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Sporting Gadgets: Fox's Mobile Baseball Widget Print E-mail
New Toys
Written by Dr. Samuel Centralia, Ph.D., D.D.S., Esq.   
Tuesday, 16 September 2008
Among all the busy research and development here at Dyscern World HQ Labs, we do occasionally like to take time out for fun. Last year I organized our first annual laser tag tournament, with real lasers, but that ended predictably with several interns, once again, in the emergency room.

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Wii Will Rock You: Wireless Nunchuks Print E-mail
New Toys
Written by Dr. Samuel Centralia, Ph.D., D.D.S., Esq.   
Tuesday, 20 May 2008

I finally talked the Powers That Be here at Dyscern World HQ into springing for a Wii console. I'd been doing some hand-eye coordination experiments with the rhesus monkeys, and wanted to see if they could actually play a round of virtual golf. Turns out that, not only can they, they're averaging 6-under-par for 9 holes. Those are PGA Tour numbers, and if I play my cards right, we're all going to retire fat and happy.

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Macro Gadgets, Pt. 2: More on HDTV Print E-mail
New Toys
Written by Dr. Samuel Centralia, Ph.D., D.D.S., Esq.   
Monday, 10 March 2008

We start this week with a follow-up to last week's post on digital TV. Having since finished my research and made a purchase, I thought it would be nice to provide some resolution (sorry…) to the issue. Or at least a clearer picture on the state of consumer HDTV. (It's not my fault. These terrible word choices just keep happening….)

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Macro Gadgets: Digital TV and Lab Rats Print E-mail
New Toys
Written by Dr. Samuel Centralia, Ph.D., D.D.S., Esq.   
Wednesday, 05 March 2008
Here at Dyscern World HQ Labs, we pride ourselves on having the best equipment that money -- and several well-placed connections at NASA, JPL, and the CIA -- can buy. We just got a new particle accelerator in the other day -- she's a real beaut. The Atom Smasher 3000. Works wonders with leptons and quarks, and it even has a cup holder!

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