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Surveyors of tomorrow: Microbots built on a single chip

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Robotics has seriously taken to insects as inspiration for robots. Miniaturization technology too has effectively contributed to their cause.

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USB Wireless Computer Control

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This nifty innovation takes the TV remote to the next level by turning it into a computer remote. All you need to do is plug the USB receiver into your computer and away you go.

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Psystar sues over Snow Leopard, abandons reality

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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Apple Corporate, Hardware, Snow LeopardWhen I was a kid my neighbor had an enormous St. Bernard dog named Caesar. It lived in a grungy dog house in their back yard. Caesar's hobbies included barking incessantly. In fact, that was all he ever did.

Sony Swarovski Digital Photo Frame

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Sony release a digital photo frame DPF-D72N/BQ which is made by Crystallized Swarovski elements. The digital frame has 7-inch LCD WXGA with 800×480 pixel resolution. The internal storage has 1GB capacity with auto resizing adjustment system.

Hands on: World’s first portable solar-powered Bluetooth stereo speaker

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It was just a while back we featured a piece about the Solar Sound. We appreciated what we saw then, and days later Oliver Mitchell kindly sent us one of these Bluetooth solar-powered speakers to check out the thing ourselves, and we set out to break it outrightly.

Nokia N900 with Maemo 5 Released

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Nokia N900 , the Maemo 5 packed internet tablet is finally launched. Nokia N900, just to refresh your memory, packs a 3.5 inch resistive touchscreen with 800 x 480 pixel resolution, sliding qwerty keyboard, 32GB internal memory and microSD card slot which capable to handle up to 16GB card.

Samsung P-Series Digital Picture Frames At IFA 2009

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Samsung will introduce the P-Series digital picture frame at IFA 2009. The frame features a LED display, a 2GB internal memory to store all of your favorite pictures or videos, Bluetooth 2.0 for file transfer, videos and music playbacks, a remote control, a clock and a calendar.

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T-Rex Dinosaur USB Drive

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Here is another fancy gadget from Etsy. Measuring 6-inch x 2.5-inch x 6-inch, the T-Rex Dinosaur USB drive comes with a 2GB of storage capacity and has a USB connector hidden in its head. The drive is compatible with Windows and Mac. You can buy the T-Rex Dinosaur USB drive for $28.

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Logitech Squeezebox Touch Desktop Audio Player

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The specs of the Logitech Squeezebox Touch has been unveiled. The desktop audio player features a 4.3-inch color touchscreen, an SD card slot, a light sensor, a temperature sensor, a proximity sensor and HQ audio support with 24 bit at 96khz sampling rate.

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Wii Nunchucks controlled four-legged robot walks just well

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This spider looks so freakin’, but the four legged genius has been done well to be what it is. Creepy in appearance the robot’s high on function. Drew has got this mechanical walker to be controlled by two modified Wii Nunchucks.

Bonitor MP201 And MP301 Mini Projectors

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French-based company, Bonitor has recently released two new mini projectors for the mass market in the form of the MP201 (pictured above) and MP301.

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A bit of [Big] Apple history: visiting Tekserve

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Filed under: Retail, Cult of Mac, Retro Mac It may have lost a bit of luster compared to the chrome, glass and steel of Apple's nearby retail stores (one within easy walking distance, in fact), but there's no denying the draw of New York City's original Apple emporium, the delightfully...

DIY satellite relays breathtaking pictures of the Earth

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Some ideas really rock the world. The most we can think of cameras is, make one for our needs on Earth, but John Gordon, out of hobby, sent a homemade computer-controlled (arduino based) camera into the skies.

Snow Leopard: Another upgrader’s experience

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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, OS, Software, Snow Leopard I got to the Walt Whitman Mall on Long Island yesterday and they were doing land-office business, according to the blue (not orange) shirt I was speaking with.

Apple lists Snow Leopard incompatibilities

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Filed under: OS, Software, Apple, Snow LeopardWith Snow Leopard in users' hands for less than 24 hours, reports of software incompatibilities are coming in (as well as what's been updated). Apple has posted a list of its own to the knowledge base.

PhotoFast G-Monster 533X Professional 64GB CompactFlash Card

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PhotoFast is preparing to launch its new high-capacity CompactFlash card namely the G-Monster 533X Professional. Featuring 64GB of storage space, the card has an Ultra ATA 133 interface and provides a reading speed up to 80MB/s and a writing speed up to 40MB/s.

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Multimedia content over Ethernet with Marvell IEEE 802.1 A/V Bridging a reality

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Marvell introduced a suite of products for networking multichannel audio/video (A/V) over standardized Ethernet. Marvell is the first to introduce products in support of the IEEE 802.1 A/V Bridging (AVB) standards announced recently.

Microsoft Xbox 360 Elite Looks Like It May Become Super Soon

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Remember that “new” console we saw yesterday? You know the one: it looks a lot like the current Xbox 360 Elite, except that it comes with a 250GB hard drive this time around; and in the box, we’ve supposedly got two controllers and a copy of Forza Motorsport 3. Remember now? Good.

Join us at 9PM EDT for a TUAW liveblog — Snow Leopard’s first day

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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Liveblog, Snow LeopardBy now, if you've been lucky enough to have picked up a copy of Snow Leopard, you've installed it and are beginning to see what the buzz was all about.

Interview: Jordan Rudess from Dream Theater

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I recently had the privilege to interview Jordan Rudess from the progressive rock/metal band, Dream Theater, while the band was on tour. Not only is Jordan an amazing keyboard player, but he also is a big geek.

Microsoft Zune HD Pamphlet Shows Off HD Movies In Marketplace

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The Zune Software is populated with many a great thing. From television shows, to podcasts, there’s generally something for everyone. Of course, you can’t expect any less from today’s online marketplaces, now can you?

Medion Akoya ‘The Touch’ X9613 Touchscreen All-In-One PC

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Akoya ‘The Touch’ X9613 is the latest addition to Medion’s all-in-one PC series. This new space-saving system offers a 24-inch multitouch-capable touchscreen with 1920 x 1080 full HD resolution, a 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Quad Q9000 CPU, a NVIDIA GeForce 240M graphics card, a 4GB RAM,...

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A Mega Man II chain-link wall scroll 1.5 years in the making

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Ta-da! I like to think of myself as a Mega Man II fan, but clearly i’m mistaken. I’m a Mega Man II poseur. The real fans spend 500 days linking 63,608 tiny rings together to make a pixel-perfect wall-hanging of all the major characters and items in the game.

Instapaper: A $5 App That Justifies Your iPhone Purchase

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Marco Arment’s Instapaper is one of two* killer apps for the iPhone: It’s so useful that it just about justifies the phone’s purchase price all by itself. Now Arment has cut the price of the Pro version in half, to $5, and you should buy it.

Gadgetell Experiment: Testing Jolicloud OS for netbooks

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Section: Computers, Netbooks, Software / Applications, Features, Originals For the past few months, I have been running the Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 on my netbook, an Asus Eee PC 1000HE. While Windows 7 was great at first, as time progressed, it became sluggish. So, thanks to our...

Sexy S T R E T C H shelf is basically a giant rubber band

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You can always use a few more shelves in your life, right? And this one is not only original and cool-looking, but (dare I say it) flexible as well. Because it’s rubber! I’m such a card! It is nice-looking, though, that’s no joke.

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