Holiday Gift Guide 2010: Bikes

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• Holiday Gift Guide 2010: Bikes
• "Live" Orgasm Radio Escapes Through Apple's Anti-Nudity App Store Claws [IPhone Apps]
• What Are You Playing This Weekend? [Lazy Sundays]
• Company Seeks To Boost Linux Game Development With 3D Engine Giveaway
• Deep Packet Inspection Set To Return
• Winter Time Christmas Personas Theme for Firefox
• GooReader updates to version 2.0, now a sexier way to read Google Books
• PlayStation Move Cosplay Pushes Korea's Buttons [Cosplay]
• Intel research projects bring Legos to life, make groceries interactive
• NSFW: Another Junk Peripheral [Culture Smash]

Holiday Gift Guide 2010: Bikes Posted: 26 Nov 2010 03:00 PM PST Bicycles could quite possibly be the most popular maker vehicles. Here are some bikes and bike accessories for the cycle-friendly folks on your gift list. College bike trunk, DIY on Make: Projects by Frank Yost, from MAKE 23 Growing up, I would often visit my grandparents in Dinkytown, the southeast Minneapolis neighborhood near the University of Minnesota that was named after the freshman cap worn there a century ago. I remember seeing students on ten-speeds carrying their stuff in milk crates that they strapped to the rear rack with bungee cords. Inspired by that image, I wanted something better and more secure. Car drivers can lock things up while running errands, so why should cyclists have to carry everything around with them? So I designed this sheet metal bike trunk. I sized it to hold two 1-gallon jugs of milk with a little room to spare. Its top angles away from the seat like a saddle does, so nothing rubs against the rider. And its 2 latches will accept 2 padlocks to secure the contents against casual theft. "Road Popper" bike seat bottle opener, $40 printed by Shapeways The Road Popper is a bike-mounted bottle opener that we developed for our own use and decided afterward to share. We designed it to fasten discreetly to the rails on the underside of the saddle to help keep your bike looking crisp. So far, it's worked on all the bottle caps we've tried it on. Material options are bronze infused stainless steel. Finish options are plain (on the right in the photograph), matte gold, glossy gold, matte antique bronze, and glossy antique bronze. The Road Popper is not intended for alcoholic beverages. Chromoly does not condone cycling while under the influence of alcohol. Warranty Voider Leatherman PS4, $36, Maker Shed New from Leatherman! The new Squirt PS4 is small enough to fit on your key chain, this pliers version now also comes with built in scissors! The MAKE: Warranty Voider is the perfect companion for mobile fixing, hacking and MacGyvering. This is a limited offering with custom "Make: Warranty Voider" laser etched using a 35w laser. Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in Bicycles | Digg this!

"Live" Orgasm Radio Escapes Through Apple's Anti-Nudity App Store Claws [IPhone Apps] Posted: 26 Nov 2010 03:00 PM PST Apple doesn't like nudity, but LIVE ORGASM RADIO is seemingly fine. The $2 app promises "Screams and Intense Pleasure from the hottest girls in the business." I'm not sure how "live" their "live" orgasms are, if I'm honest. [iTunes via Recombu] More »

What Are You Playing This Weekend? [Lazy Sundays] Posted: 26 Nov 2010 03:00 PM PST One might think that with an extended weekend and cheap video games abound that some of us at Kotaku Towers would be swimming in things to play. But this weekend, I've got but two things on the agenda. More »

Company Seeks To Boost Linux Game Development With 3D Engine Giveaway Posted: 26 Nov 2010 02:58 PM PST binstream writes "To support Linux game development, Unigine Corp. announced a competition: it will give a free license for its Unigine engine to a seasoned team willing to work on a native Linux game. The company has been Linux-friendly from the very start; it released advanced GPU benchmarks (Heaven, Tropics, Sanctuary) for Linux before and is working on the OilRush strategy game that supports Linux as well." Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Deep Packet Inspection Set To Return Posted: 26 Nov 2010 02:35 PM PST siliconbits passes along this quote from a Wall Street Journal report: "'... two US companies, Kindsight Inc. and Phorm Inc., are pitching deep packet inspection services as a way for Internet service providers to claim a share of the lucrative online ad market. Kindsight and Phorm say they protect people's privacy with steps that include obtaining their consent. They also say they don't use the full power of the technology, and refrain from reading email and analyzing sensitive online activities. Use of deep packet inspection this way would nonetheless give advertisers the ability to show ads to people based on extremely detailed profiles of their Internet activity. To persuade Internet users to opt in to be profiled, Kindsight will offer a free security service, while Phorm promises to provide customized web content such as news articles tailored to users' interests. Both would share ad revenue with the ISPs. Kindsight says its technology is sensitive enough to detect whether a particular person is online for work, or for fun, and can target ads accordingly." Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Winter Time Christmas Personas Theme for Firefox Posted: 26 Nov 2010 02:30 PM PST Are you looking for a nice seasonal theme for Firefox? The Wintertime2 Personas Theme is a quiet and peaceful snow theme that will help get you in the holiday mood. Wintertime2 [GetPersonas.com]

GooReader updates to version 2.0, now a sexier way to read Google Books Posted: 26 Nov 2010 02:30 PM PST We showed you GooReader back in August, and it was already a very slick way to read Google Books titles on your Windows desktop. It's now been updated to version 2.0, and GooReader is looking good and more functional than ever before. In addition to getting a bit of a facelift, GooReader 2.0 lets you highlight blocks of text or draw little notes on a page. There's no text tool this time around, but don't be surprised to see that functionality in a future build. GooReader will pick up where you leave off when you close an e-book, but bookmarking specific pages isn't supported. Exporting to PDF is still limited to the paid version -- Google Book Downloader offers the functionality for free, if you'd rather download now and read later. GooReader updates to version 2.0, now a sexier way to read Google Books originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 26 Nov 2010 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

PlayStation Move Cosplay Pushes Korea's Buttons [Cosplay] Posted: 26 Nov 2010 02:30 PM PST Or should we say, Korea pushes the PlayStation Move's buttons? Because that's what's happening here, and the controllers, bless them, don't seem quite sure what to do about it. More »

Intel research projects bring Legos to life, make groceries interactive Posted: 26 Nov 2010 02:11 PM PST Kinect hacks aren't the only projects using depth cameras these days, Intel's Seattle research lab has also been working on a whole range of projects using what it describes "Kinect style" cameras, and it's now showing off some of the results. Among the most interesting are a pair of projects that combine a depth camera with a projector for some rather inventive augmented reality applications. One of those examples can effectively bring Legos to life (as pictured above), while the other adds a whole new degree of interactivity to everyday objects, namely groceries -- which could let you manage a grocery list using actual fruits and vegetables, for instance, or even warn when you've left a tub of ice cream sitting on the counter too long. That's just scratching the surface, though -- the group has also devised a system that can map a room just by walking around with a depth camera, which can then of course be navigated using the very same depth camera and a pair of 3D goggles. Head on past the break for a couple of videos, and hit up the source link below for the rest. Continue reading Intel research projects bring Legos to life, make groceries interactive Intel research projects bring Legos to life, make groceries interactive originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 26 Nov 2010 18:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink Coolest Gadgets  |  Intel Labs Seattle  | Email this | Comments

NSFW: Another Junk Peripheral [Culture Smash] Posted: 26 Nov 2010 02:00 PM PST Not "junk" as in "trash", but "junk" as in "tickle pickles", "flesh bananas" or "knobgoblins". You know, dicks! More »

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