Make Your Own Waterproof Slipcovers for Shoes with Duct Tape [DIY]

If you don't live in a climate where you need a pair of expensive waterproof boots or you just don't want to buy any, Instructables user csymmank has a guide to making slipcovers for any shoe that will work in a pinch.

Using a pair of socks, velcro, and duct tape, the process doesn't take a lot of effort, but the fact you can easily remove the covers makes it far more appealing than just wrapping your shoes in duct tape. While csymmank's guide is all about using these as bike shoe covers, it's easily applicable to any shoe. The slipcovers aren't pretty, but they'll certainly come in handy for that once-a-year winter storm when you need to shovel the walk. Find the full details over on Instructables.

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Apple iPhone 4S (AT&T)

Amidst the hype surrounding Apple's latest smartphone, it's easy to forget what makes the iPhone so popular in the first place. But pick one up, and it's easy to remember: It's the gorgeous, industrial design, killer display, easy-to-use OS, and unbeatable app experience. And now, with the arrival of the iPhone 4S, Apple has finally worked out the calling kinks that plagued its devices in the past.

This time around, the iPhone 4S is available on AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon. AT&T's model is the best of the three. On AT&T you get support for simultaneous voice and data, as well as faster 3G speeds via AT&T's HSPA+ 14.4 network. So why are we rating this phone lower on AT&T than on Sprint? Because AT&T is making a much more aggressive push towards 4G LTE than Sprint is, and the iPhone 4S is not a 4G device.

(Sprint has an existing 4G WiMAX network, but at the moment that carrier's 4G strategy is muddled, as it's in the midst of transitioning between two technologies. AT&T's path is much clearer.)

Cellular Radio and Call Quality
See our review of the iPhone 4S on Sprint?($199.99 - $849.99, 4.5 stars) for a detailed look at the phone's hardware, software, and new features. Here we're going to focus on what makes the AT&T phone different, and how it performs on AT&T's network.

RF reception on the 4S was on par with the?Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket?($149.99, 4.5 stars) and other top AT&T phones.?Call quality on AT&T's network was also very good. Voices sounded loud, full, and natural in the phone's earpiece. Calls made with the phone sounded a bit thin, but still loud and clear, and background noise cancellation works very well. Transmissions through the speakerphone are also clear, and fine for indoor use, but not loud enough to use outdoors.

The 4S switches between its top and bottom antennas depending on which one is receiving better signal, which means it'll ignore whichever one you're covering with your hands. This design killed the "death grip" problem on the Sprint model, and it does the same here. By holding the phone in a strange, two-handed grip I was able to lower data speeds, but it wasn't significant, and it wasn't the kind of grip anyone would ever use to hold or talk on a phone.

The iPhone 4S also delivers on Apple's promise of longer battery life. I got 9 hours, 6 minutes of talk time with a strong 3G signal.

Data Speeds and Conclusions
Judging from the results we collected earlier this year in our testing for the Fastest Mobile Networks, we found that AT&T has the fastest 3G network in the U.S. That means the iPhone 4S, a 3G device, should be faster on AT&T than it is on Sprint or Verizon.

In my tests, the 4S on AT&T easily beat the same model on Verizon. The AT&T device averaged 3Mbps down and 1Mbps up, while the Verizon phone averaged a much lower .8Mbps down and .5Mbps up. The iPhone 4S, which uses an HSPA+ 14.4 modem, is also a lot faster than the iPhone 4, which has a slower HSPA 7.2 modem. In the same series of tests, the iPhone 4?on AT&T ($99.99, 4.5 stars) averaged 1Mbps down and .4Mbps up.

The iPhone 4S is also a good HSPA device in general. Speeds were comparable to those on a Samsung Infuse 4G?($24.99, 3.5 starts), which has an even faster HSPA+ 21 modem. The iPhone 4S on AT&T is also capable of simultaneous voice and data, which is unavailable on 3G phones on Sprint and Verizon.

But the 4S doesn't take the best advantage of AT&T's network. The phone's HSPA+ 14.4 modem works well, but the phone should have an HSPA+ 21 modem to get the best speeds on this network. AT&T also recently started to deploy its 4G LTE network, which is currently available in 15 U.S. cities, and the carrier expects to reach 70 million users by the end of the year.?Right now, there are three phones that support it: the HTC Vivid?($99.99, 4 stars), Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket, and LG Nitro HD?($149.99, 4.5 stars). AT&T is anticipated to announce more LTE phones at CES in a few weeks. If you're buying a top-of-the-line smartphone you intend to keep for two years, it should be future-oriented.

