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Tech NewsOpera 9.6 Faster, Stronger, Available Now
Opera just popped out the latest version of their desktop browser, 9.6. Besides being just plain faster, it adds feature improvements all around, like a new low-bandwidth mode in the built-in email client, expanded syncing (speed dial, search engines and notes), and RSS feed previews, so you can check out the content before you subscribe … Continued
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UFO Teapot: Let’s Make Some F’ing Tea
For some reason, a teapot permanently takes up one of the four, sacred burners in my kitchen. Occasionally I’m able to hide it, trapping the unused fixture in a cabinet where the Pyrex watches guard. To circumvent this subtle, strategically culinary mating dance that is marriage, I’d be glad to place this adolescently glorious UFO … Continued
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Shyamalan Has A Vision For Airbender
M. Night Shyamalan is spilled that his pre-work on the live action adaptation The Last Airbender (based on the epic cartoon Avatar) is pretty much done. That’s all great and everything, but he hasn’t even begun to touch actual filming with real-life actors, and the fight scenes are what I’m looking forward to. Crazy prep … Continued
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Circuit City On the Brink of Failure
Banks aren’t the only thing failing right now. Beleaguered big box Circuit City’s stock has dropped below 50 cents a share, meaning it’s on the brink of going under. Since Blockbuster pulled out of a deal to buy them earlier this year, it’s looking like no one will step in to save them. I’m no … Continued
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Tech NewsKota the Robo-Triceratops Now Available
We were amazed by Kota, a robot replica of a 40-inch-long baby triceratops made by Playskool. It can walk, it can growl, and the kids can actually ride it. It doesn’t get any better than that. Unless they can come up with actual cloned baby triceratops. You can buy Kota now from Amazon for $300. … Continued
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Horrifying T-Shirts to Brighten Your Day
Sometimes you just need to wear a zombie on your chest to show that you mean business. This excellent new tee, complete with a glimpse of chainsaw, is a small part of Electric Zombie’s line of gore-infested, deadly designs for the October season. But maybe zombies aren’t your idea of a scary emblem. That’s why … Continued
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Shower Power Gives You Something to Hold On to During Shower Sex
Sometimes, when you’re sharing a shower with a certain special someone, you need to grab onto something solid. And you know, you don’t want to pull the curtain rod down or the showerhead out of the wall. That’s what Shower Power is for: it’s a handle for holding onto during those times when things get … Continued
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Carcade Transforms Car Window Landscape into Arcade Game
Screw green engines and automated driving. This is what I really want: Carcade, a system that captures the window landscape in real time to create gaming stages on the fly. Created by Andreas Nicolas Fischer, Martin Kim Luge and Korbinian Polk-three students at Berlin University of the Arts-Carcade opens the possibility to never-ending gaming, with … Continued
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Superman Has The Best of Days, The Worst of Days Today
Anyone picking up this week’s issue of Action Comics may want to prepare themselves for a couple of major changes to the status quo of Krypton’s final son. One of them may be familiar to those who’ve followed Superman’s career in other media (or even his career in comics before 1986), but the other… well, … Continued
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Tech NewsCinematographHD: Two Monitors In One Incredible Case Mod
When a video editor became depressed looking at his laptop, he did the only logical thing. He went to the garage, whipped out the welding torch and cooked himself up a portable system that could store a five-drive RAID0 array and two 22-inch monitors. Video is captured via unspecified HDMI-wielding video card and project output … Continued
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Tech NewsFisher-Price Doll Reprogrammed by Al-Qaeda
The hard-hitting investigative team at MyFox has just discovered the latest and greatest threat to national security and your children: Fisher-Price’s Little Mommy Real Loving Baby Cuddle & Coo Doll, which is sold across the country, has apparently been hijacked by Al-Qaeda to reprogram your children into followers of Allah! If you squint your ears, … Continued
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Ovetto Recycling Egg: Garbage of Tomorrow
We don’t know what travesties or revelations tomorrow will bring, but it will surely include the Ovetto Recycling Egg. A simple two-sided recycling bin allowing the separation of plastic and aluminum, you may be wondering, “why should I spend $250 on a fancy trash can?” And we could only assure you that this is no … Continued
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Killer Pics From Terminator 4, Earth Stood Still, Torchwood & Fringe!
New set pics from Terminator 4 and The Day The Earth Stood Still give you a sense of the kind of widespread military deployment went into both movies, but T4 shows more actual destruction. Speaking of which, some new images from the end of Torchwood season three and next week’s episodes of Fringe and Heroes … Continued
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A Safe So Complicated That No One Will Open It, Ever
We think the Band Saw Safe is as charming as safes come, with various arrows rotating to confound would-be thieves from opening the box. The only problem is, even after reading the description five times though, we still don’t fully understand how you actually open it. The 13 drawers of this band-saw box rotate rather … Continued
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Buy a Lego Life-Size Replica of Yourself for $60,000
Lego Artist Nathan Sawaya-one of the only six certified Lego professionals in the world, three in the US-will do a full-size scale Lego replica of yourself for $60,000. You just have to order it from Neiman Marcus, send some photographs, and Nathan will build your natural-size 8-bit version. Given his rates, that amount is quite … Continued
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Acer 14-inch, 16-inch Aspires Are Built for WiMAX
Now that the Baltimore’s XOHM network is up and running, companies are scrambling to release WiMAX-enabled notebooks to capitalize on faster-than-EVDO internet. One of the first out the door is Acer, with two new WiMAX sporting Aspires. The Aspire 4930 comes with a 14.1-inch 1280×800 resolution CrystalBrite screen, 3GB RAM, a 320GB hard drive, a … Continued
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Tuttuki Box Is Like an LCD Truck Stop Bathroom For Your Finger
Insert your finger into the Tuttuki Bako (Tuttuki Box) and you probably won’t feel much. Unless you look at the screen, you wouldn’t know that you were clumsily stoking a tiny panda, a small, terrified man or even a woman’s understandably unhappy face with an inappropriate-looking appendage. This lovely toy will superimpose a live digital … Continued
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Disney Sucks the Magic Out of Films With 120 Pages of Blu-Ray Legalese
Sleeping Beauty is Disney’s first classic animated film to make its way to Blu-ray, and it’s loaded with legitimately compelling BD-Live extra features. Format War Central tried to check these out, but got smacked with a 57 page EULA followed by a 63 page Privacy Policy before they could view any of them. Also upsetting: … Continued
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ThinkSecret Creator Returns to the Internet, Still Talking About Apple
Remember Nicholas Ciarelli, the precocious tween who started a successful Apple rumor blog only to have it shuttered by the company’s legal team? He’s now posting on the DailyBeast, and he’s got some interesting things to say about his favorite plaintiff: namely that since the negative PR resulting from Ciarelli’s case, Apple seems to have … Continued
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Wii Ski and Snowboard Uses Balance Board, Looks Amazing
It isn’t the first balance board-enabled ski game for the Wii, but it sure looks like it’ll be the best. With the weird and richly varied balance board hacks cropping up all over the place, it’s good — though late — for Nintendo to finally demonstrate a game that looks worthy of the device. [Kotaku]
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