Improvised helmets in the streets of Cairo
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Nokia commits to “embrace change” as WP7 rumors bump shares
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Speculation over Nokia’s potential adoption of an OS other than Symbian and MeeGo continues, with the company’s share price buoyed amid rumors of a surprise announcement at the Finnish company’s pre-MWC investors event and after a European analyst publicly called for the adoption...
Texas high school student attends classes using Vgo telepresence robot
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Robots are cool and while many of them that we talk about here are more for fun for a geek, there are many uses for robots that have nothing to do with fun. We have talked a lot about Robonaut 2 for instance that was designed by GM and NASA to help astronauts in space on the ISS.
Pentax K-r Bonnie Pink Model DSLR: limited edition, limited taste
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LG will be giving G-Tablet buyers a pair of glasses so they can see the tablet’s 3D display; maybe Pentax should give K-r Bonnie Pink Model special edition buyers a pair of sunglasses to protect their eyes from the garish, clashing colors?
TUAW’s Daily App: Moon Drop
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NimbleBit, the company behind Pocket Frogs (which is still one of my favorite games on the App Store), has decided to change all of its titles on the store to the low, low price of free, so if you've never picked up Dizzypad, Sky Burger or this cute little physics-based arcade game, in which you...
Tiny $150 PC Fits in a Power-Plug
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Globalscale’s DreamPlug looks to have the build-quality of a $5 card-reader from your local dime-store, complete with ill-fitting plastic panels and 1980s utility-chic color-scheme. But who cares?
T-Mobile readying 42Mbps hotspot, cross-platform modem
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T-Mobile's roadmap for its networking devices has leaked on Friday. The network is now known to have two mobile routers in development that would split the line in both speed and international travel.
T-Mobile readying 42Mbps hotspot, cross-platform modem
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T-Mobile's roadmap for its networking devices has leaked on Friday. The network is now known to have two mobile routers in development that would split the line in both speed and international travel.
Nokia Windows Phone 7 Rumors Surface Again
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We heard a rumor back in December that Nokia would be launching a range of Windows Phone 7 devices in 2011, and now it looks like the rumors have started again.According to Tech Radar, would could possibly get an announcement from Nokia on Windows Phone 7 smartphones as early as the 11th of...
Asus Lamborghini External Hard Drive
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Asus has again created a Lamborghini inspired External Hard Drive which joins its series of Lamborghini devices. Like its other device from the same series, it features a sport-car design with the Lamborghini brand logo.
Verizon iPhone 4 pre-orders set new first-day record in just two hours
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Verizon has announced record sales of the CDMA iPhone 4 yesterday, describing it as the carrier’s most successful first day sales in history.
Massively stupid thief leaves smartphone charging in house he robbed
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A man has been arrested and is suspected of robbing ten or more homes in the Montgomery county area of Washington. The man is Cody Wilkins and he was caught after a homeowner walked in and saw the man rifling through his belongings.
Motorola CLIQ XT owners: No Android 2.1 for you!
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Motorola CLIQ XT owners have been waiting for a long time now for their smartphones to get the update from Motorola 1.5 to 2.1. That update has been expected to land any time now for a long time. Motorola has finally given up the truth – the update isn’t coming.
Armani Exchange 3D Glasses: Dumber Than They Sound
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Say, for example, you’re a douche. You want to go see a great movie like Yogi Bear 3D with your girlfriend (she’s like five years younger than you, so she’s into that kind of stuff) but you don’t want to wear those dumb glasses they give you at the theatre because they clash...
Linde Werdelin SpidoSpeed Chronograph Watch
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I think that the perlage polish applied base dial will be a stunning design element on this new watch from Linde Werdelin. With a release date of around May 2011, the new SpidoSpeed is the next iteration of the SpidoLite watch concept, and the brand's first chronograph model.
LG Optimus Pad to Launch at MWC 2011
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LG has announced that the LG Optimus Pad. This particular model is a European 3G version of the G-Tablet.It runs an NVIDIA Tegra 2 chip inside. It has an 8.9 inch screen that uses capacitive touch. The battery is 6,400 mAh.
Android 2.2 Takes 57.6% Share of All Android OS’s
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Android 2.2 is gaining traction this month. Android Developers has shared details that reveal Android 2.2 now takes a 57.6% share indicating that more than half of the Android users now are on Android 2.3.Following behind that is Android 2.1 which has a 31.4% share and then down to Android 1.6 and...
Panasonic Floods Japan With 10 New 3D TVs
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Panasonic has announced [JP] a total of ten new 3D TVs yesterday, two LCDs and eight plasmas. The LCD TVs will be part of the VIERA DT3 series, while the plasma models will be branded as VT3, GT3 and ST3 (glasses are required to view pictures in 3D for all of these displays).
Lego Hoberman sphere
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Built mostly from Lego Technic elements by Brickshelf user barman, who credits the idea to a model displayed at Brickfest 2006 by one Jason Allermann.
Verizon iPhone 4 Breaks First Day Sales Records
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Verizon Wireless has just announced that yesterdays launch of the iPhone 4 broke their first day sales records, although they haven’t actually provided any details on how many CDMA iPhone’s they actually sold.The Verizon iPhone 4 was only available to order by existing customers...
Unofficial Hack May Bring Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 580 To Mac Machines
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A Russian hacker known as Netkas has announced that he’s cracked Nvidia’s Fermi ROM, the firmware which is used to control Nvidia’s most powerful graphics cards and currently restricts them to Windows only machines.Netkas well know for hi Hackintosh EFI Bootloader exploits has published a...
Hitachi iPJ-AW250N Interactive LCD Projector
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Hitachi Technologies has announced its new iPJ-AW250N Interactive LCD Projector which is scheduled to be released later this year.
Verizon Announce iPhone 4 Was Most Successful Launch Ever
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Although Verizon ran out of pre-orders within the first day, the smartphone actually set the record on the Verizon network for the fastest selling device in 24 hours. In fact, it sold that quick that it took the record in just 2 hours of the doors opening.
Search Filters Added to iPad App Store
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Some handy changes have been made to the Apple iPad App Store in the last 24 hours. Now when performing a search in the app store (on the iPad), there are several filtering options that are available.What these options do is allow you to filter between the category, release date, customer rating,...
iPad 2 Could be Announced February 13
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Rumors are hinting that Apple might announce the iPad 2 on the same day that iOS 4.3 is announced. That date is expected to be February 13.The reasoning behind this date is that iOS 4.3 will be announced which will bring hotspot functions to the iPhone.
