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Tech NewsPeek Wireless Email Device Goes On Sale, Still Cheap as Hell
The surprisingly well-liked cheap Peek email handheld is ready for pre-order on its own site, at $100, plus unlimited use on T-Mobile for $20/month. It may be low-fi, but anything that works consistently well doing a straightforward but important task for a fairly low price has a place at my table. The only catch is—and … Continued
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Brando’s Traffic Prompters Bring Out Your Inner Frank Drebin
Brando’s Traffic Prompters are cheap at $16 per light and are meant to promote highway safety. You can even combine a red one with a blue atop your car to emphasize your state of emergency. Just don’t be surprised when you’re busted for impersonating a police officer. The powerful magnets at the base of these … Continued
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Portable Gadget Charger Concept Gets Its Own Juice from Your Bike Ride
So here’s the idea for the OHM portable device charger—you attach a few neodymium magnets to your back bike rim, place the dynamo on the underside of your seat so it has a direct line with the magnets, and thanks to the process of electromagnetic induction, it will begin collecting power each time the wheel … Continued
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Philips To Use Vibration Know-How To Make Vibrators (Sonicooch?)
Philips is planning on using its technological know-how gained by making some of the best electric toothbrushes out there in making a “massager” called the Warm Intimate Massager designed for couples in the UK. Philips’ consumer business is supposedly not doing so hot, but if anyone can design a £89 ($157) marital aid we hope … Continued
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Micro Master HG3 R/C Mini-Copter Features Proximity Sensors
Japanese toy maker Taiyo Corp has unveiled an R/C mini-chopper fitted with a proximity sensor that forces the device to descend when it hovers too close to the ceiling. A feature like that makes sense for novice users, and it appears to have 3-channel control, but beginners probably have more to worry about than just … Continued
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New V-Moda Vibe and Vibe Duo Jacks Mean Fewer Dead Headphones (Hopefully)
If you check out the ratings for V-Moda’s Vibe or Vibe Duo headsets at Amazon or Apple, they’re kinda crappy, bogged down a tons of complaints that they die fast. After an “unacceptable” rate of returns, V-Moda is acknowledging that the jack is behind the genocide and quietly launching a redesigned, reinforced one that’ll hit … Continued
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MC Hammer Takes Time from His Busy Schedule to Play with Microsoft Surface
MC Hammer was out of commission for a while there but he appears to be back in big way. First we saw him in a full-on parody for Monday Night Football, and now he has been spotted enjoying the Microsoft Surface at the TechCrunch 50 conference. If I were the one wearing Hammer Pants in … Continued
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Lego Windmill Going on eBay for a Cool $1,700
Remember the two-foot-tall Lego Vestas Windmill? It’s huge and awesome. Well, if you want one, there are currently two available on eBay. That’s the good news! The bad news is that the starting bids are a bananas $1,000 and $1,700. For a Lego set. I know Lego sets are cool and everything, but no Lego … Continued
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iPhone Snaps and Saves a Recoverable Screengrab With Every Home Button Press
So said Jonathan Zdziarski in his O’Reilly webcast today, in which he also demoed a way around the iPhone passcode lock, as promised. To achieve that zoomy minimizing effect every time you press the home button (i.e., every time you finish reading your text messages, emails, web history, contacts-think how many times you press that … Continued
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Best Look at the BlackBerry Javelin Yet
Our last peek at the BlackBerry Javelin—the Boldish phone that’ll replace the Curve—was kind of assy, but we’ve got some fresh and crispy shots that really show off just how cheap and ugly it makes the Curve look. (It’s the one on the left, BTW.) If you like what you see, you’ve got almost a … Continued
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Netflix Origami Folds Out the Trash
Even with Netflix’s reusable mailers, the little torn-off panels begin to add up. Of course, you could just throw these away. Or if you’re a bit more pretentious about it, you could recycle them and tell the whole block what a fantastic recycler you are—after all, some people just throw these things away. Or, if … Continued
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Question of the Day: How Often Do You Upgrade Your Laptop?
We have talked about updating your cellphone in the past, but after witnessing the excitement surrounding a possible MacBook event on October 14th, I began to wonder whether or not there are a lot of people out there that buy a new laptop every year. After all, for most of us frequently updating a laptop … Continued
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Scan Toaster Prints Text, Photos From the Internet onto Your Bread
If you are the kind of person who rushes around in the morning, but always makes the time for toast, you will love the Scan Toaster printer concept by designer Sung Bae Chang. Details are scarce, but we do know that it connects to the internet via USB and is capable of printing images or … Continued
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Large Hadron Collider Has Black Hole Button
Though the Large Hadron Collider didn’t kill us when those crazy CERN scientists closed their eyes, said a prayer, recited a few theorems and switched it on for the first time, the secret is that it could have killed us. When they built the collider, the scientists installed a black-hole creation button. (The button is … Continued
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Tech News280,951 Post-its Create Spectacular Army of Slinkies
Eepybird, the same company that brought you a series of professional level Diet Coke and Mentos clips, have created an equally if not more remarkable video of 280,951 Post-its submitting to gravity while simultaneously creating some sort of new genre of office art. It’s worth a click…and then another. [via Geekologie]
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Apple Backdating Suit Settled, Jobs and Co,’s Insurance Will Pay Apple $14 Million
Steve and the gang already threw a party when the last federal investigator on the stock backdating case filed out of 1 Infinite Loop (“Hey, you forgot your 5-year old Thinkpad! Haha, suckers!”). But now, the remaining civil suits that were still active have been settled (with no admission of wrongdoing) for $14 million, all … Continued
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A Microsoft Product Manager’s Vista Confessions
Maximum PC has a very long article on the failures of Vista, which culminates in a “frank conversation” with an anonymous Windows Product Manager. Of course, he says the errors are all in the past, that they are all fixed now. Or are they? • Instability thanks to bad GPU and/or printer drivers by third … Continued
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Creative Patent Looks Like an Internet Tablet, Digital Camera and More!
This newly discovered patent by Creative, whether actually in production or not, looks like a pretty neat device. Because from what we can make out from the diagrams, it appears to be much more than just a another media player. Internet tablet seems to make sense, with that right oval on the side being a … Continued
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Put the Final Nail in Steampunk’s Coffin Using Photoshop
Let’s face it: steampunk is dead. It used to be pretty cool, but we’ve seen enough normal gadgets covered in leather and brass to last a lifetime. It’s no longer new or interesting, and until someone makes a functioning airship, I don’t care about steampunk anymore. Let’s celebrate the life of steampunk while confirming its … Continued
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Bike Speaker Shows the World that This Biker Really Loves Chingy
Speakers on bikes always seemed like kind of a bad idea to me. I mean, it’s the equivalent of being one of those guys who drives around with a huge sound system. The music isn’t for you, it’s for everyone you drive past. You want them to know how cool you are for the music … Continued
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