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Tech NewsAll Things Macworld 2008: Get it Right Here
Just in case you missed anything, here is all of the news from Macworld 2008: MacBook Air Full Coverage: • Details on the New MacBook Air • Hands on With the New MacBook Air • Hands on with the Apple Multitouch Gesture Pad • Adding a 64GB SSD To the MacBook Air? $1300 Extra, Please … Continued
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Macbook Air Parody Ad (Take One)
I can’t lie—as funny as every parody of the easy target the Macbook Air will be, I want one. Sure the computer’s sealed tighter than Jessica Alba’s underwear when the director pitches her a nude scene, but such technological chastity brings about a laptop that’s sexy without being pornographic and graceful/delicate without cracking in your … Continued
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Lego Master Completes 30-Pound Star Wars Starship Model
After a mammoth building session, Lego master Mark Kelso has just recently put the last brick on his model of the Invisible Hand, General Grevious’ ship from Star Wars Episode III. Yes, that photo of him and his model is to scale—it’s frickin’ massive. It took an equally massive 9 months to build too: The … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgets
NYC Installing Gigantic 120-Foot Waterfalls Under the Brooklyn Bridge, in the East River
While this image of a gigantic waterfall cascading down from beneath the Brooklyn Bridge looks like some wacky photoshop, it’s actually something that’s being installed this summer. A new art project will have four waterfall sculptures installed in New York City from mid-July to mid-October, spewing water from heights of 90 to 120 feet, or … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy & Security
Globalization and Its Malcontents: Mexico, India and Africa Will Be New Epicenters of Internet Crime
Computer viruses no longer come from the US or Europe; the hottest hotbeds of hackerdom may be in China and Russia now, but even that will shift. Soon, the most dangerous internet criminals might hail from Mexico, India and Africa, says a new study. Shouldn’t somebody call Nick Negroponte? Security specialists at F-Secure have drawn … Continued
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Sponsors Love Gold
We love coating our gadgets in gold, but our sponsors? Man, they LOVE gold. Gold plated shirts, gold plated socks, gold plated pants and even gold plated diapers are the name of the game with our sponsors. Luckily, they like to share. Thanks Ask.com, HP, MS eHome, Register.com, Sprint, TiVo, Toshiba, U2 3D, Windows, and … Continued
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Asus Already Looking to USB 3.0
USB 3.0 could take off fast. We believe that the connectors were shown for the first time publicly at this year’s CES, and at least one manufacturer is already working the spec into their laptops. Eagle-eyed scouts at The Register spotted two USB 3.0-like ports in the Asus’ M50 laptop. But it’s sort of complicated. … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgets
Cubic 4-Port Hub, USB Goes All Trendy Transformers
You could buy an ordinary 4-port USB hub and continue on your path to be a common, somewhat unremarkable human being. OR, you could buy this cubic 4-port hub and change your path to be a common, unremarkable human being who owns the most stylish USB device on the block. Your fate, your decision. But … Continued
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$70,000 Industrial Robot Modded to Fire Flameballs
Click to viewThere’s only one thing better than robots that can destruct things: robots that can destroy things and terrify people by firing flameballs, bowling balls, watermelons and bloody pig entrails at high speed. Like the Robopult, a gigantic $70,000 industrial robotic arm hacked to throw all these things like a Terminator version of Roger … Continued
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Gold and Diamond iPhone Case Stuns Us With Fugliness
In this week of Apple craziness, a hand-crafted 18K gold and carbon-fiber iPhone case studded with 3.5 carats-worth of diamonds definitely takes the biscuit. “Quantities are extremely limited” according to its manufacturer, and we say thank goodness—as we do wonder how many utter tools there are out there who’d want to wrap up a gorgeous … Continued
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Tech NewsArtificial Intelligence
New SaSi Sex Toy Gets Intelligent With Your Nether Regions
Its about time someone started applying machine intelligence to good things rather than the seemingly evil: the new JeJoue SaSi “personal massager” comes with built-in motion playlists and also actually learns what its lady likes in the way of sub-knicker action. And occasionally, just for kicks, it rocks a bit of freestylin’ to give you … Continued
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Mossberg Doesn’t Like the Asus Eee PC and I Can’t Blame Him
Click to viewWalter Mossberg has tested the Asus Eee PC, the small low cost computer that is the darling of some Linux lovers and assorted digital elves with EXP576. And while he says that it is a “valiant effort,” he clearly doesn’t like it for many reasons, even bringing the MacBook Air in his equation, … Continued
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About Time Clock Rolls Around Your Desk and Tells You the Hour
For those of you who can’t get their secretary to roll around their desk while telling you what time it is, SanderMulder’s About Time clock might fit the bill. Despite the fact that it doesn’t do other things that your PA might be able to do, such as make the tea, filter unwelcome calls, and … Continued
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Pistol Camera Makes Scorsese, De Niro and Pesci Happy
I don’t know if it is the shape, the black and silver steel contrast or the total retro feeling, but this point-and-shoot handgun and camera is just absolutely amazing. Sure, it’s not digital. And maybe not as useful as the Leica Gun. I don’t care. I’m in love. Bang bang, this baby shot me down. … Continued
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Touch-Enabled Asus Eee PC Coming Later this Year
The Asus Eee PC will get a touchscreen later this year, our favorite rumormongering Taiwanese paper says. “The second generation Eee PC will support 8-, 9- and 10-inch panels. The 9-inch panel versions will feature a touch panel,” said Digitimes’ sources, pointing at total added costs of under $15 per laptop. Looking at their sources … Continued
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Bubblegum Drum Sequencer Goes One Better, Has Edible Parts
If you liked the ball-bearing tangible drum sequencer the other day, you’ll love this: some students at UC Berkeley’s School of Information have created a similar device, this time combining computer imaging and bubblegum balls to create bangin’ tunes. Using a similar sort of hole-matrix, this version uses nifty software which detects the colour and … Continued
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Ripple-Mini PC Packs an Awful Lot of Computing into $132
Those Koreans sure do get spoiled on the technology front; check out Ripple’s Ripple-Mini PC, for example. The device, which will retail for a shockingly low €90 ($132), will pack in an Intel Celeron M215 (1.33GHz), 1GB RAM, SiS 662 North Bridge and SiS 964L South Bridge, all in a dinky 20x300x220mm, Mac mini-esque case. … Continued
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Greenhouse FM Transmitter Brings Music Streaming to Your Obese iPod nano
The fat, fun-loving iPod nano just got music streaming capabilities, all thanks to the Greenhouse FM transmitter. The streaming device looks rather swank, and is available in five complementing colors, including metallic black, silver, red, green and blue. It will allow you to chuck out your tunes to any free radio station, by tuning the … Continued
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Dell’s Aluminum Laptops Causing Electric Shocks?
The folks at CNET were surprised to discover that using some Dell laptops can result in electric shocks that “vary in strength from a gentle tingle to a sudden jolt.” They also noticed that the shocks occur when connecting peripherals to the laptops. It appears that the offending devices have been isolated to versions that … Continued
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Electric Mini Shoe City Complete With Godzilla…What?
Japanese footwear company Onitsuka Tiger is getting a major promotional boost thanks to this 1 meter long illuminated shoe developed by the folks at Freedom of Creation. The work is intended to “communicate Onitsuka Tiger’s Japanese roots” in the form of a highly detailed city-shoe. It has everything from billboards to buildings —and if you … Continued
By Sean Fallon