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If you’ve ever wanted a Mophie Juicepack combined with an Otterbox Defender case, you’re in luck. Seidio has released a really versatile battery pack/case that offers backup power for your iPhone as well as incredible protection (if you want it.) Seidio’s Surface Plus and Convert Plus combo is made up of 6 parts. Firstly, you have the Surface Plus…
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Well folks, the Space Shuttle Discovery felt the wild blue yonder for the last time today, making a low-altitude flight over Washington DC atop it’s special 747 shuttle carrier on the way from Florida to its final resting place at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. It’s been real, outerspace.
Space Shuttle Discovery, the eldest of NASA’s surviving space-worthy orbiters, helped build the ISS and carried the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit. It was brought into service after the tragedies that claimed Challenger and Columbia, and went on to complete 39 missions during which it logged 365 days in space, 5,830 orbits around the Earth and 148,221,675 miles traveled. Discovery completed its final mission on March 9…
Hit the jump for a couple shots of the shuttle cruising around DC today, but be sure to check out the link to National Geographic for interactive panoramas of the shuttle’s cockpit, mid-deck, and shitter. Soooooo many buttons to push! When the shuttle is at the Smithsonian will visitors be allowed to sit in it push them all? Because I’ll blog from there if we are. Or from the space-shitter, I don’t care — I just want to pretend I’m an astronaut and sign autographs.
GW to space command — am I clear to post? Over.
“This is space command, you are free to post, GW. Over.”
Copy that, space command, posting in 5…4…
“Just a heads up GW: we have a field trip of kids coming in about a half hour, so nothing about your wiener this time.”
ABORT ABORT ABORT!
Hit the jump for the last flight pics and link to National Geographic’s panoramas. View full post on Geekologie – Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome
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This is Kristi. Kristi speaks with a thick southern accent and is gonna to show you how to make a rainbow with a shotgun and a creek. No clue how many fish died in the process, but my guess is 6-8, two frogs, and a salamander. Impressive work, Kristi, but you know what’s even cooler than making a rainbow (plus bonus lead-polluted creek) appear with a shotgun? Making things disappear with a shotgun. Take my toes for instance. One minute they were there, the next, POOF, just a mist of blood.
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This is a bunch of shaved-hair art by Florida barber/artiste Radames Perez. As you can see, he knows his way around with a pair of clippers. Me? I can’t even find my way around with Google Maps. That said, I’ve always wanted something cool shaved into my head. “Sooooooo…no more penises after you pass out?” ANYTHING BUT ANOTHER DONG, PLEASE.
Hit the jump for a ton more of Radames’ artistry including a Predator, Spartan warrior, Superman/Batman mashup logo, Spongebob, Mortal Kombat and Gears of War logos, a pretty gnarly Kratos that’s colored in, and more. View full post on Geekologie – Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome
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OMGPOP, the New York-based gaming company that has made a huge comeback over the last month thanks to its Pictionary-like game Draw Something, is eying a TV show based on the game, according to a source familiar with the matter. The game has surpassed 25 million registered users, with more than 10 million daily active users.
If the company made such a move, it would highlight OMGPOP’s ambitions beyond games. It’s also a sign of changing times as unique brands are starting to emerge on smartphones and then cross over into other mediums. The trend is usually in the reverse direction with game shows like Family Feud coming onto Android and iOS. But now we’re seeing developers like Angry Birds-maker Rovio work on a concept for a feature firm and Outfit7, which is known for its talking character apps, work on merchandise like toys and T-shirts.
OMGPOP’s chief executive Dan Porter couldn’t comment on the show. But he did share some new statistics on the games.
He says the game is up to 1 billion paid ad impressions per day. That excludes house ads and promotions that upsell users to the paid version of the Draw Something. When I last talked to the company, they hinted that they were under six figures per day in advertising revenue. But I hear that a casual mobile game like Draw Something would have an eCPM, or effective cost per thousand impressions, of around 20 to 30 cents. (Yes, it’s low because there’s that much inventory, which is really hard to fill.) On that, you can back out a rate of around $200,000 per day. He does say that the company is getting better at filling inventory as they partner with more mobile advertising networks though.
Porter also added that Android now makes up just over one-third of daily downloads, thanks to performance enhancements. Many Android apps have issues working properly on the platform’s many devices, so developers that go out of their way with quality assurance testing can see a big bump from having their apps actually function.
Like I reported last week, the overnight success of the game has drawn interest from a number of investors and prospective buyers. Last I heard, there was a definite term sheet for $25 million from Institutional Venture Partners, but it’s not clear if OMGPOP is going to move forward with investors. Porter had said at the time that he was in a position where the company didn’t really need to raise funding.
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