Microsoft Instaload: New battery is impossible to put in the ‘wrong’ way round
Microsoft has developed a new system that means batteries can be placed inside gadgets in any configuration.
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Queen Elizabeth gets Blackberry before heading to New York
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II wrapped up her visit to Canada Monday by snagging her own ubiquitous tech gadget.
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No clue what makes this list authoritative, but it’s Friday, and it’s the day before life as we know it changes with the release of… something. Anyhow, it’s a list purporting to show the most valuable autographs you can find. It’s almost relevant because of the person whose autograph has been deemed most valuable. Any guesses as to who’s number one before I give it away? Wait—I already gave it away in the headline. Oops.
So yeah, Neil Armstrong, commander of the Apollo 11 spacecraft. He walked on the moon, for the love of God! (So did Brian Regan, but who’s counting?) Getting him to sign, um, your cast is worth about $7,500. You could build an absolute top-of-the-line PC with that kind of money. I’m talking two ATI Radeon HD 5970s in CrossFire or Nvidia GTX 480s in SLI, plus super-fast sold state drives. Having money must be nice.
The remainder of the list is as follows:
2. Paul McCartney at $2,400
3. Tiger Woods at $2,265
4. Queen Elizabeth II at $2,200
5. JK Rowling $1,875
No one cares about places six through ten.
And for the sake of killing a bit more of your time, here’s my top five:
1. Leo Messi (I literally laughed out loud at the song that plays)
3. Ric Flair or Shawn Michaels (I can’t choose!)
4. Ron Bennington or Pepper Hicks (Again, I can’t chose!)
5. Louis CK
So if any of those can be arranged that’d be great, thanks.
(We’re trying to strike a balance between IPAD IPAD IPAD and other, non-iPad stuff, even if they’re only marginally relevant to CrunchGear.)
At the Pacific Pinball Expo in San Rafael, players of all ages can try their hands at nearly 400 different pinball machines. The expo runs through the weekend at the Marin County Civic Center.
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SAN RAFAEL, California–You might not think of pinball as an educational tool, but to some devotees of the age-old arcade favorite, that’s exactly what they can be.
That’s because pinball machines have been around for decades, and often have themes representative of the era in which they were built. And this weekend, visitors to the Pacific Pinball Expo here, an event billed as the “world’s largest” pinball show, can see history on display in bright lights and enhanced with familiar bells and whistles, things like the coronation of Queen Elizabeth, the first man on the moon, contemporary music from the 1950s and much more.
At the expo, which opened Friday at the Marin County Civic Center here (admission is $25 for adults and $15 for kids 12 and under), visitors can see more than 350 machines from as early as the 1920s, and with names like “Wild West,” “Quartette,” “Dragonette, “4-Belles” and much more.
And the mission statement of the Pacific Pinball Museum, which is behind the expo, is as follows: “To inspire an interest in science, art and history through pinball and to preserve and promote this important part of American culture.”
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Originally posted at Geek Gestalt