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Tech NewsRussian Low-Tech Shoe Box PC Mod
Here’s a wacky yet completely useless computer mod that comes to us all the way from Russia. Built out of a shoe box, it’s supposed to stand in contrast to all the high-end fancy PC mods that we see all the time. That’s nice and all, but a shoe box? We were afraid of these … Continued
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Russian Mouse Made of Space Technology
I probably wouldn’t use one of these for my day-to-day mousing, but I gotta say, for a homemade mouse, these mice ain’t that bad looking. They’re wireless, they come with their own USB receiver, and you can even get them dressed up in leather. What I don’t get is what kind of space materials Russian … Continued
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Russian Coffin Buries You with Panic Button
Ever since we saw The Serpent and the Rainbow as a little kid, we’ve had this unnatural fear of being buried alive. Well, a Russian inventor by the name of Vitaly Malyukov must have watched the same movie cause he’s designed a casket with a built-in panic button that lets you contact the living in … Continued
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Russia Plans Floating Nuke Plant, Thousands of Fish Protest
It won’t be ready till 2010, but Russian nuclear energy company Rosenergoatom is planning to build a $200-million mobile plant to bring electricity to the hard-to-reach territories near the White Sea. The football field-size barge will have two reactors and be launched/floated toward a port near the mainland where it’d be connected to power lines … Continued
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Micro Bluetooth Earpiece: Smaller Than a Dime, Spytastic, Handmade
This Bluetooth headset is smaller than a dime, and small enough to be carried away by an ant. The thing is about 6mm by 5mm by 10mm. Ridica-malous! And could easily get lost in your ear. There’s even a detachable buzzer, for simple communication with your poker card counting buddies, or friends across the room … Continued
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Pantech PG-2800 Finger Writing Phone
The SVIAZ Expo trade fair in Russia is host to a fair number of cellphone introductions this week, one of which is the Pantech PG-2800 finger writing recognition phone, particularly well-suited for entering Chinese or Russian text. It’s a tri-band clamshell handset with a 2-inch 260K color screen, a 1.3-megapixel camera, an external memory card … Continued
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Spyrock: From Russia With Love
Russia is accusing the Brits of placing “spy gadgets” inside of fake rocks. From the looks of it, James Bond used some kind of handheld PDA to beam data to the inside of a fake rock. The Russian counterparts would, presumably, then upload the data from the rock using a similar PDA-like device. There is … Continued
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Russia Gets A Black Nokia 8800
Apparently in Russia, you can have the dopest borsch in town but you won’t be a real player without a dope cellphone. So Nokia has taken notice of the rising fashion-phone market in Russia and has released a black Nokia 8800. Basically, it’s the same as the 8801 here in the states—sexy slider phone BUT … Continued
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