As if whacking GPS, 3G, an accelerometer and optical touchpads assimilate the new Vaio P wasn't enough, Sony's alone gone and corrective it with crocodile derma now.

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Available in Japan for now, you can accept the assorted upgrades on action for the belly of the croc, including a 256GB SSD or an Intel Atom Z560 processor. Considering how cher the Vaio Ps are normally, this croc derma archetypal is apprenticed to be absolutely unreachable. [Sony Brands via EeePC.net via Liliputing]

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Though jokes can be absurd about Detroit from afar, it doesn't change the actuality that there are absolute humans adversity through the atrophy of a already appreciative city. It's terrible. It's sad. And it doesn't get added affection abstraction than these mashed-up photographs that appearance what a Detroit High Academy already looked like, accustomed and happy, and what it looks like now, alone and destroyed.

A bounded Detroit columnist begin a abundance accession of old photos of Detroit's now alone Cass Tech High Academy and begin above acceptance arena in the gym, belief in the library and adrift the anteroom ways. You know, the blazon of things that acceptance do in a school. But they don't do that anymore at Cass Tech High School. The academy that already had 5,000 acceptance is now in complete ruins. In fact, it's in fact been demolished.

But afore the annihilation of the school, the columnist capital to analyze the celebrity years of the school's accomplished with its sad abasement afore it disappeared. He photographed the academy application the old photos as a guide. An old photo was superimposed assimilate a new photo, which visually broadcast it to cover added of the accepted sad state. The angles were the same, the perspectives were the aforementioned and even the focal lengths matched—except aggregate captured now was in ruins.

It's a time biking photograph of sorts but what already was is bigger than what is now. [Detroiturbex via Fast.Co]

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We've apparent the Nook Book rooted before, but this has to be the easiest action out there. All you charge is a 2GB SD card, a computer that runs Windows, and a Nook Book with book software adaptation 1.4.1 or earlier.

The abundant instructions are acquaint on the XDA Developers Forum, and we've got to accept that the 15 accomplish are appealing aboveboard even if you've never abiding a accessory before. While there are a few added accomplish involved, actuality are the basics: You artlessly archetype a few files to an SD card, pop the SD agenda into your Nook Tablet, reboot the device, and just like that, you've got a approved Android book complete with Google apps and the Android Market. [XDA Developers via The Verge]

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Up until now, you've been ashore scrolling through your Vine timeline while angled over a tiny smartphone screen. Today, though, Twitter's video account has clearly apparent a absolutely anatomic browser adaptation alternating with a cast new, spiffy, full-screen TV Mode.

Users accept been able to annals their approaching Vine URLs for a few months now, but little abroad had been accepted added than the actuality that some array of contour would eventually exist. The browser adaptation of Vine is awful evocative of Instagram's own web-based extension, acceptance users to browse through a augment of anybody they follow, appearance user profile, and like and animadversion on videos as they so choose.

One of better differences from its Facebook-owned counterpart, though, is Vine's new TV-mode. By aerial your cursor over a video in your timeline, a tiny TV ancestor up that, already clicked, brings you into full-screen mode. From here, you can bang aback and alternating amid that users' absolute Vine history. A appealing accessible affection all told, particularly because Vine's favor a part of filmmakers. This bang through would accord any array of alternation a greater faculty of accord in what's already become a awful artistic medium. So this web browser is acceptable as is, sure, but added than anything, we can't delay to see how humans aggrandize it. [Vine]

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This acutely reductive video obtained by Wired represents what the cine and recording industries wish our kids to apperceive about copyright. It does a absolutely nice job of authoritative "share" complete like a bad word.

The video—which was advised for sixth graders—explains that illegally administration copyrighted actual puts alive artistic humans out of work. Which is accurate to a assertive point. And from what we can tell, the assignment doesn't go so far as to indoctrinate accouchement into some of the added controversial pro-censorship angle of the agreeable industry.

Now, while there's annihilation objectionable per se in the video, it's a little awe-inspiring that the Center for Absorb Information is accepting complex in designing assignment plans. Launched endure year as a pro-industry lobby, er, "education group," the CCI was basically created to administrate the Absorb Alert System. The "six-strike" acknowledgment arrangement seeks to advise baddies bent pirating agreeable that what they're accomplishing is wrong, as able-bodied as to accomplish abiding they apperceive there are acknowledged options for accepting content. If offenders don't learn, their ISP will burke their abstracts connection. It's simple, mostly painless, and importantly, it keeps hapless humans from accepting sued into oblivion.

So far, there's no abstracts on whether or not the seven-month-old accomplishment is accepting any effect. Even if it is, we should all ask ourselves area the CCI's appulse should activate and end. Do you wish lobbyist groups designing assignment affairs for your kids? [Wired]

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