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Tech NewsSony Ericsson’s G705 Slider Handset Officially Official, with Google and YouTube
Sony’s just come up with the official word on its new G705 slider handset, and it’s not a bad looking gizmo at all. There’s a 2.4 inch TFT with auto-rotation, A-GPS, DLNA, quad-band GSM and AGPS, Bluetooth 2.0, FM radio, 3.2-megapixel camera with flash and a Java-based OS. The phone’s also got a full HTML … Continued
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iBikeConsole is Bicycle iPod Mount, Remote Controller, Trip Computer in One
Cycling and listening to an iPod can be pretty dangerous as the music masks the road sounds, and fiddling with the controls can have you veering all over place: iBikeConsole is designed to help with some of that. It’s a handlebar iPod nano mount that houses your PMP in a shock and rain-proof case, and … Continued
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Hitch Suction-Cup Belt Lets You Catch Free Rides, Dice with Death
Mixing suction-cups with the chance of a high-speed death: sounds like fun, and exactly what designer Robert Nightingale has come up with in his “Hitch” concept. It’s a smidge like the free-ride skateboard Kouriers in Snow Crash and a smidge like bad building-climbing gear from B-movies. The idea of Hitch is simply to sucker onto … Continued
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Plastic Logic Reader Looks Like Kindle Killer
Here is what the clunky Amazon Kindle should have been since the beginning: a simple, ultra-sleek full-page 8.5-inch by 11-inch electronic book and newspaper reader with a flexible plastic touchscreen, Wi-Fi connectivity, and the ability to read regular Office documents without conversion of any kind. As we said yesterday, Plastic Logic showed it at the … Continued
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Sony Has Upgrade Frenzy: Tweaks many Vaio PCs, Including A-Series Mega Laptop
We brought you a three new Vaios last week, but Sony Japan seems to be in the mood to tweak much of the rest of its Vaio line of laptops and desktops. There are new machines in the A-series, C-series, L-series and R-series. The RT50 is aimed at professional users, labeled “photo edition,” with an … Continued
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LG VX9600, Little Brother to the Dare, Passes FCC Testing
LG’s VX9600 has finally gotten the go-ahead from the FCC and may appear on Verizon shelves everywhere soon. Though information is scarce, the phone will have Bluetooth, an MP3 player, a 2 megapixel camera and a 3-inch 480×240 pixel TFT touchscreen. Verizon is allegedly planning to market it as a lower-end, and thus cheaper, version … Continued
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Brando USB Pumpkin Lights are Actually Cubicle-Worthy
I have an allergy to all gimmicky USB things, but these USB Halloween Pumpkin LED lights are actually cubicle-worthy, especially seeing how they all look with the lights off. Unfortunately, the $13 8-pumpkin lights package has some problems. Why not use normal electric plugs? Why waste all that energy when the lights are off and … Continued
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Sony Ericsson Planning to Offer Unlimited Music Service
Following on the heels of its main rival Nokia, Sony Ericsson’s allegedly also planning an unlimited music downloading service for its Walkman-branded cellphones. According to the Financial Times, Sony Ericsson is in discussions with all major labels about a rival tunes subscription service. The company is purportedly hoping to announce its all-you-can-eat music product before … Continued
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Google Digitizing Newspaper Archives, Online Microfilm Searching Forthcoming
News junkies rejoice! Google has begun scanning microfilm from various newspapers’ historic archives to make them searchable online, further pushing libraries towards obsolescence (just kidding, i think). The searches can be had first through Google News, and will eventually be available on every papers’ own website. Much like its book project, Google will shoulder the … Continued
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AT&T U-Verse Update Now Allowing DVR on 8 TV Sets At Once
In an attempt to one-up Verizon’s FiOS, AT&T has finally rolled out a new software update for its U-verse service that’ll let subscribers watch recorded shows on up to eight different TV sets. FiOS only offers multiroom DVR for seven different televisions currently. The feature is already available in San Francisco and nearby subscriber cities, … Continued
