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Tech NewsComing Soon: Add Friends From Mobile Xbox Live Apps
Right now, you can check out what your Xbox Live friends are up to from your phone, but you can’t actually manage your friends list from any of the mobile Live apps (and Xbox Live Anywhere has gone MIA again). But the developer of one of the better ones, 1337pwn, says that Microsoft has made … Continued
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Tech NewsCardboard Twitter Robot Will Read Out Loud How Big Your Poop Is and Be Sad About It
The Ganzbot is a cardboard robot built with an Arduino Decima that can read incoming Twitter feeds and show emotions as it reads them out loud—like happiness when you tweet you a got date, or soul-crushing depression when she stands you up—based on the mood you tell it to be in. You can build one … Continued
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Cigarette Umbrella Keeps Tobacco Torch Dry
If there were only a market for such intricate and fantastical smoking devices, maybe even I could become a Marlboro man. Who knew my smoking habits would so closely mirror those of English clowns from the 1930s? [Modern Mechanix via boingboing]
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Wrist Watchscale, For When You Really Need to Weigh Small Stuff
The spoon-scales from a while back we called “perfect for dieters and dealers” because of the spoon part, but with this wristwatch scale… Well, it’s just convenient for when you really, really need to weigh small quantities of stuff right then and there. Makers Jennings call it “The first Pocket WatchScale ever” and it measures … Continued
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Wooden Earbuds Would Make for a Nasty Splinter
If traditional iPod-white earbuds are a good way to yell “mug me!” we guess that wooden earbuds might send the message “I could be so cheap that I fashioned my iPod from a tree so I probably have no money in my wallet.” From Radius, the HP-WCF11M earphones feature 10mm neodymium drives with 18Hz-21,000Hz frequency … Continued
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Suunto X10 GPS Watch is Basically Perfect for Tomb Raiding
Suunto has just added to its range of GPS watches with the new X10, but this gizmo doesn’t just do navigation and time-telling. It’s also got an altimeter function, barometer, digital compass and thermometer: Exactly the sort of equipment any self-respecting real tomb raider would find darn useful.Even better, the X10 has an improved GPS … Continued
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Video: BlackBerry Bold vs. iPhone Web Browser Showdown (It Gets Ugly)
Click to view We’ve seen the BlackBerry Bold and iPhone head-to-head before, as well as the Bold’s greatly improved browsing powers over past BlackBerrys, but not side-by-side in a web browser race. It actually gets pretty ugly, uglier than we thought it would. Update: So it looks like in Mobile Computer’s test the Bold was … Continued
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Intel Says They’ve Taken A Huge Leap in Wireless Power Tech
Wireless power for charging gadgets has been among the more vaporous of developments we’ve been hearing promises of for years. While there are a few working instances of the tech on the market, its large-scale adoption still feels miles away. So the appropriate skepticism should be applied to this NY Times report claiming Intel will … Continued
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Gates and Seinfeld to Answer Apple’s PC vs Mac Ads
Microsoft is going to start a new $300 million advertising blitz to try to regain some of the street credibility they have been losing over all these years. The campaign is built around the idea that “Windows breaks down barriers that prevent people and ideas from connecting.” Sounds like corporate PR-puffing, but there’s a twist: … Continued
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Tech NewsCompletely Unimpressive Robot Already Developing Bender Attitude
One day, robots will whiz by us one one wheel at 1000mph while solving absurd equations that would take us lifetimes to calculate. But that day has not yet come. So when a robot with coordination no better than a toddler starts trash-talking its humanoid accomplice, you know we’re in for a painful and degrading … Continued
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RadioShack Flyer Indicates Xbox 360 Price Cuts on Elite, Arcade Systems
The Xbox 360 price cut rumors we’ve been hearing for September look to be gathering even more steam, as this RadioShack ad shows drops to $399 for the Elite system and $199 for the Arcade. That’s down $50 on the Elite and $80 on Arcade, making your choices a nice smooth progression of Benjamins-$199/$299/$399. The … Continued
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WowWee Femisapien On Sale Now
For those of you looking for your first taste of a female robot that will do your bidding, the $99 WowWee Femisapien is on sale now at WowWee’s site and major retailers like Target and Amazon. What’s super cool about this robot is that you can program its movements, essentially, with a touch of a … Continued
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Leaked Shot Of HTC Touch Diamond Shows CDMA Version Ate All the Pies
Over at BoyGeniusReports is this leaked shot of what’s allegedly the CDMA version of HTC’s fabby Touch Diamond cellphone. And oh boy, oh boy… that’s one phone that’s not been on a diet: compared to the GSM version sitting on top of it it’s one big ugly fat fellow. Apparently it’s actually “more comfortable to … Continued
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Olympus Adds to Mju Range of Digital Cams with Mju 1060
Olympus has just augmented the Mju range of point-and-shoot digital cams with the new 1060 model. It seems no slouch for a small pocket camera: It’s a 10-megapixel shooter, with a 7x optical zoom and “Dual Image Stabilization” to reduce blur. Plus it’s got an new intelligent mode that auto-detects the five most commonly used … Continued
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Bloo Balls Custom PC Case Mod is a Whole New Kind of Punk
This custom case mod made for Bit-Tech is just eye-grabbingly bizarre… from the outside alone. Built by a guy called Craig, Bloo Balls was over a year in the making, which included and a whole lot of careful design, redesign and fabrication. There’s a mass of careful plexiglass-carving in there, including a hand-made, custom-crafted liquid … Continued
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Sony Ericsson’s TM506 3G Handset on T-Mobile is Official
At the start of last month we mentioned that Sony Ericsson’s TM506 would be coming to T-Mobile as the first HSDPA handset, and now it’s official. Out early September at “select T-Mobile retail stores and online.” Price still to be announced. [SonyEricsson]
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QuickPwn for Windows Now Supports iPhone OS 2.0.2
If you want to upload to the latest 2.0.2 version of the iPhone operating system, and you have a PC, check out the new QuickPwn for Windows, which now supports it. Yippee Kai Yay and all that. Mac users, hold on because they are working on the Mac version too. Until then, you can always … Continued
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Tomtom’s Pro 4000 and 8000 GPS Units Come with Support Package
Tomtom has just come up with a suite of GPS systems for the “mobile workforce” dubbed the Pro series. The first units are the Pro 4000 and Pro 8000, and while the hardware is essentially unchanged from non-Pro models, there are a few tweaks. Firstly the software has a “menu lock” option, that’s supposed to … Continued
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KDDI’s Concept Cellphone is Half Transformer, Half Musical Box
The KDDI AU Design Project bunch over in Japan have stumped up with this latest concept phone for music cellphones of the future. And it blends two things we like a Giz: funky cellphone tech and Transformers. In fact Box To Play is less “robot in disguise,” and more “hi-fi in disguise” because when it’s … Continued
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Logitech Speed Force Wireless Is First Racing Wheel For Wii
As its name implies, the Logitech Speed Force Wireless is a force feedback racing wheel for the Wii with a 30 ft wireless range. It is the first racing wheel accessory for the Wii that isn’t a shell accessory for the Wiimote. The 10″ wheel rotates 200 degrees and has analog gas and brake controls. … Continued