Video: Fun with a microwave and PS3

March 12th, 2009 by

While the image above may be disturbing to the PS3 faithful, the path taken to its artistic destruction is oddly intoxicating. It’s the latest console mod / art piece by the microwave Intertainer going by the alias d0vetastic. The video is long, real long at 12 and half minutes — no sound track, no voice over, just you and your computer holed-up with a coagulating 60GB PS3 console and controller. So pull up a chair, set the video to full-screen and prepare to feel the darker side of your emotional response system. Anyone can microwave popcorn — only an artist can microwave his gaming console. Heh.

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Video: Fun with a microwave and PS3 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Cloaking device puts the kibosh on cellphone inteference

January 15th, 2009 by

There has been plenty of research into cloaking devices, but while scientists are still working their way towards the visible light spectrum they seem to be having the best luck with microwaves. Most recently, a new metamaterial made from over 10,000 individual pieces of fiberglass has been used to cloak a bump on a flat mirrored surface — the material prevents microwaves from being scattered, giving the RADAR (we’re guessing it’s a RADAR) the impression that the surface is flat. This has many possible applications, such as cloaking sources of interference to cellular communications. Unfortunately, the implication we most desire — rendering us invisible during high society jewel heists — has yet to become reality.

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Cloaking device puts the kibosh on cellphone inteference originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Cloaking device puts the kibosh on cellphone interference

January 15th, 2009 by

There has been plenty of research into cloaking devices, but while scientists are still working their way towards the visible light spectrum they seem to be having the best luck with microwaves. Most recently, a new metamaterial made from over 10,000 individual pieces of fiberglass has been used to cloak a bump on a flat mirrored surface — the material prevents microwaves from being scattered, giving the RADAR (we’re guessing it’s a RADAR) the impression that the surface is flat. This has many possible applications, such as cloaking sources of interference to cellular communications. Unfortunately, the implication we most desire — rendering us invisible during high society jewel heists — has yet to become reality.

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Cloaking device puts the kibosh on cellphone interference originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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iWave Cube, the personal portable microwave

February 9th, 2008 by

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There comes the time in every young person’s life where they decide to graduate from the microwave to the stove. And fail miserably. Now instead of retreating dejectedly back to the kitchen microwave, where the rest of the appliances can point and make fun, you can hide your shame with the iWave Cube. The little microwave measures one cubic foot (about the size of a Kleenex box), and weighs just 12 pounds. Unfortunately, you’ll still need to plug it in, so there’s a limit to how far you can run. The iWave Cube comes in black, red or silver, and retails for $130.

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Microwave beam car stopper tested, fries cars in nanoseconds flat

December 5th, 2007 by

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Yeah, this idea has definitely been around the block a time or two, but Eureka Aerospace is doing a whole lot more than just envisioning yet another concept. Its 200-pound, 5-foot long prototype has recently undergone testing, and reportedly, it’s been able to completely and utterly incapacitate any vehicle that dared roll in its path. The device has been used to shut down four whips thus far, each from a distance of 10 to 50-feet, and all it took was a microwave pulse lasting some 50-nanoseconds to do it. According to James Tatoian, the outfit’s CEO, a version that weighs just 50-pounds and can disable rebel rides from 600-feet away is only a couple of years from reality, but it’s highly doubtful that these will be available to the general public. Depressing, we know.