LTE is far faster than HSPA+. In a number of head-to-head speed tests, the Nitro averaged 16.5Mbps down and 4.5Mbps up, while the Skyrocket averaged 15.4Mbps down and 3.9Mbps up. Keep in mind, those tests were conducted at the same time and place as the speed tests on the 4S, which pulled in 3Mbps down and 1Mbps up.

The ads are true: Apple's iPhone 4S for AT&T really is "the most amazing iPhone yet." It's an excellent device, and 4G or not, it's still going to be the right choice for many AT&T users. But if you're looking for the fastest, most powerful smartphone right now, then you should be looking for a 4G LTE device like the Samsung Skyrocket or the LG Nitro HD.

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Continuous talk time: 9 hours 5 minutes

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Cosmic cuisine: Giant gas blob on menu for Milky Way's black hole

Scientists who spotted a giant gas blob orbiting the black hole at the center of the Milky Way say they'll get a first-ever close-up view of matter falling into a supermassive black hole.

For the first time, astronomers are poised to get a close look at a supermassive black hole making a meal of in-falling gas.

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The black hole in question lurks in the center of the Milky Way. A vast blob of gas is orbiting the black hole, known astronomically as Sagittarius A*. And it appears to be a swan-song orbit.

At its closest approach in 2013, the gradually stretching blob will have been shredded into fragments by the black hole's gravity. The fragments are expected to swing to within 1.5 light-days of the black hole's event horizon ? the point of no return for in-falling matter.

That's about 260 times the distance between Earth and the sun. The team discovering the blob calculates that some of the gas fragments will be flung into new orbits around Sagittarius A*. But the team says some of that gas may be drawn in ever-tightening circles around the black hole until it crosses the event horizon and vanishes in a burst of radiation.

"What a unique opportunity!" says an enthused Stefan Gillessen, an astrophysicist at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany. Dr. Gillessen led the team reporting the results in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature.

Researchers observing other galaxies millions of light-years away claim to have seen stars being disrupted by black holes, Gillessen writes in an email exchange. But the level of detail in the data hasn't been high enough to be thoroughly convincing.

"Here, we can predict that an accretion event will?happen, [and] at a very close distance of 25,000 light years," he says. "The mass being fed towards the black hole is small, but we can watch it in exquisite detail."

In some ways this sounds a bit like hungry waifs staring through a restaurant window as a diner is about to take in a fork tipped with filet mignon.

But Gillessen and others say the observations will help draw a more complete picture of how black holes operate.

Such an event would help show how galactic black holes gain mass over time. And the fragments' interactions with gas already in the region could serve as a probe of environmental conditions in the black hole's immediate backyard.

Black holes are cosmic objects with so much mass squeezed into such a small volume that the strength of their gravity prevents even light, traveling at 186,000 miles a second, from escaping.

Stars far more massive than the sun typically end their lives as so-called stellar-mass black holes. These tend have the mass of about 10 suns with an event horizon only about 18 miles across.

But black holes also come supersized ? behemoths stuffed with the mass of millions or billions of suns and whose event horizons can reach out to several times the distance between the sun and Pluto. These supermassive black holes are said to reside at the center of nearly all galaxies and play important roles in their evolution.

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Sony's XBA balanced armature in-ear headphone lineup headed to the US, we go ears-on

We just met with Sony at its New York City store on Madison Ave. in Midtown, and boy did it have some excellent news for in-ear headphone lovers. While sitting down in the PlayStation Lounge, we briefly demoed nearly every piece of its lineup of XBA balanced armature intra-aurals, which if you'll recall, were announced for parts of Asia back in September. While the 11-model lineup, ranging from standard buds to Bluetooth and noise-cancelling sets, is just beginning to hit those regions now, we've been told that folks in the US can expect them to arrive on American shores next year, with official availability details due at CES. The units we checked out are voiced and finished as those set to hit production, but according to Sony, some of the cabling now in place will change before the stateside release. Interested audiophiles and music lovers can click on past the break for the full details, as well as our initial -- and brief -- impressions.

Gallery: Sony XBA balanced armature in-ear headphones (hands-on)

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Australia's Prototype Wave Generators Move Like an Electrified Kelp Forest [Video]

The gentle swaying of kelp forests belies the immense hydraulic pressures they've evolved to endure. The waves that crash over them transfer huge amounts of energy—an average of 36kW/m with three-foot swells. Now, a green energy firm is banking on this sway to run arrays of Megawatt generators of the coast of Victoria. More »

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