OU professor submerses laptop in liquid nitrogen, smashes it to prove a point (video)

Hey, students — pay attention. Not to us, mind you, but to the syllabus provided by your professor. Kieran Mullen, a physics professor at the University of Oklahoma, has a fairly strict rule about gadgets in class: there won’t be any, ever, under any circumstances. Balk all you want (understandable given his own clipped-on cellie), [...]

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GE outs PMA 2010 range: X5, E1486TW, E1480W, J1455 and waterproof G5WP

Not sure if anyone clued you in, but there’s a reasonably large camera show going on in Anaheim, and the shooter news is flowing hot and heavy. General Imaging (or GE, as it were) has just busted out its 2010 range of point and shoot cameras, and while none of ‘em are particularly mind-blowing, there [...]

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Casio rolls out Exilim EX-S7 and EX-Z35 point-and-shoots at PMA

It’s a beautiful day in Anaheim, which makes it a perfect day to introduce a couple of compact shooters. Regardless of the fact that we just made that up, Casio’s in full agreement, as it has just pushed out the new Exilim EX-S7 (shown above) and EX-Z35 (shown after the break) at PMA 2010. The [...]

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HTC Desire ROM shoehorns HTC Sense and Flash 10.1 onto the Nexus One

Want some of that colorful, homescreen-juggling, Android 2.1 Sense UI that HTC has prepped for the HTC Desire? Well, the previously promised hacked ROM is ready for your Nexus One’s consumption. It’s in alpha right now, so install at your own risk, and does indeed support Flash 10.1, so also beware of the risk of [...]

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Sigma’s new DP2s, DP1x and SD15 shooters could make you poor with the click of a shutter

Perhaps it’s unfair to peg as “pricey” a trio of cameras with as yet unannounced pricing, but Sigma’s got a bit of rep in that department. It also has a reputation for cramming incredible sensors inside beautiful, minimalistic form factors, and that certainly doesn’t seem to be changing. The DP2s (pictured) and DP1x compacts (followups [...]

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