Gadget Lab Notes: Apple Wasn’t The Only One Making News Today
The TOUGH TG-810 is the first camera crushproof up to 100kg
Gadget Lab Notes is an eclectic roundup of gadget news briefs and intriguing products that catch our eye.
Olympus TOUGH TG-810 Claims to be the First 100kg Crushproof Camera
Accidentally step on the Olympus TOUGH TG-810? Not a problem, as long as you weigh less than 100kg (about 220lbs). The 14 MP TG-810 is shockproof, waterproof up to 10m, and freezeproof up to -10 C. It features a 3-D shooting mode, 720p HD recording, underwater scene modes, and a variety of other modes and filters to enhance stills and video.
Tough TG-810 [Olympus via TechRadar]
Thermaltake Level 10 Super Gaming Modular Case, an Epic Home For Your Gaming Rig
For $280, you can get the Thermaltake Level 10 Super Gaming Modular Case, whose design was inspired by the work of BMW Group Designworks. The case will prevent overheating through the use of 4 cooling fans and optional water cooling, and sports a hinged side panel, 6 USB ports (two USB 3.0, four USB 2.0) and a variety of other ports. It’s got 5 hot-swappable hard drive bays and also features improved cable management for hiding extra cords at the back.
Thermaltake Level 10 Super Gaming Modular Case [Thermaltake USA via Uncrate]
GoPro Battery BacPac Ensures Over 5 Hours of Video Recording Adventures
GoPro, purveyor of wearable, mountable HD cameras, has outed the BacPac, a clip for the HD Hero camera that provides over 5 hours of recording capability. That’s right, for $49.99, you can keep snowboarding, skateboarding, backflipping, or doing whatever other extreme activity you want to document with first person video, for over 5 hours.
Battery BacPac [GoPro via Crunchgear]
Grown-Up Battleship: You May Pass Out Before You Finish the Game
Honestly, I’m surprised this wasn’t created sooner: a Battleship Drinking Game, with shotglasses perched on each “ship”. So now cries of “You sunk my battleship!” are accompanied by a chug of your favorite poison.
Battleship Drinking Game [Core77]
Bing’s Global Searches Outnumber Yahoo’s For the First Time
In February, Bing searches accounted for 4.37% of the global market, while Yahoo held only 3.93% of the global search market. Neither search engines are making Google sweat though—the search engine giant maintained 89.94% of the global search market. In the US, the proportions played out a bit differently: Google leads with 79.63%, followed by Yahoo and Bing with 9.74% and 9.03%, respectively.
Global Stats [Statcounter via Slashgear]
Floor Plan Light Switch Makes it Easy to Light the Right Room
If you’ve ever fumbled around with a light panel of 3 plus switches as you enter a dark house, you know it can be a pain to try to illuminate the right area. The Floor Plan Light switch would display a glowing layout of the floor; just press the room you want to light, and voila! Hopefully it could also scale to a single room that has multiple light areas, like kitchens and bathrooms often do.
Floor Plan Light Switch [Yanko Design]
Posted: March 2nd, 2011
at 11:55pm by Christina Bonnington
Topics: Gadget Lab Notes, Gaming, Miscellaneous, Olympus, Search engines, Yahoo, battleship, bing, concept, crushproof camera, google, gopro, light switch, thermaltake, tough tg-810
iBuyPower’s Chimera XLC sports Core i7, 240mm liquid cooling system: FarmVille will never be the same
iBuyPower’s ironic Chimera line is back with the Chimera XLC. First seen at CES, this bad boy features an extreme! flame motif on the outside of the box — in addition to the 240mm liquid cooling system in the box. That’s right: 240mm radiator, a 200mm fan, and five (count ‘em!) 120mm fans. This bad boy also packs an Intel Core i7 processor, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti GPU, and support for Level 3 Power Drive Overclocking service. Not bad for $1,599, eh? And it’s available now. PR after the break.
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Posted: February 15th, 2011
at 7:50am by Joseph L. Flatley
Topics: ChimeraXlc, CoreI7, Gaming, GamingPc, GamingRig, IntelCoreI7, LiquidCooling, SandyBridge, chimera, chimera xlc, core i7, gaming pc, gaming rig, ibuypower, intel, intel core i7, liquid cooling, sandy bridge
PlayStation to save to the cloud
Sony has just informed their developers that the PlayStation 3 will have a new feature – the ability to save games on the cloud. If you’re unfamiliar with the cloud, think of online services like Gmail or Hotmail – they store your emails on their servers so you can pretty much access them from anywhere, any computer with an internet connection as opposed to an Outlook email account you set up on your PC at home that can’t be accessed anywhere else. With Sony introducing cloud saving (they’ve named it Online Saving) to the PlayStation 3, you’ll be able to save your games and access them from anywhere. Want to share the latest level you’re on at your friend’s house? Sure – just log on using your account and load up your save game from there. No more lugging around your PS3 just to prove to your friends you made it to Level X without losing any life. But as usual, with all added services, there are bound to be additional costs – this cloud service will only be available to PlayStation Plus subscribers – hopefully Sony will decide to let everyone make use of it. So, if you are a Plus subscriber, expect to get Online Saving with the upcoming 3.60 firmware update.
PlayStation to save to the cloud, By Ubergizmo. Top Stories : Nexus S Review, GeForce 560 Ti Review,
Time To Get a Job Sims! Sims 3 Ambitions
Its about time our Sims Avatars stopped all the partying (Nightlife), buying stuff (High-End Loft Stuff), galivanting around the globe (World Adventures) or just hanging out (Free Time.)
Time to get a job, Simsy. With The Sims 3 Ambitions, its still a heck of a good time, as you decide decide whether your Sim will be the brave town hero or be a troublemaker. Make your Sim save the day as a brave firefighter, change the town as a leading architect, or live on the edge as a tattoo artist.
We chose billionaire high-tech inventor (go figure) but you can also be a bumbling mad scientist. The real fun is that for the first time ever, you control ALL your Sim’s actions and interactions while they’re on the job and what you do effects the entire town. For example, if you’re an architect, your on-the-job decisions are going to alter how the town looks. As a P.I. you may discover dirt on the leading family.
Be a hero or ghost hunter (seriously.) Just don’t be that party-girl avatar all the time. (Yes, I’m talking to my avatar!)
$29.95 from EA Games.
Visual Assist Dartboard Hightlights The Best Spots To Target
By Andrew Liszewski
While technically the goal of playing darts is to get to a specific score before your opponent does, there are rules that make it a little more difficult than just trying to hit the bulls eye every turn. Starting at 701, 501 or 301 the goal is to actually get to 0 first, but you have to end up there exactly. So if you find yourself too focused on the game to crunch the numbers and figure out the best spots to target on your next throw, this interactive board is here to help.
Besides automatically keeping track of the score, the board also uses LEDs to suggest and illuminate the best places to throw your dart in order to get to 0 the quickest. And because it’s electronic it’s also got other unique versions of the game including Treasure Hunt which has players targeting each segment until they find the ‘buried treasure.’ If you’re worried about the drywall in your games room you might also be happy to know this is one of those ’safe’ versions where the darts have soft tips and wedge into holes on the board. $199.95 from Hammacher Schlemmer.
