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Your Own Digital DJ: Next-Gen Internet Radio Reviews
Popular Mechanics — Users of this Java-based player enter a song or artist that they like. Then, Pandora creates a streaming "channel" based on the selection. For each new song, users can vote thumbs up or down-and such responses from the user refine future ...More…
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The Set List
Popular Mechanics — To that end, we put our new setup to the party test this past weekend. Check out video here, then scroll down for the rest of our in-depth review. An instrument-based rhythm game is only as strong as its songs. And Predictably, the manufacturer ...More…
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5 Ways the G1 is Better Than the iPhone
Popular Mechanics — As proficient as we've become with the iPhone's virtual keypad, tapping touchscreen keys (especially ones without haptic feedback) has its limits. Physical keyboards, like those on BlackBerrys and Treos, are much easier to use. The G1's little ...More…
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Top 10 Most Brilliant Gadgets of the Year (With Videos!)
Popular Mechanics — This remarkable software, which can be downloaded for free, analyzes dozens (or hundreds) of photos taken of a location or subject-the Eiffel Tower, say, or a room in a museum. It looks for overlapping points in the images, then arranges the ...More…
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There are two things
Popular Mechanics — The weapon you're using is not a gun, but more of a futuristic cross between a nailgun and a reciprocating saw. One or two shots will carve off a target's limb, but the hallowed, universal anti-zombie tactic-aim for the brain-is useless against .. ...More…
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6 Great Android Tips for the T-Mobile G1
Popular Mechanics — Android's bundled Music program is fairly weak and clunky. Our suggestion: Ditch it and pick up TuneWiki off the Android Market. It's easier to use than the bundled Music program, and has a lot more features (such as a fun karaoke function that .. ...More…
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Kings Quest
Popular Mechanics — While the original PoP was a solo affair, the new game's plot and mechanics are heavily driven by the interplay between the Prince and a new character named Elika. The interactions between the Prince and Elika (who, like any ancient princess ...More…
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Test Criteria
Popular Mechanics — We ran fresh batteries through each light until they completely ran out of juice. We dropped the lights onto concrete from as high as 20 ft. Surprisingly, all three survived all falls with only cosmetic damage. We turned these lights on a ...More…
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Solar Thermal Power May Make Sun-Powered Grid a Reality
Popular Mechanics — Each Stirling Energy SunCatcher dish can produce 60,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity a year-enough to power a dozen U.S. homes. (Photograph by Jamey Stillings) The heat is used to run a Stirling engine, an elegant 192-year-old technology that ...More…
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Fifth Place /// Toyota Tundra 4x4 Crewmax SR5
Popular Mechanics — The automotive world is downsizing. The high cost of fuel has forced automakers to shrink both the size of vehicles and sales expectations, too. Big, thirsty and, yes, profitable vehicles just aren't moving off dealer lots the way they used to. ...More…
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Popular Mechanics — Most sci-fi films keep everything in sharp focus to wow you with effects, but Steven Spielberg used a more impressionistic style in this 1977 ordinary-guy-meets-the-aliens saga. The backgrounds are often blurred-check out the power-plant ...More…
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When Hackers Attack: Practicing Cybersecurity at Home
Popular Mechanics — Investigators say the spyware was created and installed by Craig Matthew Feigin, a 23-year-old student at the University of Florida who had previously offered to fix a problem with Garcia's computer. Police arrested Feigin, who now faces a ...More…