Slow Motion Camera Shows Cymbals Crashing, Dogs Shaking at 1000fps

Ever wonder what sugar being sprinkled on a vibrating strip of metal would look like if you could slow it down to see every bounce, ripple and skip? Or just how a handsaw shimmies when played with a violin bow? Me neither. But if I told you that somebody had also included a clip of a dog shaking off water, or an oil drum being hit with a sledgehammer, all at 1,000 frames per second, you’d want to see it, right?

The video was made by vibration-testing company Fluke, and was shot on a Phantom HD Gold camera at 1,000fps and then slowed down to show what our naked eyes cannot usually see. Apart from the little doggy (so cute) my favorite is the cymbal getting a whack from a drumstick. I

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Flipboard Rides Wave of User Growth

Mike McCue, chief executive of popular iPad magazine application Flipboard, says the company is on track to reach 10 million users early next year and could start booking positive cash flow later next year as the startup’s business model begins to take shape.

That will be a big jump. Flipboard currently has around 2.5 million users, up from around 1.1 million users in January, and its app only works on the iPad for now. The company also isn’t generating any revenue yet.

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But Mr. McC

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Citi hackers made $2.7 million

Citigroup suffered about US$2.7 million in losses after hackers found a way to steal credit card numbers from its website and post fraudulent charges.

Citi acknowledged the breach earlier this month, saying hackers had accessed more than 360,000 Citi credit card accounts of U.S. customers. The hackers didn’t get into Citi’s main credit card processing system, but were reportedly able to obtain the numbers, along with the customers’ names and contact information, by logging into the Citi Account Online website and guessing account numbers.

Until now, it wasn’t clear how much — if any — fraud had occurred as a result of the theft.

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Bank of Canada launches high-tech polymer bills to thwart off counterfeiters

Remember when playing with plastic money was something you did as a kid? The Bank of Canada is officially making plastic money for people of all ages to use as it introduced a new polymer bill yesterday. The $50 and $100 bills were designed to thwart off counterfeiters by using high-tech materials.

Instead of the normal cotton paper bills, the polymer bills have two see-through windows that make it nearly impossible for amateur counterfeiters to scan or photocopy the banknotes. According to the Bank of Canada, you can “feel, look, and flip” to make sure the bill is real.

Looking through the large window should show a metallic portrait and a metallic building. The

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SuperTooth HD Bluetooth speakerphone

The SuperTooth HD Bluetooth speakerphone is touted by the manufacturer themselves to be the most advanced model of its kind in the market anyone out there willing to dispute that claim? It is said that the SuperTooth HD Bluetooth speakerphone has three times the power compared to other models, while letting you communicate across social networks using nothing but just voice commands hopefully the algorithm is smart enough to serve the needs of non-native English speakers, too.

Among the features of the SuperTooth HD features would include twin speaker V Array technology that comprises of a couple of 2.5 watt speakers and a 5.4 watt amplifier, emitting high-fidelity audio in the process.

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