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10Oct

Smell-O-Vision: One Step Closer To Reality

Mmmm, love the smell of Kratos in the morning. Smells like…ashes :/

You ever wanted to smell whatever you’re watching in a movie? Cheap perfume, sweat and shame. Get it? Because you’re watching p0rno. Me? I’m watching cartoons, which are actually like p0rno to some people because, I dunno, they weren’t allowed to watch Saturday morning cartoons growing up or something. DO I LOOK LIKE A PSYCHOLOGIST TO YOU?! “Not with that crash helmet on, no.” Exactly, I’m clearly a stuntman. This is SMELLIT, a system that mixes and disperses fragrances to coincide with a movie.

The SMELLIT (yes, that is seriously it’s name) is a new gadget from French company Olf-action (as in “olefaction”, get it?) and it’s designed to add “the smell dimension” to various forms of digital entertainment. And given the face that Olf-action already makes a smell-syncronization system for movie theaters called Odoravision, there’s a good chance this is going to be made into an actual product you can buy someday.

Admittedly, I would feel a little more comfortable breaking wind in the theater if there was a SMELLIT system in place. Because right now all I can do is cover the noise by laughing and talking really loud. AHAHHAHAHAH *brap* THE NOTEBOOK — GOD I LOVE THIS MOVIE.

Hit the jump for a couple more shots, including some of the smells the thing can make (like naked bodies and the dentist!) View full post on Geekologie – Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome

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27Sep

Scientists One Step Closer To AIDS Vaccine

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AIDS: like the shitty entertainment center my neighbor set by the road, nobody wants it. But now scientists believe they’re one step closer to a vaccine after discovering a method of attacking the HIV virus before it’s able to compromise an immune system. Hey, sounds good to me. The sound of myself on voicemail messages? Terrible. Like a witch scraping her nails on a chalkboard to cats dying.

When HIV enters your body, one of the first things that it does is incorporate a special type of cholesterol into its outer membrane. It steals this cholesterol from one of our immune system cells, called a plasmacytoid dendritic cell, or pDC. pDCs are the cells that first recognize the HIV virus, and they’re supposed to instruct other parts of our immune system (like T-cells) to go after it, but once HIV has stolen the pDC cholesterol, it can “reprogram” the pDC cells so that they don’t do their job, screwing up our entire immune system and allowing the HIV to spread.

A research group at at The Johns Hopkins University has discovered that it’s possible to attack HIV before the virus is able to mess with the pDC cells, by simply disrupting its stolen cholesterol membrane. Without this membrane, the virus can’t mess up our immune system, and our bodies are then able to attack it like a normal virus, effectively preventing HIV from causing AIDS.

Sounds promising, right? Of course, I still like fighting AIDS the old fashioned way. So I start with a headbutt, right? WA-BAP! Then follow that up with a couple knees to the groin, AWOOGA!, AWOOGA! If that doesn’t do the trick I’ll either grab a bar stool or break a bottle and start swinging that. Then I wake up and I’m all, “f***, I really gotta stop getting up in the middle of the night and eating tuna.”

New technique ‘disarms’ HIV, could lead to AIDS vaccine [dvice]

Thanks to Cam, who never wears less than two condoms or more than six. View full post on Geekologie – Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome

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13Sep

Mmmm, Printer Jam: 3-D Printable Food Closer To Reality, My Gaping Face-Hole

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Mmmm, boogers a la baby doodoo — my favorite!

Printable food: because who wants a human being touching meals with those grubby-ass fingernails of theirs when it can be squirted out a nozzle in paste form? Mmm, paste. Enter Cornell’s Creative Machines Lab, which is apparently on the leading edge of printable food technology because, remember: being the only one doing something automatically makes you the best at it. “And worst.” Dammit Debbie Downer, I was trying to sound inspirational!

The CCML food printers require edible inks and electronic blueprints called FabApps. This machine prints food using multiple cartridges, going line by line until the desired shape is extruded. “The electronic blueprint specifies exactly which materials go where–it is essentially a blueprint of the food item,” says Hod Lipson, the head of the lab.

With most 3-D food printing concepts today, the inks are the foods themselves in fluid form–think molten chocolate, cheese, or cookie dough. Foods that can’t be readily extruded from a syringe such as meats and vegetables are ground and mixed with other liquids to create novel food-inks.

Essential Dynamics, a tech startup in New York, plans to bring out a commercial version of the 3-D food printer that will retail for $1,000 initially. Its founder Jamil Yosefzai believes that the desire to customize foods will make 3-D food printers an essential part of everyone’s kitchen in due course.

Call me crazy, but…”YOU’RE F***ING NUTS, BRO!” Okay from everybody else’s continued silence I’m gonna assume you realize that was actually meant to be a rhetorical ‘call me crazy’ and you feel stupid for yelling now. “I’M NOT STUPID YOU’RE STUPID, I’LL CUT YOUR ASS!” Ugh, my point was this Ragey McFlyoffthehandle: I’d rather take my chances with a chef not washing his hands than have my meals extruded out of a Play-Doh Fun Factory. Know what I’m sayin’? I’m saying I’ve already eaten enough Play-Doh for six lifetimes.

Ramen by HP? The Wild Possibilities Of Printing Food [fastcompany]
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Printable food is coming [dvice]

Thanks to my buddy Clark, who’s never printed food before but did write, “KEEP GOBBLING THOSE WIENERS!” on my birthday cake in icing one year. View full post on Geekologie – Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome

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02Sep

iPhone “4S” has an FCC ID, one step closer to release

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iPhone “4S”, code named “N94″, has received an FCC ID. MacRumors reported on this earlier today, and stated that the evidence was found within the latest beta of iOS 5. A tipster notified the site of a new file within iOS 5 beta 7 which made reference to the revamped iPhone 4. The specific file is named “RegulatoryInfo-N94AP@2x~iphone.png”. It’s…

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23Aug

iTunes streaming one step closer?

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Rumors of an iTunes streaming service, similar to Spotify or Pandora, have been around for a while – way before iCloud. Apple’s iCloud music service does satisfy much of the craving for an iTunes-based streaming service, but it is more of a way to access music you already own without having to download it to a device. A true music streaming…