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Guitar/headphone interface for iPhone

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The slew of music recording / creation apps for the iPhone all share the same weakness. They rely on the internal microphone, and a recording quality microphone it is not. The Guitarbud from PRS Guitars gives you a direct input into your iDevice without taking away headphone capability.

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Cellphone inventor switches from iPhone to Droid

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Early cellphone pioneer Marty Cooper has admitted both in a C-SPAN interview (video below) and on Twitter that he has at least temporarily switched from an iPhone to a Motorola Droid.

JooJoo tablet tips up at FCC with 3G, NVIDIA Ion

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The FCC in a filing published Thursday has revealed a number of longstanding mysteries about the JooJoo tablet. Despite Fusion Garage being reluctant to explain the hardware in detail before launch, its pre-release manual shows the device using an NVIDIA Ion chipset.

Diamantini & Domeniconi

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I love these clocks by Diamantini & Domeniconi, especially their cuckoo clock.

Virgin Galactic Lands Legal Protection Against Space Tourists

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Enter at your own risk--or so should read a sign on the door of every passenger spaceship in the future.Space tourism operators like Virgin Galactic have won a legal reprieve against potential litigation by surviving family members in the event of passenger injuries or death during flight,...

The Big Rethink: Design driven innovation

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Roberto Verganti: Changing the rules of competition by radically innovating what things mean Roberto is Professor of Management and innovation at Politecnico di Milano and author of Design-driven Innovation He talked to us about the importance of meaning. Meaning as a way of innovating.

The Big Rethink: The challenge to business

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First session: How the change imperative will continue to shake business in the next three years The Big Rethink has officially begun.

TiVo will be offered by Virgin Media in UK later this year

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One of the three points I laid out as TiVo’s keys to survival was to partner with more content providers. And just like that, Virigin Media announced it will be offering TiVo set-top boxes to its 3.8 million subscribers sometime this year.

First screenshots of Medal of Honor sure do look familiar…

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Fresh from EA, here’s the very first screenshots of Medal of Honor, currently scheduled for release this fall. It’s quite modern, if you catch my drift. The game was on display at the same EA event where Jimin and I played FIFA World Cup 2010 last week.

Pink Floyd wins ruling, bans single-song downloads

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Pink Floyd in a UK court on Thursday won a key ruling in its case against EMI for allegedly breaking its contract terms. The quick turnaround would prevent the music label from selling any Pink Floyd songs as individual downloads without permission from the band.

Casio G’zOne Brigade official for Verizon

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The rugged Casio G'zOne Brigade handset introduced by Verizon last fall is now on sale at the carrier. The water-, dust- and shock-resistant phone meets the MIL-STD-810F standard for toughness.

GDC 2010: Canabalt postmortem

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Filed under: Gaming, Software, Other Events, iPhone, App Store "What kinds of games do you like?" Adam "Atomic" Saltsman asked of his panel audience at the Canabalt postmortem during the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco.

Smarter saw blades

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Final Cut isn't just the name of video editing software. A Missouri-based company by the same name produces these brilliant saw blades, which have a simple why-didn't-I-think-of-that addition that cuts your workload in half: sandpaper discs adhered to the side.

Because We Can’s gi-normous benches made from reclaimed lumber

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The husband-and-wife team of designers Jeffrey McGrew and Jillian Northrup are the force behind Because We Can, a design-build company that specializes in sustainable interior design and custom furniture.

Meet Civ V: The cities have health bars

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I think Gagan is at GDC but he’s clearly not getting the good meetings. Firaxis is showing off Civ V and Kotaku has a nice run down, including a few new features. For starters, your opponents have definite AI based on their strengths and weakness.

Comcast Usage Meter: I am using how much #$%#$ data?

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Section: Computers, Desktops, Hardware, Software / Applications, Wireless, Web, Websites This morning, Comcast turned on the Usage Meter for broadband services for some users in the Northeast. Comcast’s 250GB data usage cap looks to be forming some teeth to go after those that bust the...

Mask with built in loudspeaker

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Steampunk leather mask with built in loudspeaker by Bob Basset.

Hands-On with the Crippled Stantum Slate PC

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The Slate PC, from French multi-touch company Stantum, is essentially a Dell Inspiron Mini 10 netbook with the keyboard chopped off and a multi-touch screen grafted on. It runs Windows 7. It is also proof that a desktop OS should never be forced onto a tablet computer.

Barnes & Noble prepping eReader for iPad

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Barnes & Noble on Thursday said it was developing a version of its eReader app just for the iPad. Unlike the split approach to the regular iPhone feature, which breaks up the reader and storefront, the iPad version should provide both the store and the reader in the same software.

Disney turns its Monorail into huge Tron light cycles

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Tron Legacy is nerds wet dream come true. The movie will hopefully invoke the same sort of futuristic imagination as the original. You’ve watched the trailer, right? Well, anyway, to gear up for the premiere, Disney has skin a couple of its monorails to look like the light cycles.

Elgato EyeTV Hybrid: Smaller, Works With Windows 7

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Analog TV was shut off in Barcelona [UPDATE: the analog TV is inexplicably still on] yesterday, so today seems a perfect time to mention the new miniature Elgato’s EyeTV Hybrid.

Kids and Gadgets: How Young Is too Young?

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If you've ever seen a child with his or her own cell phone and wondered, "What age are kids getting their own phones nowadays?," then here's the answer.

My Printer Is Possessed

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That is the only logical explanation left. All of a sudden, it has decided that each sheet of paper is approximately six sheets thick, thus it grabs that many to print. Of course, that many won’t go through the machine, so it jams.

Verizon 4G Handset Promised for Summer 2011

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Verizon are going to be launching 4G services starting sometime in the middle of 2011. The new LTE handsets will have data connections that run faster than 3G and be capable of giving users fast access to file downloads on streaming video.Devices that could use the services were on show at CES this...

Review: Knights of Charlemagne card game is simply simple, and we like it like that

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Filed under: iPhone, iPod touch, App Review The clever 2006 card game Knights of Charlemagne has made it to the iPhone and iPod touch as a simple little number placing app [$1.99, iTunes link]. We don't mean simple in that it's easy to beat or uninteresting.

Razer Shows Mac Owners Some Love

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Premiere gaming peripheral maker Razer has apparently decided that these crazy new Mac computers aren't just a fad. Yesterday at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Razer announced that all upcoming Razer products will include Mac driver support.

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