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Verayo RFID Chips Use “Electronic DNA” to Make Them “Unclonable”
Here’s a challenge to hackers everywhere if I’ve ever heard one-a company named Verayo claims to have created an RFID chip that’s completely unclonable thanks to a type of electronic DNA technology called Physical Unclonable Functions (PUF). Unlike basic passive RFID chips, where data can be easily copied from one chip to another, Verayo’s PUF-fy … Continued
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Zune 3.0 Feature Videos Show Off Software, FM Buying, Music Recommendations
Click to viewThe official Zune 3.0 details we saw earlier today are now visible in video form, showing off purchasing from FM, Wi-Fi music store and channels, which recommends music to you based on what you already listen to. Three more clips where this one came from. [MSN Video]
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Sony Switching Battery Life Scoring Method, No Longer Advertising Wildly Misleading Numbers
Sick and tired of never getting even close to the 10 to 12 hours of battery life advertised by PC companies on your laptop? Sony hears you, and is taking pains to improve at least one thing about their power packs. No, not the overheating factor, though they say they’ve got that somewhat under control … Continued
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Eee PC 1000H Price Drops Even Lower; $450 on Amazon, $360 on MWave
In case Asus’ $100 price drop in July just wasn’t enough to make up your mind on whether to spring for a new Eee PC 1000H, the mini-marvel’s gotten even cheaper now. Amazon is selling an 80GB, XP-equipped 1000H for just $450. Mwave also has several in stock for either $450 (while supplies last) or, … Continued
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Google Patents Floating Server Farm Powered By OCEAN WAVES
Who in the hell do Google think they are? The goddamn Dharma Initiative? Slashdot readers dug up this 2007 patent for a server farm system, which uses wave power buoys to run a bunch of machines on the boat they’re attached to. Though somewhat similar to one of the stations on LOST, this patent’s purpose … Continued
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Esquire’s E-Ink Cover Dissected, Circuit Boards and Microcontrollers Found (Surprise!)
Though it’s no huge shock to find out what’s behind Esquire’s recent E-Ink cover, it’s always fun to look at the postmortem pics. Phil over at MAKE took the magazine cover apart, and in addition to the E-Ink display, found lithium cells, printed circuit boards, and flash-programmable microcontrollers, which could be partially hacked or reprogrammed. … Continued
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Uniqlo Wakamaru Robot Shopping Guide Is Afraid of Americans
We took a trip down to Uniqlo to see how the American invasion of their Wakamaru shopping robot was faring. Not so well. Bewildered by the bustling crowd scurrying around against booming techno music, it had to be led around by hand and had trouble understanding our bizarre alien language. When our intern asked, “Where … Continued
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Spider Attack Simulator: An Excuse For Scientists to Torture Bees
I don’t know what’s going on over the pond, but it appears that September is robot spider month in the UK. First we saw the 50 foot robot spider that terrorized Liverpool, and now researchers from Queen Mary, University of London have developed a spider attack simulator that helps determine how bees avoid camouflaged predators. … Continued
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Dealzmodo: $100 Off Refurbed iPod Touches, $50 Off Nanos from Apple Store
If you don’t care about having the absolute newest, schmanciest iPod—and really, there’s nothing wrong with the current lineup even after new ones probably come out tomorrow—and just want a solid deal on one, the Apple Store’s clearing out its stock of refurbished iPod touches and nanos at “special prices.” Which is $50 off of … Continued
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Tikitag RFID Tagging System Makes an Internet Out of Your Stuff
Ideas like this have been tossed around for some time now, but Alcatel-Lucent’s “tikitag” unveiled at the DemoFall conference may finally make the idea of everyday RFID tagging possible. For example, you could put tikitags on business cards and connect that card to online personal or social networking info. After that, the data could be … Continued
By Sean Fallon