Aircraft Automation Causing Diminished Skills Among Pilots
With aircraft technology at its current state of advancement, there’s growing evidence that pilots are losing their edge in the cockpit. Why? Considering how much automation is involved in flying these days, pilots tend to be less concerned with mastering specific functions. It comes as no surprise that more air disasters is the inevitable result of such a transformation in flying.
Halo 4 Concept Art Revealed In Not So Surprising Leak (Video)
If you don’t want to bother reading text, just hit the jump and marvel at the sights of Halo 4. It comes with a new synth laden score as well. As for the art, it’s breathtaking as usual, full of orbiting metallic structures and fantastical landscapes that have become a signature of the series. Oh yeah, Master Chief figures as well albeit in a miniscule way as he’s reduced to a mere speck in the awesome alienscapes shown–oops! Sorry for the spoiler. Also: Giant glowing LED light sucking a spaceship…
The Most Awesome Question From A FAQ Section
Ah, FAQ sections. It would be a crime not to have one on your website. Oh wait, Geeky Gadgets doesn’t have a FAQ section so scratch that previous statement (there’s a great About section though). Anyway, the point we’re driving at is having a FAQ section tends to inspire spirited discussions on very ridiculous topics.
It just came to our attention that the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory entertained such an explosive query on its own FAQ. The resulting text is both informative and totally awesome. Read chunks of it after the jump.
Peugeot Outs Yummy Mummy Heels Together With New Car Concept
For the record, these heels look like torture. If we’re not mistaken, in the pantheon of women’s footwear the Yummy Mummys (terrible name) are wedges but have stiletto design features. So that makes it a hybrid? We’re not going to over think them but holy smoke, the Yummy Mummy heels look agonizing to wear–but what am I, a man, to judge female footwear?
The Pot Is Alive! Click And Grow Does Small Scale Gardening For You
That’s what it’s called—Click and Grow. Sure, not as sexy as calling it the iPot, but I’m pretty sure the big fruit company in Cupertino already trademarked that name. The Click and Grow is a battery-powered flower pot that does your indoor gardening for you. In short, it’s the lazy version of a dull orange clay flowerpot.
APEN Digital Pen Bridges Handwritten And Computer-written
Now here’s a gadget that has tons of potential. It’s from a company called E FUN and their newest baby is the APEN. It’s a stylus that makes a difference. How? The APEN converts your ugly scrawls on paper—what passes for decent penmanship these days—and converts it to digital text thanks to its sister gadget.
ShoulderFlex Massager Could Kill You
We’re not trying to smear the product. The bad news comes directly from the FDA. The Food and Drug Administration passed judgement on the massager (consumer concerns actually do fall under its jurisdiction) and declared it a hazard to public health. Why? Read on.
Retro Alien Couch Is Unofficial Space Invaders Merch
So as to avoid unnecessary litigation and controversy, the Retro Alien Couch prefers that it’s called a Retro Alien Couch. Don’t go about calling it the ‘Space Invaders Alien Seating Contraption’ unless you’re with friends and want to impress them with sheer geekyness. This all black affair is built upon order and comes in leather. That’s right, black leather.
Custom N64 TIE Figther And Snow Speeder SNES
We have featured quite a few gaming console mods here at Geeky Gadgets, as well as a fair bit of cool Star Wars gadgets and mods, the latest mods combines the two.
Kevin from Corellian Customs has created two awesome Star Wars themed gaming consoles, first up is the custom N64 Tie Fighter Mark II, which was made a 1995 Hasbro Darth Vader’s Tie Fighter and a Nintendo 64.
More iPhone 5 (N94) Prototype Parts Leaked
yesterday we saw some photos of what were reported to be parts of the new iPhone 5, possibly prototype parts with the code N94 marked on them. The reference to N94 has previously been found in iOS 5, and it is a reference to a new unreleased Apple device.
Now the guys over at Macpost have got their hands on another photo of an N94 part, this time it is a black version of the LCD, digitizer screen panel and the home button for the N94.
Fujtisu Arrows 10.1 Inch LTE Android Honeycomb Tablet
It looks like Fujitsu is getting ready to launch a new Android tablet, called the Fujitsu Arrows, it is headed to NTT DoCoMo and will come with Android Honeycomb and will be an LTE device.
The Fujitsu Arrows will come with a 10.1 inch WXVGA multi-touch display, and will feature Android 3.2 Honeycomb, plus a dual core 1GHz processor, and LTE, UMTS and HSPA connectivity.
HTC Sense 3.5 In Action (Video)
As video has been released which gives us our first look at HTC’s new Sense 3.5, the new UI is expected to ship with the HTC Bliss which we have been hearing about over the last few weeks.
The video below shows us the HTC Sense 3.5 in action, which include a new lock screen and animations, plus a new range of widgets, and the UI looks simpler than the current HTC Sense 3.0.
