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LaCie, Symwave preview first dual-drive USB 3.0 storage

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LaCie today collaborated with Symwave to showcase a version of the former company's 2Big RAID 0/1 drive that uses the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 standard to deliver burst read speeds as fast as 275MBps.

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Tracking and killing insurgents? There’s an app for that.

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Filed under: iPhoneThe Guardian has a story on US military contractor Raytheon who's begun building a series of applications for the iPhone for use in the battlefield.

Family Guy Empire Strikes Back spoof leaks to Bit Torrent sites before its DVD debut

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Fox made the decision to release the second Family Guy Star Wars spoof on DVD before airing on its network. Why? Greed. The first one was a huge hit and instead of just giving it away on a Sunday night for the whole world to enjoy, some corner office suits decided to release it on DVD first.

Australian firm developing Doom-like 3D surveiallance system

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I imagine there will be less shooting in the surveillance system. Pretty fascinating story coming out of Australia this fine day. (Well yesterday. Or time zones. I don’t know.)

ZaggSparq Portable Charger: Hands-on

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What makes the ZAGGsparq genius is it's simplicity. It's a portable battery that can charge any gadget that charges via USB. The product comes with no cables and no non-sense, it's just a black square.

Twitter App for Zune HD Is Rated PG: No Swearing Allowed

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If you thought Apple was conservative for prohibiting nudity from the iPhone’s App Store, take a look at the Zune HD’s Twitter app, which launched Wednesday. It censors tweets in your timeline, according to Engadget’s Nilay Patel.

Someone call the RIAA: Amazon accidentally sends out Lil Wayne album despite the fact that it’s been delayed till February

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Oops! As I’m sure you all know, famous rapper Lil Wayne has a new album in the works. It was supposed to come out next week, but was pushed back for whatever reason. No big deal, albums get pushed back all the time. (See: Detox. We’ll have flying cars by the time that comes out.)

Belkin Unveils Bluetooth Music Receiver for iPhone

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Belkin has unveiled the Bluetooth Music Receiver, a gadget that lets you stream music tracks wirelessly from an iPhone or iPod touch through a home stereo system.Basically, it's a little wireless puck (pictured).

Life-Size Boat Model Kit

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Swedish artist Michael Johansson has made a life-size dinghy "model kit" from a real boat ..(more...

Development of VLC for Mac 64-bit is on hold, project needs developers

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Filed under: Multimedia, Video, Freeware, DeveloperDevelopment on the 64-bit version of VLC Player for Mac has hit the pause button. The Videolan team is looking for Mac development talent to help move the project forward, and revamp the program's interface to be more Mac-like.

World Map Gets Etched on a Tiny Silicon Chip

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Researchers at Ghent University in Belgium have etched a tiny world map–on a scale of 1 trillion—on to a optical silicon chip. They reduced the earth’s 25,000-mile circumference at the equator down to 40 micrometers or about half the width of a human hair to fit it on the chip.

Bluetooth group adopts low-energy standard

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The Bluetooth Special Interest Group this afternoon formally adopted the Bluetooth low energy standard. The technology is designed to let devices consume as little power as possible by using very short bursts of data and, when in the mode, running at a peak 1Mbps.

ComScore: iPhone Tops Windows Mobile in U.S. Share

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Windows Mobile market share has dived recently around the world. Six months after the original iPhone launched in mid 2007, it had already surpassed Windows Mobile in browser share.

Dell lays off 700, website now full of price mistakes

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Put two and two together people, and get WTF. Dell is laying off 700 of its 4,500 employees by June 2010 and now, for some odd reason, the Dell website is featuring laser mice for $4,000 and a Xeon E3110 machine for $16.99.

Add Continental to gadget-friendly airlines

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Section: Communications, Cellphones, Email / IM, Smartphones, Mobile, Computers, Laptops, Netbooks, Wireless, Gadgets / Other, TransportationContinental has joined the elite ranks of Virgin America, American, United, even the illustrious AirTran and have made the decision to offer WiFi on...

Mag+ Digital Magazine Reader Concept

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The guys over at Bonnier R&D, who are part of the Bonnier Corporation that publish a range of magazines which include Popular Science, have come up with a concept for a digital magazine reader, the Mag+.

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You-Vision Video Glasses for the Hipster Voyeur

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Photojojo’s new video-glasses let you shoot movies in glorious nerd-o-vision. The spectacles have a 320×240 pixel video camera in the bridge which is triggered by a switch on one of the arms, and the only real giveaway that these aren’t your usual hipster glasses is the rather...

ASUS preps educational EeeBot running on Android

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PC maker ASUS has plans to develop and build an educational robot for kids, the EeeBot, that would run on the open-source Android operating system from Google. According to a Wednesday report, the project will be sponsored by the Taiwanese government to promote Android.

Apple Patent Shows Jonny Lee 3D Style Head Tracking Interface

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Apple [AAPL] have filed another patent that describes interaction with 3D displays. The system works by changing what you see on screen in relation to where your head is.

Transcend Class 10 SDHC Cards Launched

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Transcend have launched a new range of SDHC memory cards that fall in to the Class 10 category that allows data to be transferred up to 20MB/s compared to older Class 6 cards that can transfer data at up to 6MB/s.

Kelly Harrigan’s magnetic toy design

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Fourth-year ID student Kelly Harrigan's magnetic and modular Ferra, above, was the winning design in Swiss toy manufacturer Naef Spielzeug's first-ever international toy competition. The criteria for entry was rather broad: Design a toy primarily made from wood, for ages "3 to 99."

The Whimsical Designer: Steven M. Johnson

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Steven M. Johnson (not to be confused with the popular science author Steven Berlin Johnson) is the self-proclaimed "whimsical designer".

The LaCie 2Big USB 3.0 RAID drive is stupid fast, coming soon

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If you have any doubt that USB 3.0 is a big step forward in data transfer, check out the new LaCie 2Big RAID drive. This puppy can see throughput speeds of 275 MB/s. Let me say it for you, daaaamn. Now all you need is a USB 3.0 motherboard or PCI-E card. Good thing both are now available.

First Look: Snagit for Mac Public Beta

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Filed under: Software, Switchers, First Look Switchers were elated earlier this year when TechSmith, developers of the fabulous Camtasia screen recorder application for Windows, finally shipped for Mac.

NAVIN miniHomer GPS Location Finder

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The NAVIN miniHomer GPS device allows you to track the location of your parked car or any other item you lock on to. The device is keychain sized and features a small screen that relays details of which direction your car is and how far it is to your car.

Martin’s medals and more

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Designer and experimental artist Martin Ruiz de Azua's new medal design, above, will soon hang from the necks of champions at Barcelona's 2010 European Athletics Championships. The "minimalistic V-shaped medal...

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