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I love this, but where do I go to complain about the lack of System Shock 2?

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Call me crazy, but putting permanent jewelry in your eye seems like a bad idea. Like the worst idea ever. It’s not stopping Lucy Luckayanko though. She’s the first person to go through a new procedure to implant Safesight jewelry. The operation allowed a doctor to insert a small platinum heart right on her eyeball. It involved making a small incision to insert the jewelry. Yuck.

It gets better/worse. The jewelry is not FDA approved and the American Academy of Ophthalmology doesn’t think the procedure is safe. If you have a strong itch to get an implant in your eye that isn’t medically necessary, just get another piercing instead and think about it a little more. I’m all for body modification but maybe just wait until it’s been around and thoroughly tested and proved to be okay for your health.

You can watch the news story after the break.

(My Fox NY via Gizmodo)

Google Fiber, the search giant's Internet and TV service that will change everything, is gearing up for it's 2014 launch in Austin. Part of the deal they've struck with the city is that 100 locations in town will get the service for free, and the list hit the web today. [ more › ]

We've seen an Xbox One playing through another Xbox One. And an Xbox 360 through an Xbox One through an Xbox One. Also a Wii U through an Xbox One and, sure, a PS4 through an Xbox One. But what if you plug one Xbox One into itself? Because it's certainly possible. And the results are kind of beautiful.

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You're about to fall into the Internet's most dangerous trap. No, not malware — lists. The Internet is crammed with information, organized into handy lists, which will devour your brain. Here are the 10 most addictive and time-wasting lists for geeks online.

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This is quite possibly the most satisfying YouTube prank of all time.

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What if Wolverine and Battlestar's Number Six met and fell in love? What if Desmond from LOST had a torrid affair with Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock Holmes? We cannot stop asking these questions. We will not! Might as well make a game out of it.

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Contrast starts off like all games of its mysterious, charming nature should: by not telling you much.

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The California Department of Motor Vehicles has recalled a vanity license plate that reads "NOT SEE" after the school bus driver who ordered it turned out to be a Nazi.

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If there was anything in our present world that most closely resembled a futuristic dystopia, it would be IKEA.

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Thousands of Bay Area residents have signed up to help fulfill a five-year-old cancer patient's wish of becoming Batkid for a day.

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This is the ultimate headset for the gamer who likes military games. The helmet has three different camouflage covers as well as a detachable boom mic, 3.5mm jack to RCA audio cable connector, Xbox 360 Talkback cable, Mini USB Cable and wireless audio receiver. It’s compatible with Xbox 360, PS3, Wii U, Wii, PC, and Mac and will having you looking cool (or maybe like an idiot) no matter how badly you get fragged.

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It's a new name for an old drug popping up on the party scene. While it  sounds innocent the drug has deadly consequences.  "Every drug you can think of we have in Austin," explained an undercover  detective with APD's Narcotics Conspiracy Unit.  "We need books to keep up with the terminology it changes all the time," he  said. We've concealed his identity for his protection. He works with dangerous  cartels and drug dealers.  One of the drugs he's seeing and has seized is Molly.  "It's usually one of those that you never see by itself. People are dealing  other drugs as well and they realize that they can make money," said the  detective.  Molly is the street name for a drug pushed as pure powder MDMA or the main  chemical in ecstasy. Molly comes and goes. APD sees a lot of it and then won't  see it for a while. The drug is often laced with other powerful drugs. Taking it  can be like playing Russian roulette with your body.

Read more: http://www.myfoxaustin.com/story/23975459/apd-works-to-get-molly-off-austin-streets#ixzz2ki4YYWeJ

 

The trailer for the zombie survival game Dead Island was a grim and gory ad, showing the tail end of a vacation gone wrong in reverse. Now Machinima has posted a live-action rendition of the bloody heartbreak.

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Did I stutter? This one does exactly what is says on the tin, folks. Hit the jump for the clip, if you dare, then we'll discuss what we can learn from the footage. Because you're damn right there's a teaching moment to be had here.

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Sometimes it's humbling when you enter into the domain of professionals and hobbyists who do things that both blow your mind and make you feel like a complete jackass for your inability to understand how they accomplish any of it. Humbling and intensely exasperating. That's how I feel now, taking in and trying (and mostly failing) to understand Bitbanger Labs' Pixelstick light painting system.

I look at the grand, LED-based image manipulations Pixelstick creates--from life-size screen saver geometrics to virtual graffiti--but since I can hardly even take a photo with discernible contents, the thought of turning one into a series of photoreal images, abstract designs, or animations seems nothing short of impossible. But Bitbanger maintains their spin on light painting is accessible to anyone with a basic knowledge of long exposure and timelapse photography, and access to Photoshop or a similar graphics program. So, again, not me in any way, but maybe...probably...some of you.

The art of light painting has been around for over 100 years. The Bitbanger guys are hoping to improve its technology and possibilities, and artists' creative freedom, with the Pixelstick. Basic light painting involves setting a DSLR's or point-and-shoot's long exposure mode anywhere from a few seconds to a few hours, and then moving a light source within the frame. Results are trippy, cool, uplifting, and majestic, but have definite limits. Pixelstick, a series of 198 full-color RGB LEDs situated within an aluminum housing, seeks to broaden these limits.

A small mounted box on the Pixelstick rod reads images created in Photoshop from an SD card, and displays them, one line at a time. Each LED corresponds to a single pixel in the image, which can have a range of from 1 to 198 pixels tall, and thousands of pixels wide. In addition to straight display, Pixelstick can also increment through a series of images over multiple exposures, enabling timelapse light painting, as well as the glowing animations show in the above video.

The Pixelstick's perpendicular handle sits in a separate sleeve than the main LED rod, so the latter can spin freely. The system runs on 8 AA batteries, and Bitbanger notes they have never needed more than 1 set during a long night's shooting.

Pixelstick runs as a Kickstarter campaign through December 13, 2013. At printing it was funded 4 times over. For those concerned about backing unrealized projects on crowdfunding sites, do note that Bitbanger not only has a history of Kickstarter success, but also fulfilling their promises to backers, plus launching a full-scale commercial production run, with the Remee lucid dreaming mask.

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The death of a British spy whose body was found locked inside a duffle bag was "probably an accident," according to London police. The announcement contradicts the findings of a coroner, who last year said the MI6 agent was "probably" killed unlawfully.

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