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This Combat Jet Joystick Is a Lot of Stick and Not Much Joy [Airplanes]
In the age of touchscreens, I love this close-up of a MiG-29 joystick, all dented and battered by thousands of flight hours, and God only knows how many missile launches and bomb drops. Form follows function taken to the extreme. More »




The World's New Fastest SDHC Memory Card [Memory]
Reading at a maximum of 95MB/s and writing at 80MB/s, the new Toshiba SDHC UHS-I is the fastest in the world. The new 8, 16, and 32GB memory cards are compliant with the SD 3.0 USH104 standard. More »




Stephen Hawking: "Big Bangs Happen" [Blockquote]
Hawking's covered the end of the world, now he's examining the beginning—writing "It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going". The Big Bang was a certainty. [Reuters] More »




DIY Meat Smoker Texts You When Your Meat's Ready [DIY]
I'm happy admiring most do-it-yourself projects from the remove of the internet, but this, an electronic meat smoker than buzzes you with a text when your shanks are adequately smoked, is one I need to try in person. More »




If Apple Can't Deal With Facebook's "Onerous" Terms For Ping, Why Is It In Apple's Keynote Screenshots? [Apple]
Did Steve Jobs pull Facebook support for Ping, Apple's new music-focused social networking service, at the last second? Ping launched yesterday without support for Facebook, the world's most popular social networking service. More »




Samsung Confirms Honeycomb Will Follow Gingerbread in Android Name-Game [Android]
Not just confirming the Honeycomb name, Samsung's head of product planning commented that "the next platform we'll be using [on the Galaxy Tab] will be Gingerbread. Depending on our international partners, we'll be working to upgrade from Froyo to Gingerbread." More »




A Quick Look at Samsung's Galaxy Tab Shows It's a Lot Better Than I Expected [Tablets]
A limited look at the Galaxy Tab showed me all I needed to see: this thing is great. I'm no fan of Samsung phones, and worried it would feel cheap, with TouchWiz an albatross around Android's neck. I was wrong. More »




This 3DTV Has Sharp's Quattron Tech, for Four Color Rendering [3dTv]
Sharp's billing this TV as the world's first 3DTV with Quattron technology—which isn't hard, considering it's their own invention, which adds a fourth color, yellow, to great effect. It aims to increase brightness by 1.8x. More »




Sony Takes Out Their Google-Powered Internet TV For a Spin [Googletv]
Sony's Internet TV is at IFA, demonstrating how Google TV might make your soccer—or football, rather—watching experience more interesting. No further details on the hardware side of things, but the UI looks polished, and more importantly, pretty useful. More »




Google Sued By Floridian Over Nexus One's 3G Issues [Android]
On behalf of his neighbors in Florida—as well as California—Nathan Nabors is attempting to take on Google in a breach of contract class action lawsuit, due to the continuing problems with the Nexus One's 3G signal. You'd think he'd be better off taking his issue up with T-Mobile, really. [TechCrunch] More »




After Watching This Video, You Will Like to Be an Astronaut Too [Space]
I've never seen anything like this: The Earth captured in time lapse by an astronaut at the International Space Station, cruising at 17,239 miles per hour—that's 7.7 kilometers per second, or 4.7 miles per second. More »




Sony Delays 3D Blu-ray Playback for PS3 [PS3]
Sony's plan to update the PS3's firmware with support for 3D playback via Blu-ray has been put back, with the company now saying it'll be here some time during October. So you'll have to find some other way to play that vast catalogue of 3D discs you own until then. [Electricpig via Kotaku] More »




Philips Bringing 21:9 3D Cinema Display to the Home [TVs]
Philips has quite an exciting announcement for home cinema fans at its IFA press conference today—it's upgrading its 21:9 Cinema display with Full HD 3D capabilities. More »




Samsung's HMX-T10 Camcorder Has Full HD and 20-Degree Slanted Lens [Camcorders]
They describe it as "groundbreaking," with the 20-degree slanted lens of the HMX-T10 supposedly aiding sore wrists. I don't know about that, but the rest of the specs make me happy: full HD, for starters. More »




Sony's iTunes Competitor is Music Unlimited [Music]
Sony revealed its big new push into the music world last night, in the form of Music Unlimited—a new way for everyone to manage their audio collections and listen to music, entirely via the cloud. More »




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