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NASA successfully completed a test of the world’s largest solid rocket motor yesterday in Utah. Within 2-minutes, “the motor, designed to provide up to 3.6 million pounds of thrust, roaringly fired a column of flame, while some 760 instruments monitored its every aspect.” Video after the break. Before the motor was fired, the engineers chilled it to 40 degrees below zero, for additional stress testing. It reportedly passed every test. The motor is intended to be used in the heavy-lift rocket segment of the Constellation program that NASA has slated for 2015. [via Popsci ]

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NASA Tests World’s Largest Solid Rocket Motor

According to Treyarch community manager Josh Olin, in addition to “a full multiplayer reveal on September 1, there will be ‘one more thing’ to come, along with a co-op mode reveal before the game’s release on November 9.” We’ll definitely have the trailer for you when it’s released. For now, continue reading for the teaser video released last month. “To be completely honest, I think that the players are going to be very, very shocked when we reveal our stuff,” he told DS. “I don’t think they’re going to expect this out of Treyarch, because we just haven’t had the time or resources to do something like this. If you look at the size of any other studio that works on two-year development cycle on a first-person shooter, and compare that to Treyarch, we are a Goliath. [via Digitalspy ]

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Black Ops Multiplayer Reveal Today

At $2.99, this Inflatable Toast isn’t high-tech nor tasty, but it’s quite popular with Amazon customers. User Timothy says: “For those occasional laundry day mishaps, when you forget that you have a piece of toast in your pocket… and let’s face it, who hasn’t been there? I found that this product holds up far better than real toast in this situation.” Product page . Here’s what Joanna has to say: If you are going the low-carb lifestyle, you know that all you get is one slim slice of toast per week. This toast is inflatable, and it’s made of vinyl, so it isn’t even digestible by the human digestive apparatus, meaning you get a big slice and it won’t throw off your ketogenesis. [via Amazon ]

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Inflatable Toast Popular with Amazon Customers

Sure, you can’t wear the slick Dr. Martens USB drive above, but with the technology available now days, you can turn just about anything into a functional gadget. Click here to see forty-two more cool USB gadgets. [Sources 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 ]

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42 More Cool USB Gadgets

If historical events had Facebook updates, this is what Cool Material thinks they’d be like. Starting with the famous Abraham Lincoln theater meeting with John Wilkes Booth. Click here to see them all. [via Coolmaterial ]

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10 Funny Historical Facebook Updates

Nintendo may have released the Super Famicom, here’s one prototype that didn’t quite make the cut. That’s not all, we’ve rounded up twenty-four unreleased video game consoles and accessories for your viewing enjoyment. Click here to see them all. [Sources 1 ]

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24 Unreleased Video Game Consoles, Accessories

YouTube user “errrick” managed to capture a 3-month old kitten named Claire playing Nintendo’s Duck Hunt, without the use of a gun controller or touchscreen. As you can imagine, hilarity ensued. Continue reading for the video.

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Kitten Plays Nintendo’s Duck Hunt, Hilarity Ensues

Though none of these eighteen Batman-inspired gadgets (and toys) will give you super powers or enhanced human abilities, they most certainly are a must-have for any super fan. Click here to see them all. [via Walyou ]

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18 Awesome Batman Gadgets and Toys

Today’s big Apple event will be streamed live to Macs, iPhones, iPads, and iPods worldwide That’s right, starting at 10am, the event will be available at Apple.com, but only on Macs running OS X 10.6 and the Safari Web browser, or on an iPad, an iPhone, or iPod Touch running iOS 3 or higher, according to a media alert posted Tuesday by Apple.” Some observers say the move effectively excludes the majority of Web users, since Safari commands only 5 percent of the browser market, compared with Internet Explorer’s 60 percent, Firefox’s 22 percent, and Chrome’s 7 percent. [via CNet ]

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Apple Event Will Be Streamed Live to Company’s Devices

Today is the big Apple event, but that hasn’t stopped accessory manufacturers from leaking case designs ahead of time. The following cases are supposedly for the 4th-generation iPod Touch, leading some to believe that it will have a 3.0MP - 5.0MP camera with flash. Continue reading for one more picture. iLounge is also reporting that new iPod Touch device might be launched with microphone rather than a flash, along with a the bottom-mounted headphone port and Dock Connector port. LCD and digitizer are slightly smaller and different in color than the iPhone 4 front panel. [via GadgetsDNA ]

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iPod Touch 4 Cases Surface