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Tech NewsiPod Touch Has Identity Crisis, Wishes It Were an iPhone
Hell-bent to cover every single detail of the iPod touch, now we bring you a careless mistake Apple made when transferring iPhone software over to the iPod touch, giving the little iPhone clone an identity crisis when you enter the wrong password into it after you’ve locked it. We’re also hearing the touch thinks it … Continued
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Triops Camera Takes Panoramic Shots, Reacts to Sound and Motion
This Triops Camera may not be the best device ever invented for family portraits, but with its three lenses and sound-activated trigger, it might be able to snag some of the weirdest-looking photos you’ve ever seen. Made specifically for shooting panoramas and odd shot sequences, apparently you can slam the sucker into the wall and … Continued
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Skull PCB Bracelet Brings Back High School Memories
A Livejournal user with the lovely moniker “vomitsaw” has crafted some equally lovely skull bracelets from copper printed circuit boards, which are etched by hand and sport AV plug fasteners. Apparently there’s been enough interest in these very ’80s ornaments to lure the goth/geek (geek/goth?) craftsman into the possibilities of entrepreneurship, so look for them … Continued
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Gun Hairdryer Kills Wet Hair, Self-Respect
If I were a pretty boy and owned a blow-dryer, I’d probably pick up this one, since it looks like a revolver. A froo-froo revolver with a baby blue (or pink) handle and flowery etchings, but hey, a gun’s a gun. Except you know, when it’s a blow-dryer. This rugged, questionably manly grooming accessory goes … Continued
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Laser-Holography (1979)
This image appears in the 1979 book Future Cities: Homes and Living into the 21st Century. The magic of laser-holography, a new technique which creates 3-D pictures apparently out of thin air, could result in business conferences like the one shown above. On the left the heads of a branch office have just come in … Continued
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Dash Express Next-Gen GPS Navigator Gets Official Look and Launch Schedule (Gallery)
If you want to know what the next big move in navigation will look like, it’s the Dash Express, shown here for the first time in its final design. The wireless net-connected GPS is just about through with its successful national road beta test (which many of you have participated in) and it’s on track … Continued
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Japanese Underwear With a Banana Up Front (Not That I Need Something Like This)
So these are some Halloween costumes from Japan that have front-mounted, alternative-universe, male packages in the form of a banana, worm, bouquet of flowers or matchstick. What makes this funny is that I’m pretty sure Japan doesn’t even celebrate Halloween. I wonder if they can custom-make these things. I can think of about a dozen … Continued
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NosePouch: The Next Generation Handkerchief
The last time we saw anyone used a handkerchief was our dad when we were six, but this NosePouch seems to be as good an incentive as any to bring back the old pocket cloth. Instead of being made of one piece of flat material, the NosePouch has a little fold—or pouch—in the middle to … Continued
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iPhone Hacker Challenge: Make the iPhone Work With Nike+ Sport Kit
Dear Hackers: Here’s a personal challenge from me, Jason Chen. Make the iPhone work with the Nike+ Sport Kit. The current status now, when you plug the adapter into the iPhone, is a message that reads, sadly “This accessory is not supported by iPhone.” I can understand why Apple made the decision to make the … Continued
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BMW M3 Gets Its Own Racing Game
It’s no series of short films starring Clive Owen directed by film auteurs (minus Guy Ritchie), but BMW’s Virtual M3 Challenge is the latest way the car maker’s showing off how great their Bimmers are. The M3 Coupe game lets you pick cockpit, bonnet, bumper and chase-cam views, as well as configuring your car by … Continued
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Video: PSP Slim Load Times Are Incredibly Improved
Remember the complaint about PSP load times being somewhere between atrocious and genocidal? It looks like Sony wasn’t kidding when they said they improved load times in the new version, as seen in this video of Final Fantasy Crisis Core. The one on the right is the PSP Slim, the one on the left is … Continued
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Bankabank Piggy Bank Looks Fashionably Round
Way less insane than the Robotic Piggy Bank we showed you before, this Bankabank piggy bank is made out of soft PVC and holds your coins in a nice, round, eye-pleasing container. No longer do you have to fill up sandwich bags, socks, and duct-taped bra halves in order to make the trek down to … Continued
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Tech NewsVOCALOID 2: The Japanese Anime Song Generator
Think Garageband for otakus. This Japanese software suite lets you plug in lyrics and melody and generates an “authentic-sounding” song via its music and vocal synthesizers. As you can see above, the software features a 16-year- old “Virtual Singer,” which croons out whatever disgustingly sweet (or just disgusting) lyrics you enter in (Japanese only, we’re … Continued
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Short and Sweet SSH Guide for the iPhone
Click to viewAlthough using iBrickr or iFuntastic to get files and applications on and off your iPhone is fine, it’s sort of a pain to have to dock it every single time you’ve got a new NES ROM you want to play. There’s an easier way thanks to SSH, the remote command line tool that … Continued
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Sushi-Rolling Toy From Bandai Namco
Bandai Namco isn’t content on making weapon-based fighters for your game console, so they’ve delved into the sushi chef training business as well. this automatic sushi roller is the perfect toy for kids who are training to become a world renowned sushi shelf, as it rolls them up neatly and conveniently. It’s also a good … Continued
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Comcast Elaborates Slightly on Unlimited Cable Internet Caps: 90GB to 150GB
Although Comcast advertises an unlimited cable-internet use policy, many heavy downloaders have run into an invisible cap, which triggers a call from Comcast’s Security Department that flags their account for excessive use. The second time this happens, you’re booted altogether—under the reason of hampering connection quality for your neighbors. The number 300GB has been tossed … Continued
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World’s Most Expensive Chair Looks Like an Uncomfortable Metal Jelly Bean
This “lounger” composed of aluminum and fiberglass is to set go for between $1.6 million and $2.4 million at auction next month at Christie’s in London. While The Sun’s headline proclaims the chair to be a “million pounds of comfort,” the key word in the “fluid aluminum form” envisioned by its designer, Marc Newson, is … Continued