monitor. Once complete, grab the glasses, cut out the lenses and combine them with the plastic film removed from the monitor before inserting them back into their frames. The result is an LCD monitor that displays a white screen to anyone not wearing the customized glasses, your actions being confidential, no matter what they might happen to be. Check the how-to video embedded after the break, or hit the source link for full instructions

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The Ultimate Trick

Posted by on September 9, 2011 No comments
The Ultimate Trick submitted by skullls to videos
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