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German Family Buys Armored Reconnaissance Vehicle For Grocery Runs [Wtf]

Any German rearmament is always a worry.

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From Gizmodo

When Joachim Schoeneich of Neu Anspach Germany goes shopping for groceries with the fam from now on, he does so in style: with a tank. Or, more accurately, with a $47,376 six-ton British Army Fox FV721 armored reconnaissance vehicle. "We take the tank to go shopping and little trips," Schoeneich said. "It is a bit hard to find a parking place, but we get right of way at every junction." No kidding. It's too bad the gun doesn't work, but this thing's definitely intimidating enough without it. Well, that and the baby seat he installed for his kid. [Ananova via DVICE]

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Portable Conmoto Suitcase Fireplace

Cool and dangerous?

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From Gizmodo

Fireplaces are great for ambiance, but generally not portable. Kooky German design firm Conmoto, who brought us the bookshelf fireplace back in December, has solved the portable problem with the Travemate Portable Fireplace. At 55 lbs. it will require a little effort to cart it from room to room, but we think the resulting night of intimacy, wherever it happens to be, will be well worth the strained back.

The Travelmate boasts some environmental benefits too. The small fuel tank uses bio-ethanol, which burns for 2.5 to 3.5 hours.

The aluminum and glass casing is also weather resistant, making this an acceptable addition to the backyard barbecue. That's a romantic barbecue, mind you. And it better be romantic, with a $3,300 asking price. [Unica Home via Inventor Spot]

[From Bring Romantic Business Time Anywhere with Portable Conmoto Suitcase Fireplace [Portable Fireplace]]

TechCrunch: Netflix Coming to Xbox 360 With Live Content Sharing

NetFlix is coming to the 360! COOL!

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Netflix is coming to the Xbox 360 this fall. Netflix subscribers will have instant access to over 10,000 movies and TV shows, streamed directly to the Xbox 360 console.

What’s more, with the new Live Party feature coming to the Xbox 360, you’ll be able to stream whatever Netflix content you’re watching to the rest of the people in your Live Party group — groups can contain up to eight people and everyone will be watching the movie or TV show at the same time, which oughta further alleviate the need to actually leave your house to interact with people face to face.

It’s unknown whether or not the other people in your Live Party have to be Netflix subscribers in order to view the streamed content. I’d think so, but it’d be nice if only one person in the group had to pony up for Netflix.

Crunch Network: MobileCrunch Mobile Gadgets and Applications, Delivered Daily.

[From Netflix Coming to Xbox 360 With Live Content Sharing]

THE Jungle Gym

Check out the new addition to the backyard. Alexander had a blast watching it being built in the 90 degree heat.

Plenty of of fun for years to come.

My favorite IRC client

I'm very happy using Colloquy as my IRC client on OS X.

Check it out here: Colloquy

Hack Your TiVo: Top 5 Painless TiVo Mods for Mortals

I'm clearing out the long neglected feed reader and posting the items I put in my clipping folder.

The first is an always helpful Tivo How-To brought to us by Gizmodo.

If you're a TiVo jockey and want to get in on the TiVo hack-o-rama—but you're not a hacker—you might want to take a look at the top five TiVo hacks from our buddy Dave Zatz.

Top of the list is that 30-second skip function, where TiVo slyly hides a capability that can only be activated with a certain combination of key presses (Select, Play, Select, 3. 0, select while you're playing a recording), thus avoiding lawsuits but retaining one of the box's best functions. Once you've entered this combination, you can blast through commercial breaks with a few presses of the ->| button. It's is the lowest effort/highest return hack on the list.

There's more!

Zatz also explains how you can expand your TiVo's storage (a bit more difficult than the other hacks), transfer video to TiVo (which, alas, is not possible with our Series3 HD TiVo), removing TiVoToGo DRM (also not possible on the Series3 yet), and streaming music over your home network.

This is a useful list for those who aren't comfortable performing major surgery but are beyond wearing TiVo ears on a blind date. – Charlie White

Top 5 TiVo Hacks (for non-hackers) [Zatz Not Funny]

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Aquavee Swim Treadmill

Swimming: Aquavee Swim System Makes Your Pool Infinitely Long

Products like the pool treadmill, the ExerSwim, and the Home Swimmer all provide a way for you to swim indefinitely in a home-sized pool without building a gigantic circular pool.

This Aquavee portable swim system offers similar benefits, allowing you to "swim in any style at any time" and continue swimming as long as you're able to keep flopping and kicking. It works by using a harness and suction cups to hold you in place. Suction cups are, as you know, the world's most secure way to attach something, so you know this is going to work forever. On the bright side, you won't have to plant stakes into the ground—something that's not quite kosher if you live in an apartment complex like us. [Aquavee]

Your very own aerial drone!

You too can join the ranks of the you lead armies of the world with your very own aerial drone.  This story from Engadget shows how a reasonably skilled do-it-yourselfer can assemble the technology and become tactically aware of the growing threat posed by their next-door neighbor.

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Nokia N95 + RC plane = unlimited DIY aerial photography

Filed under: Cellphones, Transportation

If you've found yourself tempted by other interesting DIY aerial photography rigs, but spent all your dough on the Nokia N95 instead, you may still be able to make a lifelong (or momentary) dream come true. A pioneering lad over at the N95 Blog has suggested that nearly unlimited high-resolution aerial photography can be yours if you're willing to strap your precious handset to an RC plane and get savvy with Pict'Earth software. The application allows users to create a theoretical Google Earth of their own if the existing imagery isn't up to snuff with their personal standards. Still, we'd have to mull this one over mighty hard before attaching such a valuable communicator to a potential death bed, but feel free to let us know how things go if you can muster the courage.

[Via AllAboutSymbian]

 

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"Electronic Paper" Edging Toward Reality

"Electronic paper" has long been hyped as the future of newspapers and books, but products like e-books have been slow to take off. That may soon change, say executives involved in the pioneering technology.

Cessna to update single engine planes

Link: Wichita Eagle | 10/28/2005 | Cessna to update line.

Cessna Aircraft is planning to replace its current line of single-engine airplanes with a new family of planes, its top executive said.

When the company re-entered the business in 1996, it made a commitment to invest in that part of the business, said Cessna Aircraft chief executive and president Jack Pelton.

Cessna has made improvements to the airplanes but wants to do more.