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Tech NewsGadgetsCanon’s Printer-in-a-Bucket Selphy CP770 is One For The Kids
Canon’s new dye-sublimation photo printer is a departure from the boring old box designs: it’s basically a bucket, and is aimed at kids. The bucket part unclips, and is supposed to store wires and accessories rather than sand and a collection of worms. The printer itself is designed for easy operation, with big buttons, a … Continued
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Hitachi’s 2.5-Inch HDD Does 7200rpm Speeds With 5400rpm Power
Fujitsu might have been the first to introduce a 2.5″ 7200rpm hard drive with 320GB capacity, but Hitachi is hot on their trail. Today, Hitachi announced that they too have a quick lil’-drive, the Travelstar 7K320. The HDD will support the same SATA 3Gbps interface as the Fujitsu, but will supposedly use less power. With … Continued
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Behind the Xbox 360 Hard Drive’s Insane Price
You might not know this, but 120GB hard drives don’t actually cost $180. Unless they’re for the Xbox 360. The teardown fanatics at iSuppli attempted to find some method to this madness. As you can guess, the numbers don’t quite add up to $180, but it actually gets a lot closer than you’d think. Their … Continued
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Comcast Considering 250GB Monthly Data Caps, Disconnecting Repeat Pirates
Other than Time Warner’s single-city foray into monthly data caps, consumption-based billing has mostly been little ISPs with little monopolies, and given the market, we thought it’d stay that way. Broadband Reports is, uh, reporting that now Comcast is mulling monthly caps (which Comcast’s PR guy confirms, though not the details)—something like 250GB, and then … Continued
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The New Yorker on Simultaneous Invention and the Intellectual Ventures Laboratories
Malcolm Gladwell (smart guy, puffy hair) has a feature in this week’s The New Yorker about the history of simultaneous invention, the best example being Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray both patenting the telephone on the same day. There are many other examples, leading to the conclusion that “scientific discoveries must, in some sense, … Continued
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iPhone SDK Beta 5 Now Up: Bug Fixes, Updated OS Support
Besides supporting the latest iPhone OS version, beta 5 doesn’t do a whole lot else besides throwing in small tweaks to the UI, tweaks to the developers tools and some bug fixes. No big feature addition like last time, but you gotta update if you’re making iPhone apps. You just gotta! There probably won’t be … Continued
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Razer vs. SteelSeries PC Gaming Gear Battlemodo: Which One Made Me a Better Gamer?
Not to be a prick, but I’m a better gamer than probably 80 percent of you. At any given first-person shooter, I will probably kill you more than you kill me, and by a decent margin. The point is, I’m good—but I’m no pro. I’ve actually always been skeptical about “pro” gaming gear, and the … Continued
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A Desperate Light-Saber Battle On A Planet Of Sex Fiends
The most demented Italian Star Wars ripoff isn’t Star Crash or The Humanoid — it’s the XXX-rated The Beast In Space, which is also a quasi-sequel to 1975 supernatural bestiality epic The Beast… except in space this time. Newly on DVD, the Beast In Space has the laser gun fights and fake light sabre fights … Continued
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Hood.e Brings Speakers To Your Hoodie Hood
Tim Dubitsky’s Hood.e concept was originally intended as a safer way for his nephew to walk to school and listen to music at the same time. Apparently, his route takes him across busy streets which could be dangerous for someone wearing earbuds or headphones. With the speakers embedded in the hood, users can ditch the … Continued
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WiMax Joint Venture: Sprint, Clearwire, Comcast and Time Warner With $$$ from Google and Intel, Maybe Announced Tomorrow
Sprint and Clearwire are apparently set to do the almost unthinkable: Get WiMax off the ground. Fortune is reporting that Sprint and Clearwire are expected to announce as early as tomorrow the formation of a massive WiMax joint venture with Time Warner and Comcast. Intel and Google are rumored to be throwing money at the … Continued
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AT&T and Other Telcos Thinking of Skype Combatant?
Om writes about a report that AT&T and a group of major international telcos like British Telecom, Deutsche Telecom and NTT are thinking of making a free VoIP system. The reason for it is that voice is a “losing proposition” these days in the face of Skype and landline attrition. The system would eventually be … Continued
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The Largest Mega-Sentients In The Entire Universe
Are you ashamed of your size? You should be! Compared to Ego The Living Planet or Unicron the planet who turns into a giant robot, you’re not only puny and tiny, you’re kind of dumb as well. If there’s one thing that science fiction teaches us, it’s that you need a sun-sized brain to think … Continued
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LA Real Estate Mogul Plans To Light Up Your Life With Blade Runner Inspired Billboards
Being the businessman that he is, it wasn’t the movie Blade Runner that struck L.A. real estate mogul Sonny Astani, it was the animated billboards depicted in the opening sequence. In fact, the idea has had such a profound effect on him that he plans on making advertising in 2019 Los Angeles a reality ahead … Continued
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I Am Confused By This “War Heroes” Poster — Please Esplain?
I can’t figure out what the message is supposed to be behind this poster for a new comic book called War Heroes by Mark Millar, the scribe behind the pointed political series Civil War. Is it a pro-McCain poster? An ironic anti-McCain poster? An acknowledgment that Obama is realistic and therefore probably better at dealing … Continued
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Environmental Fascists Fight Gun-Loving Lesbians for Alien Technology
Two spies, one trained in the art of lying and the other in the art of reading people for signs of subterfuge, have been sent to steal alien technology from Amazonia, a planet ruled by man-enslaving lesbians. Our spies are emissaries from a male-dominated, interplanetary government ruled by ruthless artificial intelligences who enforce carbon neutrality … Continued
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Hulk Smash Electronic Fists: 1-Minute Catfight and Review
Clearly super-hero season is full on at this point, and the product is already in stores. Hasbro sent us two pairs of $20 Hulk Smash electronic action-sensitive talking fists. These are different from the old ones because a) they’re made by Hasbro, not Toy Biz b) are cloth, not foam and c) have one speaker, … Continued
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Palm Zeppelin and Skywriter Phones Coming in 2008?
Smartphone blog TamsPPC say they received an email from Palm regarding developer submissions for two devices codenamed Zeppelin and Skywriter.They suggest the Skywriter could be a Palm 500-style device with WinMo 6.1, and they posted possible mockup of what appears to be a dev unit. There were no facts provided about the Zeppelin, but TamsPPC … Continued
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Unlocked iPhones Putting Gadget Activation Company Out of Business
Hey, you there, with the unlocked iPhone. I bet you’re feeling pretty good about it, satisfied you’re totally getting over on the Death Star. But have you ever thought about the little(r) guy, the outside contractors doing the flooring, you might be screwing over? Cause you are. Synchronoss makes the activation magic happen for the … Continued
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World’s Tallest Lego Tower Reaches 10096.13-Foot Mark
Once again, the record for the world’s largest Lego tower has fallen. Last year, the Lego bricks towered 96 feet over Toronto. This year, in celebration of Lego’s 50th anniversary, participants at Legoland in Windsor, UK built a tower resembling a Viking longboat mast that managed to hit the 96.13-feet mark. [Metro and Daily Mail] … Continued
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